 So on this channel, many times I've discussed that your short form content is now the greatest chance you have for going from no fans to a huge fan base that musicians have ever had in the history of the music business. And while many musicians bemoan doing that type of work, one of the things that musicians who haven't really dived into making videos often do is think it's gonna be so difficult. And I have to say, in the last few years, the tools that make it easier have gotten so fast and easy to learn along with creatively stimulating that it blows my mind on a daily basis when I use them. If there's one tool that really makes it easy to make amazing YouTube videos, music videos, or short form content that are super creative, it's CapCut. Now, if you're not familiar with CapCut, it's a free all-in-one video editing solution that helps you create incredible videos. You've probably heard me recommend the app over the past few years that we've been discussing TikTok, which is why I'm excited to have them sponsor this video so I can show you some of its powerful features for musicians. Now, most musicians realize that while you can have a $3,000 West Pole or that sick Seaboard Rise MIDI controller, if you don't know how to play it well, it's all for nothing and the music's gonna be terrible. Well, I've kind of come around to that CapCut as the video editing tool musicians should get to know like an instrument for making both short form content and their YouTube videos, whether that's vlogs, music videos, or shorts. And what I mean by the musical instrument comparison is CapCut is your instrument for visual creativity and honestly, I think musicians who care about making great visuals should go two feet in and use it and get to be proficient with it since in this day and age, being able to make creative videos is a way to communicate your art and it's now so simple to do that since it's so easy to make great videos using this tool. And I'm gonna show you how to use some of CapCut's features. I see musicians miss out on the potential of by making some content and show you just how easy it is to make some great videos with CapCut. Okay, so the other day I moved into this new apartment and I noticed the electrical wiring was a little messy with my bathroom light and was doing this flicker and I thought what all of you should think whenever you see something cool like this, I should probably make a TikTok of this and we're gonna use that for an example now. And this video is a perfect example for the first thing I wanna talk about which are filters and all the cool ways you can use them. One of the things I see over and over again that ruins TikToks that you guys make that would otherwise be great is your footage is really flat yet your music is really vibing and when it doesn't match it and it just looks like kind of like a flat, badly lit room from an iPhone sometimes, it's not gonna be as cool as if you make it a color and a filter and a saturation that feels more like your music. So let's do exactly that. So I've already trimmed my video and put the music in since that's super easy in CapCut and truly for those of you who have trouble doing clean loops of your song and TikTok app so it repeats in a continuous musical loop, you should be using CapCut because it's way easier to get good loops of your tracks in here. I want you to focus on here first is how we do some filters that'll make this video look cooler. And of course, because it's summer of 2023, I'm gonna mess with the Barbie and Oppenheimer ones and also because I think it'll look cool because I think that this footage could use some saturation for a vibe. So funny enough, the one I like the most is called Budapest from the Moonrise Kingdom collection. But seriously, there's so many filters in here so I'm gonna go with that one. As you can see, all I do is I click the download button to see a preview of each one and it's clear to see and you can compare one another to each. So all we do to add a filter to our videos is hit the plus button after it's downloaded. Then we drag it across the part of the timeline we wanna use it in. But one thing we can get cool with is if you really wanna create some cool vibes is you can even combine them like I'm about to do here. I mean, there's no doubt in my mind that is way cooler, right? But what you can even do to get really wild is you can chop them up. And as you can see here, I'll chop them up in weird ways and I'll play around with them until they look really cool. And really that's a lot of the game is you just play around with these filters in different intervals to the beats until they feel cool and they feel like the vibe of the song. And to show you some more of the power of filters in Cap Cut, the first time I filmed this video I didn't like the video as good as I could and I had a ring light on which didn't give it as much contrast and pop but I'll show you how filters can even save when your footage is worse than just flat boring phone footage and kind of filmed that well. So first I found this retro filter that I think makes it look way cooler and less flat and really gives it a vibe like the song I'm working on. And then I found this VHS filter that felt really cool. But here's the thing, once I saw that VHS I thought it was a little too strong and a little too much. Luckily for you, you can control the strength of a filter so I could adjust it real fast. Now that feels really tight to me after adjusting it for a little bit. And keep in mind, you can do that on any one of these filters or the special effects. So you see how filters can be used to really make some creative choices in your music and also give a way better vibe. Let's also remember what this looked like before I did that. It's just so much more flat and boring. Even with footage that's as exciting as a light flickering like that in a weird way filters can really give any video on here pop. I think really what makes part of the process of making your videos go from exceptional to great is doing this but really making sure that all your footage pops as much as it can. Since the more you have an aesthetic we all know aesthetics feel amazing and really make people feel your music more if everything is synergistic. So finding the treatment you can give your footage that makes you feel more like you is so crucial to making it more interesting and making people stick around and watch your video and really find it appealing. Plus, they often make you look better. And who doesn't want that? I know I do. But here's the thing. CapCut actually has lots of other special effects aside from filters that I think will make this even cooler. So let's get into some of those and play around. So if you hit this effects tab right up top you'll find tons of cool effects like these. And yes, if you wanna use the ones that are labeled pro you have to just pay for a subscription that's monthly from CapCut and really there's some amazing tools in here but everything I'm gonna do today is free. So I think this one is really cool for the ending. So I'm gonna drop this one on a track but I didn't quite nail it the way I wanna nail it. So I'm gonna back that up a little bit more. And did the special effects tab there's a lot of things that some people would think of as filters which are like old VHS filters and chromatic filters and lots of things that could just yet again to set the vibe to make your videos feel a little bit cooler and a little bit more like the vibe of your song that you have. Okay, now that one called fault cassette is sick though that's gonna make a really, really cool part of this. And seriously, there is so many of these that you could scroll through them for days and you don't really need to. You could just kind of like get the vibe on them they're really categorized well but when you do see one you love and you wanna use again later there's this star button that will save them at the top in your favorites as you can see here. But really to me here this is what so many of your videos are missing and you should really get to know these. And CapCut is always adding new options all the time. I feel like every time I open this app I see another cool one that I wanna use. But next I wanna discuss transitions. Whether you're using a one shot footage and you wanna cut between two parts to get rid of something or you wanna just do something artistically cooler you wanna cut from scene to scene you can use transitions in here. And CapCut has a ton of options to do cool stuff. So this one called color glitch felt like it really does a nice transition between each thing I've been doing. And you can really play around with these and really keeps it moving and a lot of the time when you're trying to keep people from flicking away from your video, from getting bored it's these transitions and motion that keep it propelled and keep people interested. While it's a subtle detail it can really help with engagement and these subtle details are what's the difference between your video doing eh and doing really really well and spreading your music. And as you can see I can stretch the length of a transition so that it is the proper length and feels right to your shot and feels right if you're sinking it to a musical cue. So this is just the tip of the iceberg on what you can do on CapCut. And truly whenever I open it all I can think is this is the type of tool I wish I had for years where I could just be creative really fast and do whatever I want in an intuitive way. So I encourage you to dig in and get good at creating in it. But now that you've learned how to use CapCut you should really watch my video on how you turn your music video into a short form video. So you can make TikTok shorts and reels out of your music video and multi-purpose it which you can do right inside CapCut. So click the link that's on the screen right now or head to the description and learn more. Thanks for watching.