Trying Out CapCut

Is the mobile app worth using?

I’ve been a content creator on the Internet since 2013. Currently, I make content on TikTok, and have been active since 2019. I rarely edit video outside of the TikTok app. When there are so many video editing apps available, it gets very overwhelming and you often just stick with what you know. But when you want to advance to the next level, you have to start somewhere.

My classmate, Danni Hampton, wrote about CapCut for our ebook assignment this term. I tried it before years ago, but it never really caught on. But now with so many AI tools being baked into everything, I felt I should at least look at it again. I was not wrong. Everywhere you looked in the CapCut app was AI this and AI that. And of course, the only way to use said AI tools is if you pay them. That is not something I’m willing to do. But I am willing to test out the basic features and analyze for ease of use.

To be honest, if you are a TikTok user and content creator, CapCut is an extremely useful tool for your video editing. It allows you to do everything outside of TikTok and when you’re finished you can immediately upload to TikTok, and any other social media platform you wish. But TikTok is the primary linked app. 

Second Impressions

One nice thing about CapCut is it also has a desktop version. I tried out the mobile app simply because I had all of my video clips in my iPhone, and this way I wouldn’t have to upload to a computer. But I kind of wish I would have. I uploaded all of my clips. I was able to easily remove all of the audio. I was easily able to trim all my clips. I was easily able to add a soundtrack. By the way, one really nice thing about adding music within CapCut is it’ll tell you if it’s copyright allowable already, since it’s tied directly into TikTok. So that removes a lot of the stress of choosing music to back your videos. 

The one thing I could not do in the app is add transitions. Normally, that would be an easy thing to do. You just tap on a little white box with a minus sign in it that is between each clip in your timeline, but every time I did that it said, “There are too many users using this feature. Try again later.” Seriously? That right there is a dealbreaker for me. If I wanted to not have transitions, I would’ve just built it in TikTok. I came to CapCut for a more professional experience and you’re telling me that there’s too many users using the feature? That is absolutely ridiculous and unacceptable. So in the future, I will download CapCut to a computer and I will check to see if it does the same thing. If it does the same thing, I’m never using it again. But in the meantime, here’s the video I made with CapCut. 

Laurel Market TikTok video

Please note that it is uploaded to TikTok. I am not able to post it here on blogger because it is over 100 MB. I did use copyright approved music on TikTok, but apparently it’s not approved for longer than 60 seconds on YouTube, therefore YouTube blocked the upload. So hopefully you can watch it on TikTok, where longer videos are allowed up to 10 minutes.



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