How To Easily Edit Video On Your Chromebook With CapCut Online

One of the things we get asked about Chromebooks most is

can I edit video on this thing? And for a long time, I would say, eh, not really

But thanks to new tools that have come on the web, like CapCut's online video editor

that answer is changing pretty quickly. And so today we want to actually sit down

and build out an entire video for you in CapCut's online video editor

so you can see how powerful editing video on a Chromebook has become

So for someone like me who just needs to hop in and make a quick video here and there

I don't want a tool that's overbearing or really difficult to learn

I don't want to spend hours having to learn all the little ins and outs of a piece of software

I just need something that works. But I also needed to have enough power to accomplish the things I needed to do

And then I needed to do that very quickly and seamlessly and efficiently. So I think I'm asking a lot of online video editors

And honestly, in the past, none of them have really worked out for me and I've just kind of given up on trying to use them

until I tried the CapCut online video editor. And I remember the first time I picked it up and used it

I was blown away. I made a couple videos pretty quickly and I really enjoyed using it quite a bit

And after doing so, CapCut actually approached us and said, hey, look, we'd like you to make a video

We'd like to sponsor a video. And we thought this would be a good chance for us to not only partake in that sponsorship

but also to show you all how easy it is to make videos

like good quality videos on your Chromebook using their online editor. For today, instead of having me walk you through that

and kind of dumb down the entire process, because I'm just not into all this stuff

I like good videos, just don't really get into making good videos

And so I thought it would more appropriate to actually have Joe walk you through this

And Joe's used to making really complex videos. The stuff we make normally here

massive files with raw video. And it takes a lot of computing power to do that

And we're not trying to say that you're gonna make like movies with CapCut's online video editor

but for stuff like shorts or TikTok or reels, that kind of stuff, short form video can be done 100% now

on your Chromebook with a PWA, something that is delivered to you on the web

And that just brings together all the stuff that we want to see for video editing on a Chromebook

I love this tool. And so I'm excited for Joe to kind of walk you through this process and for a lot of you out there

to finally try this tool that we've talked about a little bit in the past

but to finally see it in motion and to see the finished product at the end of the video

Hey, what's up everyone? Joe here. So like Robbie said, let's dive into editing a video on your Chromebook

with the CapCut online video editor. This is a tool that we've been using a lot

for editing social media clips, things of that nature. But I think this is a great tool for a lot of folks

I think students who are getting into video editing, want to learn how to edit a video

they can do this on their Chromebooks now at school. So great tool for students

Anybody who is a creator making short form content, this is a great tool

You can do it on the web and create your short form content

for shorts or for reels or for whatever. And I think that any brands out there

who are making content for ads or just to post on social channels

this is a great tool that you can easily create content. So let's hop right into editing a video

on the CapCut online video editor on a Chromebook. So head over to capcut.com

Let me jump out to the main page here. And once you load this up

this is just the generic landing page. If you come up here to tools, you can click on online video editor

and get a landing page for the online video editor here. But the great thing is that this is online

This is running here in the browser. They do have a PWA. If you come up here into your toolbar

you can see it says install CapCut web. And if we click that

I can actually install a PWA of the CapCut online video editor

You can drag that down there on your shelf if you want to pin that

And one other way to install CapCut is through the Play Store on your Chromebook

So let's uninstall this one. This was the PWA that we installed through the browser

Uninstall, great. And let's head over to the Play Store, search for CapCut

And there it is. So click install. And once it's installed, open

And there we have it. This is still the PWA, but delivered through the Play Store

But if we want to do all of this on the web

let's head over to capcut.com and sign in. And once you're in

this is kind of the main dashboard for the CapCut online video editor

where you can get started on a project. This actually isn't the main editor

So in this one, you can go into create a new project up here

in the top left. Gives you a few different templates here if you want to start a 16 by nine video

nine by 16, a vertical video. Or if you want to create an image

they've got some image tools built in here as well. You can also hop into your recent drafts

check out your share history. If you've shared out a project with someone

Templates, magic tools. And then they do have spaces. You can collaborate with team members

or fellow students with the spaces tool here on CapCut. They also have some great video templates here

So if you want to make a Black Friday promo here, for example, you can do that

Click right in here, use this template and drop in your own footage

and get rocking and rolling. But if we'll click back over to the main dashboard here

let's say I want to hop right in to make a new project

So let's go to new nine by 16, cause we're going to do a vertical video

I already plugged up my pixel eight and dragged the footage that we just shot

onto this Chromebook into the downloads folder there. So you can see the clip that we're going to be using

And if we want to upload that one, we'll come over here to project

upload, upload from computer and upload that clip. And while that's uploading a couple other quick things here

in this actual editor dashboard here, you've got your cloud storage in the top here as well

This is where if you had a workspace set up with your team

you could access those shared files. Within the project, these are just the files that you've uploaded

into this project. They also have a kind of cool upload from your phone here

with a QR code, or you can actually record content right here

from your Chromebook or from your device using CapCut. They also have some stock video, stock photos

audio, sound beds. You can use all of your text templates here

captions, which we'll get into here in a minute, transcript, base editing here, which is pretty wild

We haven't used that a ton, but you can literally go in, delete text and it will edit the video for you

They've got stickers here, effects, so some video effects, some edge glow, some shake

different things like that, transitions to go in between your clips and some basic filters

But let's hop back over into the media and see if our clip has uploaded

It has. So let's grab that and drag it right down here

into the timeline. You can also just double click it and it drops it straight into the timeline there

And now that we're in the actual editor, you can see how straightforward and easy to use this is

You've got a basic move tool, a hand tool, zoom and a undo and restore back and forth here

Your export stuff is up here in the top right. We'll get to that in a minute

But down in your timeline, you can kind of browse through the clip in your timeline

by just skimming here, or you can click on your timeline and go throughout the video there

And if you get to a spot in the video where you want to trim, you've got your split tool right here

You can zoom in and out on the Chromebook. It's gonna be control plus or minus

So let's zoom in a little bit here so we can actually trim up this video just a little bit

Also in the editor here, if you click on your clip down on the timeline

you'll see you get some extra features over here on the right side

Under basic, it's pretty wild here, the tools that they've built into an online video editor

You can actually do some pretty robust color adjustments here on your video right here on the web

with some basic saturation, temperature, hue stuff. Over here on the HSL tab

you can get some hue and saturation lightness options for some different colors

They give you full RGB curves here. Pretty incredible for an online video editor

You can do masking. You can do some blending here. But the main thing is transform here

So if you need to scale up or rotate your video, you can actually do that right here under the transform

They also have a stabilization built in. Over here on the background tab

you can adjust your backgrounds. They've got some smart tools like removing background

that are built right in as well. Your audio settings are here

Animations of the clips in and out, you can adjust right there

And then you get your speed settings. So for this clip, let's see how the intro is

We're probably gonna need to trim off just a little bit. So you hear me saying rolling here

Turn that up a little bit so you all can hear that. So we'll find right there where Robbie comes in

right there. And we'll click the split tool. Select that first piece that we don't need

Get rid of that. And at the end here, boom, grab that

I'm just doing space bar to start and stop. Split that, grab that one, delete it

And now, easy as that. There it is. Easy as that. We've got a video that we trimmed up

Obviously, you can get into a lot more editing with this. But for this example

I just wanted to show you a couple of quick things you can do there with these tools here

You can really get into adjusting and refining your clips. But for today, I just wanted to show you

a few of these basics. Also, as you click into the clip

you do get a few other options up here. You can actually reverse a clip

You can crop it right here. They do a mirror option and a few others here

But for right now, we've got this clip that I think is pretty much ready to go

The color balance is a little off on this right here at the beginning. And I wonder if the whole clip is like that

Yeah, I locked the white balance on this. So let's go in here, go to our color adjustment

Let's make sure we're selected on the clip. Let's go temperature down

You can see that adjustment as I'm going way up, making it super warm or very blue

We're gonna take it down just a smidge. Let's just go negative five on temperature there

So this is the HP X360. Great, I love that. After the fact that

All right, audio sounds pretty good. Let's click in here and just maybe boost it

just a little bit. Let's just maybe go up two decibels or so

So this is the HP X360 14C Chromebook, not Chromebook Plus that we just reviewed

Yeah, that sounds great. So there we have it. We've trimmed it. We've adjusted the white balance

and we've adjusted our audio right here on a Chromebook in the browser

And again, there's all sorts of tools in here. I've played around a little bit

with the removing background. It seems to work just fine. And there's all sorts of tools in here

You can do all sorts of transitions and filters. But for today's example

that's how we're gonna leave this clip. And actually for us, we try to keep our social media videos

pretty straightforward. But let's get into some captions. So I'll go up here on the top left in my preview area

and click the TikTok preview. So I can actually see where my buttons

are gonna hit on the video after we upload it. And I can use that to adjust the size of my captions

And one of the awesome tools that is built in to the CapCut Online Video Editor is auto captions

So if you go over there on the left side and click captions and then click auto captions

it's gonna ask you if you want to generate them in English or whatever language you prefer for your content

We're gonna go English and click generate. And as it loads in here, you can see it took all of the spoken audio in this video

and made captions for us. This is a huge time saver for anybody who's ever done captions manually

It is not a fun process. And this is just a huge, huge time saver

and an easy way to create captions for your content. So I'll actually go through and clean these up

here in a minute before we export this and upload it. But you can tell it has taken all of the audio

broken it up over here on the left side and made auto captions for this video for us

You can see the captions are a little lower on the video than what we want

And it actually got the, whenever I said rolling right there at the beginning

So we're actually just gonna, we're gonna zoom in a little bit on that and we're gonna grab that caption and delete it

And there we have Robbie getting started. This caption is sitting a little too low

So we're gonna pull it up. I really like these colored background captions

I think they pop nicely. Let's roll with that. I'm actually gonna squeeze this in just a little bit

make it a little smaller. And you can see here as I make that change on my preset

it's gonna apply that to all of my clips. And if we wanna go in here and change maybe

the background color on our caption, we can click into basic and change that background color right there

You can change the font, the size, you can make it bold. You get all of your regular text options here

They also have some, if you wanna refine your position or scale here

you can also do that. Maybe even do a rotation on one of them

So you can really fine tune your captions here and get them exactly the way that you want

So one other option that you might've noticed over here on the right side is text to speech

So if you had a video clip and had some text on it

and you want that text to be read aloud, you can actually do that

So let's grab a random stock video. I'll just double click that, throw it at the end

And there's our kitten. We'll throw some text over it and I'll click on text

Let's go add heading. And we'll just have this say, Chrome OS is the best

And you can, as I'm doing this, you can also see some of these very awesome text features

that they have just built right in here. And so now we've got our text on the screen here

and let's just go over to text to speech and let's go with Jesse

one of probably the more common voices you've heard. If you've watched TikTok

Chrome OS is the best. Chrome OS is. Chrome OS is the best

So she needs a little adjustment there. Let's go with Chromebooks are the best

We'll actually go down here and delete that audio and then we'll go back and let's throw Jesse back on there

Chromebooks are the best. Perfect. So if you want to add some spoken word

to your video that doesn't have any, you can do that pretty easily with that text to speech feature

Okay, so let's delete that and get back to editing our video

So like I said, I would go through and clean up these captions

I'll do that here in a moment before we actually export this and get it uploaded

23, this one's probably. It's pretty close though. I mean, you can see these aren't too far off

Something there, X360 14. See it got a little off on that

but I can go through and clean all of this up and get this video ready to export

And when I am ready to export, I'll go up here. It's asking me to leave the floating panel open

Yeah, sure. So we'll go up here to export and it's gonna ask us where we want to export this

You can share it directly to TikTok, ads manager, YouTube, YouTube shorts, all of these

I just want to download it. So I'm going to click on the download at the bottom

We're gonna call this HPX360 non-branded. Get rid of this file name here at the beginning

And then you can see we've got a few options for our resolution. Let's go 1080 on this one

It's gonna give us some export quality settings here. Let's go with our highest quality

and 30 frames per second as our frame rate there. As we click export

it's going to take all of that that we've edited, all of our captions, export it

and we'll have a video ready to upload. And while that's working

there's one other quick thing I wanted to show you. They also have a ChatGPT plugin

So you can actually generate video from ChatGPT by just prompting with text

So let's hop over and I'll just show you some of that real quick

So once you're in ChatGPT, you'll head over to ChatGPT 4 and install the CapCut plugin

Make sure that you have plugins turned on and go into the plugin store and install the CapCut plugin

And now you can ask and prompt ChatGPT to create video content for you

And if you have ad copy or if you have a script and you want ChatGPT to create video for you

it will do that. So let's go over here and ask, can you create a video for me

comparing Chromebooks and MacBooks? And let's see what it generates for us

Okay, your video comparing Chromebooks and MacBooks has been created. Let's click the view video and see what ChatGPT created

for us with just that very simple prompt. And obviously you can create much more elaborate prompts

and be much more specific with the video that you want ChatGPT and CapCut to create for you

But let's see what they got here for us. Between Chromebooks and MacBooks

it's a hot topic. Chromebooks, known for their affordability and cloud-based. Okay, so script appears to be pretty good

Stock photos are not great. You can tell over here it's importing all of those

into this project. It's also going to import those into your cloud account

just FYI, that will take up storage in your cloud account. They give you a certain amount for free

and then you can buy more storage. But if you notice that you're running low on storage

that could be why. If you use a template or you create video with ChatGPT

it's going to count towards your storage. So let's go back in here and just see what we got

Yeah, so it created a soundbed for us. It has a soundbed on the video

It has text with text-to-speech created already and some stock photos. These stock photos are not great, as you could tell

You would probably need to go in here and make some adjustments to those

But the script appears to be okay. You could use this as a starting point

if you're working on a project. So yeah, this is something that is fairly new from CapCut

and I just wanted to show that to you there. This could be a great starting point for a project

You could just have ChatGPT create your text and your text-to-speech for you

So you don't have to do that. But yeah, this is something kind of new

You could use this as a starting point. You could go in here and adjust this. But let's hop back over to our project

and see if it's done exporting and it appears to be. Okay, let's click Download on that

I can already tell there that this export, I'd actually done one of their export a minute ago

You can see here, this export is 88.9 megabytes compared to the 153 megabytes of the original file

So it's actually a little smaller. So let's hop in and watch our video that we just edited on a Chromebook

We made some color adjustments, we adjusted audio, we added captions, trimmed this video up

all on a Chromebook. And this is just a very simple example

I'm actually gonna go in and make some tweaks to those captions and get this video exported and uploaded

So you could go into CapCut and do a lot more. This is just a very straightforward example

But for our social media stuff, this is kind of the format that we roll with

And that's kind of what I do anytime I edit our short-form content

It's pretty straightforward and CapCut is the perfect tool for that. So if you're interested in getting started

and editing video on your Chromebook, there's a link down in the description

or you can just head over to capcut.com and click on that online video editor

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