How to create videos for social media? (WITHOUT PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE)

Bozhena Sheremeta
Sep 5, 2018 · 3 min read

Heyyy! My name is Bozhena and I’m social media marketer and content creator who has quit her “9–5” in June and started this new gig where I work with awesome like-minded content creators to upgrade businesses’ content game to the MAX 🙌🏼AND attract leads🔥

Now, all promos aside, I want to be helpful to all of you today and do this post about my favorite mobile apps for content creation. I will start with VIDEO CONTENT. Yep, you don’t have to use Premiere Pro necessarily to create video content. Of course, if you want to be really cool, I suggest to go and finally learn all the essential content creating software of the Adobe fam. BUT, I am well aware that sometimes you might feel an urge to post something, like breaking news, or an instant business update, etc., AND you can use THESE APPS on your phone to make really nice looking videos without Premiere Pro, AfterEffects, Final Cut, or any other professional software.

Here we go:
1. Wave from Animatron (animatron.com/wave) — wave lets you put images or live videos as a background and add any text you want ONLINE. But most importantly, it can convert your video to all needed sizes — Facebook cover, Instagram story, Instagram or Facebook feed. So if you’re confused with the needed resolutions, Wave will get you covered. Wave isn’t completely free. It goes with three subscription plans. However, they do offer a trial so that you can try the service and see for yourself whether it’s convenient enough for you to work with.

2. Kapwing (kapwing.com) — this service is brand new as it’s been launched last year by two ex-Googlers who worked on Google’s image search. It started as a simple idea — to make a tool which could make video memes fast and easy. But of course, they couldn’t stop just on that

🙃 Kapwing has a super diverse functionality. You can add subtitles, resize, make a collage out of videos, mute and change speed, AND SO MUCH MORE. You should really check out all the functionality. It works both on the phone and the computer. The service is FREE. But in order to remove the watermark, you will have to pay $6/video or $20 monthly for an unlimited number of videos.

3. Crello (crello.com) — Crello is the exact copy of Canva (if you’re familiar with it) BUT…with one very impressive competitive advantage. Crello lets you make animated videos! They have many free templates and you can choose whichever you like, add the text you like and make a nice animated video for Instagram ads or feed. Unfortunately, there are not so many animated backgrounds that might fit all types of businesses, but for the start — it’s a good tool to know and use.


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