101 Ways to Edit Video Online
Kapwing is an online video editor that makes casual video tasks way easier and more accessible. It’s free and simple to learn, can be used from any device or computer, and doesn’t require software download or account registration. For students, digital marketers, and YouTube and Instagram creators, it’s much faster and easier to learn than iMovie or Adobe software. In this post, I’ll share 101 ways you can use Kapwing to edit video online.
1)Craft, share, and reuse a custom 9:16 Instagram Story template.
2) Make a Facebook Cover video or photo
3) Change the size of your video ad to optimize for Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube
4) Zoom in and crop a video to post it on Instagram. You can also add a border or custom frame.
5) Size or crop a landscape video or image to 9:16 for your Story without cropping out content.
6) Post a vertical video on YouTube by adding padding to the left and right
7) Optimize for LinkedIn by converting a landscape video to 5:4 without reducing video quality
8) Letterbox your videos to make them look more like vintage film
Loop
Make a video from a clip playing multiple times on repeat
9) Make reaction videos by replaying a funny second several times
10) Post Live photos on Instagram: Instagram has a 3 second minimum length requirement, so use the looper to make your photo long enough
11) Make a clip longer
12) Take a funny GIF and loop it multiple times to make a hilarious video for your friends
13) Repeat a video so that you don’t need to restart it manually
14) Lengthen the video for Facebook cover video (at least 20 seconds)
15) Transform your very-short Snaps into shareable videos
16) Sound: Play a sound multiple times so that the viewer can hear how it’s pronounced
Music and Sound
17) Add a trendy sound effect, like the “Cash me outside” sound, to videos
18) Merge background music with your video’s audio track.
19) Replace your video’s soundtrack with a voiceover to narrate the action.
20) Add music from YouTube to a slideshow or montage.
21) Bleep out a curse word in the soundtrack by muting or removing the audio
Stop Motion
Apply a stop motion effect to your video
22) Make boomerang-style stop motions
23) Create a cute Instagram post from an existing candid clip
24) Slow down the action so you can see each stage
25) Apply the stop motion effect to an existing piece of footage to repost with a fresh spin
26) Speed up a video so that you can show the action in hyperspeed, like a Time-lapse video.
Trim Video
Set the start and end times of your clip
27) Export and download YouTube videos
28) Share a specific section of a Youtube video
29) Convert GIF to MP4 Video
30) Overlay a PNG logo onto your video
31) Cut or clip a highlight moment out of a longer video
32) Grab a video to edit from Google Drive without needing to download
33) Shorten a video: Cut down your video to meet the >15 second Instagram Story requirement
34) Add a custom watermark with your brand’s fonts and colors.
35) Make a video the right length of time for social media
36) Use the trimmer in combination with our other features to cut out the perfect scene for a stop motion, montage, meme, collage, etc
37) Repost a video from Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. Add a watermark to give the original creator credit.
Filters
38) Add a colorful filter and adjust lighting online
39) Vintage effect: Make video feel older by adding fade, vignette, and sepia
40) Brighten a dark clip
41) Make a black-and-white or grayscale video by taking out the color
42) Adjust the contrast and saturation of your media
43) Correct the color of a photo or video
44) Apply a unique filter from the original Kapwing filter library
45) Increase contrast to make photo or video subjects pop
46) Put vignette on the outside of an interview or portrait clip to emphasize the subject.
47) Emulate an Instagram filter using your computer, tablet, or Chromebook.
Meme Maker
Add a caption above or below your media
48) Letterbox videos: Add a pillarbox or letterbox to videos by making a meme with “empty” top and bottom text boxes
49) Promotional video: Add your business website or phone number so that customers can contact you if they like what they see
50) Reddit memes: Make a meme for Reddit and share the link to Kapwing
51) Flashcards: Study by adding captions to important visuals
52) Company memes: Send a meme on the company Slack to celebrate or commiserate
53) Create a compelling “thumb stopping” visual asset for Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn
54) Add a caption below or above your video or image
55) Embed a title or label into your mp4
56) Draw white or black bars around your image or video
57) Add a white rectangle below your video for subtitling
58) Put a call-to-action in context, right above or below your video
59) Caption contest: Host a caption contest and share memes of the winners
60) Quote: Put the text of a quote above an image or video that illustrates its meaning
Subtitles
Add subtitles to your video
61) Translate a foreign video into your native language
62) Get more engagement on Instagram and Facebook by engaging people who use social media with the sound off (85%)
63) Reimagine the dialogue in a scene by adding “fake” subtitles to a video
64) Insert disappearing labels to a video when new characters or people are introduced.
65) Make a meme with the subtitle embedded on the video
66) Add permanent captions so they look the same on every platform
67) Add text directly onto your video
68) Make your videos more accessible to people with hearing impediments
69) Insert the lyrics of a song for a cover video
70) Transfer open captions to closed captions
71) Put the name, handle, or contact information of your company into a promotional video for social media
Collage
Make a video by combining two videos side-by-side or one on top of the other
72) Create a #transformationtuesday post with before and after videos, gifs, or images
73) Play videos side by side
74) Make memes with multiple images
75) Create a GIF collage
76) Compare two products, places, or people
77) Make your own video frames or layouts by using the collage maker repeatedly for new combinations
78) Create a reaction collage: Put a reaction GIF next to the event you’re reacting to
79) Video interview: For interviews done remotely, play screencasts of the speakers’ faces next to each other. Or do a “talking to myself” video interview for fun.
80) Split-screen video: Film two subjects from a very similar distance and perspective, then crop each video in half. Use the collage maker to merge them together and achieve a cool split-screen effect.
81) Digital demos: Show a screencast and the face of the speaker side by side so that the viewer can absorb how to use a new product.
82) Home videos and photos: Re-enact your favorite family moments, then make a collage with the original to contrast.
83) Photo strip: Emulate a photo strip by appending four images on top of each other.
84) Cover for YouTube video: Make a video collage with screenshots of the scenes in your video to set as the YouTube cover frame.
85) Lyric video: Put the lyric video of a song or poem next to a video of someone singing or reciting it
86) Double frame: Play the same video twice next to each other and post to Instagram
87) Who wore it/did it best: Compare the quality of someone’s work by putting the people side by side
Montage maker
Combine images, video, and gifts into a single continuous video
88) Make a stop motion video from images
89) Create a photo slideshow to make a video from pictures.
90) Intros: Append an intro or outro to your video
91) Merge several video clips together into one continuous video
92) Compilation: Curate a video compilation by uploading or pasting links from YouTube videos.
93) Trailer: Trim and sequence the best scenes from a YouTube video to make a trailer for instagram
94) Use multi-media support to look at different perspectives of the same event or moment
95) Custom thumbnail: Combine a custom image frame with an Instagram video clip for an original thumbnail in the feed.
96) One second a day: Make a video that shows short snippets of your day to day life
97) Make a movie with multiple scenes. You can use clips from Google Drive and YouTube.
98) Funny: Insert a funny image or GIF into a longer more serious video
99) Convert an image (PNG or JPEG) to an mp4 video
100) Travel video: Remember your latest vacation by making a montage out of the video clips and images from your trip
101) Subliminal: Insert an image into the middle of a longer video
