CapCut Pad

Cutting, timing and joining clips

The basic tools trim clips, split a video at a chosen point and merge several clips into one. Playback speed can be set anywhere from 0.1x to 100x, and speed curves let the change ramp up or down within a clip rather than running at one fixed rate.

Freeze-frames hold a single frame to emphasise a moment, and zoom in and zoom out effects animate a clip. Transitions can be placed between clips to smooth the join from one shot to the next.

Keyframes, compositing and motion effects

Keyframe animation lets a property such as position or scale change over time, which drives most of the custom motion in the app. Chroma key removes a chosen colour from footage so another background can show through, and background removal does the same job without a green screen.

Motion tracking follows an object across frames so that text, graphics or effects stay attached to it. Video stabilization reduces camera shake, and smooth slow motion is offered for stretching footage.

Captions, voiceover and text

Auto captions generate subtitles from the audio in a clip. Text-to-speech turns typed text into a spoken voice track, which can be used for narration without recording.

Text is styled with the in-app font library and effects. The same effects set covers photo editing, so still images can be placed alongside video on the timeline.

Publishing to social platforms

The listing aims the app at short clips for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook. Projects are built in the portrait and landscape formats those platforms use, and the finished video is exported from the app for posting.