20 - Sparkles Zooms and Crops

About this video

This CapCut lesson adds sparkles, zooms, crops, effects, and animation to an ice cream video that is already mostly edited. The instructor places a sparkle sticker that reads as a lens flare on the cherry, timed with a ding, zooms shots in and out by scaling them, and experiments with effects such as falling stars and a sparkly heart, noting they can easily be too much. For AI B-roll images under the voice over, he tries a combo animation, then light effects including a light leak and a develop effect, and creates slow zooms by keyframing scale at the beginning and end of a clip, disabling the clip with V to select its last frame precisely. He adds movement transitions between the B-roll images. In the outro, he builds a split screen for the banana split versus ice cream sandwich choice by stacking clips, applying a horizontal mask, rotating it, adjusting its softness, and animating position with keyframes and a slide-left animation. He closes with a caution: use these embellishments sparingly, do them near the end once the video is otherwise solid, and you can lose hours to them.

Key takeaways

• A sparkle sticker can function as a lens flare rather than looking like a sticker, especially when it is timed to a moment such as a cherry being placed and paired with a sound effect.
• Slow zooms on still or B-roll images can be built by adding scale keyframes at the start and end of a clip and changing the scale between them.
• A split screen can be made by stacking clips and applying a horizontal mask, then rotating it and adjusting its softness and position.
• Effects such as stars, light leaks, and develop looks are easy to overdo, so they should be dialed back or used sparingly.
• Embellishment work belongs at the end of the edit, after the video is mostly finished, so the project can still be rendered if time runs out.

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