How to Create TRENDING Reels, Shorts & Tiktoks (Step-by-Step)

these types of videos have been going super viral recently on Instagram Tik Tok and YouTube shorts allowing accounts to Skyrocket their followers and engagement now whether you are a theme page a personal brand or a business if you're able to incorporate this style of content into your strategy it's still early and you can profit massively just remember me when you're 100K followers now this real right here got over 1.5 million likes yes 1.5 million likes and we're about to do the same now I'm about to walk you through the whole process from a to zed

no gatekeeping it's important for us to not complicate the process especially when we're trying a new editing style so we want to use what's already out there and proven to inspire us avoid Reinventing the wheel this can come later what you want to do is find outliers best performing posts on accounts I will be also sharing how to make your videos unique exactly like this video which has gained over 150,000 likes so that you can stand out from everyone else creating these videos for the purpose of this video we're going to use this page right

here as our inspiration they've done really well 70 posts 150,000 followers and basically we're going to do the same so we're going to go look through their reals and we're just going to kind of see you know what's perform well straight away you can see 70 50 40 then boom 11 million so we're going to press that one we are going to recreate this video but not 100% the same but we're going to basically try to incorporate every single element that they've done and it's important for us to analyze content so that we understand why

it's doing well so let's actually watch this video together to all of you watching here come close to the screen and listen people don't have to so in this video there are a lot of great elements you know beautiful images from movies and TV shows great animations and text that feels natural to the overall style of the video and they also created a unique black border that you don't usually see on Instagram but most importantly they used a powerful speech as the narrative to drive the video forward this is key to grabbing a viewer's attention

and it also is motivational and a lot of people will save and share this video with friends and family so how can we replicate this make sure you stick around until the end as I'll be giving some free resources to help you improve your videos even more let's begin our process finding your Source clip this part is simple and usually I will do this in three different ways the first is by checking if there is a credit in the caption of your chosen video which you want to replicate number two is if there is nothing

there you check the comments often people will ask here and get a response and then finally if there is a sentence being said by a speaker you can type this in Google and it should let you you know straight away next up simply put this footage into your editing software so for the purpose of this video we're going to be using cap cut I'll have a bonus at the end of this video showing you how to do certain styles of text with a e which is After Effects but we'll also be doing that in cap

cut so drag your footage into your timeline so now you just want to cut the clip so this speech was longer than the actual speech used in the video so you want to use the length that you kind of need you know try to avoid any buildups or any anticlimax Parts go straight to the climax cuz this is going to keep retention high and it's going to help you go viral the next thing is to remove any silences so we've basically separated our footage with our audio footage so we've extracted our audio and now we

want to remove any kind of silences so that the video is Flowing super smooth this will help retention and increase watch time and it's really simple on most editing software you'll be able to see kind of the D in the graph on the extraction where there's kind of the silences and you basically want to cut there and kind of drag them forward make some changes that way it shouldn't really take you that long at all the next thing is actually finding our videos that we're going to use as b-roll now most of these accounts right

now and I've said this before about a year ago or longer you can use Pinterest for this Pinterest is so so useful you can find animations you can find all different types of kind of concept and it's super simple find a Pinterest downloader download you know six seven different clips that you think suit the video and that's it you can't even use chat gbt to give you ideas when you've downloaded all of these drag them over to cap cut so they're ready when you need them now this is where the magic happens where we get

that frame with the curved edges this is how you do it on cap cut so what you want to do is go to the left on your cap cut where it says stock materials and you should see kind of a black screen you want to drag that into your timeline make it fit the size of your screen then head over to mask once you hit mask press the rectangle option and from here you basically create the mask so if you see you know you see these kind of squares with curved edges you want to get

it to the size you want so you have a lot of freedom here if you don't want to do it like that and do it a different style you can but this is how you do this exact style then you want to press the reverse button which is in the top right of the mask section and there you have it and now it's a matter of kind of playing with your main footage to be in the center of this mask at all times now what you want to do is cut the main footage into where

you think we should add Clips okay so and one thing I want to say is you know we're editing being inspired by this other video which got 1.5 million likes what we actually do is download that video and have it on your timeline as well at this point you want to see how they've done it you know where they've made the cuts where they've added B- roll Etc and you want to basically follow that pattern now this is where the magic starts to happen and we start to add the clips that we used from Pinterest

you know and start adding it to our timeline and you can see it's already starting to take shape you know this process I'm going to speed up for the purpose of this video but essentially you want to start placing it where you think it's relevant Etc and really start to build that story remember as I said in the previous point you know having the reference next to you on the timeline will help you to kind of give you ideas remember it's not about just copying it you can add your own ideas Etc but the Cuts

Etc can be useful for you now the next thing to do is your auto captions or captions if you have the can Pro you can use Auto captions if you don't then you'll have to do it manually either way you will have to do some manual work so it doesn't really matter too much the auto caption is going to make it slightly easier so we're using the Europa font you know this is a matter of preference it's completely down to your creativity for the text it's important for us to actually separate each Word manually and

you kind of want to do it in this order like this where it's in kind of this sync almost like a sliding pyramid so that basically the words pop up you know as she says it and again as I said the reference Clips is going to be so so useful it's going to make your life so much easier instead of a guessing game you know in terms of when they've added potentially the cuts or the added the words Etc so yeah just kind of with this use that to get inspiration how they do it with

the placement you know once you kind of get this strategy you know for the first time you do this it might take you a bit longer you might think but remember this got 1.5 million likes but my point is is once you start to understand how to do this it becomes easier and easier so right now it looks a bit difficult but it takes time but it's worth it so you know remember the reference is going to help you with the placement so this is down to preference or to your reference there was a scene

where the mirror or the word mirror was in the person's eye and it looks really really cool let me show you how to actually do that on capcut so I've got my actual eye right here what you want to do is go to remove background and go to custom removal and go to the kind of one where you can do it yourself and you just want to basically with your mouse go around the I and then you want to press apply and obviously have the text there as a layer already you know these kind of

little things you might not think mattera but you know people respect it you know when they see quality when they see effort it's more likely for people to get a like you don't need to do this on every video but it helps and it's part of that kind of strategy you've seen these viral video hooks going off everywhere on Instagram and other platforms well if you want access to a folder full of hooks that you can start using in your videos here's what you want to do head over to my Instagram which will be in

the description of this video make sure you press follow and DM me Hooks and I will send you a folder with hooks and also stick around on Instagram as I'll be sharing a lot of valuable content on there that you might not see on my YouTube channel the link will be in the description of this video in regards to color grade you know this is really down to preference some pages are black and white some of them are super Vivid some of them are super sharp like this is completely down to your creativity for us

in this video we use this Vivid one right here this is how you get that special effect on the text on cap cart click on the text layer create compound clip go to the blend mode and select soft light if you want to also know how to do this text style using After Effects I've uploaded a short tutorial on my Discord the free resource section so just head over to there and it's going to be raw there won't be me speaking that's in the YouTube videos but it will show you how to also do it

in after effect if that's something of Interest something that is good worth doing sometimes is also reducing like the background noise and for this press the audio go to basic press this button right here which is reduce noise now the next thing and one difference that we're making to the one that went super viral is is adding background audio so essentially what we're going to try is by using C cut we're going to use and add a bunch of kind of audios which match the scenery you know when there's waves We'll add an audio of

kind of a wave you know small things like that just take it to another level so even you know once there's like the scene with the butterflies Etc we can add an audio of kind of you know nature sounds and it just adds a bit more to the video and this again can be applied to any Niche you know when you add the b roll and you can see all the different ones that we actually end up adding to our timeline if you're using a different software you know lots of the free kind of stock

video websites also offer free stock music or effect here is how the video looks after we've put it all together and to all of you watching here come close to the screen and listen people don't have to like you people don't have to love you they don't even have to respect you but when you look in the mirror you better love what you see here is the bonus as promised this video right here got 150,000 likes they have done a great job in standing out a big mistake I see people make right now with this

style of content and even editing in general is this too many fonts too much colored text too many text effects and a lack of unique filters on their video in an already competitive market you should be trying to find ways to stand out and be unique but Alex how do you actually do this an example in this case is clearly people love anime or Spider-Man if one of the elements of your videos was that you use anime and you always have purple and white text color this makes you unique this goes a long long way

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