How to edit videos on Android with Kinemaster

It is possible that you still keep the videos you recorded from your last meeting with your friends. They are in the collection in the phone and waiting to be edited. You may be planning to transfer those videos to your computer for editing, but that is not necessary.

Kinemaster has complete video editing capabilities. Kinemaster is a feature-rich video editing application for Android. This application possesses all the features you need to edit videos on your own and it's free.

How to cut videos with Kinemaster

To cut a video, you will first need to upload it. To add videos, click the + in the middle circle.

Once the video has been added, click on the check mark at the top right. To cut a video, tap the video at the bottom, after the border turns yellow. On the upper left you will see a scissors icon.

Touch this icon and new cutting options will appear in the same area. If these options are grayed out (not enabled), move the video back and forth to active options. Options include: Trim to the left / right of the playhead (Cut video to the left / right of the playhead), Split at playhead (Split video into 2 parts in playhead) and Extract Audio ( Audio extract). Please select the option that best suits your needs.

How to use transition effects in Kinemaster

Adding transitions to videos is an easy task. Let's add some videos as usual. You may notice that in the middle of each video there will be a gray square and a line in the middle. To add transitions, touch the square.

Click on transition options and different options. You can choose options such as 3D Transitions, Classic, Fun, Picture-in-picture, Powerful, Presentation, Text , etc. When you're done adding transitions, click on the checkmark at the top. To preview transition effects, go to the place you want to start on the video and click the Play button .

Voiceover in Kinemaster

After adding videos, you add voice (Voiceover) to it. Click the mic icon. Recording will not start until you press the Start button, but you can specify the mic is on when the green light starts flashing.

When you click the Start button , the parts of the video that are added to the voice will be highlighted in red. When you click the Stop button , the video with red color will now have a purple line below. You will also find additional options such as Review , Re-record , Loop (loop), Voice Filter (voice filter), Voice volume (voice volume) and Trim (cut ).

How to add text to Kinemaster videos

Adding text to video is a basic and necessary tool. To add text and personalize it, click the Layer button to the left of the red camera button. After that, a new options window will appear. The Text option will lie slightly below.

Enter the message and click the OK button . The text at first will be small, but you can make it bigger by pulling it out. Click the Aa icon to change the font. The animation option will give you ways to make text appear like sliding down, sliding up, clockwise, etc.

Swipe down and you can also add things like drop shadow, glow, add borders to text, etc. To change the color of the text, touch the white circle to the right of the scissors icon.

How to add music to videos

The video will be much better if you add music. For example, you want to add a song on the device. Put the red line at the bottom where you want the song to start. Click the music note icon and select the song.

Once you've selected your favorite song, a red plus sign will appear. The application will start playing audio so you can confirm if it is the song you want to add. After confirming, click on the red plus sign and the title of the song will appear at the bottom.

Kinemaster is a free editing application for Android full of great features. Once you've mastered how to use it, you'll find Kinemaster isn't as scary as you think. What do you think about this application? Leave comments in the comment section below!