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Social Media Video Editor

Spruce up your video content for any social media platform.

Choose a video

Your content, ready to go anywhere

Navigating every social media platform’s content requirements for size, length, and file types gives content creation and publishing more steps than it needs.

That’s why Kapwing’s social media video editor provides you with an all-in-one workspace for you to create, edit, and share your favorite memories and stories. Get inspired with over hundreds of social media templates to customize across different platforms. Whether you’re on your phone or your computer, you can trim long footage to assemble a pristine vlog or resize your videos and pictures to fit your Instagram or TikTok feed. Say goodbye to the complications of editing, and hello to a new and easier way of creating content.

How to Edit Videos for Social Media

Upload social media clips
Upload your video, image, or GIF into your own Kapwing media library. From there, you can drag and drop any media into your timeline to start editing.
Edit for social media
Meet social media standards by resizing your video or adding trendy animations and stickers to your project. Add text, audio, transitions, and more effects to stand out on your favorite social media platform. Feel free to browse our templates for inspiration.
Export and share
Once you’re satisfied with your project, export your video and share directly to Facebook or Twitter, or download and post to Instagram and TikTok.

The Future of Editing Videos for Social Media

Button up your video content by adding filters, adjusting brightness and contrast, adding subtitles, or trimming down the length to fit the video time length limit for any social media app.

Kapwing is designed by creators, for creators. This is video editing made easy – easy to create, edit, download, and share. All your projects are backed up to the cloud, so you never lose your work. Collaborate with your friends, your client, or your team by sharing the progress on your projects. Millions of creators use Kapwing every month, making it the best video editing option online.

Record directly from Kapwing, or upload videos, images, or GIFs to your own media library. Kapwing supports a majority of file types such as MP4, MOV, AVI, JPEG, HEIC, MP3, and many more. Unlike other social media video editing tools, you can edit and add any elements to your videos directly from your web browser on any device. When you feel finished with your project, hit “Export Video” and Kapwing will process your final video. From there, you can download your video file directly to your device, share directly to Facebook, Twitter, or TikTok, or create a video URL link to share on other social media platforms.

Our mission is to empower all creators with efficient, accessible tools that help make video storytelling easier and more impactful.

Discover even more features on Kapwing

Add Subtitles

Generate and customizable captions that automatically sync to your video. Use our AI-powered tool to create a transcript of your video, and then customize your auto-synced subtitles to make them perfect for your content creation needs. Resize, swap out fonts, or add in professional animations and transitions - all your edits will instantly be applied to the entire video.

Subtitle Video

Smart Cut

Smart Cut automates your video editing process by detecting and removing silences from your video in a matter of seconds. You'll be saving hours of editing time and completing your rough cut faster than ever for talking head videos, recorded presentations, tutorials, vlogs, and more. Editing has never been so seamless.

Remove Silences

Resizer

Repurpose videos faster and make them look more professional with our Resize Canvas feature! In just a few clicks, you can take a single video and adjust it to be the right size for every other platform, whether it's for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, or somewhere else.

Resize Video

Background Remover

With Kapwing's smart background removal tool, you can isolate people from the background of a video for free, without a green screen. All it takes is a few clicks. Upload your content, select the Remove Background tool, and use the preview to choose the threshold that best works for you.

Remove Background

Clean Audio

Enhance your project’s audio in seconds with Kapwing. In one click, Clean Audio automatically removes background noise, corrects loudness, and helps reduce popping sounds in your audio and videos. To use it, simply upload a video or audio file, then select Clean Audio on the right side.

Remove Audio Background

Collaborative editing

Work with your team directly in Kapwing. Create and edit content, then send it to share and collaborate with your teammates. Make team workspaces, comment in the editor, and work on videos together in real time or asynchronously.

Start Editing

Trimmer

Edit the length of your video clip by dragging the timeline handles or by using the Split tool. It’s never been easier to cut out silences, rearrange clips, or adjust the length of your audio to fit your video.

Trim Video

Waveforms

Kapwing's customizable waveforms let you bring your audio or podcast content to life. Our Waveform tool creates an automatically-generated, animated graph showing the frequency and amplitude of your audio over time. Choose between a classic waveform style and a stacked “bars” style to bring your own touch to your project.

Add a Waveform

Unlimited Overlays

Make your content pop with image overlays, emojis, progress bars, and audio waveforms. Then simply resize and position them to customize your project. With unlimited overlays, the possibilities are endless.

Add an Overlay

Stock Assets

Browse hundreds of royalty-free images, GIFs, videos, sound effects, and music clips directly in our editor. Curate assets that will bring your project to life, then edit them the way you want to all in one place.

Try Plugins

Templates

Get inspired by hundreds of trendy video templates made to unleash your creativity. Select the template that best suits your project, and then make it your own with custom videos, images, or text. Making professionally designed videos or memes has never been faster.

See All Templates

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I create and edit content for social media?

The easiest way to edit and stylize your social media content is by using the online video editor, Kapwing. With Kapwing you can edit your videos to fit all different platforms including but not limited to Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. There is a wide variety of tools for you to use including the Clean Audio tool to remove background noise and the Smart Cut feature that removes dead silences in your videos.

How do I add subtitles for my social media videos?

Add subtitles to your social media videos by using an automatic subtitle generator. The most recommended tool to add subtitles to social media videos is Kapwing, since you can access it for free online in your web browser, and it works for any smartphone, computer, or tablet. Kapwing is also a content repurposing tool that equips you with preset canvas sizes fit for every social media platform (Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and more).

What's different about Kapwing?

Easy

Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.

Free

Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.

Accessible

Automatically subtitle and translate videos with our AI-powered Subtitler tool. Caption your videos in seconds, so that no viewers get left behind.

Online

Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.

No spam or ads

We don't serve ads: we're committed to building a quality, trustworthy website. And we will never spam you nor sell your information to anyone.

Powerful

Kapwing works hard to help make the content you want, when you want it. Get started on your project today.

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Best online video service ever. And a miracle for deaf people.

[Subtitler] is able to autogenerate subtitles for video in almost any language. I'm deaf (or almost deaf, to be correct) and thanks to Kapwing I'm now able understand and react on videos from my friends :)

Michael Trader

Information Services Freelancer

This tool should be in every social media account managers' bookmark list.

I use this daily to help with video editing. Even if you're a pro video editor, their is no need to be spending hours trying to get the format correct. Kapwing does the hard work for you.

Dina Segovia

Virtual Freelance Worker

It just works!

Kapwing is incredibly intuitive. Many of our marketers were able to get on the platform and use it right away with little to no instruction. No need for downloads or installations - it just works.

Eunice Park

Studio Production Manager at Formlabs

With Kapwing, we're always ready to create.

Kapwing is an essential tool that we use in MOXIE Nashville every day. As a social media agency owner, there's a variety of video needs that my clients have. From adding subtitles to resizing videos for various platforms, Kapwing makes it possible for us to create incredible content that consistently exceeds client expectations. With Kapwing, we're always ready to create - from anywhere!

Vannesia Darby

CEO at MOXIE Nashville

Spend less time learning... and more time crafting stories.

Kapwing helps you spend less time learning complex video editing platforms and more time crafting stories that will connect with your audience and customers. We've used the platform to help create engaging social media clips from our clients' podcasts and we can't wait to see how the platform simplifies this process going forward. If you've learned graphic design with Canva, you can learn video editing with Kapwing.

Grant Taleck

Co-Founder at AuthentIQMarketing.com

It keeps getting better!

Kapwing is probably the most important tool for me and my team. It’s always there to meet our everyday needs in creating scroll-stopping and engaging videos for us and our clients. Kapwing is smart, fast, easy to use and full of features that are exactly what we need to make our workflow faster and more effective. We love it more each day and it keeps getting better.

Panos Papagapiou

Managing Partner at EPATHLON

By the far the most user friendly software to use.

As a housewife at home looking to start a Youtube channel for fun with absolutely zero editing experience, it was so easy for me to teach myself via their YouTube channel. It takes the tediousness out of editing and encourages creativity. As long as Kapwing is around, I will be using their software.

Kerry-lee Farla

Youtuber

Kapwing is my secret weapon!

This is one of the most powerful, yet inexpensive and easy-to-use video editing software I've found. I blow my team away with how fast and efficiently I can edit and turnaround video projects.

Gracie Peng

Director of Content

Kapwing is king.

When I use this software, I feel all sorts of creative juices flowing because of how jam-packed with features the software really is. A very well-made product that will keep you enticed for hours.

Martin James

Video Editor

Love this site.

As a English Foreign Language Teacher, this site helps me to quickly subtitle interesting videos that I can use in class. The students love the videos, and the subtitles really help them to learn new vocabulary as well as better understand and follow the video.

Heidi Rae

Education

Excellent subtitling features

[It] works perfectly for me. Have been using Kapwing for a year or so, and their automatic subtitle tool gets better and better every week, it's rare that I have to correct a word. Keep up the good work!

Natasha Ball

Consultant