What is CapCut?
CapCut is an application to create and publish videos from mobile devices developed by ByteDance, the same company responsible for TikTok. His specialty is vertical format videos that are so successful on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and even TikTok. CapCut allows you to create them with the phone’s recording camera or import them from the gallery.
Among its benefits is the ease of use and the presence of a variety of original effects with which it is possible to fully customize productions. Its main options allow you to add effects and color filters, apply transitions, make speed adjustments, superimpose texts and add music, voiceovers, using a teleprompter on the screen for the latter.
It also has basic editing functions, retouching tools, and an interesting collection of video templates with which any user with little experience can create professional-quality videos.
CapCut Compatible Platforms
CapCut is available for free in the app stores for iOS and Android. At the moment it does not have a version for computers, however, thanks to the Android system emulators it is possible to test its editing functions from the desktop.
For now, it is best to use an emulator like MSI App Player that consumes few resources compared to the rest.
MSI App Player is a version of Bluestacks developed by this software company for MSI computers intended for video games, but it can be run without any problem on all types of Windows 7 computers onwards, including low-resource ones.
How to install CapCut on your computer?
To get started, install MSI App Player on your PC. You just have to download its installation file available from its official page and run it.
After that, open the Google Play Store, log in with your Google account and download CapCut to the emulator interface. Then, you can launch it and access all its features from the comfort of your computer.
Configuring CapCut for MSI App Player
First you will need to make some settings in the emulator so that CapCut can make use of the media files on your computer and, in addition, they are displayed correctly in the CapCut editing screen.
In the first case, that is, in order for CapCut to process the files on the computer you want, you will need to share them via MSI App Player’s Media Manager app and use the Import from Windows option.
And in relation to the visualization section, it is preferable to opt for DirectX as a graphics renderer since in the case of CapCut it shows better results with the presentation of the effects on the screen. For this, click the Settings icon located at the bottom of the MSI App Player sidebar and select Graphics.
Under Graphics Renderer, select DirectX and click Save Changes. To finish this configuration, restart the emulator.
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