CapCut Director Mode: Step-by-Step Guide & Transcript

[00:01] advanced AI video maker yet, and it's completely changed the game for video generation. So, if you're someone who already creates AI content or you're thinking about creating a faceless AI channel, listen up because it's now

[00:15] easier than ever and it's completely free to get started. So, in this video, I'm going to show you what I've created and then I'm going to give you a full run-through of CapCut's brand new video studio and director mode. Now, before we

[00:28] get started, you can access CapCut video studio using the link down in the description below. Now, once you're inside, you'll be able to select director mode and begin creating your full project on the canvas. Now, for

[00:41] this video, I basically decided to create episode one of my own cinematic AI history series called Building Rome. Honestly, the results were pretty Honestly, the results were pretty insane. So, let's play it.

[01:03] before he sees us. >> Back to it. Now.

[01:27] Are you Titus? >> Yes. Why? What do you want? using CapCut's brand new director mode. And this new tool allows you to build

[01:41] out an entire video series shot by shot. Now, unlike the old typical AI video generators where you just enter a prompt and they'll give you a finished video with very little control, director mode actually allows you to build out the

[01:54] project on a canvas and direct every single shot in it. It literally allows you to create and organize all of your characters, your locations, your props. It gives you a complete storyboard. It allows you to continue generating scenes

[02:08] using the context you've already created. And then if you need to rework individual shots, you can do without having to restart the entire project. So rather than simply letting the AI tool do it all for you, you actually remain

[02:22] in full control and you use direct mode more like a creative director. So whether you're a complete beginner to AI content or even if you're a more experienced creator, this new tool gives you a brand new way to make seriously

[02:37] good AI content. And now I'm going to give you a full tutorial on how to use log in, you'll typically be brought to this screen here. This is like the video studio main homepage where you can create pretty much anything. Now we want

[02:51] the director mode, which is where I created my Building Rome series. So you either click the button here, director, and just type all this all your prompts in here, or you can click on this here, make 4K films of SeaDance 2.0. So then

[03:05] to this screen here. And this is basically your actual canvas. Now if you go back to mine, this is my canvas for the Building Rome. So I'm going to show and then I'll teach you exactly how to do it yourself. Now on first like

[03:21] complicated, but I promise you it's not. I basically built an overview of the episode and the story I wanted to create. Now I actually got ChatGPT to help me do this. So I went to ChatGPT, I typed in exactly what I wanted to

[03:36] create, and then I said, "Give me the perfect like story and overview of this Building Rome series, and then give me as a prompt I can put into CapCut." So it gave me this. So it gave me name Building Rome, genre other, world

[03:51] setting Ancient Rome. And then I got the key characters. So, this is a really important bit and a really big benefit of what you can do with this new CapCut director mode. So, I asked it to give me key characters that I wanted to appear

[04:05] in different parts of the video. So, here we've got Titus, a basically a Roman laborer. We've got Marcus, Titus's friend. We've got the Centurion. This Um and then we have the key environments, key props, storyline. So,

[04:19] this is the storyline that I created. Now again, this might look a bit complicated, but I promise you this is just a ChatGPT prompt. I didn't do it. It's just a prompt you can get directly from ChatGPT. So, then you can create

[04:32] your characters and your prompts and all that stuff. So, the next thing I started to create my characters. So, this is my main character, Titus, the Roman laborer. Then I've got here an overseer or like a bouncer um who basically keeps

[04:45] everyone in check. Then we've got the Centurion, which I mentioned a second ago. He's like the big dog. Then we've got Marcus, which is Titus's friend, who I also mentioned a second ago. So, that's Marcus. Then we've got the scene,

[04:58] which is the Roman I basically wanted to create a scene where it shows you the backgrounds of how to build a Colosseum in ancient Rome. So, that's the scene and setting. And then here the props. We've got a rope, we've got a chisel, a

[05:11] hammer, and stones, which you'll see later on. And then I basically gave them uh shot one, shot two, shot three, shot four, shot five. And then again, I got ChatGPT to help me. So, I wanted to build out this entire video by single

[05:25] shot so I could go in there and edit the shots, make the shots perfect, and then build from each shot. So, I started off with the very first shot, which was uh the outside of the Colosseum being built basically. So, I did this as a photo

[05:39] right. And then I made it into an animation video. So, it went from photo to video down here where you can see the video. And then shot two, which was tighter, so he enters the shot now, I turned that into a video. And again,

[05:52] shot three, that into a video. The rope was from the prop list I showed you. And then shot four, this piece here of concrete was also from the prop list. And then I built out every single shot and made every shot into a video.

[06:07] As you can see here, shot video, the Centurion arrives, so he starts coming up. He then asks the overseer where where he is. And then we build out from there. So, I basically made each shot first, I made the storyline, and then I

[06:20] turned each shot into an actual video, and then put it all together, and then I have episode one of my first building Rome series. You can do an entire documentary of like 45 minutes if you want to, shot by shot. So, what I'm

[06:33] run through exactly how to use this. Okay, so now I'm going to show you how to create your own video. So, this is basically where you start. Now again, button here, and this will take you to the director mode. Now, you may well

[06:47] have the perfect vision of exactly what you want to create. But for the purposes set up something brand new, and I'm just going to use Chat GPT to help me set up a storyline so I can go in and create it in the director mode. So, I basically

[07:02] said, create me episode one of a new series of an alien Martian landing on Earth in the year 3000. I'm building out this video on CapCut's new video studio director mode. So, please build out the characters, the scenes, and the list of

[07:15] five different shots. All right, so Chat GPT has now given me a really solid answer. We've got series concept, so it describes the concept of the series, series name Mars 3000. So, main characters here, we've got Kael, the

[07:27] coming down from space. It's got all of approximately 6'2, lean, pale green gray, uh large but believably dark amber eyes, clothing dark charcoal Martian

[07:39] exploration suit, personality calm, blah blah blah. We've got Meia Vos, which is We've then got main location Earth the year 3000. So, it describes the city forests. And then we've got the Martian

[07:54] part of this episode. And then we've got the five shots I asked it to create. So, we've got shot one, the purpose, the visuals, and stuff. It gives you an exact prompt put into director mode. So, what we're going to do now is we're

[08:07] this the entire thing so all of it, and then we're going to input that prompt that the whole prompt into CapCut. So, this is basically going to take that prompt, and it's going to put

[08:22] it on this canvas here. So, all of this space you see here is the canvas of here we now have the entire breakdown of what we're creating just like zoom out, zoom in, all that stuff. So, now what we want to do is

[08:37] create the main characters. So, let's first create Kay'Al. So, all we've got to do is go So, in the prompt box I put, "Please create the first main character Kay'Al the Martian." And basically, I just copied the prompt from ChatGPT and

[08:51] input it into here. So, now CapCut is going to create the full-body character it's going to be put here. So, we're going to just build it out step by step. So, here we have the first example of Kay'Al the Martian. I mean, it's it's

[09:05] pretty good as it is. You can go in there and change whatever you need to orange bits or the suit or the background, I can just click on prompt, change it. But, for the sake of this video, I think it looks pretty good. So,

[09:19] we're now going to move on to the second main character, which is Meia Vos. So, literally just copy that, go here, and paste it in there. So, here we have our second character, Meia Vos. Now, again, she's a

[09:32] good, too. Again, like I said, if you did want to button here and change whatever you need to. So, now the two characters are done. We're now creating the main location, which is planet Earth in the year 3000.

[09:45] So, again, all you need to do is copy this prompt from here into CapCut and and this is exactly what planet Earth apparently looks like in the year 3000, like the wastelands here, you've got the city there, like you've got the

[10:01] skyscrapers, the holographic bits. And yeah, that looks that looks pretty cool. So, we've got to do one more like scene, which is the spaceship. So, if I go back onto here, on the the Martian spacecraft is the last thing we

[10:15] this video because I want to get those four things perfect before we then suggesting that if you create some videos with this, you actually go through and make sure every little piece of detail is perfect because it's so

[10:29] easy to do so if you just click on that prompt to update things. And yeah, there is the Martian's spaceship. Again, that's that's pretty cool. It's got some the detailing here like these orange bits actually match his suit there. So,

[10:43] it's kept the detail really, really well. So, now that I'm happy with both characters, I'm happy with the scene, and I'm happy with his spaceship, I can scene, which is really cool. So, what

[10:55] to my ChatGPT prompt. And you can see here you've got shot one, shot two, shot three, shot four, shot five. So, all you need to do is copy the director mode need to do is copy the director mode prompt, go back in here, and go, "Okay,

[11:08] now please create shot one." And then paste in the "create shot one" just so it gives a reference because here you can see the references CapCut's AI will then carry across. So, when it now creates this,

[11:22] it's going to title it shot one. So, the prompt ChatGPT gave us is a wide cinematic establishing shot of Earth in the year 3000 at night during a violent electrical storm. In the far distance stands an enormous futuristic megacity

[11:35] kilometer high skyscrapers vertical forest blah blah blah. A mysterious burning spacecraft suddenly appears high in the clouds moving rapidly towards the ground. So, I'm hoping that this video this first shot is basically going to

[11:48] show the Martian spacecraft approaching like this spacecraft is going to be approaching Earth like this and it's going to start crashing towards the hopefully. So, here we have the very first shot and the very first shot

[12:02] Earth in the background in the year 3000 plus the spaceship coming through the sky approaching Earth. So, let's see how we get on.

[12:14] as you can see Earth is in the coming in. So, now it's time for step two. We're basically all you need to do is again just copy this and ask chat GPT to create shot two. Okay, so now we have

[12:28] impact where the Martian spaceship actually collides with Earth the first actually collides with Earth the first time.

[12:44] exactly what we want. We've got the actual all the detailing here that this spaceship has in this part. That there is pretty much an exact continuation of this shot here which is exactly what we wanted. So, again we're still following

[12:56] the same kind of like highlights and stuff here. So, now what we'll do is we'll go through and get shot three which is going to be the introduction of K'ao the Martian. So, hopefully it should follow exactly what we have here

[13:10] with this character reference. Okay, so here is shot three and this introduces the main character K'ao. So, just as a reference this is K'ao here the Martian. the body suit and all that kind of stuff. So, this should

[13:24] hopefully resemble that. So, let's play shot three.

[13:38] can literally see the same background of what's outside here. So, it's a direct continuation again. It shows him inside of the actual spaceship. He's just crashed. He's just kind of woken up. He's gone like, "Wow." So, that's great.

[13:52] So, now we need to do shot four and five. All right. So, shot four and shot five have now generated. And just as a reminder, shot four was showing the exterior of the crashed Martian spacecraft and basically him exiting the

[14:05] spacecraft and you see him for the first time like in on Earth, basically. So, time like in on Earth, basically. So, let's now give that a play.

[14:25] when he starts walking past the spacecraft and we then see Maya come into the shot. So, this is like the final shot in this like introduction of final shot in this like introduction of the scene. So, let's give it a play.

[14:50] basically, just from a really simple ChatGPT prompt, I've now been able to completely build out my entire like introduction series. I've built out the characters. I built out the actual location reference. I built out the

[15:03] reference of the spaceship. And then every single shot here builds on exactly what I did here. So, when you come to build your own, make sure you really characters, build out the locations, build out the shots and the stories. And

[15:17] then it's so easy to actually create these videos from those references. So, together. I'm going to show you what it looks like, and then I implore you to go down the description below, sign up for CapCut link, and start using this to

[15:31] generate your own videos. Okay, so let's give this final video a play cuz I want give this final video a play cuz I want to show you exactly how it turned out.

[16:16] is a really good video. Now, I've done this as quickly as possible just using a ChatGPT prompt, but if you actually sat down and designed everything to a T what you can create that is literally limitless. Like, this I'm not the

[16:32] biggest fan of AI content, like I've publicly said that before, but this is really exciting, and I genuinely enjoyed making this video. So, sign up for a around with it, and if you do really enjoy it, then you can consider actually

[16:45] monthly fee um that they charge now. So, yeah. Thanks it. Watch this video here. I promise you you'll love it.