Free Online Video Editor
Create engaging videos with Canva's drag-and-drop interface, easy recording, and library of clips, audio & animations. Collaborate in real-time. Edit in the browser or app. Fast-track creation with powerful AI tools.
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Create a video
Start editing personal or business videos that look awesome and professional on any platform — whether it’s on a widescreen, tablet, or mobile device.
A free video editor with powerful editing tools
Functional features you need
Upload and manage your media clips, drag and drop them on a timeline, and easily crop, trim, split, speed up, and resize clips, all within one video editor.
Edit and collaborate on the go
Edit on the go and collaborate in real time using Canva’s video editor. Works on any mobile device, browser window, online or offline, anywhere in the world.
Finish with music, audio tracks, sound effects, and voice-overs, and Beat Sync
Polish your video with audio magic by adding pre-licensed music, sound effects (Pro), voice-overs, and multiple audio tracks. Wow with Beat Sync to automatically sync your video to any tune.
Edit videos with catchy popular tunes
With a Pro or Education subscription, you can use popular music from our selection of audio tracks from Warner, Merlin, and Sony. Easily add your music to your videos and upload them to your personal social media, or use for education.
Magically create your video using AI
Auto-create videos from your library
Cut down on the hours spent concepting, rendering, or editing your videos. With Magic Design™ for Video as your creative assistant, watch it auto-edit your videos, add music and apply Beat Sync, choose the best transitions and transitions with Magic Animate™ (Pro), and generate share-worthy videos for any platform.
AI-generated avatars
Let a realistic AI avatar narrate your video, in any language. Simply type in your speech and choose a talking style.
Video background remover (Pro)
No need for a green screen or advanced software — remove the background of any video with just one click.
Create any type of video, with anyone, from anywhere
Templates and video formats for all ideas
Get confident with thousands of customizable templates to suit any industry — from fashion, food, and fitness to real estate. Feel professional with pre-sized formats for Social Media videos, YouTube intros, advertisements, and more.
Personalize with Canva’s media library
Add those finishing touches, with your own content or from our media content library, including watermark-free stock footage, video clips, music, graphics, and stickers.
Built-in recording features
The recording studio lets you record voiceovers, yourself, or your screen without leaving Canva. With everything in one place, it's so easy to create what you need—and slot it into your video timeline.
Make motion that matters
Motion designer in your pocket
Say goodbye to manually adding animations and transitions. With Magic Animate (Pro), you can effortlessly add motion and flow to your videos with just one click.
Cartoon maker
Create relatable cartoon characters with our free Cartoon Maker and make them come alive with animation.
Create an animation
Want your animation to dance across the screen? Animation pathways give you control over how your animations move. You’re able to create custom pathways for any of your animated elements.
Share it your way
Easy sharing options
Share your videos straight to most social media platforms, download them in a range of file types, or create a shareable watch link. If you need more time, Canva stores all your content safely in the Cloud.
Hassle-free scheduling
Schedule your Videos to go live with Content Calendar. Have your Instagram Stories, Reels, Facebook Stories, and TikToks ready to go.
Share direct to social
Connect your social platforms to share your Videos directly from Canva. Share directly to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Linkedin.
The video editing app for every creator
For work
Impress clients, build your brand on socials, and train your team efficiently.
For learning
Inspire design in the classroom and create unique video projects.
For fun
Edit creative home videos, wow with personal projects, and build your social following.
All the video editing features you need
Canva's free drag-and-drop design tools make it easy to create any design, fast!
Video timeline editing
Upload your own videos or use stock content. Easily drag and drop into a timeline view with proportional scenes that you can preview right in the editor.
Get your content out to the world instantly
Publish straight from Canva to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Tumblr, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and more.
Thousands of free templates and millions of video clips
Never run out of ideas with fully customizable templates, plus a library of free stock videos, images, footage, icons, and graphics
Real-time collaboration
Collaborate on videos in real-time. Leave comments or assign actions on specific scenes for your team.
Edit on any device
Wherever inspiration strikes, you’ll be able to capture it. Edit your videos with a full timeline on your mobile, browser, or desktop app.
In-app recording
Record yourself and your screen directly in Canva using our online video recorder and edit on the spot.
Audio for every moment
Choose from over half a million popular music tracks, 25k licensed tracks, and 89k sound effects. Add music to your video and layer multiple tracks to set the mood or narrate your story.
Text, overlays, and transitions
Easily add text, overlays, and titles, with cinematic video transitions to move from one scene to another for a seamless, professional flow.
Page, element, and text animations
Animate any element or even the whole frame with just a few clicks, with smart recommendations to pair the right animations together.
Split and splice
Split your video into multiple sections to quickly remove unnecessary footage or reorder your story.
Crop, resize, and flip
Seamlessly crop your video, resize clips (Canva Pro), or horizontally or vertically flip your footage to suit your desired screen size or display output.
Trim and cut
Trim or cut your video to remove unwanted sections and split, splice, and merge clips seamlessly.
Content Calendar
Schedule your Videos to go live with Content Calendar. Have your Instagram Stories, Reels, Facebook Stories, and TikToks ready to go.
Video speed controls
Speed up or slow down video elements in a Canva design. You can choose to make your videos faster for a time-lapse effect or slow down for slow motion.
Download or store
Download your Videos as MP4s, SVG, or GIF files. If you need more time, Canva stores all your content safely in the Cloud.
Captions
Automatically generate accessibility captions for any video. No additional software needed.
Beat Sync
Sync your videos to music seamlessly with Beat Sync, our online audio syncing tool—all without leaving the video editor.
Create an Animation
Create and control how your animations move. By recording an animation, you can create custom pathways for any of your animated elements.
How to make and edit your videos
- Start a new project: Choose a video type to create, from TikTok Video, Video Slideshow, Video Collage, YouTube Video, Instagram Stories, etc. Or, start from scratch.
- Explore templates: In Canva’s library, find templates for educational videos, review videos, explainer videos, marketing videos, beauty and fashion videos, and more.
- Add your content: Upload your own or pick from our library for stock videos, photos, logos, and music tracks if needed.
- Edit like a pro: Crop, trim, rotate, and sync your footage and audio. No editing experience required!
- Customize your video: Tweak the look and feel with your own color scheme, backgrounds. Animate graphics, stickers text for a dynamic feel.
- Review and publish: Preview, make final changes, download as a watermark-free MP4, share a link to view, or post on your socials.
Your questions, answered
Yes, Canva’s video editor is free to use for everyone. Start creating and editing videos with the help of our easy-to-use, drag-and-drop video editor today
The Canva video editor supports the following video file formats: .MP4, .MOV, .AVI, .WMV, .FLV, .M4V, .MPG, and .WEBM.
While the following audio file formats are supported: MP3, WAV, OGG, AAC, and FLAC.
You can upload your video using popular music to social media, as long as it’s for personal use. Just take note that when you upload to social media, the label that owns that music may profit from your video or have it blocked.
At this time, adding catchy popular tunes to your social graphics is currently only released in the following regions: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and parts of Europe (France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Denmark, Hungary, Greece, Norway, Croatia, and Luxembourg). We’re hoping to enable it in more regions soon!
Check our Popular Music License Agreement to see if popular music is available in your region. If popular music is available in your region, you’ll have access to popular music as part of your Canva Pro or Canva for Education subscription.
Popular music isn’t currently available to people using Canva for free, Canva for Teams, or Canva for Nonprofits.
Canva’s video editor is a free, online video editor that supports drag-and-drop basic editing and real-time collaboration features like resize, trim and crop, mirror/flip features. You can also add animations, effects, filters, transitions, captions, multiple audio tracks, and even record your screen. Other Pro video editing features include video background remover, Magic Switch, Brand Kit, and more.
We also constantly improve our editing features and add new ones. Stay tuned and read more about new features as they are launched at https://www.canva.com/features/.
Our online video editor works best in most web browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Firefox, and other Chromium-based browsers. It also works on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows mobile devices.
We recommend updating your browsers to their latest versions to ensure a smooth video editing experience.
The best free online video editor is the kind that offers a beginner-friendly browser-based tool, intuitive video editing features like splice, trim, cut, and more, plus a well-curated library of everything you need to make your video engaging from start to finish.
With the Canva Video Editor, you’ll access a great selection of free fonts and illustrations for title cards and text animations and pre-licensed stock footage and audio tracks for quick in-browser editing. You can also download free HD videos with no watermarks so you can share and present them with confidence and with no distractions.
The good news is, you don’t need complicated video editing software to edit like a pro. Make full use of a free online video editor like Canva’s video-making app for starters and unleash your creativity. Here are a few practical tips to get you started:
1. Turn your vision into a story with a beginning, middle, and end.
2. Have an outline or a storyboard—try creating one in Canva Whiteboards.
3. Brainstorm with a team to make your video richer and more creative.
4. Explore different camera angles and cuts.
5. Enrich your existing footage with b-roll and stock video clips.
6. Use music to heighten the mood of your video.
7. Organize your workflow by putting your materials into separate folders.
No, Canva videos do not have watermarks if you are using free elements, images, footage, and music as a Canva Free user. And if you are a Canva Pro user, your videos will not have any watermarks whether you are using free or paid elements.
To sum up, Pro or paid elements will only have watermarks on your videos if you're a Canva Free user.