The Ultimate List
of Tools Creators Should Use 🔥
You’ll definitely want to bookmark these 📌
Mobile Video Editing 📱
#2 VN Editor
VN editor has multiple features that are present on vastly more powerful desktop editing apps but condensed in an easy-to-use program. It’s best suited for more cinematic videos.
#3 Veed.io
Freepik has a great offering of royalty-free icons, stickers, and vector images that you can use in your motion design work.
#1 CapCut
Capcut is a powerful and free mobile video editor with tons of features. It is best suited for creating videos quickly and its TikTok template feature is very efficient.
Finding Visual Assets 👁️
#2 Pexels
Pexels is my go-to website for finding stock images footage for B-Roll to add to my videos. Also, it’s not used as widely as Unsplash so you’re more likely to find original assets there.
#3 Freepik
Freepik has a great offering of royalty-free icons, stickers, and vector images that you can use in your motion design work. If you think of an icon, they probably have it there.
#6 Playphrase.me
Playphrase.me allows you to find a matching scene from a film or tv series that applies to any phrase that you put in, perfect for when you need some good B-Roll to pair with your voiceover.
#1 Unsplash
The amount of high-quality photography that Unsplash has on its site is mind-boggling, and the best part is that you can find an image for just about any subject you desire.
#5 Sensa
Sensa is the place to go for finding up-to-date emojis to include in your work. They even give you 300+ free emojis to download in SVG & PNG formats.
#4 The Noun Project
The Noun Project boasts one of the largest free icon collections on the web and the website does offer images too.
Manipulating Visual Assets 🧙
#1 Huggingface.co
ZoeDepth on the huggingface website is a depth mapping tool that enables you to create a depth map from any uploaded image you give it. This is very useful for creating focus pull and parallax effects to bring 2D images to life in your videos.
#2 RunwayML.com
Runway.ML is a website with multiple embedded ai tools that can help your video production work. I use it predominantly for the greenscreen background removal tool that you can apply to any mp4 file to remove the background form a video.
Sound & Music 🎵
#4 Sound Q
Sound Q is a software that is integrated with Adobe Premiere Pro and allows you to access free sound effects and music that can be instantly added to your premiere pro sequence
#2 The Free Music Archive
The Free Music Archive contains a massive library of royalty-free songs from independant artists.
#3 Shazam Extention
The Shazam browser extension allows you to identify songs that you hear on websites immediately.
#1 TikTok TTS
TikTok text-to-speech (TTS) is a voice option you find on TikTok, if you’re creating a video outside of the app and still want the voice option, use this tool.
Idea Conception & Inspiration 💡
#2 Merlin
Merlin is a chrome browser extension that allows you to access Chat GPT without going directly through the website.
#3 Facebook Ad Library
Facebook Ad library is a great source of inspiration when it comes to creating high-performing ads.
#1 Chat GPT
Chat GPT is an AI program that compiles search engine data into easily accessible answers to pretty much anything.
#5 AdLeg Debug Tool
You can use the adleg debug tool to find the source for any ad you see on YouTube, so you can save it and watch it later.
#6 Behance
Behance is one of the most popular public portfolio sites for creators’ work. It’s a great tool to use to showcase your own work and
#4 TikTok Creative Centre
TikTok creative centre is a hub for trending ads, songs, and videos that are performing the best on the app.
