How to Create a Chinese New Year Video 2024 with Music Free

Last Updated: 2023. 11. 30

Chinese New Year is also called Chinese Spring Festival. On this day, every Chinese family will gather together and have a big meal, decorate their houses with papercuts, lanterns, visit friends and relatives and deliver best wishes for the next year.

2024 is the year of dragon. According to Chinese calendar, the new year day of dragon year falls on Feb. 9th and it is around the corner. Let’s highlight the festive atmosphere by creating some Chinese New Year videos for everyone around you!

Chinese New Year Wishes Video Templates

Following are templates containing wishes that your friends will love in Chinese. The most common wishes are wish you a prosperous year, or wish you good luck in new year.

New Year Wishes Video
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New Year Wishes Video
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Wish You Prosperous Video
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Wish You Prosperous Video
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Chinese New Year Greeting Video Templates for Family

The following 2 templates are great if you want to send wishes from your entire family. After all, Chinese people emphasize reunion and harmony.

New Year Wishes Video
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New Year Wishes Video
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New Year Wish from a Family
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New Year Wish from a Family
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Chinese New Year Intro

If you need some new year intros for your social media videos, you will love the following video templates. They are modern, and two perfect beginnings for all video content.

New Year 3D Video Intro
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New Year 3D Video Intro
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Gold New Year Intro
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Gold New Year Intro
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How to Create a Chinese New Year Video

Step 1
Preparations

A good start means half success. To create excellent Chinese New Year videos, you have to make the following preparations.

  • Think of what kind of video of Chinese New Year video you want to create. Generally speaking, you can create a Chinese New Year wishes video, Chinese New Year promotional video, or Chinese New Year eCards, Chinese New Year intro/outro for your YouTube channel.
  • Write a good script. You don’t have to be a writer to come up with great wishes. People who watch videos don’t like to read long sentences. One or two sentences are enough for each slide.
  • Excellent videos and photos. You can’t make good food out of bad ingredients. The same goes to creating videos. You need excellent video clips and photos. If you don’t have some, try some red backgrounds with lanterns, dragons. They can never go wrong.
  • Music and audio. You will need some cheering and festive background music. If you want to make the video more professional, make some voiceover for your video.
  • Step 2
    Upload Your Video Clips and Photos to FlexClip

    FlexClip is an online video editor. It has not only powerful video editing tools, but also festive video clips, photos, and music, templates to get started quickly, saving you much trouble in finding resources. Moreover, lots of AI tools like script generator, text-to-speech, text-to-video are available for you to fasten the video editing process. Click on Create a Video to start uploading your media resources.

    Create a Video View Templates

    When you are at FlexClip’s editing panel, click on Media, select Local Files and choose photos, videos, and music from your computer. Alternatively, click on the three horizontal dots to upload media resources from cloud services.

    Create Chinese New Year Video - FlexClip Upload Resources

    Create Chinese New Year Video - FlexClip Upload Resources

    Click on the Add as Scene button, your video will be added to the timeline.

    Create Chinese New Year Video - FlexClip Add to Timeline

    Create Chinese New Year Video - FlexClip Add to Timeline

    Step 3
    Edit Your Chinese New Year Video

    FlexClip has a clear interface where you can find all resources and editing tools easily. All resources like fonts, music, photos, videos, shapes, masks are listed on the left-side panel. Click on any items you added, any edits you can make on that item will appear above the preview window.

    Trim Video: To remove unnecessary parts of your Chinese New Year video clip, you can just drag the slider, or click on the Split icon to cut the video into several parts.

    Create Chinese New Year Video - FlexClip Trim Video

    Create Chinese New Year Video - FlexClip Trim Video

    Change Video Speed: Select your video, click on Speed. You can adjust your video from 0.1X to 8X. You can also use curve speed to highlight important parts of a video.

    Create Chinese New Year Video - FlexClip Change Video Speed

    Create Chinese New Year Video - FlexClip Change Video Speed

    Add Transition: To make the videos go smoothly, you can add transitions. In total, FlexClip offers over 100 natural transitions to level up your work. Click on the small symbol between the clips to find the transition that is perfect for your video.

    Create Chinese New Year Video - Add Transition to Video

    Create Chinese New Year Video - Add Transition to Video

    Add Text: Go to the Text section. Choose from basic texts, a variety of titles, lower-thirds, overlays, search bars, add it to your video, and then change text fonts, size, or even animate your text.

    Create Chinese New Year Video - Add Text to Video

    Create Chinese New Year Video - Add Text to Video

    Add Masks: Switch to Elements, you have lots of masks for you to hide certain parts of the video. Pick one mask, drag a video inside the mask.

    Create Chinese New Year Video - Add Masks to Video

    Create Chinese New Year Video - Add Masks to Video

    Here is a more detailed guide that shows you how to create a Chinese New Year video with FlexClip.

    Create a Chinese New Year Video with FlexClip

    Step 4
    Export and Share

    When your Chinese New Year video is done, you can download your video to your computer, one-click share your video to social media platforms, or generate a video link.

    Create Chinese New Year Video - Save & Share Your Video

    Create Chinese New Year Video - Add Masks to Video

    What Are Things You Must Keep In Mind to Create a Chinese New Year Video

    Culture

    There are 56 nationalities in China, and not every nationality celebrates this day in the same way. Before sending your Chinese New Year video to your friends, make sure your video content doesn’t offend them. You can also consult some natives.

    Balance Tradition and Modernity

    It is a stereotype that Chinese traditions have never changed. There are some modern things in Chinese New Year, like getting envelopes from Alipay.

    Mind the Zodiac

    2023 is the year of rabbit, and 2024 is the year of dragon. If you add a wrong zodiac icon, your Chinese new year video would be weird.

    The Bottom Line

    That’s the end of how to create a Chinese New Year video. If you find this post helpful, do share it with others. By the way, FlexClip is also helpful to create videos for other festivals, like Christmas, Valentine’s Day. Remember to give it a try.

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