How to Make A Recipe Video in Steps

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How to Make A Recipe Video in Steps

Summary:Want to share your cooking methods, skills, or videos with friends but need a video creator/editor? In this guide, we’ll show you detailed steps to make a recipe video, no matter you have taken a cooking video or just some photos.

Recently, it seems that book recipes are less attractive than pictures or video recipes. Many people love to share their cooking tutorial to social media like YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and more so we can see recipe video everywhere on the Internet! If you are a video blogger, there may be a cameraman to shoot video when you are cooking. But for most people who are cooking meals alone, it’s a tough task to take a stable video and cook simultaneously.

So is it impossible to share recipe videos if we are cooking by ourselves? Of course not. We could take some short videos or pictures during the cooking procedure, and then make a cooking video with these pictures or video clips. No matter you are a chief, a cook or a food lover, let’s follow this tutorial and learn how to make a recipe video without effort.

Image board: Recipe Video Cover

Part 1:The Tool You Need to Make A Recipe VideoPart 2: The Steps to Make A Recipe Video with FlexClipPart3: 7 Tips to Make A Tasty Cooking Video

Part 1. The Tool You Need to Make A Recipe Video

Before the start, you should know and prepare all the materials to make the cooking video. You’ll need:

1. Short Cooking videos or photos

2. A computer

3. A video maker

Speaking of the video maker or video editor, FlexClip is one of the best video editors on the market. It’s fully capable of making recipe videos even you just took some pictures. Here are some highlights of this tool:

It’s able to make all types of videos and you can add some photos to make a recipe video, which only takes a few minutes;
It offers millions of templates for you to choose, and you can choose a food template to start making cooking videos;
It allows you to add background music to the video, and you can also add text or subtitle as you need;
It’s 100% secure and free for use, and your private info will never be leaked.

Part 2. The Steps to Make A Recipe Video with FlexClip

After learning about FlexClip, let’s make a cooking video via this video creator. Get all the materials we mentioned above like video clips, pictures, music ready on your computer. Open FlexClip homepage and click on Create.

Step 1. Click Get Started - Free > sign up/in with Google or Facebook > click Create New to start making your recipe video.

Step 2. You can choose a video template or just click Start from Scratch. (Here let’s add pictures and make a recipe video. )

Step 3. Click the Storyboard icon to add photos > add text to each picture and adjust the duration of each picture > import the background music.

Image board: Making A Recipe Video - Step 3

Step 4. Click the Preview button on the top right corner > click Export Video.

Image board: Making A Recipe Video - Step 4

Part 3. 7 Tips to Make A Tasty Cooking Video

1.Use more than one camera. The benefit of multiple cameras is that you can be photographed from different angles and you can merge several clips to get a better recipe video.

2.Use a simple title. Although it can attract others with detailed titles and keywords, it can be difficult to find your video sometimes.

3.Add subtitles in your video. Many people hope to watch the video in mute so your subtitles are quite crucial to let them know what you are talking about.

4.Background Music. Music is very helpful as it can set the scene and create the right mood, which makes it more attractive for the viewer.

5.Make the lightning light. Before shooting your cooking videos, it's necessary to set the natural daylight with a LED light.

6.Display the finished recipe. Making your viewers' mouth water can let them look for more your food videos. Remember to show how your finished product looks.

7.Cooking with kid or pets. This can be very fun to watch adorable kids or pets, and you can cooperate with them while cooking.

The Bottom Line

That’s all about how to make a cooking video with several photos, and you can also add your video clips to merge to a recipe video. With this free online video maker, it can’t be easier to create a cooking video to share to your social media. Just give it a try and explore more!