Creating a collage with photos and videos for social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok will enhance storytelling and boost engagement. A collage of photos and videos of your family will convey moments, emotions from different angles.
In this guide, we’ve rounded up everything you need to know about photo and video collage. Here’s what you will learn.
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Part 1. What’s a Video Collage
A video collage is a multimedia composition that combines several video clips and photos artistically. However, creating a photo and video collage is more than just placing photos and videos together. The photo and video collage creation process may involve adding transitions, animations, or incorporating audio elements.
Use your creativity to play with your photos and videos in different styles! Or customize the following free photo and video templates directly.
Memory Photo Collage
Family Moment Collage Slideshow
Memory Photo Collage
Family Moment Collage Slideshow
Part 2. How to Collage Photos & Videos Online
Of all online photo and video collage makers, each platform offers a wide range of features, templates, and customization options. In terms of ease-of-use, powerful and flexible editing options, we recommend FlexClip. Here is what you can achieve.
Collage as many photos and videos as you want in one scene without breaking a sweat.
Beautify your photos and videos via filters, free adjustment tools, elements, borders, texts.
Rich transitions to make photos and videos go smoothly and deliver special feelings to audiences.
Integrate with millions of audio resources to highlight the atmosphere of photo and video collages.
Step 1
Upload Photos and Videos to FlexClip
Click on the Create a Collage button below to enter FlexClip’s editing page. You can also browse more photo and video collage templates by clicking the View Templates page.
Click on the Local Files button and then select photos and videos you want to make a collage with from a local folder. Alternatively, you can choose resources from your phone, or cloud services like Google Drive, Google Photos.
Upload Media Resources to FlexClip
Step 2
Apply Photos and Videos to the Timeline
Click on the photos and videos in the Media section. Click Add as Scene, the resource you selected will be added as a background. Click on Add as Layer, it will appear above the background. You can only use one photo/video as a background for one frame, but you can add as many photos and videos as a layer.
Add Photos & Videos to the Timeline
Step 3
Beautify Your Photos & Video
Here are some methods to beautify your photo and video collage.
Add Filters & Effects: The consistency of videos and photos is quite important to make your collage more professional. Try different filters, saturation, contrast to enhance the mood or tone of your collage.
Apply Filter to Photo & Photo Collage
Crop Your Photos & Video : Go to Elements > Mask. Select a shape you like, and then drop your video inside the mask. You have successfully cropped a video/photo.
Crop Photo & Video Collage
Animate Your Photos & Video: Click to select any photo or video, go to the Animation option above the preview window, select one of the animations.
Animate Photos & Videos
Add Background Music: Use the audio library with millions of royalty-free background music, sound effects to highlight the photo and video collage atmosphere!
Add Background Music to Photo Video Collage
Export your video collage to the computer. You can also one-click share to social media, or make the photo and video collage into a link.
Part 3. How to Collage Photo & Video On Desktop
The best photo and video collage maker is definitely CapCut. CapCut was once a mobile app, but now it has both desktop software and online version. CapCut is the best of the best because it is free to use, and provides powerful features, even if you are a non-subscriber.
Step 1
Download and install CapCut on your computer. Launch it and then click on New Project to get started.
Step 2
Drag and drop all your photos and videos to the Media section. Add them to the timeline one on top of another one.
Step 3
Manually resize all the photos and videos and place them in the perfect position. Now, you have a very basic photo and video collage.
Step 4
Enrich your video collage by adding filters, adding masks, making adjustments and so much more.
Step 5
Export your video or one-click share to TikTok.
Create Photo/Video Collage with CapCut Desktop
Part 4. How to Collage Photo & Video on Mobile
The most popular photo and video collage maker for mobile is InShot. Its main features include PIP, animating photos or videos, adding filters, text, and stickers, which are all free! However, you might have to stand the ads popping up from time to time.
Step 1
Download and install InShot from the App Store or Google Play. Launch it and click Video.
Step 2
Choose a background video from the camera roll. Go to the PIP option below the preview window, and select any photos and videos.
Step 3
Resize or reposition the photo/video on the background.
Step 4
Polish your video/photo by adding filters, animations or music.
Step 5
Download the photo/video collage and share.
Collage Photos and Videos with Inshot
Part 5. Photo & Video Collage Layout Tips
Proper position of your videos and photos is the key to creating an excellent collage. Here are some key design tips about making photo and video collages.
Symmetrical layout: This is a layout design that can never go wrong. For instance, you can put videos and photos on the four corners of the video. This will create a balanced feeling for all viewers.
Autumn Photo Collage
Wedding Photography
Waterfall flow layout: Placing photos and videos according to the different size and height just like water flowing.
Valentine Photo Collage
Creative Autumn Collage
Fusion layout: Fusion means overlapping parts of a photo or video to increase visual richness and interest.
Wedding Photo Collage
Family Memory Slideshow
No matter which layout you choose, always make sure the space between videos remains the same. Besides, proper animation, transition, and background music will make your photo and video collage more appealing.
The Bottom Line
That’s the end of how to collage photo and video. If you find this post helpful, do remember to share it with others.
By the way, try generative AI to speed up your video creation process. FlexClip’s AI script writer can generate the best-ever video script; AI text-to-speech tool can speak out anything for you; AI auto-subtitle tool can create subtitles that sync perfectly with the video and audio. Check the following video for more details.
Elena
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Member of PearlMountain Limited. Has a mania for video editing. Love to share photo/video shooting tips and ideas.