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The CapCut CRE[AI]TE 2026 winners are here! 🏆 Every one of the 2,523 submissions, from 47 countries and regions, started with someone who had a story and decided to tell it. 30 works made the final list: 10 award winners and 20 Spotlight Selection works. Congratulations to every creator on the list, and a huge thank you to everyone who entered. You brought the ideas and let new tools take them further, and that made this one very hard to judge.

Creators no longer need infinite resources to build a career, just the vision and the tools to help their taste travel farther. ✨ Meet our CapCut World LA Creator of the Year honorees: Alyna, Carolina Ramirez, and Thiago Proença. With 13 Three-Star Awards and millions of exports between them, they’re shaping the feed and turning templates into life-changing milestones. Congratulations! 🏆👏

Don’t let your Black Friday ads just stand there. Transform your visuals with AI Edit and update your promotional text with Design Studio’s text editing tools. Give your products a bigger moment with Black Friday Magic with CapCut. Coming October 20–30: 60% off Pro and 40% off Ultra. CapCut Desktop only.

RT @ElevenLabs: The Chroma Awards are back for Season 2. With $1M in free trials and promotions and over $450,000 in cash prizes and travel perks, it’s bigger than ever. Submissions are now open. Presented in partnership with @capcutapp, @TheCantinaApp, and @runware.

Make your own Black Friday Magic with CapCut:

Can you direct a short film in 30 minutes? ⌛ At CapCut World Los Angeles, we brought together top creators to pressure-test our latest creative workflows—Video Studio and Edit Pilot. The challenge: turn a single Starting Point card into a full cinematic story before the clock hits zero. Shoutout to host Marouane Zouzhi, Jordan Daniel Chesney for breaking down his workflow, our judges and every creator who took a creative risk with us today.✨ Watch the highlights from the session 👇

Your Black Friday ads have a deadline. Your cat has other plans. Even when your cat decides to take over the shoot :) Watch a handmade bag go from the worktable to a finished promo video with CapCut Desktop: • Remove distractions and change product visuals with EditPilot. • Keep a good shot going with AI Extend. • Enhance multiple assets at once with Batch Enhancement. • Fine-tune the final cut with multi-track editing. And mark your calendar: October 20–30 brings 60% off Pro and 40% off Ultra. CapCut Desktop only. You’ve made the product. Let’s make the ad.

Creators no longer need infinite resources to create. They just need the tools that can help their taste travel farther. At CapCut World LA, we asked experts from film, advertising, creator education, and the creator economy how the industry is catching up with creators, and how creators can leverage creative tools like CapCut to break through and be seen. Stay tuned for a look inside our Workshop Sessions with the latest CapCut tools.

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RT @JossMonzoni: With the AI God @Diesol and the incredible @JoshDaws at the creator focused CapCut World event. Amazing job @capcutapp 🫡

60% off Pro. 40% off Ultra. CapCut’s Black Friday deals will arrive October 20–30. 💰 Available on CapCut Desktop only. Turn your ideas into AI images, remove unwanted objects from videos and keep the action going with AI Extend.

RT @chrisfirst: That’s a wrap for CapCut World! What an amazing time out here. I’m so grateful for this life and the friends I get to share it with. Till the next one!

Make your own Black Friday Magic with CapCut:

RT @AiwithSaif7: A little glimpse into the future of content creation. 👀✨ CapCut World in LA brought together creative minds to explore what's possible when AI becomes part of the video editing process. One exciting update: the CapCut plugin is now available for early access on ChatGPT desktop. Copy and paste the installation prompt to get started, then continue editing in CapCut Web. ChatGPT mobile and web support is expected in mid-November. #CapCutDidThat #ChatGPT #CapCutWorld

This Black Friday, think bigger. Meet the marketing crew behind them: CapCut Desktop. Give your product shots a Black Friday look with EditPilot + templates. Try new scenes and outfits with AI Edit, then bring them to life with AI Video. Batch-process, resize for different platforms, and put it all together with multi-track editing. Yep, the whole crew is on your desktop. Coming Oct 20–30: 60% off Pro, 40% off Ultra. Desktop only.

RT @Debbie_Ze: Big ideas deserve finished videos. 💡 CapCut World in LA is exploring new AI-powered creative workflows. No more excuses for editing! #CapCutDidThat #ChatGPT #CapCutWorld

Meet your marketing crew:

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The city of stars just got a lot brighter ✨ Creators from all over North America are gathering for CapCut World Los Angeles on October 24, an invite-only event for big updates from CapCut, talks from must-watch industry leaders and one incredible, global creative community. Follow along to see what happens next.

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First short film. First festival. First Grand Prix. Here’s how we delivered the news.📦 Congratulations to @cellocoelho, winner of the Global Grand Prix at the 2026 CapCut CRE[AI]TE AI Festival for his debut short film, Closet (also recently screened at TIFF: The Market). In Cello’s words: “Today, with AI, I can have the courage to tell the story in my head.” 🧵

RT @Diesol: Today at CapCut World in LA was a vibe. Thanks for the invite @capcutapp Hanging with my friends @Gossip_Goblin @PJaccetturo @BLVCKLIGHTai

Closet is a 7-minute stop-motion story about a boy whose imagination unlocks a portal through a mysterious piece of furniture. Created with CapCut Video Studio and Dreamina Seedance 2.5. Muitos parabéns, Cello! 🏆

Put this many creators in one room, and every angle is a masterpiece. A look at the faces, friendships, and morning session highlights making CapCut World LA unforgettable. Are you on the floor today? Tag us so we can feature your work! #CapCutWorld #CapCutWorldLA

What story in your head would you love to bring to life on screen? 👇

When @PaigePiskin , @zachking , @PJaccetturo , and @Gossip_Goblin talk editing workflows, the whole room takes notes. 📝

“CapCut lets you step into the scene and onto the set you've created.” See how @WonderStudiosX 's Beyond the Loop creators use CapCut Video Studio to develop their storyboards and scenes.

So much creativity in one photo!

Generating the video was just the beginning. Timeline Editor is now live in CapCut Video Studio on web, bringing AI generation and hands-on editing onto one canvas. You can trim and combine clips, refine your prompt and regenerate, add music, and make more adjustments all in one workflow. When you’re ready to go further, your project can move seamlessly from web to CapCut Desktop, so you can pick up right where you left off. Try it now and take your idea further!

CapCut world vibes ✨ @Diesol @Gossip_Goblin @PJaccetturo @BLVCKLIGHT @capcutapp #CapCutWorld#CapCutWorldLA

Start your journey on Video Studio:

We’re excited to announce our new CapCut plugin is coming soon to @ChatGPT at CapCutWorldLA. The plugin brings CapCut's video editing and generation tools alongside ChatGPT. You can start with an idea in ChatGPT, bring it to life with the CapCut plugin right inside ChatGPT, then take your draft video to CapCut's web editor to refine, share and publish. By bringing the CapCut product you already love and use in ChatGPT, we're making content creation more seamless and efficient.

Now Live: The CapCut AI Lab × BDuck Challenge What does your BDuck side look like? 🐤 BDuck, the famous yellow duck, has landed in CapCut AI Lab. Use a BDuck template to bring the duck into your photos and videos. Somewhere in there is your Ducksona, the duck that matches your personality. Post your favorite to TikTok for a chance at $2,200 in cash prizes. The challenge runs for 15 days only. 🏆 $2,200 in Cash Prizes The 10 most-viewed TikTok posts win 1st Place: $500 2nd–5th Place: $300 each 6th–10th Place: $100 each 📋 How to Participate Open AI Lab in CapCut and pick a BDuck template Make at least 1 BDuck video Post it to TikTok directly from CapCut with #CapCutBDuck Submit your work through the form on the event page in CapCut ✅ Rules 100% original content only. No reposts or artificial views. Along the way, the 5 BDuck challenges on the event page in CapCut earn you credits.

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BDuck is taking over CapCut AI Lab! Your favorite yellow duck is jumping into a whole new world of AI-powered fun! From hilarious transformations to wild adventures and unexpected surprises, there's a whole lot of duck magic waiting to be unleashed. Dive into CapCut AI Lab, pick your favorite BDuck template, and turn your everyday moments into something totally quackers!

RT @ross_zeiger: They gave us a tiny camera in the merch bag at Capcut World

Kung fu, robo cops, and Cantonese cyberpunk? Goldfish Mayhem has our full attention.🔥

Introducing @JunieLauX's Goldfish Mayhem: Cantonese Cyberpunk 🐟 Kung fu, robo cops, cantonese street mythology mixed with some absurdist humour The final film of Beyond the Loop Season 2.

Four best friends swear in a hospital room that none of them will ever have kids. A decade later, they're selling off their childfree merch at a garage sale, surrounded by children. ChildFree. Series by Kate Polet, recipient of the Student Vision Award at CapCut CRE[AI]TE AI Festival 2026, is a gothic-fairytale stop-motion dramedy about the gap between the life you plan and the one that actually happens. Felt puppets, oversized eyes, and practical lighting keep even a birthday party one step away from a ghost story. Watch the full work and explore all 30 recognized works at

A woman on the subway can't stop glancing at the man across from her, and it takes a box of chocolates to show what she was really looking at. THE ENCOUNTER by Ana Maria Garcia Wolff, named Commercial Honoree at CapCut CRE[AI]TE AI Festival 2026, is a chocolate commercial that plays a subway romance for misdirection. It pays off the brand line "You won't think of anything else," and was developed, generated, and edited in CapCut Video Studio. Watch the full work and explore all 30 recognized works at