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1. Introduction: Hello, everyone. My
name is Silvan Jake, and I'm a course instructor
here on Skillshare, teaching things relating
to art and marketing. And on my personal life, I work as a marketing
lead for my company. In this mini course, we're
going to be going into how to use auto captions
intervenRsolve. I believe outdo captions are so important when relating to your audiences in this
new area of social media, which is very short
form content focused because it enables people to not only just see you visually, but engage with
whatever you're talking about within different ways. So we're going to be
going into all that and going to be using
a free resource that's available and working with a
free resource on Da Vinci to ensure your dreams
come from what you think of to actuality, and you're able to edit
each and every project that you want to work on
and ensure the audiences, regardless of where
they're from, can really relate to
it and work with it. So that's what we're
going to be going into, and let's get started.
2. Before we start: This one we're going
to be installing an application called Auto SABs. So Auto Sabs is a free resource
that's also available for install for anyone who
is using DaventiRsolve, and it's applicable to
most DaventiRsolve, but I would recommend for
you to update it based, most likely update it to 19.14. That's the most recent one we have that's not on Beta version, and we'll give you a good
experience when implementing or editing the subtitles that you're going to be
creating for the video. Let's get started.
3. Creating the Captions with AutoSubs App: Our first start of business, when you're in your homepage, I am using MAC, as you
can see right here, right, is to open
your DaventiRsolve. And then I'm also going to open Google Chrome and
search for AutoSabs. So I'm going to share the
resource with you right here on the resources tabs. Going to open AutoSabs on
this website right here. So this leads us to this leads us to the main website
where Autosubs is found. And you can download
AutoSab for free. You can also choose
to view it on Github, which takes you through the step wise process of
installing the application. But basically, you just um go down and install
the application, install it, and it can
work on Mac and Windows. And then you launch
the installer, follow the instructions,
open the DaventRsve. Now this is where we're
going to just be going into the nitty gritties of how
to create the subtitles. So that's what we're
going to cover next. So once you've installed
the application, go ahead and open DaventRsve. For me, I'm going to create
a new project, right here. I'm going to create a
new project and call it Skillshare,
outdoor subtitles. I have a few videos that I have already created in the past, so I'm just going to work
with that and, like, create something and import like a previous video that
I've worked on that has, like, something that
I'd need captions on. Okay. So I'm going to
import this video, which is a video that I have
used for my YouTube channel. And then I'm just
going to import it. It has the audio as
well, which is playing. So make sure that the video
you select has audio. So move from the so
we're going to move from this media tab to the CAT tab and just play to make sure that
you have audio. Guys What I'll call Episode
two of my cloning series. Amazing. So that's just one quick
confirmation that we have audio. So I've reduced my video to a 1 minute length because I want to use this for
short form content. And the first thing
you want to go and do is go to your effects layer. Effects option is undercut. And when you're in
media plu pool, when you're in media Pool, just move to the Effects tab, and then go ahead to titles. And this is very important. Select the text plus option and just drag it
to our layer on edit. Yeah. So just select it. Now, here is where
we're going to do a lot of the work
which you need to do. So for me, I want to here's
where we're going to set all the instructions for how we want our
sub titles to look. So for me, I want my you
can change the color. For me, today, I'm going
to have one in yellow, and then I can change the font. I really like using Futura. I really like using Futura font, but we can start
we can try and do something more creative
like this one. This one's party LIT and then I can increase
the size or reduce it. But because I know I want
it to replay longer, I'm going to just keep it at
the size that it was before. There, right there. Then
so while you're here, you can choose to adjust
different things. You can adjust the size. You can adjust the line spacing. Say for instance, if you
want them to be more spaced, you can center it or align it differently based on where
you want it to align. As you can see, all the changes are coming in immediately. Then you can also
choose to justify it to the corner or
different places. I want to put it at the center. So you can have this
write on effect. So write on is basically
to have it come on, like, a typewriter effect, but I don't need
that because you're going to have the lines which I'm going to talk
into coming in separately. For this part, I'm
going to leave that out because I'm not going
to be using a lot of tabs. Then, um, the next thing
that you want to do is look into the settings where you're going to choose whether you want it
to be at the top. So that's for the Zoom
size, just go and do that. Then I'm going to select
where I want it to start. And because I want it
to be at the bottom, I'm going to move
them to the bottom. Then for this, I'm going
to move it to the center. So at its center aligned, but right at the bottom. Then other than that, I think I like it just as because I don't need a
lot of background for it, but you could choose
to to do a lot more, you could choose to zoom it in, like, make it a bit smaller here alternatively,
or zoom it out. But I just like to leave it
as because I already set the sizes of the item within it. So the next thing you're
going to do once you're done with selecting
it is that you're going to just close of the media poll and then you're going to go
back to the media pool. And then I would like
for you to click Select then move it up
to the layer at the top. And then I'm going to
change the name of it to Skillshare capture. This is very important because this is where it's
going to pick up on. Then when you do that, you could just remove the text
layer from here. Then now. So once you've moved it
and selected the timeline, make sure the
timeline is active, you're going to go to
workspaces, scripts, sorry, Workspaces, script Auto subs to have
the application open. As you see, it opens
automatically. And if it doesn't
open automatically, just make sure you've selected the timeline and you can close and reopen
this application. Then I'll choose Skillshare
caption because that's the caption style I created
on either of the two tracks. So the option is to
label like V two, this track two to be where the caption is and then
click Start process. So this is going to create
the captions for me, but it also is going to
give me an SRT file, which I can later use to upload on the different
platforms to ensure my video is matching the captions and
wherever I want them to show up correctly
within a short time. The good thing about this app is also let's just go to Maximize. It also gives you, um, an option of seeing
the lines in full. Other thing that you can
choose to do here is select the number of characters
that you want per line. So say, for instance, I increase the
characters to eight, I can update that to make sure
that they match correctly. So, say, for instance, I'm
using a vertical video format. I would like the videos to have fewer lines or to have
fewer words on the lines, then I would be fine. So once that's done, I can choose to
export this SRT file, and I'm just going to
save it on YouTube, subtitles, Skillshare,
and then save it. Then now when I go
back to this platform, as you can see, the scripts application and just go to go into full screen
for a minute. The scripts application
has what I call episode has allowed us to go into having the captions
exactly as I want them. In the font size, I want
them number in the number of characters that I want them to be and which is so important when trying to create the caracters and the caption
that you want to create. So this is what
we're going to have. And then now you
can go ahead and export your project
and upload it as is. You can also just
go back here and select the different captions. Say, for instance, you
want to make some edits. Sometimes you might
find that there are some spelling mistakes, for instance, and you can make some changes
and add something else. So as you see, I've
added an SD HS, which shows up right here. So that's something
good to note. But I would recommend
for you to choose a different font so that it doesn't it's not very bubbly or it doesn't show
up so much on the work. And that's how we're
going to do it. I hope you really enjoyed
this one and you're able to implement it in your
future projects. Let me know what you think.
4. Class Project & Outro: This class project,
I want you to work on a short form video. Could be a 1 minute video or a video crop of what
you've worked on before, and I want you to
share with us what you create as the captions after
you worked on the project, could be a screen grab
of the whole project, could be the video
itself or it could be a short hit of the replay
where we can see the captions. Just make sure to review the captions when you're
done editing to make sure that they are spelled correctly so that you're able to use it in your
short form videos. I really do hope
that you're able to implement this and it's able to bring you value in more projects to
come in the future. So that covers it for using Da Vinci to create
outdoor captions. I hope you really enjoyed
this mini course and you're able to apply to all your short form videos and
long form videos. I hope you really
enjoyed this one. Let's get caught up in
the next class. Goodbye.
Silvia Njoki, Creative, Artist & Marketer
