Entrepreneur Life: Learn DIY Video Editing.

1. Course Welcome And Introduction: Being an entrepreneur is about many things. It's about the thrill of imagining a new business and seeing it through to the point of launch is the vision and dreams of all at that business can eventually become and is constantly striving in driving for the top to reach your ultimate goal. Entrepreneurs are those who see possibility for others don't and accept challenges that others won't. This is entrepreneurial life. Everyone, welcome back to another entrepreneurial life course on Skillshare. My name is Ken, how will your teacher? So I've got a question for all of you. Do you have all sorts of videos on your phone or maybe on your computer that you will love to make look professional, that you'd love to edit and make them look like the videos you see they're really nicely done on YouTube or on Facebook or Instagram. But you just don't know how you think it takes all sorts of complex and expensive software and hardware in years of experience in a lot of money. Well, the reality is you don't need to have all those things. I'm going to show you a really, really great video capturing and editing software program called Screencast-O-Matic, which I discovered last year, just happen to come across it. And I've been using it for all my courses on Skillshare and any other place I launched videos such as YouTube. I use Screencast-O-Matic to edit the videos and make them look just like Steven Spielberg worked on the video. Would you love to have texts the slides into your video and then slides out? Or maybe you'd like to have that same text pop in and then pop out of the screen. Would you love to have a picture overlay in your video or even a video overlay in your video. You need an arrow like that, pointing to something in your video. Or maybe you need a blurry section to blur out something sensitive in your video. Well, the reality is you can do all these things with Screencast-O-Matic and a whole lot more. In this course, I'm going to go over all those things and other video editing features that you can get in use so simply and easily, thanks to Screencast-O-Matic, we'll go over all those in each of the lessons. Now I don't want you to go anywhere because in the next video, the first lesson of the course, we're going to have a very special interview with somebody who works at Screencast-O-Matic. His name is Logan and he's going to introduce you to Screencast-O-Matic. Some of the features they have, including some of the new features which I think you'll find very, very exciting. So don't go anywhere. You want to see that interview with Logan? At the end of the course. Of course, we're going to have a class project. In the class project is going to be real simple. I want you to take a video that you have and I want you to edit it. I want you to put a transition at the beginning of the video. And I want you to put a transition at the end. I want you to overlay some texts, just like I showed you. I want you to overlay a picture or a video if you would like, into it. Again, just like I showed you. And then we're gonna do some video or excuse me, some music overlays like you hear in this video. I'll show you how to do all those things and more in this course. So don't go anywhere. Now if you want to get Screencast-O-Matic before starting the course, you can do it. Or if you want to go through the course and see if it's right for you, get it and then re-review the course, you can do that to whatever feels right for you is what you can do. So don't go anywhere. The next lesson is the interview with Logan from Screencast-O-Matic. And then we'll get into all the features. I think you're going to really, really enjoy this. It's a lot of fun and it's going to open up a whole new world of things you can do with your videos and how you can edit them and share them. So don't go anywhere. Let's get started with the course. 2. Logan Interview : Okay everyone, welcome back to the course. I'm glad you decided to explore a little bit further with me, speaking of which I'd appreciate it if you would follow me on Skillshare. I've got a lot of courses coming up, many things planned. So we can go up to my name, you can click follower, go to My Profile and click follow there. That way you'll be made aware of all the courses that I have coming up in the months ahead. And again, I've got a lot of plans. I'd really be excited to share all those things with you. So click follow and you'll be made aware of all those releases. Alright, so as promised in the first video of the course, and get a real special treat for you guys. I've got an interview with somebody who works at Screencast-O-Matic. His name is Logan, and he is somebody that's been very, very helpful to me over the last several months. And learning how to use Screencast-O-Matic as easy as it is, you may have some questions. And the folks of Screencast-O-Matic are really there to help you up. And that's one of the things I want to stress as there are people who work at Screencast-O-Matic. So if you have questions, you can feel very comfortable reaching out to them at the following email address, which I'll put on the screen here. And you can just reach out to them via that e-mail and somebody like login or one of his co-workers will get back to you guys and answer the question for you. So with that, why don't I turn it over to login and logout and thank you very much. Welcome. I appreciate your being here. If you could just take a few moments to explain to my students what Screencast-O-Matic is. A brief overview. And then perhaps going to talk about the screen recording feature and then finish off with some of the features that Screencast-O-Matic offers. Logan, take it away. Hey, can thank you for having me. It is an absolute pleasure to be here and it's really been great getting to know you through our emails back-and-forth. So guys, like Ken said, if you need help, we will be here to help you. So hopefully I will get to know some more of you if you come join us. But yeah, to give a brief overview, we're Screencast-O-Matic. We make screen recording software, which is sort of the basics of it. But in general, we also do a video recording, video hosting, and a lot more to get a basic idea. At its root, Screencast-O-Matic is a screen recorder. So you can imagine if you're building educational videos, I want to take videos of something playing on your screen. You will never record a PowerPoint. We offer the ability to really record whatever your screen is playing. You can marry over those videos while it's playing. And you can also capture the audio from your computer, like e.g. YouTube video. Other than that, we also offer video editing. So different kind of host post filming things you can add to a video rather than try to add them during recording. So if you want to overlay images that can slide and transition in. If you want to overlay videos. If you want to add text to your video. We also offer different kind of like scripting abilities. There's, there's really a lot and I recommend checking out our tutorials page. You can really find the most of the features there. So other than that, we offer video hosting two. So similar to how videos are uploaded to YouTube, we can host videos for you. And yeah, I think that that kind of sums it up in a nutshell, I hope, but please do check out our tutorials pages. We also have Screencast-O-Matic blog. You can learn a lot there, so yeah, if you'd like to learn more, please check out our site. Please email us if you have any questions, and I will hand it back to you. Okay, Logan, Thanks. That was a really good introduction to Screencast-O-Matic for my students. I really appreciate your being here, So thanks again. Alright, so we talked about a lot of things there of what I wanna do now is I want to get into the meat of the course and actually go over those things, show you what they are and show you how they work. So why don't we go onto the next lesson and we'll start really getting into the fun stuff. Let's go. 3. Screen Record Feature: Hey everyone, welcome back. I hope you enjoyed that interview with Logan. I found it really fun to do. And in fact, that was the first time I was able to see him. I've talked to him via email so many times he has been incredibly helpful. But actually seeing his face and being able to put a face to the words or to the voice so to speak. That was the first time. So I enjoy doing it. I hope you guys enjoyed seeing it and hearing it, and learning a little bit more about Screencast-O-Matic and some of the features that it has to offer. So one of the things we've talked about there was the screen capturing or the screen recording, which is something that I use. The most prominent feature that I use is the video editing, which we're going to talk about after this lesson. The screen capture is something that I use quite a bit in. It's very important. I've done e.g. slideshows using Google slides and then I can record the actual slideshow and narrate over it to make a lesson for a course and I'm making. So it's really been helpful. You can record something off of YouTube anywhere, any sort of screen grabber, screen capture. You want to do. The screen capturing a screen recording feature from Screencast-O-Matic is really fantastic. So what I'm gonna do here is I'm actually going to take and use the Screencast-O-Matic recording feature to record one of their tutorials from their site. Because it was kinda technically, technically difficult for me to do a screen recording of me using the screen recorder. It was tough to do and really didn't work out too well. Some sort of double thing going on there, like a black hole I might fall into by doing some sort of thing like that. So it really didn't work out technically. I'm just going to transition from this. We're gonna go and we're going to watch their tutorial, which is a couple of minutes long. It talks about some of the major features of the screen recording and how to use it. And then we'll conclude this lesson with that. Then after that, we'll move on to some of the video editing features in the next lesson. So take a look at this video and then we'll go from there. Thanks. Welcome to Screencast-O-Matic, a fast, free and easy to use screen and web cam recorder used by millions worldwide. Let's get started. Click here to start recording and then launch the recorder. If it's your first time, you'll be prompted to download and install the software. Once installed, It's just one click to launch. You can record the screen, webcam or both. You can record as many videos as you want, up to 15 min long. Upgrade to our video editor and get unlimited recording times. Drag or re-size the frame to record any part of your screen. Or choose pre-selected, such as standard HD sizes and fullscreen. With the webcam selected, you can drag and resize the webcam frame within the recording area. You can choose your microphone to narrate your video. Now hit record and all the action inside the frame will be captured. Pause, Resume, preview, or restart any of your recordings. Click, done, and easily trim the start and end. If your video. Then add royalty-free music to excite your audience, It's that simple. You can save your video file to your desktop hosted on Screencast-O-Matic dot com or published directly to YouTube. When you upgrade, you get more uploading options. After your video is uploaded, get a link to copy or use quick share buttons to easily share to Facebook and Twitter. For those who want more out of Screencast-O-Matic video editor. It gives access to tools that allow you to x2, add texts and images, animate overlays, blur sections and much more. Join in on the font. Create, share and experience video with Screencast, nomadic. 4. Introduction To The Video Editor: Alright, Well there you have it. The screen recording feature of Screencast-O-Matic. And it really is very simple. As you see, you just click on the Record button and then that box is going to open up. You can size the box as you need to, to fit your needs. You can choose different microphones. You can do your screen and your webcam, or just your screen or your webcam. It's really great. It's very full-featured yet it's pretty basic and simple. So not a lot of stuff that you don't need, just the stuff you do need in a really couldn't be simpler to use. Alright, so now that we have that done, what I wanna do is start getting into the meat of the course, which is the video editing. So let's take a look at the video editor interface. I'm going to show you some of the things on there, the one I have on my computer, some of the features there. So I'll introduce you to that and then we'll conclude this lesson, and then we'll get into the next lesson. We'll actually start doing some video editing. So you can see how to do this and really have some fun with it. So let's get over to my computer screen and start taking a look at the video editor. Okay, So here we are on my desktop and we're inside the video editor. Now, if you listen to the video regarding the screen recording the Screencast-O-Matic video. You notice they said you'll need to download the software prior to using the recorder. So what's going to happen when you do that? It's going to download the software obviously onto your computer. And then you'll get an icon to Screencast-O-Matic bulls-eye on your desktop, I happen to have a pin to my bottom taskbar. So when you click on that Screencast-O-Matic icon, this is what's going to open up on your desktop. Let's just walk through this a little bit so you can understand what's going on here. So I've taught here we have the record functionality. You click on it, it will open up the record window as you saw in the video from Screencast-O-Matic. We mentioned in the video with Logan the stories functionality and I'm going to touch on that a little bit later. But when you want to get to that, you simply click on this icon. And it will open up that for you. If you want to import a video from your desktop, you can click on this. And if you want to connect with things such as Microsoft Teams connect with WebEx or Zoom. You can click here. Now the videos are organized by time, so I have the most recent organized on here. If you want to change that, you can go to this arrow right over here and change it. So it's the least noteworthy oldest. I prefer to have the newest. Up on top here you can see that I have 52 videos and I have three images. You can do screen grabs. It can do screenshots with Screencast-O-Matic simply by clicking on this. So that's yet another functionality that you have with Screencast-O-Matic that really makes us an incredibly versatile piece of software to have on your computer. I do that a little bit. You can see I have three, but I do a lot with the videos. So a lot of these videos are appearing blue because I, as a trademark of mine, I always fade my videos in from blue and red to blue. So what you're seeing is the very first split second of the video, which is blue. Now if you want to manage the videos, you can click on this button up here. You can add or remove. You can copy, you can export, you can delete. It was a lot of functionality here for you to use to organize and add to and subtract from your video collection. Unclicked add to get back to the standard editor desktop. Now when you're done with all that and you want to select a video to edit, simply click on the video. This window will open up. Click down here on Edit. And that will open up your edit window. So I'm going to stop this video here. We're gonna go to the next lesson. I'm going to increase the size of the recording box. So you can see this bar right here is a little bit cut off. So I'm going to increase the size of the recording box. And I'm going to show you guys how to do cuts in transitions. And you'll notice the transitions is already highlighted in the toolbar. So let's move on to the next lesson and I'll see you there. 5. Cuts and Transitions: Alright, so welcome back to the course. So that's the video editor. We just went over that and you can see it's a really nice basic, simple interface, just like with the video screen recording and not a whole lot of stuff you don't need, justice stuff you do need. And what we're gonna do now is really get into the fun stuff. We're going to start editing our videos. So what we're going to start with in this lesson is we're going to do two things. We're going to do cutting. We're gonna do transitions. Now cutting is just what it sounds like. You're going to cut the video either at the front and back or somewhere in the middle. And then transitions is when you e.g. transition from the beginning on all my videos, you may see that I transitioned from blue into the video and then I transitioned out of the video into blue. So I'm going to show you how to do transitions like that. And it's a whole bunch of options on transitions, not only different colors, but different ways like flips and that sort of thing to do transitions. So in this course we're gonna do cuts and we're going to do transitions. Let's go back to my computer screen and get right into that. Okay, here we are back at the video editor. And I'm going to show you how to do cuts and transitions. So let's choose a video. In this case, I'm gonna do the Grand Canyon video that I recorded. Open that up. Come down here to the Edit button. Hit that. For us. It opens up the edit window. I'm going to make note of one thing. When I recorded this, the microphone that I'm using right now to talk to you recorded the music that was included in his video. If I had this button clicked on, it would have the sound on them when we play this video. I don't want that because it'll be too distracting. So you can get rid of the sound without deleting it just simply by clicking this off and it just removes it without deleting it. If you want to get the sound back, just click it on. In our case, I'm going to click it off. So what I wanna do first is I want to show you how to do these cuts. So what I'm gonna do is play this video and you notice that it will change from this scene to another scene. And what I wanna do is I want to cut out this introductory scene and it's starting to fade right now. So I've hit stop, I hit the pause button. And when I'm going to use is the back arrow on my keyboard. As I do that, it's going to take the timeline and move it back just a little bit in very small increments until we get to the point where we're just at about full fade out for this video. And that's fine. You the syllabus of image there, but that's just fine. I like that because I'm going to put a fade into my own on top of this. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to click on the Tools, drop-down or drop up as the case may be. And I'm going to click on cut. That's a tool I want to use now unfortunately, I couldn't get the box wide enough to get all these things in without really getting the recording area too small. But what it says is drag bar below or use arrow keys to select what to cut. So I'm gonna show you first on this end, I'm going to show you how to use the mouse to take your mouse when you put it over the red bar, which is now highlighted red to indicate that's where we're starting our cut. I can drag that to the front of the video. So this whole area right now that's highlighted in red is where we're going to cut out. If I wanted to test what that looks like, I can hit this button right now before committing to this cut. So it's going to show you what it will look like after you do the cut. And that's what it's going to be. So that's what I want. I liked that and so I'm going to commit to that cut. And now that's section is gone. If I go back all the way with the timeline, it gets to that point where it's almost fully faded out black. And if I move the timeline, you can see there's a red bar, red striped bar, which is indicating there was a cut right there. Now we're going to do the same thing at the end of the video. So we're going to come right about here. And you notice it changes. So we'll hit play. And that's where it changes. So I'm going to use the back arrow again. I'm going to move my time bar until we get to that point. Now in this instance there's no fade-in, fade-out. They just did a quick cut from one scene to the next. So what I'm gonna do is edit it right here. The split-second I'm going to lose of this scene doesn't matter to me. So you notice that the cut is already highlighted because we just use that. So rather than having opened the box up, I can just hit this. And again, my time bar is now highlighted in red. So the first time when I did was use the mouse to pull that bar. Now I'm going to show you how to use this arrow. This arrow is just on your screen. If you click this arrow right here, you can see everything from here to the end of the video is highlighted. I'm not going to test it because I know this is what I want. So I'm simply going to click Okay and commit to this cut. And now that's the end of the video. If I wanted to cut something in the middle, let's say I wanted to cut from 40 s roughly until, let's say 55 s. I could do another cut so I could put the time bar where I want it. And if you need really precise. Movement of your time bar. You can use your arrow keys and is very, very precise. You can see I'm going from 0.08 s to 0.02, 0.12 to 0.16. So very precise movements. So if I want to cut from there to save 55 s, we can cut, hit the cut. Again. Our bar will open back up as red. And I can bring it right over and get a right on the 52nd. I'm 50.2 s. That's fine. I want to cut that out. So this whole area is what's going to be cut out if you have a mistake in your video or just something you don't want there, you can cut it out. I'm going to commit to that. And it tells you right here it's 10.04 s is what you're cutting out. If you need help or tutorial, you can click on this. It'll bring you to the tutorials on the screencast page. If you don't like this, you can just cancel it out and get rid of it. In this case, I like it. Let's keep it will commit to that. And you'll notice that there's another red staggered bar right here indicating that there was cut. So I have a cut here, cut here, and I have a cut here. Now to finish this lesson, let's put in one of my trade or two of my trademark blue transitions. So we bring the time bar back to the very front of the video. Click on our Tools drop-down. At the very bottom is transitions. Click on that. You notice right here you get the blue line indicating it's gonna be a 2.0 for second transition. If you want to increase the time of transition, you can go to three or 4 s. And you'll notice as I do that this pyramid increases in size. I'm just going to stick with the normal two-second. Up here is what's going to allow you to choose what type of transition it is. I've chosen a fade. But if you open this up just in your box here you notice all the different types of transitions that are possible with Screencast-O-Matic. And it's showing you right there what those transitions are. I always stick with the fade. So that's what we're gonna do. You can change the direction of it, which I'm not going to do. I'm going to leave it just as this. If you want to change the color of your transition, you can do so up here. I stick with the blue, so that's what we're going to use. So if I want to test that out now, there it is transitioning from the blue. I'm going to take the time bar and I'm going to go all the way to the end. I'm going to click on transition again. You can see there's another blue pyramid here. I liked that. Just off your screen, I'm going to click, Okay. Take this time bar and put it just right here. Click the play button. And now it's going to fade out too blue for me. So there you have it. It's that easy. It couldn't be more simple to cut input transitions in. And remember what that process looked like. They had to be a couple of dozen, at least, of transitions you can use flips, fades, pixelated, really, really cool stuff that you can use. I generally always use this fade in, fade out from blue. But again, you can do so many different things. It's just really cool and fun to play with. Alright, so once we're done, if we like what we've done, we click Done. And that gives us the option of saving as a video file to our desktop or uploading the Screencast-O-Matic. In this case, I'm just simply gonna go back to the video editor and we'll be all set. And you can see now that this video is edited with the blue transition into beginning. So that's it. Let's get to the next lesson where we're going to talk about overlays. We're gonna do a video or image overlay. We're also gonna do some texts. So stay tuned for that. 6. Inserting Arrows and Sound Effects: Alright, so welcome back. In there you have it. How to insert video or image overlays and also texts overlays into your video. And I think this stuff is really cool and fun. I think the fact that you're here still watching the course means you'll find it just as fun and just as cool as I do. I love this stuff and that's why I'm teaching it to you guys. Alright, so we're not going to stop there. I have a couple other types of overlays or insertions I want to show you. So what we're gonna do now is shapes like the arrow that I put in the beginning of video of this course. I'm going to show you how to do those. And I'm also gonna show you how to insert sound effects like this. So stay tuned. Let's get over to my computer now. We'll take a look at how to do these types of insertions. So let's go. Alright, so here we are back at our Grand Canyon video. And I want to show you how to insert a shape like an arrow into your video. So once again, I want you to open up your tools, drop-down menu. Go to overlay and you'll see that they have when specifically for arrows. So you're going to click on that. And what I can do is simply click in here and my video, and I can draw an arrow. Once I do that, it opens up this box around it. I can grab the arrow and I can move it around. If I want to grab the circle on the bottom corner, I can do that and move it around that way. And the same thing with this circle at the top. And then move back just a little bit pointed out this formation. Now let's open the Quick Style box. Customized style. So you have options with how you want the start of your arrow to look and how you want the end of your arrow to look. So when I opened this up, take a look at the start of the arrow. I can make it look like this. Open circle, closed circle, open square, closed square. I can even make it look like an arrow in the opposite end. I liked this open circle, so I'm going to make mine start with that open circle. And I can also change the end of the arrow. In this case, I'm going to change it from the regular point to this open point. And I like that. Now if you want to change the color and some of the other styles of it, you can click on that. Green, gray, bright green. I like to read that it was, I'm going to stick with that. Down here you have opacity. So if you want to change the opacity of your arrow, grab your handle and scrub it back. And as you do that, your arrow become more see-through. The image behind it will start showing through it. I don't want any opacity to it. I'm going to make sure that it stays fully read. So I'm going to have it all the way off to the right. Then the thickness of my arrow can also be changed with this handle right here. Glide that back and forth and change that. Or I can simply use the counter in that. We'll change it later right around 15 or 16. I think that looks good. Go right down. So that's good. Now, if you notice down here, remember when we click on this arrow and we're doing an edit, is going to show that edit what it looks like before we commit to inserting it into video. And if you look here, this blue area with the blue handles, this is where the error was going to appear. So it will start here and it's going to end here. If you want to increase the amount of time. Right now, it's gonna be in the video for 3 s. If you want to hit this up arrow, it will now be for 4 s. It will lengthen this timeout. Let's see what that's gonna look like. We're going to preview the edit by clicking on this. I think that looks pretty good. So we're gonna say, okay, we're going to commit to this edit. Okay? Alright, so now that we've done that, we're going to scrub down a little bit further. And I'm going to show you how to do insert sound effects. So yet again, click on your tools, drop-down, come up to sound. Sound effects. Narrow nature. So we'll choose the nature one. Click on that. If you want to hear what the sun effects sounds like before you commit to it, you can do that by just clicking on the arrow. Click it off. You can do that to all of them. I kinda liked the idea of having some thunder, even though it's not cloudy there. I'm going to put some thunder in to my video. So I'm just going to click on the word that's inserting it into the video. It's 4.64 s and it's going to appear in this section right here. If I want to move where that thunder is going to appear, I can do so just by grabbing the bar. And once again, we can preview this edit by clicking the arrow button. So let's do that. Alright, so that's pretty good. I like that. I'm going to click Okay. And now we have our edits in there. And you will see these in your timeline. You'll see that this is the thunder and this is where the arrow appears. So whenever you put some sort of edit into your video, there's always gonna be some sort of visual representation of that. You can actually click on these later. I can click on that. I can go up here. And I can actually get rid of this. So that's the error. Or if I want to get rid of this arrow, I don't like it anymore. I can click the trash can and the arrow is gone. You can do that with every single edit you can do. Alright, so that's how you put in shapes and that's how you put in sound effects. Let's get to the next lesson and we'll do some more things. 7. Inserting Image/Video And Text Overlays: Alright, so there you have, it cuts in transitions. You can see that it's really fun, very simple, a whole bunch of options on those transitions in particular, which is really, really cool, really makes it look very professional. Alright, so in this lesson, what I want to cover are overlays. I want to do a video and image overlay, like you saw in the introductory video to this course, where I can overlay either over the entire video, we're in a corner, a video, or an image of your choosing. And I'm also going to do text overlays. Again, like you saw in the introductory video to this course. A lot of fun and really cool stuff. So why don't we get right back to my computer and get into it and start having some fun with that. Okay, So here we are back at our Grand Canyon video, and I want to show you how to do when image overlay and a video overlay as well as text overlay. So we're going to click on our Tools drop-down, find overlay, and click on image. And this will give you recent files you may have used as overlays. If NADH, you're going to find something on your computer or using a stock library. I've used these, I'm going to use the cow. He's obviously very interested in the Grand Canyon. It overlays the image. I'm going to re-size this down. So I'm going to grab the corner down here, resize it down. Then just grab the image is positioned a little bit better. We can re-size it, we can crop it. We can click on style and we can do oval, rounded edges. We can also put a bit of a fuss around the edge, which is really, really almost imperceptible. But it's there. This is going to fade in and fade out. And we can also adjust the opacity down here. I'm going to leave it fully non-transparent. So again, as always, this is showing us down here where this is going to appear in the video. And it's saying that it's going to appear for 3 s and it's going to fade in and fade out. So let's preview this Edit. Alright, there you have it. If you'd like that and you want to keep it, you can do okay, in this case, since I'm gonna do a video overlay now I'm just going to click Cancel and get rid of that. So to do the video, once again, click on our tools. Overlay. At the bottom of the list you'll see video. Click on that. This gives you some recent videos you've worked with. This is the only one I've worked with. I'll click on that. And it's going to upload the video for me. There you have it. Put that again in the corner. And if we just click on Video Options, you'll see one thing is highlighted here. Use audio, Yes, So I'm talking in this video, but I don't want that to appear in this video. I just want to have it be silence. So I'm going to do is click that so it says no. So you will not hear the audio from this video. Click Done. It's showing us that it's going to fade in and fade out. And we can also do style here, round the corners a little bit. You also do an oval if we want a little bit of a fuzzy edge to it. Done. So you'll notice that it's showing a little longer period here. This video is a little over 13 s long. I don't want it to appear that long, so I'm going to grab the bar on the right with my mouse. I'm going to shorten this edit down to roughly five or so seconds. Now let's preview this Edit. Alright, so that's what your video would look like. That's how easy it is to do. If you'd like that click Okay, to commit to that edit. Again, we're going to cancel this because I'm going to show you how to do a text overlay now. So cancel out. Click once again on your tools drop-down overlay text. And you can see it opens up a text bar force. So I can do is just highlight all this backspace and I can type something different in there. Right? I can grab this just like everything. I can move it around like that. I can click on the style. It's gonna give me some different things to color. My texts can change, kind of like that. Blue. We can change our font. We can change our size. If you want to do a highlight color on it, we can do that as well. Just like a yellow highlighter, e.g. that you would use on a piece of paper. We can do bold, so we can do italicized, so we can do underscore, we can do strikethrough. Our justification so we can justify to the left, center, right, or justification either way, we can also justify how it appears in the top, middle, or bottom of the box. So an awful lot of options there. Look at. You can also click on the Background button. And it's going to let you choose the color of the background. So if you want the background to be pink, we can do that. Much lighter, we can do that. We can choose no color as well. So now we just have the text with the image from the video, the back of the, the area to show through it kind of like this light gray areas. So I'm going to stick with that. We can also adjust the opacity. So if you want a little bit of that video to show through, you can really, really cool effects here. Click Done. Once again, we can preview or edit right here. Alright. So we're going to click Okay, in that edit is in here and you can see this area right here shows you that you have in it. Alright, so that's how to do that. Let's move on to the next lesson. We'll cover some more editing features. Let's go. 8. Inserting Music Into Your Video: Alright, so there you have it. That's how easy it is to insert both shapes and sound effects into your video. But how about music like a here at the end of my videos or you hear in the introductory video to this course, the great thing about Screencast-O-Matic is with the video editor. There's a stock library of music at that you can use to download and lay over your video. You can do it either in a small section like I do at the end of my videos. We can do it over the entire video. And that's what I want to show you right now. So let's get back to my computer and I'm going to show you how to do that. Okay, everyone here we are back at our Grand Canyon video. As mentioned, what I wanna do in this lesson is show you how to overlay music into your video. And there's a couple of different ways to do that. So let's look at the first one. If you look over here on the right, you'll see that there is a music plus icon. I'm going to click on that. It will open up a box of stock music available through Screencast-O-Matic. On the left panel here it's showing you the different types of songs. So acoustic, ambient, children's music, cinematic, corporate, etc, etc. You can choose from all of these. If you click on that, you'll get a number of different songs. These show the songs that I've used recently. And just like with the sound effects, if you want to preview what a sound or music sounds like, you can click on the arrow before inserting it into your video. I like that one, so why don't we use that one? Now it's importing it into the song, into the video. We click on it. That music is all related to the video. Here comes our text overlay from earlier. Now if you want to change this a little bit, you can click on the 3 bar right here. You can adjust your volume up or down. It's going to fade in at the very beginning for 2 s, so it'll go from zero to full volume in 2 s. And same thing at the end, it'll be 3 s. If you want it to loop, which is automatic, it will loop around and so it keeps playing throughout the duration of the video. Now if you look down at the bottom, if I just click on that again, you see the blue area. That is the music in a few clicked on the up volume. You'll notice that that bar increases because it's increasing the volume. Same thing if you click down. That's going to change. Alright, so that's the first way to insert music. We're going to unclick that and take that music out of the video. Now it's not there. Let's say you want music and just a part of the video. Click on your tools, drop-down, click on sound, click on music. We're going to choose the same song, always in motion. And now we can see, you can see we have grab bars here. So let's say we want it to be just in this first half of our first part of the video. So now it's going to appear just in-between these bars. You can see the music sound right here represented by the blue area. If you want to preview this, Let's click on this. You can see that it fades in and fades out. So it fades in for 2 s, fades out for 3 s. We can also in this one decrease or increase the volume. So look again down at the bottom, the blue area. As I click and increase volume, you can see that it's going up. Clicked down. If I preview it again, should be a little bit louder now. Slightly. That's one of the nice things that the changes are very small so you just keep clicking. It can really fine tune what it is you want. So it's that simple. Just use one of those two functionalities over here, or use the Tools drop-down menu, click sound, and port the music. Choose what you want, and then you can choose the timeline right here. You notice that this is a pairing for 13.52 s. And again, if you want to change that, you can just grab the bar. And now it's appearing for 9.7 s. Really very simple, just like with all this stuff is Screencast-O-Matic. It is so simple and easy to do. Let's commit to this edit. And now we have the music in our video. Alright, so that's it. Let's move on to another lesson. 9. Adjusting Volume And Speed: Alright, so welcome back. So there's yet another insertion we can do music, we've done video, we've done image overlays, we've done texts, we've done shapes, we've done sound effects, and we've done music. That's a huge amount of stuff. But there's still some more things I want to show you with Screencast-O-Matic. So what I'm gonna do now is I want to show you how to adjust the speed of your video if you want to speed it up or slow it down for dramatic effect. Or if you want to adjust the volume because maybe it's too loud or it's too low when you want to increase the sound so people can hear you're talking e.g. I'm going to show you how to do that now with a video editor. Let's get back to my computer screen and I'll show you how to do that. Okay, so here we are. And I'm going to use this video as a way to show you how to adjust the volume of your video and also how to adjust the speed of your video. By the way, in case you're wondering, No, I did not go to the Ohio State University. I do know somebody who did though. So out of my affection for that person, I am using this video. So let's get into it. So as far as the volume goes, once again, you want to click on your tools drop-down. And you want to go to Volume. Click on that. You notice you get the pinkish bar in which you can do is you can drag that over a certain section of your video. And if we click right here, it will open up this box so we can completely take the sound out of that area of the video. We click on this. The sound bar has now disappeared. This is the sound is now disappeared. If we click back on it, the sounds reappeared. If you want to change the amount of volume to that particular area, we can use the up and down arrows. So if we click up, you notice this area now is much louder than the rest of the video. And if we go down, we can get very, very minimal in our volume. We can test that out by using the arrow button. Okay, so that works pretty well. So what we'll do is we will commit to that, say, okay. So now if you look, you'll notice that the sound of this area is much lower than the surrounding areas. You can also mute it out again just by clicking over here where the red line is through it. So there's something going on in the video that you want to mute out. You can do that. Alright, let's do speeding up a section of the video. Let's go right here. Alright, so once again, we'll click on the tools icon. Speed, speed up. Now we have the purple bar. Here. We're going to drag right through this area. And it says two times faster. So we can test this out by clicking on the preview. Now one thing you notice that it does mute out when you have the speedup section. Unfortunately, they don't have the functionality where the speed will also speed up. It does automatically mute. I was spoken to Logan about that. He said that is the way it's designed, but they are aware that some people would like to have the sound speed up and they may offer that in the future. But for right now, we'll always mute out the area that is in the speedup. You can also slow it down. By the way. You can change the amount of speed here. So two times faster, four times faster. Do you want to keep that? You'd just click, Okay. Now you notice this section right here is highlighted. That's your spin up section. And you will see that the sound, the bar is now out, so it is muted out. But that's how you can change the volume of a section of your video or the entire video. You can drag that bar all the way across and change the volume of your entire video. You can also change the speed of a section or the entire video by using the volume button and also using the speed button. Alright, That's how you do that. Let's move on to the next lesson. 10. Inserting Highlights And Blurs: Well, alright, there you have it. That's how you can change the speed of your video and also change the volume or even mute out a section of your video. Still a couple more things I want to show you guys. I want to show you how to highlight a section of your video and even zooming out. And I also want to show you how to put a blurry section in your video in case you have some sort of sensitive information that you want to blur out and keep from being visible. So let's head back to my computer and we'll take a look at those two things. Okay, so here we are back at our Grand Canyon video. And I'm going to use this to show you how to do the highlight function and also the blur function. Let's take a look first at the highlight function. So as always, click on your tools drop-down menu. Look for the overlay, and then look for a highlight. Click on that. And that'll open up a box here. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to highlight this structure that's sticking up in the middle here. So I can grab the box like that and make it what I need it to be. I'm going to add a Zoom to this, so I want to make it larger. So it zooms out like that. And you probably know by now this is how long it's going to stay in the video. So right now this highlight effect is going to fade in and then fade out for a total of 3 s. Let's take a look at that. It fades right back out. So it's that simple. You can just use the highlight function. You notice there are times when I'm highlighting things down here on the timeline, and that's what I'm doing. I'm using the highlight functionality. You can take that. You noticed that when I do that, it'll pop up here and you can see it up in the main part of the screen. So you can take that and move it around as you need to. Use the Zoom functionality to make it larger. Really, really a cool tool. And I like that one a lot. It's great for doing the courses. So let's say we don't want this, we're just going to get out of that. So we're gonna do cancel, so we get rid of that. And I'm going to show you how to do blur now. Tools, drop-down, overlay. Look for blur. Click on that. And once again we have a box pop-up. And now this time, rather than highlighting the structure in the middle, I'm going to blur out this rock formation in the middle. Like that. Alright? Now if you look down here, the opacity, we can really blur it out. So we'll just go something like that. And this is appearing for 3 s. Let's give it a test and see what it looks like. There's your blur. So we'll click OK and we'll keep that at. Now you can see that this yellow box represents where your blur is. That's great. If you have a video where you have something on there, like some personal information may be an account number or maybe an address or anything like that, that you want to blur out a name. You want to keep private. You can use the blur functionality for doing that. Alright, so that's it. Let's move on to the next part of the course. Thanks. 11. Course Wrap-up and Class Project: Alright, Well there you have it. That's how you can use Screencast-O-Matic to edit your videos and make them look like they just came out of Hollywood or at least close to it. So hope you had a lot of fun with that. There's so many great features here are the transitions, overlaying texts over Lenny video. Just a lot of really cool, fun things for you guys to do and explore that we covered here in the course. Speaking of which that gets us to the class project. So what I want you guys to do is I want you to take a video that you either have or make a video roughly 30 to 60 s. If you have a long video, you need to cut it down. You can refer to that section of the course where we cut down the video. And I want you to again create a 3D dash 62nd video. And I want you to put a transition at the front of the video and a transition at the end. I want you to overlay either a video or an image that you have onto the video. Again, like we looked at in that section of the course. I also want you to overlay some texts which we did cover. And lastly, I want you to overlay some music either in a section of the video or over the entire video, which again we covered in this course. So you can refer back to all those sections of the course to do the things here in the class project. If you guys have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to reach out to me via the class discussion portal. There's a section for asking questions. Put that question in. I will get back to you as quickly as I possibly can. And I really look forward to having you guys go to the class project section and upload your videos if you want to put a couple of sentences in of texts to describe what it's about. We'd love to see it and I can't wait to see all these projects. Again, if have any questions, reach out to me and I'll get back to you as quickly as possible. So that's it. That's how to use a Screencast-O-Matic to edit your videos. I hope you guys enjoyed this course. As I said earlier, please follow me on Skillshare because they have a lot of new courses coming out, so I'd appreciate you doing that. So you can be made aware of all those new courses as soon as they come out. And that's it. That's a wrap. Thank you very much and I look forward to seeing you on the next course.