Make Powerful Marketing Videos Like a Pro with InVideo Studio & AI

1. Introduction: Increase Engagement & Tell Stories. InVideo Studio & InVideo AI: Hi, a warm welcome to this in video Studio course. Please note, I originally created this course in 2019 when in video was quite new and rather quickly, actually, they changed their interface, and so I wanted to update the course so that everything that you see on the screen is actually matching what you see on your screen. In video is a powerful tool and they actually have two tools now. We have in video studio, which allows you to make beautiful, amazing promo videos several different ways. You can use templates. You can start with existing stock video and stock images from their library, your own uploads, or you can actually use it as a traditional video editing software program. There is a free version, a business version and a pro version as of the time of me making this video. And I definitely encourage you to give it a try. I've been using in video for the last few years with my students in developing countries and in Malawi where I am right now and it's web based and because of the free version, it's been a really great option for people who aren't sure if they want to invest in video editing software because they get a chance to test things out. I make so many beautiful things using in video. I make promo videos for my courses, I make tutorials, I make Instagram reels and stories and stuff for YouTube. You can use it for your social media. Please note they also have a new tool called in video AI. I am going to touch on that a little bit in this course, but predominantly, this course is about in video studio. If you are making your video in in video studio, you have more control. But if you don't really know what you want to do or you just need some ideas, then in video AI could be a great place to work. I personally like to be able to do both, so I'm going to show you both. I like to help people who fight with computers and software. I like to help beginners. I like to help people who don't think they're creative. If that sounds like you and you're not even sure if you should be in this course, you're actually in the right course. If you just follow my videos and you can also follow along with what I'm doing, pause, do it on your computer or device, and follow me that way, or you can just watch me do it and then try on your own. There's no right or wrong way to take this course. The other thing you should know about this course is I am not going to get into every single setting tool and detail of in video Studio in video AI because they have all of that support built into their app and platform already. I don't need to duplicate it. I'm just going to show you the essential tools and techniques that you can use to get up and running. Uh, as quickly as possible. I hope that you have an awesome time in this course, learning how to make your own beautiful, amazing promotional videos or any kind of videos for social media or for your lessons, whatever it is. Are you ready to get started? I will see you in the next lesson. Take care. Bye. 2. How I Use InVideo at Work: Easy Ways to Make Professional Videos Fast: Hey, how's it going? I just wanted to give you an example of how you might use in video. I've used in video since I moved to Malawi and started working for United Nations population fund, and I have finished a finished video here, and it turned out to be a great solution because they were asking me if I could make a weekly animated series, just me by myself. Now, if you've never done animation, that might sound reasonable. But anyone who has done animation knows that it takes a long time to make even a couple of good seconds of animation, and usually you have six months, nine months, a whole team of people, big budget. If you're just one person trying to crank something out in a week, it's a little bit sketchy. It's not that easy to do. Maybe there's some new AI animation tools coming out that can solve this problem, but as of today, not yet. But I actually was using in video, and I'll just share with you a little bit. So basically, I was asked to create these characters to represent different beneficiaries of UNFPAs services in Malawi. And together with my Malian colleagues, we created these characters, and they were featured. I'm just going to click on the different stills here so you can get a sense of the different scenes. Basically, I created these different characters with my Malian colleagues. So they advised, how do they dress? How did they act? How did they speak? And they have all of these different adventures. The one that I'm showing you now was during the pandemic when people were skeptical of getting the vaccine. And so I was asked to make sort of this like vaccines are great kind of video. And it was actually back then people were still wearing masks outside. But yeah, basically, my solution to this whole problem of doing a weekly animation is I didn't worry about creating characters who then are running and jumping and lip syncing. I basically did it storybook, Nickelodeon Sesame Street storybook style where you have a still image, and it's almost like someone's reading a story to you. You have the soundtrack. You have still images, the camera might be moving within the scene, but there's not a lot of crazy animation going on. We also made it so that it would appeal not just to a local audience. When I play it, you'll hear the local language is Chichewa. But the English text is the subtitles, so that opens it up to a wider audience. Yeah. Basically, that's what I did. And you can see in the individual scenes, they're just still images that have a motion to them. There's a text. Notice, I'm not using too much text per scene, although I had to fight a little bit for that because everybody who wanted to contribute to this wanted so much text and I'm sorry, but you cannot People don't watch a video to read a book. Does that make sense? So you don't want to put too much text in there. It's got to be just a little bit, okay? So yeah, if you're dealing with one of these clients, they want to put a copy of Warren piece in the size of a postage stamp. I feel your pain, but you have to try to talk them out of it. So here's one scene. Okay. That's just one scene. You hear the local language. You see it's just one still image, but it moves a little bit. I did have a bit of a challenge because when you translate English text into Chichewa, it tends to be much longer because they just say things a little bit more less concise in Chichewa. Trying to also keep these ultimately under 2 minutes total was also a challenge when we finally recorded all the Chichewa voiceovers. All right. Anyway, I just wanted to share these techniques with you, show you how I was using it. This is storyboard mode. So I'll just show you what this looks like in the editor as well. And yeah you can basically go through all the different scenes. You can go into each one and make the edits and changes. But I just basically made a whole bunch of illustrations, threw them into this project, put in the text. Just like a master chef, put everything together, and in video made me this beautiful animation that then went on the UNFPA, Facebook page, their YouTube channel, et, et. It's another way that you can work in here. So now, from my website, I've hopped over here. I'm going to just play you a bit from this Tomb series. Actually, there's a whole bunch of them. So if you want to come to my website and see some more, you can, I had a lot of fun making these illustrations, although they are a bit time consuming because they were asking me for so many characters, and, you know, I I happen not to be AI, so it does take me a little while to get all of those. En Okay. Well, I'm not going to play the whole thing. I just wanted to share that little bit with you, but you're more than welcome. I'll put some links if you do want to watch the whole thing, but just gives you an idea. It's just a economical and somewhat easy way to work when you're trying to convey complex information and you're just one person, and maybe your budget is limited as well or your employer's budget. So I hope this was helpful and I cannot wait to see what you make. Bye. 3. Why 30 Seconds is The Magic Number For Online Videos. Planning Your Short Video: Hi, this is Kristen Plana here. This lesson is all about the benefits of being able to make a powerful and effective 32nd animation or video. First, let me tell you, I'm a practicing multimedia artist myself and I've also worked with thousands of university students from all over the world on their videos and animations. I can tell you with 100% full confidence that it's actually much harder to tell a compelling story or craft a powerful message in 30 seconds than it is to make a long, rambling video that's 510, 15 minutes or however many minutes long, with its focus all over the place. If you can get your message across in 30 seconds, you will be much more likely to win over hearts and minds. And most importantly, get your viewers to take the action you want them to take. What action do you want them to take? Well, that could be to support a worthy crowd funding initiative. It may be to buy a product. It could be to visit a website to learn more about something. You could be educating the viewer and raising awareness. And all you really want them to do is to think or act differently. Why are we focusing just on 30 seconds? Why this number? Well, for Twitter video, you only get 30 seconds if you go back to the 20th century in a time machine. Or even now, if you buy a commercial spot on broadcast television, you only get 30 seconds, usually, for your message. So here's a question. What's the average amount of time a typical web browser spends on any given typical web page? The answer is 7 seconds. If most people can't even look at a web page for a full 10 seconds, how successful do you think a five minute or ten minute epic is going to do online? Not very well. The most popular and most viewed videos on Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook all have one thing in common. They like myself, are very short. They are also clear to the point and memorable. The best ones also have a clear call to action at the end. They also have a clear sense of who their main target audience is. And most importantly, the best short videos only have one goal that they set out to achieve this goal. Could be, again, get the person to visit a website to learn more. It could be to read a book, support a cause support a candidate to buy something, whatever it is, one goal. See you in the next lesson. 4. Which is the Right InVideo Plan For You? Free and Premium Options.: How's it going? All right, so many things have changed with invideo over the years and months, and weeks and days. And they're constantly innovating and adding things. But as of today, I want to take you through how to work in invideo. And how to do very common useful things using their program, so there's their app. And then you also have the artificial intelligence wing of invideo where you basically just type in what you want. For example, in astronaut eating ice cream cone in the International Space Station, you type it in and it will actually, I generate some video for you. And all of that is great. But it's also really good to be able to craft your own imagery, especially if you're using your own source footage. Your own individual paintings, drawings, photographs, and video clips that you took yourself. All right, so the first thing that we're going to do is go to video. And if you've never ever been there before, then you will see a screen that looks like this log into your account. If you have an account already, this is where you log in. If you don't have an account, you just sign up over here and then you create a free account. And one thing you should know just about the free accounts that I use all the time with my students here in Malawi and other places, is that you can use all of the features except for some of the stock photos and videos that they have in the library. And it's going to give you a little bit of a watermark that says that this video was created in video for the price tag. I think that's fair enough. If you absolutely cannot stand that you do not have access to every photo and every video or that you have a watermark, then I suggest that you consider upgrading to the pro account with anything related to setting up. Just send me a specific message or start a discussion. So make sure to either sign up or log into your in video account. And I will see you in the next lesson. Take care. Bye. 5. Four Ways to Make Videos in InVideo Studio: A Quick Intro: This is what the dashboard looks like and if you have any previous projects, it will show up. Here You basically have your four most important things up the top here you have your templates which will give you vertical, horizontal, or square video templates for various different purposes. There's AI text video, which I was just talking about, where you give a text prompt and it'll create video which is amazing technology that is changing by the day. So stay tuned and be careful because it's kind of scary as well. You have stock media. These are videos and photos that you can use royalty free without you having to pay anything, which is amazing. And then you have the actual timeline editor. If you have any kind of video experience in some other program, then this would be one place that you could poke around and just have a look at. Most video editing programs all have the same features in video is no different. I'm going to talk about that a bit later, but for now I'm going to focus on templates also. Because if you're a beginner, that is absolutely the best place to start. If you want to get started making a video, we're going to click this create new button right here. And again, it gives us the four options. Let's start, especially if you're a beginner with templates. 6. Introduction to Option #1: How to Choose a Template & Aspect Ratio: All right, so I'm in here and you will see that I have different templates available for me. And if you look on the left hand side here, we still have those four options I think are the most useful filters are here. So if, you know, for example, that you're making a Youtube video or a video that's going to be part of a film that you're submitting to film festivals and is going to be played on a HD television or in a movie theater. Then you want to choose landscape. Let's go to Portrait next and then I'll explain. Square portrait is good if you're making a Youtube short, a Tiktok video, an Instagram video, or anything else where you want that vertical format and that's going to look nicely in the space provided. And then finally, I actually like the square videos I have found, especially with my work with UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund. If you make a square video, it shows up the best in Facebook and Linked in and Twitter in their timeline. It takes up more visual real estate. That's a really good option. I think for my purposes I'm going to make a portrait one maybe. Because whatever I make right now, I'll just use Instagram and as a Facebook story and as a Youtube short. So I'm going to say Portrait and then here you have different types. So if you know already, hey, this is going to be an ad for my business, or I'm going to make a list, or it's a slide show of photos, greetings, et cetera. It actually gives you a lot more here then you can do. You can make a choice here. I think I'm going to do, what am I going to do? I don't really know what I want to do. Um, um, I'll just do a promo, let's say. Okay. And then you can also choose your industry. If your technology, you can click the More button here. I want art. Art, okay. So I could do education as well. All right. That's cool. Pov. Okay. So these are actually really nice Instagram templates. Pov, you wanted to start a candle making business one year ago. I like that. Best sellers. Oh this is great. I'll fast forward through the part where I choose a template because this could take a while. All right, that's cute. That's just a ten second one. So I'm going to go with that and use template. So you just click the button to use the template. Okay, it has loaded. 7. Editing and Personalizing Our Template Promo Video (Case Study): It has loaded and you will see that I have basically all these tools on the left. If you've ever used Canva or a program like it, this should look pretty familiar to you even though they're totally different companies. But it's the same kind of set up. You have your tools, you can upload your own photos and videos. You can search videos and images in their stock library. You can add music text. You can upload or add your own logo Elements are things like rectangles and lines and circles and illustrations and vector images. And then there are actually more templates here and then more, just more sort of dragon drop features that you can add onto your video. Whichever tool I click on, like if I want to add a video, then it'll show me all these royalty free images. If you are a pro member, there will be a little crown there. And that means you can use it. If it says stock, it means you have to pay for it. And there should be some free ones in here, like this duck. If I want to use this free duck, I am good to go. If I'm on the free plan, I'm spoiled because I am on the pro plan. But just be aware that if you're on the free plan, but you drag over one of these when you go later to export your video, it's going to yell at you and say that you need to pay them. And they're going to put like an ugly watermark thing on it. So try to make sure if you are in the free plan, choose a free video and look for the ones that don't have a crown, don't have stock. I believe there's a filter up the top here. Here under filters we can say, just show us only free things apply. We don't have to have fear of missing out on all those other stock and pro features. Okay, So anyway, all right, now what I should do, and I don't know if I actually have on my computer right now, but let's give it a go, is I should find some video of me working in my studio. So let me just look at my uploads. I may have something that I've uploaded previously, apparently not. Okay, I'm going to upload something from my computer, so you just click on it and you can browse. Um, all right. So I don't see anything really that I'm excited to use, but I have this video that I made recently, so I'm just going to pop that in and it has some recent work in there, so that will be good. I am going to, it's actually 8 minutes, 42 seconds long. This is 10 seconds long, so I believe. Ooh, and it's talking, I don't need that. Okay. I'm going to a double click on it and I'm going to trim the video to fit the scene. So I'll just pick one little tiny ten second area. Okay, one moment. Let me just drag the playback head and see if I can find something that I might want to use. I know that somewhere in here I have video of me working. Oh, there we go. Beautiful. Not really, but it's good enough. All right, so trim video to fit scene. That's going to give me this little ten second window. Now it's come in here. But actually what I really want to do is get rid of this lovely person who I've never met and put my video in there and I'm just going to scale it up now. I'm just basically using this template to customize and create my own. All right, when I double click on it, I go even deeper into this timeline. But for now, I just want to go over here. I want to remove the sound from the video that I've just brought in. I just did a control C. I'm on a Mac. If you have a think on the PC it's like a command C or right click. And it'll give me the option to mute this audio. If I go back to the playback head, you see that my 10 seconds is represented here. And I can scrub through it manually, like I'm doing right now. I'm going to hit play. Okay, now just FYI, when you're previewing your video, it's probably going to be a bit laggy. You noticed mine was all choppy, like a bad 1980s Max Headroom video. But don't worry about that, that's normal. The only way to really know how it's going to look is after you've exported it and it's downloaded to your computer and you play it in quick time or whatever it is that you have. You want to make sure that it's playing at a normal speed? I know a lot of people get very nervous because they think that there's something wrong or broken. It's not, it's just that it's trying to process all the different things and sometimes it's just a little slow. All right, so as far as my video goes, I think it's fine. I think I might just make it hang on a little bit bigger because I have all that black space. By the way, I was just getting annoyed with this. If you want to adjust the size of anything, there's this little button over here to show you more what you have. All right, anyway, I have everything pretty much the way I want it. I am going to now double click on the different elements that I want to change. So I'm going to change my name. That is over here. When I click there, it gives me edit text. So I'll just put my name. Let's see. I'm going to grab some text. I'm going to grab some text from my artists website. So I'm just going to go to my simplified artists website and I'll just grab this text because it's about the same length and I don't feel like reinventing the wheel right now. All right, so we'll go back. By the way, I hope you know that Chrome, Google Chrome is a browser that works the best within video. That's why you probably noticed, I jumped from Firefox to Google Chrome. I always try to do my stuff in Chrome. You can use other browsers, but it might be a bit slow. All right, so actually I thought that this text was about the same size, but it's a little bit more. So I'm going to see if I can just make it fit, just taking some text out here, just so it's not so wordy. Because if it's a ten second video, you can bet people are not going to read a lot of text and this is probably even still too much. So maybe we'll just get rid of some of these bigger words. That should be okay. It's four lines. However, I can actually adjust this a little bit to see if I can get it to reflow a little bit better. The other thing I can do is I can move these elements down a little bit to give some more room. All right, that's not bad. I'm not a watercolor artist though, so I should probably change that. I'm a mixed media artist. Oops, I'm actually an interdisciplinary artist, but this is fine. I can't remember as mixed media as two words or one word. Let's go with that. Let's see how this looks. All right. I don't, this other sample artist is doing better than me in social media. So I have 6,000 followers on Instagram as of today. Check back again though. Maybe I'll have more. All right, so that and that's it. I just need to add my logo. All right. I'm going to have to upload it then. Upload Media anyway, So I'm just going to add my logo. If you have a logo, I recommend you do the same. Hmm, You know what? I'm going to. Hmm, I'm just going to put my bunny in. That's okay. All right, so I've uploaded it. I'm just going to drag it to replace. Ah, okay, be careful. Sometimes you might drag and drop and replace the wrong thing. That's okay though. If you make a mistake, you just hit command Z on a Mac or you can undo. So with that selected, there we go. All right, that's not so bad. So this is fine. It's not perfect. I mean, I would have chosen a different video. I would have gotten my other logo, but this is enough. Okay, it's got my name. And just make sure the last thing I want to do before I publish or anything is just double check that I have no typos. So now I'm going to go to the beginning and let's see what this looks like. This is, again, just a rough preview. 8. Making Final Tweaks, Transitions, Exporting, and Sharing Your Video: The only thing I don't like is this ending here. I'm just going to go into if I double click on the actual visuals, it will give me a more in depth timeline which I can show you better. Here you see the different pre made options including all the little avatars and the followers and my text, My name and my logo is at the top. Here's my media double click on my media. Okay, I'm going to solve this with a little fade out. At the end of the media, I double clicked on it. It gives me the option for a little transition here. I'm going to choose not fade in, but fade out. And I'm going to say type. And I'm going to choose a fade out. There's all different things you can play with here. Duration is going to be real quick, just like half a second. That should solve the problem. Yes, it does. All right. I'm going to do that for everything. All right? And I think that's it. I apologize if you hear rain in the background. It is rainy season where I am. All right. So that's it. I think I'm happy with this. It's about 10 seconds long and everything's fading out. I'm going to actually keep everything as it is at the beginning because I find that sometimes Instagram shows just a black screen If you have it fading up from black where you don't want it to be showing. Now I'm going to export my video. Before I do that, I just wanted to share that you have other options here. I could add a voice over and talk over this if I wanted to. And I can record directly into in video and I can view all the scenes together like this in one compact place. That's really great. You see that? I'm actually in an editor right now. If I go under a storyboard, it just shows my video in a different format. However, there's only one thing happening because it's just a ten second video. In other lessons, I'll show you more how the storyboard works, but for now, this is good to go. All right. Again, don't worry about your video being choppy. It's going to be fine once you download it. So that's it. I'm going to download it and it's asking me how I want to do it. I'll just do the big one. If you have the free account, you can do also an HD video for Instagram and the Web. That is perfectly fine. I'm going to export it and then I will download it and then I'll use it in my Instagram today. Yeah. Anyway, if you have any questions or concerns or you want to start a discussion, just let me know. But I find that it's pretty straightforward. But if anything is being weird, it usually has something to do with your source video. All right, I hope this was helpful. See you in the next lesson. 9. More Places to Find Images & Videos to Use in Your Projects (The Right Way!): In this lesson, I just wanted to give you a friendly neighborhood reminder that obviously any images that you post on social media, it is best practice that it's your own photo that you took, it's your own original artwork or it's from a royalty free website. What is a royalty free website? There are loads of them and you could also using an app or a tool like Canva, or in video or other free places where you're able to create content. They'll actually give you an image library of royalty free content. Royalty free content are basically images that you are allowed to use for free. So just to give an example, let's say I'm going to use my son as an example. He has a report due on apples of the world. He goes and does a Google search for apples, and all of a sudden, images of apples come up from everywhere. He's got so many to choose from, he decides to use one of those in his report and he presents it to his teacher. Now you can do that if whatever it is that you're presenting is only in an academic setting, it's only in a classroom. But if he wants to, for example, make artwork with that Apple photograph, change it in any way, or publish a book that has Apple as an illustration, he cannot use that. Just grabbing an image off of Google is not a good thing to do. It could even get you sued or in trouble in some way. So the very next best thing to that, sort of like having your cake and eating it too, is go to a royalty free image site and do a search and you'll be able to find images that you can use for free. Usually, sometimes for noncommercial use, sometimes for commercial use. I'm going to give you a whole big list of places that you can get free images. For example, if I needed an image of a lion, I could go out into the bush with my camera and a steak and see if I can lure some lions over so I can get their pictures. And then it's my own original photograph. But chances are that's very dangerous. And I should instead go to a royalty free image site like the ones here. So I'm giving you just on the screen here, three of my favorite ones. Pexels.com is really great for all kinds of photos you can search and they'll give you royalty free images that you can use for free and all of your projects without worry of copyright infringement. Pixabay is especially nice because not only does it have all kinds of photos, but you can also search illustrations and icons, and graphics and vector images, logos, things like that. So if you're looking for that sort of thing, that's a really good option. And then I personally have always loved Gratisography.com because the guy who runs that one takes really funny, sort of unusual whimsical pictures. So if you want something that feels a little bit different and silly, then you could go there as well. But like I said, you could also go to Canva. And when you're searching for images to put in your templates, they'll actually give you within the app itself all the royalty free images you can use. There are also paid sites as well like stock and a bunch of other ones, but unless you're like a professional graphic designer and you have no professional photographer to work with and you're in a pinch, I don't think you really need those paid image services when you have so many great free options. The other option, and it's in my photo here, is you can make your own image. So, when I was giving my talk at the British High Commission, I was trying to look for images around the house that I could take, you know, objects. But I was also looking in Pixabay and Pexels for things that said Malawi and the UK together. And I found some things, but they're really generic and lame. So I decided in the end to just make a screenshot of the British High Commission's website on my laptop. Put it on my desk and get some Malawian Chtenji placements and baskets and you know, like beads and different things and just kind of place it around. So I basically created my own image from objects. So we're always often so fixated on getting people, people, people, mountain, mountain, mountain, sunset, sunset, sunset. But you can also use objects, and for those of you that are shy, also just about appearing in pictures, this is great for you as well. So you could take a picture of your studio if you're an artist. And that could be a kind of self portrait. Or sometimes when I'm giving this course live, I'll ask a student like dump out your bag and the objects in their bag could be a portrait. So you can also create those options as well. Basically take a bunch of objects and that could be your image. It would be original anyway. So try to think outside the box, even though the expression thinking outside the box is not really thinking outside the box. But I digress, just try to be original. Try to think differently and just don't do what everyone else is doing. All right? I hope this was helpful I see. In the next lesson. 10. Let's Have AI Turn Our Text Into a Video: Training our "Sous Chef" to Set Up: Come back. All right, in this lesson we're going to use the power of AI technology that in video has built right into their platform to give us a little bit of assistance. Because there's just not enough hours in the day to do all the different social media and online tasks that we might need to do. So this is an awesome help. So in this lesson, I'm going to show you how to take a script and let in video create a video based on your text. And basically let it help you so that you can save a whole bunch of time. All right, let's get started. So let's start a new project. So I'm back in my dashboard and I'm going to go over here under Create New. And this time I'll use the second option, AI text to Video. In this mode, we're going to basically just give it a bunch of text and let it create the videos for us from the beginning. It actually gives us some suggested templates. I think I'm just going to grab any old thing. Let's see, let's use something like this. I like that. Okay, You can choose landscape, square, or portrait. Let's do portrait. We'll make a nice vertical video that we can use on Instagram or Tiktok or Youtube shorts. And we'll use template. Then you can either put in your script in here and it'll create the video for you. It says, start by entering your script with each new sentence on a new line. The first sentence will automatically become a headline scene, and the remaining will be split into individual scenes. Click on Create Scenes. After you have entered the entire script, I have a script on creativity that I could put in here. Or I can also click Ask AI to write your script. Describe the script you want to generate. All right, let's try a video on creativity tips for those who worry they aren't artistic, Generate whoo, okay. Do you ever feel like you're not creative? That could be our first line. Creativity is not just for artists, it's a skill that anyone can develop. You don't need to be a talented painter. Okay. Some of these, I would just put these, each on a different line. It's about problem solving, coming ideas. Some of these we can put together. All right, so anyway, I'm going to just do this. I don't know how long this video is going to be. All right, let's give this a try. We can also auto suggest images and videos. Yes, that's it. That's it. Write or paste your script to create the scenes. All right, we're ready, create scenes. All right, let's see what it generated for us. I'm going to hit play. All right, so that's what it generated for me. I'm not sure it's publishing ready just yet. A couple of things. One, it's awesome that it generated an entire script for me that's saved me a bunch of time. I think it's a good script. It generated a template for me. But I feel like in order for this to really be good, then we need to go in and probably swap out the different media. For example, even this first shot here, they put the text right over the guy's head. In this image is not really of good quality. It's pixelated and fuzzy. It's not quite there yet, But guess what? All I have to do, I've got my scenes now. Anyway, this is created and even the music doesn't keep playing. It needs to loop. Yeah. Anyway, but now that this exists, what I can do is I can go into individual scenes. I can edit the text. Let's go back to the first scene. Do you ever feel like you're not creative? You can move stuff around? I'm going to actually get rid of this image. And then over here under videos, I'm just going to go in the little bank here of stock images. Let's look for, I don't know, office guy, I don't know. I'm just putting whatever would go well with that first scene. Do you ever feel like you're not creative? All right. I'm going to just make sure that they're all free just to be sure. Oh wow. Maybe something like this, this look kind of like non creative robot type things. All right, let's see what that looks like. Oh, right. That's much better. I don't really like that. I had to scale that up to fit it, but it already looks better than the image that was there. All right, so without boring you, with me going through the whole project, I just want you to know that you can use this feature to get everything set up. And then what you can do is go into your storyboard, your script. Now You can change the videos and images. You can go in and change the text. You can tidy it up, you can get rid of stuff. All right. I have deleted a couple of scenes here. I think that I just want this to be a really short video. Do you ever feel like you're not creative, by the way? Any particular scene that has a lot of text, notice how small it gets and you can barely read it. I recommend you could make it bigger, but I recommend just to go into each scene and just try to keep it down to like a little one liners if you can. So creativity is not just for artists, it's a skill that anyone can develop. So I'm just going to massively simplify this whole thing. See much better, right? Experiment with different mediums, let's say. All right, so anyway, I'm just going to make these really simple. I'm even going to get rid of some stuff, All right. Anyway, now this is much more simple. There's only 11 scenes now and at least you can pretty much read everything. Anyway, that's over here in our storyboard. But if you go under editor, you can see now it's a little bit more than 45 seconds long. Remember I've only edited that first scene there. I'm going to just see how it looks. All right, This is off to a good start. So I just want to answer a couple of, I know you have questions about how to change the music. Now that we're in the actual editor, I can click on the editor here for the music. With this selected, I can tell it to not loop if I want it to. I can play around with the volume and fade of this. I can take the loop on. Right now there's a loop on, but I didn't really need it because it was long enough. Anyway, if I want different music than this, I can just delete it. Then over here in my mic bank, I have different moods. I don't think I want angry, give me angry. Let's go with inspiring. And I'll just find something and pop it in sunny morning. Take the next step. That sounds good. I don't like it. All right. This is where I get sucked in for like an hour, but I'll try not to. A look of hope, joy and triumph. Okay, let's say that. I like that. I'm just gonna drag it in wink and there it is. And now again, back to the beginning. Awesome. Actually I like the other music that I had before, so I could also on a Mac, if you want to undo something, you hit command Z, I believe on the PC you can. Is it a control, click, right click and then undo. Okay. Was this my original audio? I don't know. I like it but anyway, now you know how to do that, that's pretty much it. You can flip back and forth between the editor and the storyboard To go in, we go back to the script button here. Do you ever feel like you're not creative? Oops, I had a mistake in here. Creativity is not just for artists. Then we definitely need to get rid of this letter here. I don't know what that's all about. Again, we go under videos, all right? So I've got this guy walking down a road. Again, I'm not a big fan of scaling up video, but if you need it to fit, because we decided, or I decided that it was going to be a vertical, could do something like that. All right. All right, so then all I have to do now is just go back and forth, back and forth. And just just choose the video and imagery that I want to have. And then when I'm done, then I can download it and export it and it's ready. So basically by using AI, we saved a ton of time with writing a script. It made a template for us. Now we just have to make it better. So definitely don't expect that it's going to do all the thinking for you, but it certainly gets a lot of the prep work done. Think of it as your sous chef. If you're a master chef, AI is there to cut up the carrots and put all the ingredients out. But it's up to you, the master chef, to then take those ingredients and make your amazing masterpiece. I hope this was helpful and I'll see in the next lesson. Bye. 11. Use InVideo AI (Full Crash Course in Under 10 Minutes) -Free Trial Available: Hey, welcome back. All right, so the way that we did the AI text to video in the last lesson is not the only way that you can use AI to help you make a video. You may have noticed that there's this little bar at the top here. So we're in our regular project dashboard and it says Try the video creation copilot at Invideo. That's actually a separate web address then studio in video that we have been working in, in click there and it's going to ask us if we want to give it a try. Now this is the free version. Try in video, I. Let's give it a try. All right, now it wants us to join, create a new account. I'm going to join with my Google. All right, so once you've created an account, then it should let you through. All right. So it's going to ask you a couple of questions. Continue, I guess I don't have a fun name but that's okay. All right, and this is pretty self explanatory. Let's say topic is creativity for people who think they are not creative, it's inspiring and fun just for social media. Yeah, okay, generate video and it looks like they have a way to clone your voice here and do explainers, et cetera. But let's just do generate a video. I feel like this is going to come out better than the other AI tool that we used in, in video studio. But let's see. All right. Audience non creative self doubters or social media users look and feel inspiring platform. Okay, This is a very smart, let's do Instagram continue. I'm number nine in the queue. Wow. All right, so let's see what it made for us. Cold, open. Imagine a world without color, sound, or taste a bit dull, isn't it? Now, think again. You. Yes indeed you are a creative being. You may not paint like Picasso or write like Shakespeare, but you, my friend, are an artist in your own unique way. Creativity isn't confined to a canvas or a sonnet. It's that spark when you cook a meal. The rhythm when you walk. The twinkle in your laughter. It's the unexpected solution you find to a problem. The way you tell a story, the dreams you weave while you're awake, you see Creativity isn't about perfection. It's about expression. It's about seeing and doing things in ways that only you can and guess what you're already doing it. Oh wow. Well that's much better than the other one. I think it's still generating. Let's see. So embrace it. Unleash that creative genius within you, because the world needs more of your color, your sound, your taste. Remember, you are a masterpiece in progress. Keep creating, keep shining, all right? It's not perfect, but is way better than the other one. Right, for a first try. That's great. Anyway, you can also tell it in video AI to do the editing for you, I could say give a stronger ending with a inspiring. Oh okay, from Albert Einstein. Keep creating, keep shining. And remember this inspiring quote from Albert Einstein. Creativity is intelligence. Having fun, all right? Okay. Actually, sorry, I'm sorry. I, I doubted you. You did understand me. It gave a better quote at the end. So anyway, you can basically tell AI to edit things for you. Make the whole thing a little bit more concise. A, my spelling concise, right? And s generate, all right. It's doing it well. This is cool. This is like having an unpaid assistant. And you don't necessarily need to deal with timelines or scripts or anything. If you really prefer to work this way. This could be interesting. This would drive me nuts as someone who does video. Because I like to get in there and make the changes myself. Here, I tell it what I want and then I just have to hope that it understands me. Cold, open picture. A world devoid of color, sound, or taste. Dull, right? Yet you are a creative being. You might not be Picasso or Shakespeare, but you're an artist in your own way. Creativity isn't confined to art or literature. It's that spark when you solve a problem. The way you tell a story, the dreams you weave. It's not about perfection, it's about unique expression. Guess, guess what? You are already doing. It embrace your creativity. The world craves more of your distinctive color, Sound, taste. Remember you are an evolving masterpiece. Keep shining. As Einstein once said, creativity is intelligence. Having fun. All right? I like it. There are a couple of things I don't like. Okay, so it keeps messing up. So I'm just going to go in and see if it lets me edit the script myself. That's what I want. Okay, you're a creative being, You may not be Picasso, Creativity isn't so it's got some repeating words in here. At least we can go in and make changes though. Awesome. All right, that's wurg blah, blah, blah. All right, now it should work perfectly. If I wanted to further edit this, I just go in here and then you have an option to edit the media or edit the script. There's some different stuff in here, stock story blocks. If you wanted to replace the paid stuff with the free stuff, you could do that. Let's see. All right, that's it. I'm pretty happy with that. So let's export it. Export video. Let's keep it at the same resolution that we started it as because I'm just using the free trial. We'll just keep it with watermarks, et cetera. Continue it then gives me this window and when it's done exporting it will give me the option to share on social media or download it to my computer or device, and then I can use it in any way that I want. Let's see. Picture a world devoid of color, sound, or taste. Dull, right? Yet you are a creative being. You may not be Picasso or Shakespeare, but you're an artist in your own right. Creativity isn't confined to art or literature. It's that spark when you solve a problem. The way you tell a story, the dreams you weave. It's not about perfection, it's unique expression. Guess what? You're already doing. It embrace your creativity. The world craves more of your distinctive color. Sound, taste. Remember you are an evolving masterpiece. Einstein once said, creativity is intelligence. Having fun. All right, it's not perfect, and I probably wouldn't use it because of the watermarks, but also just even the way that it ends. But this is an awesome start and I'm so glad to have played around with this tool. It certainly can definitely take hours and hours out of your work day and gets you up and running very quickly. Just one quick thing before I leave. So if I wanted to download that, I can click here, but I can also go under my workspace. And if I go under usage, then it also will give me some more information about how much that I've used. It's giving me all edits are free until 31st of March 2024. Wow, okay, so I get I guess one out of 10 minutes free. And anyway, so all of the different options are here. All right, and then if I also click under my image, I can go and change my settings and play around with experimental features, multiplayer cursors, different kinds of settings. Here I can change my subscription and play around with my profile. This is the world's quickest introduction to in video AI, but I hope it gives you a glimpse as to what the possibilities are. I think it's really cool, but I am a bit of, I guess I'm old school. I also like in video studio and I'm probably going to continue with that one, but this was really awesome to try. I hope you found this helpful and eye opening and have fun playing with the tools. Seeing the next lesson. 12. Intro to Workflow #3: Let's Make a Quick & Easy Square Video for Social Media: Hey there. Welcome back. All right, in this lesson, let's play around a little bit with the third option which is the stock media option. Okay, in this option you can go into the media library. You choose a video or image to work with, and once you find at least one, it'll give you the option to add to project. When you do that, this is another way that you can actually create a new project. So you have to choose landscape, square, or portrait. I think in this case I'll do square. All right, and there is my clip. And it's actually brought me into the editor, which is actually the fourth option. I'll show you in the next lesson. But basically if you've ever used any of video program, they all work the same way. They all have this visual representation of time called your timeline, where you can start from 0 seconds. In this case, this is just five second clip. You can preview it here. This is where you preview everything that you're going to do. Well, that's kind of neat. Okay, it's letting me preview what it's given me here. Now if we wanted to add a scene, let me just click. We can either add a blank scene or something from a template. I'll just add a blank scene just to show you. Okay, so basically I think I edit it twice, but that's okay. But in this timeline, you see that it starts with our clip and then it allowed me to add another scene. And here I could go in, I could upload my own videos, I could look in the content library. Again, I wasn't actually going to make a lesson on this because I never would have thought, really to start with the footage or stock image and then making a video from that. Usually I like to have everything set up, maybe have a template or just the screen and then I bring the things in. But if you prefer to work this way, that is definitely an option. So you just choose your media, You build a project around that, and then from this timeline, you can continue by adding things either from your own uploads or from these little panels here, so we can just drag it in. Okay. And of course, if you're, if you're bringing in video that is different than your dimensions, you're going to need to adjust that. But now I can zoom in a little bit. I can see my movie. My movie is like about 15 seconds long. It starts at the beginning. I'm just going to move the playback head through with this. Then the second scene, oh my gosh, what does that seals and then the blank scene. You can actually, if you feel more comfortable working this way, this is a great way to build your movie. Please note that you can always, at the top here, click back into Storyboard. Everybody's Different. And if this makes more sense to you, you can also work in storyboard mode, where you go in, you have your scenes in front of you, you can drag and drop from over here. And then here's scene two. If I wanted to go under elements, for example, let's say for whatever reason I wanted to bring in a square or a frame rather it's going to, let me do that. Remember, you can drag and drop anything in this little menu here, and that's scene by scene. And then finally I have my third scene here. Maybe in this one I will, maybe I'll grab something from my uploads. When you go to uploads, it will show you upload. It actually gave me the option for this project or for all my uploads. A uploads all projects, shared current project. If I go under all uploads, then I can see everything that I brought in and then I can ink Dragon Drop. That's Anya. She has one of my art of Vita donkey bags. She's one of our friends that lives in Nairobi, Kenya, at this cool glass studio you went to? All right. So anyway, I'm not going to go too much into details, but just so you know, it's very easy to switch between the regular editor and the storyboard editor. I can go back over here and then everything that I did is showing up here. I can preview. Remember, you can also adjust the length of your movie just by dragging and dropping. It's another really easy way to make a video in video studio. And I hope that you found this simple and easy. All right, in the next lesson, let's go into the regular editor and we'll just completely make something from scratch in the next lesson. 13. A Taste of Workflow Option #4: Make a New Video From Scratch in the Editor: Hey, welcome back. All right, we've been going through all of the different kinds of video that you can make in, in video studio. And in video AI back to in video studio. I'm going to do the fourth way of making a video. And the reason they put it forth is because it's really for people who are more experienced with using video editors. That said, I think in this day and age, most of us even if it's just the free program on your phone or that comes with your computer, most of us have at least played around with a video editing program and they all pretty much have the same features in video, is no exception. So I'm going to make a new video from the editor, and when I click that, it's going to ask me landscape, square, or portrait. This time I'll make a landscape one for Youtube or some like traditional movie, film festival type of thing. It's asking me drop my images and videos here or browse. Even though I'm going to be making something from scratch, it wants to get me started with a scene. I'm going to actually hit Browse. It asks me if I have something that I want to use. Okay, So it just wanted to have some media in here, right? I can absolutely grab something that I've just uploaded and pop it in here. That automatically makes something in my timeline. Actually, of course, I made a horizontal video and I grabbed a square image. But that's okay. Just an example, I get rid of that. Anyway, I'm going to go into my uploads. Remember, when you go into uploads, it's asking only from the current project? Or a uploads, I'm going to say all uploads. Then let me see if I can find something that I can just pop in there. Maybe I have some horizontal art. All right, so we got some guinea foul here. We'll pop them in here. That comes in. And this can be, let's say, a three second scene. Now whatever I've clicked on, it allows me to edit its properties. If I wanted to add some text, usually I would not recommend putting text over a crazy busy background like this. What I usually do is I'll go under elements and I'll find myself like a nice, happy little, oops, I didn't want that, I didn't want that shape. I'll go and find myself a little rectangle or just a square click. Okay. So if I am going to have any text now, maybe I can put it in the corner like this and you can adjust the shape. And that is a little bit too transparent for what I wanted. If I want that to actually just be the same length as my first scene, I just adjust it here in the timeline. Then I can go in here and I can adjust my fill color. Right now it's the blacky color. And I would like it to be a little bit less transparent so that when I put text over it, you can actually read it. You definitely watch. I'll show you what happens. So let's say want to add text now. Click can add a heading. Okay, here's the text, This is a text placeholder. But you see when I put it, oops, I've got it two times here, three times here. Okay, here it is. Obviously, if I double click on that, then I can go in the menu over here and I can say, Kristen's birds. I didn't know what to call it. Okay. So Kristen's birds? Yeah. And obviously, depending on how big your text is, you can maybe adjust your shape behind it. But do you see how having that on the background, you can actually read it? But if I take this background away, ah, we can't read it anymore. Okay. So I do recommend always be mindful of the contrast. If you do have text, there shouldn't be too much text because nobody goes to watch a video to read a lot of text. But little captions, names, isolated quotes just a little bit is going to be okay. All right, so we're good. I need to make sure then that this all goes together like that. And now I would like to add a new scene, How do we do that, where it says View all Scenes? I'm going to click there. And then you see over here on the right hand side, we were actually in the one scenes timeline, but we clicked on View all Scenes. And now it gives us an option to add a scene. We can either add a blank scene or from a template. I'm going to click blank scene. Remember, you can zoom in and out. Over here, just so you can see everything all in one place. We've got this scene and then this scene. This one. I can add something from my library as well. Let's see, we'll go with an elephant drawing which needs to actually fit on the screen. Like that's not so bad. I may actually go back into my other scene. I wonder if it'll let me, I'm just going to hold down the shift key to copy these two things here. Then if I go back to all my scenes and go here. All right, let me just copy that rectangle back in there. It didn't copy my text, but that's okay. I'll just adjust this, my elephant. You can tell I'm not actually going to use this on social media, but this is just an example for you. Okay? All right. I have now the same rectangle and text, but my rectangle is over my text, which is annoying. I need to select that. Hang on. If we double click on that scene, it brings us into that scenes timeline. And I see that I need to actually move, I need to change the order. There we go, I'm just dropping. So you can see there's a layer order here. The is on them. The rectangle is in between and the eh, elephant okay, is on top. Okay. If I want to check out my full movie, we go over here, I can preview my movie. There's actually no sound at the moment. I think we want to add some music as well. No, we're going to go over here. Let's go with playful too. Playful, but something interesting. Oh, I like that. Okay, so I'm going to add that to my movie. Just drag it in. Okay, so what I did is I just clicked the little plus here to add as a layer. It's now in my movie. I can also decide if I wanted to start a little bit earlier, you can actually see the wave form of it starting like that. Then I can pull it out a little bit so that it matches up. And now if we start at the beginning, here's what we have. All right, so this is a very, very simple example, but I just wanted to let you know that that's available and you just build your movie like you would in any other video editing program. You can add your stickers and images. You can add your video, your sound, your text, all of those great things. And then when you're done then with your sound, also remember you can double click on it. And it's going to give you the sound options up the top here, so we can adjust the volume right now. We can tell it to fade in a little bit, tell it to fade out. We can decide if we want it to loop or not. Right now the loop is off and that's it. I think this is basically everything you need. We're going to export. I have the best video quality here. I'm going to export. And it's going to render. And then when it's done, it's going to give me the option to download to my computer. There are also, as you saw before, options to share directly to social media. So I hope that was easy and clear. And remember, with any tool that you're just learning, it's always going to be more difficult when you start might take you an hour to do something that maybe in a couple of days, if you play around with it enough, will only take you a few minutes. So just give it a try, play around with it, don't get frustrated and just see how powerful it is, even though it's a very simple tool. All right, thank you so much and we'll see you in the next lesson. Bye. 14. How to Easily Add Voice Overs to Your Projects -Case Study: Hey, there. So we've been making some great progress, and actually, I'm working on a new project now, so the interface of in video may look a bit different now than in some of the earlier lectures, but everything is pretty much all the same. It's kind of like though, when someone cleans your room. Sometimes it may take a moment just to figure out where they moved something, but everything is there. And actually, it's looking like this right now. And in this lesson, I'm going to talk a little bit about how to record and work with sound. So basically, for voiceovers. So in the earlier lessons, there were no voiceovers. It was just music, text, video, and imagery, which is great. But I've been working on a project for UNFPA, Malawi, which is the United Nations population fund and actually did a series of animations with these Tubi characters, and I'm doing a new one now to help with COVID 19 messaging here in Malawi, and I'm going to just go in and show you quickly what I've been working on. Basically, the situation is this. Today is the day I think that this project will be finalized enough for me to send it, and then they'll use it on their social media and in other things. Everything's loaded and I'm here in storyboard view. You also have your advanced editor tab, which looks a little bit different than the earlier version, but it's basically the same thing. So instead of seeing it vertically from top to bottom, you're kind of doing it like this where you can click on the different scenes. And it will allow you to go in and edit any of these elements, whatever you click on, you can select over here and then click on the edit tab. So if I wanted to hop actually move that by mistake. So if I wanted to work on the text, I then go under edit, and then it will allow me to make those changes either to the text itself or the style. So basically, this is an animation of still images. So basically, I'm taking illustrations that I did in another program, photoshop, and I am setting them to music with English text, and then the local language and one of the local languages in Malawi is Chicha. So I have people who are doing the voiceovers. Anyway, I just wanted to show you the advanced editor. I'm actually just so I can see everything. I don't know, lately, I like storyboard view, but it doesn't really matter. Whatever you're more comfortable in. So this is my first intro screen, and it's just music. And then if I go down, the next scene is actually one where I need, where I need to add voiceovers. And I'm going to add that in just a bit, but let me just show you the ones I added. So I have the Chicha voice overs for this character, Abt Patuma and I can even hear the voice over that I put in over here. Okay. So obviously, when you're previewing it in this view, before you export it, you may get little blips and it might not be 100% how you want it. It's usually just sort of rough for preview purposes. But anyway, so that is in there, and if I wanted to edit from storyboard view, I just click on it. And here where it says, edit voice over is where I can do it. You can also see it over here in my timeline. You can see that it starts not immediately, which is probably good because you want the scene to load and everything first. And then she speaks, and then notice there's actually a little bit of time leftover afterwards. I prefer to do that because if you don't give a little bit of extra time, then sometimes the scene gets it feels too rushed and then it just boom goes to the next one and it doesn't feel like there's any breathing room. So for example, if this particular voice over is 10 seconds long, I might make the duration 11 seconds just to give a little bit of time a little cushion. Okay. Anyway, so this is there. If I click Edit Voice Over, it gives me the opportunity to I can even start it and end it a different way, so I can change the duration here. You can change the volume. This particular movie has background music. You couldn't hear them before because it doesn't play in preview mode, only when you're previewing it and when you export it, can you hear everything together. But this is very important. When you have voiceovers, you don't want to be competing with your background music. So definitely make sure they're very smart. They automatically have it set up that when you put the voice over in, it comes in at 100%, and then the background music is going to seamlessly fade to about 10%. But if you find that it's still annoying or distracting, you can put that number even lower. Or if I don't know, for whatever reason, you need your background music to come up, you can do that as well. Anyway, I also gives you controls for fading in and fading out for your voice over. I'm not going to make any changes right now. I just wanted to give you a bit of an overview. Let's go out of here and let me just show you a scene that doesn't have a voice over, so you know what it will look like. This one doesn't have a voice over. If I go in and say edit, It gives me the option here to add a voice over. So if we were just doing this as a quick test, I would click on add voice over. And you could actually this is kind of cool. You could type in some text and I'll give you an automated voice over. I've never actually done that because I haven't had to. But maybe for some purposes, if you have a I don't know, like a robot or video game sort of thing where you want to have automated voice over. It could work. You could record right now, if you have a microphone hooked up, you could record, make sure you don't have too much background noise going on. You can upload from your computer if you have the file, or if you've put it in your uploads, which is over here, see all my Malian flags I was looking for before. Then you can import from upload. Basically, if you choose a voice over, upload from computer, it comes in, and then you can begin to edit it. I actually have the voice over for this one. I didn't check yet to see if it's the right format. So basically in the next lesson, I'm going to give you a quick rundown in a free sound program called audacity that will allow you if you have a voiceover, but you accidentally recorded it in the wrong format, and now in Video won't open it. I'll show you how to convert that And actually, this character, the voice actor is a young woman, so it fits perfectly. The voice actor for this character who's older is actually younger in real life. So also in audacity, I lower the pitch just a little bit because as we age, our voices get lower apparently. And so if you want to make a character sound older or younger, you can take a voice over and then just adjust the pitch a little bit in that free program audacity, or maybe you have Adobe audition or some other sound program on your computer. Whatever you use is fine. I'm going to just show you what I tend to show my students because they don't always have a lot of money for expensive software. I like audacity because it's really high quality, and somehow it's free. It's a miracle, and it works on a PCE MAC, whatever. Anyway, so let's just for testing purposes. I'll just upload from computer. Okay. Just so you see what it looks like when your voice over is in the right format, I'll just go into a folder. So I've got these were the ones that I had from before. They were AIF files, and then I brought them into audacity, and I just saved them I think I saved them as MPF. Oh, no, sorry, I saved them as waves. So in video likes wave files, WAV or.p4. There's probably a list. I'll get you the link and put it in resources because off the top of my head, I don't know, because I always use wave or whatever. So these are the abiti Patuma ones. I'll just bring it in just to show you. So you select one, you open it up. All right, so it's come in. And this voiceover actually doesn't go with this scene, but you see that it's in here now that we've added in, and this one is actually quite short. And let's play it. Yeah, She's basically saying there. I'm done. It goes with a different scene, but it's quite short, right? Now, I'm not going to apply this because it actually in videos doing this thing where you put in a voice over and it'll actually adjust the scene length a little bit based on what you've put in there, so it might make it a little bit longer, might make it a little bit shorter. This is actually not Not the right one for this scene, so I'm not going to save this, but I just wanted to show you. So adding a voice over is as simple as that. I'm going to I'm going to say new. Thank you by clicking on this little trash can. So we're going to remove the voice over. Yeah. S. And actually, now my scene snaps back to about 6 seconds. I'm going to close this out. And just before I go, I'll show you what I have so far a little bit, preview and Export. Not all of it. Some of it, just so you get a taste of some of the voice the ones with and without voiceovers. So this one needs a voice over? Malala. Okay. Well, I'll play that more for you later, but just to give you a taste of how it's coming along. Okay. So in the next lesson, I'm going to show you how I take the voice overs that I have for the Tumb character and bring them into audacity just so I can save them in the correct format, so a wave or an MP four file that in video can read. If you don't have it already, I recommend you go here. I'll leave the link and the resources, audacity team.org slash download. And then if you have windows, if you have a MAC, if you have Linux, you can download the free program, install it on your computer, and then we'll open it up in the next lesson. See you there 15. Use This Free, Easy Online Tool For Converting Audio Formats: Hey, there. So let's say you have some audio files. They need to be switched over to a different format and you don't need to do anything else to them. You don't need to change the volume, you don't need to change the pitch, you don't need to add anything. In that case, I wouldn't bother with audacity. I would go to this lovely tool, which is free and online, called the audio converter. It's super easy. And I actually, I'm living in a developing country where the Internet connection is not good and it even is fast for me. So that's already amazing. Basically, what you do is you go to online audio converter.com. And you open your files, and let's say we want to do an AIFF file and convert it to a wave file so that in video will accept it. We open it up. And it's in. And here you can decide which kind of file you want to have. You can make it an MP three. I'm going to just keep all of mine waves. Here, the default is CD quality, which is fine. I prefer 48 kilohertz, 48,000 hertz works the best. You don't need anything really higher than that unless you're in Hollywood making a $2,000,000 movie, something like that, don't worry about that. But 48,000 should be fine. And I wouldn't go under CD quality, then you start to lose quality. So that's pretty much it. Convert. Boom. Done. Download. So you download the file, save it somewhere. All right. Once it's downloaded. Open it up. That's a wave file, and now I can bring that into in video or any other video editing program that accepts wave MP three files. It was that easy. I hope this was helpful. The other thing I want to say just before I go is that you can also do multiple files. You don't have to do one at a time, like I just did. You could do a whole folder. You just refresh the page, open files, choose all the ones that you want. And it will do all of them. So they all work the same way. Just give them all the same setting. And then once it's uploaded, you can convert and then download. All right. Hope this was helpful. See in the next lesson. 16. How to Change and Convert Audio Files in Audacity: A Crash Course: All right, so we're here in audacity. Hopefully, you get a chance to download it and put it on your computer. Now, here's the thing with audacity. I'm not going to obviously, this could be a whole course in itself going through audacity. But the nice thing about it is if you've ever used any kind of audio editing program, they all pretty much have the same features. Audacity, as you can see, allows you to also record right from it, which is great. And we don't actually have any sound in here right now. Otherwise, you'll see a bunch of other things. But just very, very quickly, up the top here. These are grade out because we don't have any sound selected right now, but you'll see there's all kinds of effects where you can change the pitch, the speed, the tempo. You can do echo, fade ins, fade outs, et cetera. You can also generate silence, tones, different things. You have lots of options there. Now, you can use audacity if you have a audio file that's in the wrong format. Basically, what you do is you open that file that's not correct. I actually need to go here. Okay. In this folder, I have the audio files from abiti Patuma but they were saved as AIFF files. I actually don't know how you would pronounce that. Files. So what you can do is you can grab a file that is not working in video and open it up in audacity. Ta, you'll see that this is a high quality sound. 48,000 hertz is very good. You want to have something 44,000 or above, if possible. It's also you see it's a stereo sound, meaning here's the left channel, here's the right channel, and you can preview it. Let's handy. I'm not going to do the whole thing. But actually, this is the voice before I made it a little bit lower just to make her sound a bit older. For the moment, let's just pretend that this is exactly the sound we want. We don't need to make any changes to it. In order to save it in the correct format, you just do file export, and then you can export it as an MP three, as a wave, et cetera. But I would recommend a wave file, always works well or an MP three works well in video. If I export as a wave, Then you just save it somewhere else. You can give it a different name if you want to, I already saved this one, but I'll just do it again like that. Save. Here you have the option if you want to put some metadata in here, like the artist's name, et, then you can and then you say, Boom. Now if I were to go back into in video, I just open up my wave file and it should work perfectly. Before I go though, just to show you, this is an unedited sound file. But if I wanted to, I can highlight different areas and I can start to play around with some of these effects here. If I was being silly and I wanted to reverse what she was saying, I could, for example, highlight the area, hit reverse, and now if I hit play, but. Whoa, right? So it's been reversed. If I make a mistake, of course, I can undo, undo, undo, undo reverse and she goes back to normal. That's obviously the things that I normally do in here, the most useful things that you need to know right now would be removing pauses. So sometimes I'm limited by seconds in my video, so I need to make the voice over is a little shorter. So one thing I do is I highlight this area here in between and I just hit Delete. And it kind of tightens it up. I mean, you don't want to do it too much because then it doesn't sound natural. You don't want people to talk like robots with no pauses at all, but you can get rid of excessive pauses, right? So that's what I'm doing. So these are the most common things to do. And then in this particular case, what I had to do. I already did, but I'll show you here is highlight the whole thing go up under effect, and we're going to change the pitch. So not just changing the speed. The pitch is really good because if I bring her voice down a little bit, so let's go It's already on my last preset, but let's say minus five. There's a bit of a preview here. That's actually what I want, but I could be really extreme. It gets a little crazy when you go too low. It's going to sound really weird. You can also go over zero. So if I go up a little bit, she's going to sound younger. You can imagine how much fun you could have with that, right? But I want mine to sound normal. I'm just going to go back to let's say minus five, say, and it's done it and you can preview it again over here just to be sure you're happy with it. Awesome. Okay, so that is that. So when you're done with whatever changes you have made. Again, I apologize, this is just a quick and dirty taste of audacity. If you want to learn more about audacity, I recommend you start playing around with it, and they're also really comprehensive, I think, mostly free resources online that will help you with every little feature. I'm just showing you the most important ones. So let's do file. We can save the project, so we have the project if we want to come back in and edit it. But right now, I'm just going to do export as a wave. We'll do hebit hello C. Okay. And that's it saved, and then I can open it up in video, and we're ready to go. So that's how you save a file in audacity and how you can also change your voice around a little bit. Hope this is helpful. See in the next lesson. 17. The Final Version With All the Sound Resolved: A UN Animation Case Study: Ray, we're making progress. This video, I believe is done. It took a while because of all the images and then getting all the voiceovers from different people, having to have them sent remotely. But anyway, I have exported it and downloaded it to my computer. I'm just going to preview it one more time before I deliver it. It's going to go in our shared Google Drive, and then our social media communication person will at some point, today, tomorrow, whenever, put it on our UNFPA Malawi Facebook page, and hopefully use it in other ways as well. So, I sorted out all those sound issues, finally, and I'm glad I was able to show you the different ways of converting audio and editing audio. But I'm sure you have specific questions. So at any point, just ask me, and I'll help you with your specific question if you come across something in the messages or in a discussion forum. All right, here it is. Let's see, hopefully, one last time, one last preview, and it will be okay. All right. And that's a wrap. I noticed a couple of little blips in blop, so I may just go back in and adjust the transitions between the scenes, but more or less it's done and at least it's ready to submit for feedback. Anyway, thanks for following along. Hope this case study is helpful. Seeing the next lesson. 18. Extra: Make an Easy "No Talking" Instgram Reel in Minutes with Instagram's Editor: All right, so I'm going to show you how to make a quick and easy, real Instagram using the Instagram editor, which is basic and buggy and sometimes it crashes and is annoying. But I like it actually after all this time because it's intuitive, It's quick, it's there, it's pretty straightforward. And it's part of Instagram, so you don't need to buy anything, which is great. All right, so what I'm going to do is I am going to click that little plus sign and I'm going to make a reel. When I go in to make a reel, you see that Real is already selected here. What I'm going to do is I have pre recorded already some little clips that I'm going to put together in a real. If you've already shot video on your phone, then you can grab something. I have some non talking videos. Usually what I do when I'm drawing in my studio is I record myself with my left hand using the camera, right hand drawing. Just to get a couple of seconds of where I'm at in any particular drawing, I am going to just grab a couple of quick clips. 123. I also afterwards set up my tripod and took a few shots. I just basically hit record and then just looked at the camera. So it was more than just my end. I'll pop one of those in there and maybe go back to like another stage of drawing. Maybe I think the last one is this one. And then I'll end with that other full body. So great, I'm going to hit it. Apologies. My audio was drowned out by the music in this part. I just wanted to say that you can choose your audio in the search, and if you see an upwards arrow, it means the sound is trending and if you use that, your video is more likely to go viral. I actually don't have that option in Malawi, so don't worry. It's optional. It's basically put my clips all together in a time line and then below that is my sound. This is great. What I'm going to do, I'm just spreading my fingers apart here to make it bigger. Then I'm going to click on the first one. And maybe I'll just start it a little bit when I'm already drawing. I'm just going to click on each of these. I'm going to click on each of these, just to shorten them a little bit because I don't need a big long honking reel. I just want like 10 seconds or so, but I don't know. I think you can do more than 30 seconds if you want to. It's up to you. This one is quite a long one. Make it shorter. Same with this one. Oh, that's a really long one. I'm just going to shorten that and bring it. Yeah, It's moving around on me. I'm drawing again and then it ends with me, I know that I turn around and now you see the back of my head, which I don't like, I'm going to just cut that out. Make this nice. Sops, that's too short. All right, great. So this is ready to now, I'm going to add some text at the top here. Under text, I'm just going to say Happy Bread. That's spelled wrong. Sure. You don't have any typos. All right, And then I'm just going to change the colors on that blue. Great. I'm going to drag that where I want that to go. Make sure you follow the margin so you don't accidentally have your stuff cut off. Okay, that's great. If I go under edit video, you will see I have a text layer now underneath my sound. Let's make it it doesn't start right at the beginning. Let's maybe just have it go like to about 4 seconds or something like that. Great, then maybe I'll add a little bit more text here. Click going to add Text. I'll just say work in progress. See caption, You can ask people a question at the start of your video and then answer it, and that will create engagement and multiple views. Or you can have some hook statement that gets people to watch and then tell people to go to the caption to get the answer or whatever wisdom you're imparting. I'm not really worrying about this too much, I'm just going to do that. Let's just put it over here somewhere. Let me just check, because I don't actually want this to take up the whole video. I want it to be more towards the end, something like that. Okay, let me just move this just so it's not covering up the stuff. All right, this is great, but it's adequate. That's it. I'm going to say next, I'm going to keep the cover as it is, but you can go under edit cover. You can choose something. Great, we'll say done. Now you can add a caption. I'm just going to do a simple one right now. This is a demo on how to make an easy reel. I can edit that later. I'm just going to keep that for now. Okay, I would put my link in, my hash tags or view link in bio. So I'm going to say, okay, then I can add my location here. It asks me about topics. I usually put art related topics. I'm going to do that later. That's it. I can share this now or I can save a draft. Let me share this now and then I'll edit it to make it nice for Instagram, but that's it. An easy way to make a Instagram video is by making some quick clips. You don't have to talk, just put them together in the timeline, add some sound, add some text. It's going to be annoying and difficult the first time you do it, but as you practice, it will get easier and easier. I hope this was helpful. Alright, take care, bye. 19. Thank You For Taking This Course. Please Review: Hey, did you make it this far? Congratulations, If you have any questions about anything, please do. Let me know. I love to help. If you have ideas for future lessons or new courses, just let me know. And if you could take a moment and leave a review for the course, that would be so amazing. Because that would help others learn if this might be a good course for them. Finally, I loved helping you in this course, but this is just a tiny, tiny pocket of things that I talk about and help people with all around the world If you want to work with me either in a mentorship group or live, or in a one on one session where I can help you specifically with your website, your social media, your art, your business. Then you should definitely get in touch, because those are also services that I offer when I have the availability. So I would love to connect with you further and I just want to thank you for being a student in our online classroom. I hope I will see you again soon in some shape or form. That's all for now. Have a wonderful day and good luck. Take care. See you next time. Bye bye.