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1. Introduction: Making Videos Is Fun Again: Okay. I'm just going to say it. Video editing kind of sucks. If you create any videos for your audience, like
online courses, Youtube videos, or
just videos to engage your audience on Instagram
or on your website. You probably have had
the experience of losing hundreds of hours of
your life just sitting there, moving cursors, creating masks, and doing various video editing
tasks that look pretty, but take way too long. Don't get me wrong,
programs like Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro absolutely have their
place. They're amazing. They're amazing
software programs. But sometimes I want to just create a video that
looks beautiful, but it's very simple, with simple layout changes. Maybe a couple transitions
that I can do, but not have to take a
week in the editing suite, just messing around with
the editing software. In this course, I
want to tell you about a tool called Tela. Tell is a video recording and editing platform
that's going to become your go to tool for creating and sharing beautiful
videos with your audience. Whether that's through
online courses, through Youtube, Instagram,
or your website. In fact, Tell has the
ability to redefine our very understanding of what pro level video
editing means. That's because so much of the videos that you are
currently creating and editing in these pro level
tools like Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere Pro can be done
better and faster in Tela. After watching this course, you may choose to only use those pro level
programs for the videos that truly need
that custom touch. Because so many of
the videos that you create are going to be able
to be handled by Tell. This course will walk you
through the process of creating a video in Tell
from beginning to end. From recording the video to using Tell's
editing features, such as changing the
layout with one click, as well as using zooming features and other
editing features of tele. To take this course,
you don't need to have any previous
experience using tell. In fact, you don't need to have any previous experience
in video editing at all. Tell makes it that easy to
create beautiful videos. But if you are an
experienced video editor, you can also take this course. But just be warned,
you might get frustrated with how much
less time it takes to do some of these common tasks than it does in the
pro level programs. If you are a creator, you need to be doing video. Up until now, there wasn't an easy way to create
beautiful videos without spending hours and hours laboring over the
editing process. But with tell, all
of that has changed. I can't wait to tell you more about it. I'll
see you inside.
2. Class Project: Create a Video in Tella: The project that I'm
asking you to complete for this course
is really simple. All you need to do is
create a video using tell. You can create an instructional
video or you can create just a test video where
you pretend to instruct. There are some
suggestions that I have for you for this project. I would encourage you to record both your camera feed,
record you speaking, but then also record your
screen at the same time. Having these two
video feeds will allow you to use features
such as layouts, backgrounds, zoom effects,
borders, et cetera. All you need to do
is record a video, tell do some of these editing techniques that
we talk about in the class, and then share the link to the video in the
project workspace. You can just share a link to
the video hosted on Tell, or if you prefer, you can host it on your website
or somewhere else. Post it to Youtube and give
us the link to see it there. That's it. That's all you
need to do for the project. It can even be something
that is just a test run. It doesn't have to actually feature content that you would share with anyone outside
of this safe community. It's super easy. I'm going to walk you through all of the steps to do this. I would really encourage
you to make a project, make a video and submit
it to the class. Final thing. Be
creative with this. Use these transitions, use these really
beautiful backgrounds. See if you can find creative
ways to use the tools, Intel to create beautiful
videos very quickly.
3. Record Your First Video in Tella: So let's get right to
it in this lesson and record our first video in Tela. Go to Tell's website
by clicking the link that's provided for you in
the class resources area. Or just by going to tell Dov, the link that's in the
resources will give you a discount though and a free trial if you
choose to use it. But that's up to you. You
don't have to use it at all. You can go straight to tell Dov, and if this is the first time that you are visiting the site, you will want to
click Sign Up and then follow the
instructions to sign up. Once you've done
that, you can come back and watch the
rest of this video. If you already have
a tele account, just click log in and you'll be taken straight
to your videos page, which I have here. To create a new video,
just click New Video. The first time you do
this, you will have to give access and
permission to tell, to access your microphone and your webcam or whatever
camera you're using, just allow access on those. And you should be good to go. The first thing I'm seeing
here is the preview of my camera or whatever camera that I'm using in this video. I want to actually
share my screen. I'm going to click the
Share Screen button here. I have a couple options up here. At the top, I'm going
to select a window, because what I want to share is just this web
browser window only, not my entire screen. I'm going to share that now. And you can see that it
gives me that preview of what the screen is going to
look like in the recording. Great, let's just
go ahead and click record and we'll record
our first video. First thing we'll
get is a countdown. Here we go. Hey everyone. Thanks so much for
getting access to my creative process toolbox.
I hope you love it. Okay, that's it. We just created our first video and
as you can see, it takes you straight
to the loading page. It's loading very quickly. This will take a couple seconds, so I'm going to take a sip of my tea and I'll see you once
it's loaded all the way. Well, that was fast, I
would say that took maybe 15/22 I barely had time
to take a sip of my tea. Now, of course, it was
a very short video. If you have a longer
video, it of course, will take a little
bit longer to load. In my experience, the loading
times have been very quick. Let's go ahead and
take a look at this video that we
have just created. Here we go. Hey everyone. Thanks so much for
getting access to my creative process toolbox. I hope you love it.
Okay, excellent. The quality of the video will increase once it gets through all of the
loading processes. But you can see that we
have the basic video. It's there and we are
ready to go with that. You have now recorded
your first video in tell, I think one thing we should
do is I'll just show you how we can get that share screen in
there because we probably do want to have the screen
also visible there. Let's watch this again, but
now you can see that screen. Here we go. Hey everyone. Thanks so much for
getting access to mic. There you go. In
the next lessons, we're going to go through
all of the features that you're going to
want to know about with tell how to edit these, how to make them look beautiful. And you're going to see
how easy it is to have some really fancy effects that
take others a lot longer. And you're going to be able
to see how you can get those same effects and these beautiful
videos very quickly. I'll see you in the next lesson.
4. Pre-Production and Planning: Okay, now that we've
seen how easy it is to create a video in tell, let's slow down a
little bit and plan out the video that we want to make over the process
of this course. In this course, you're
going to follow along as I create a video
for my audience that introduces them to
this resource that I've made called the Creative
Process Toolbox. I run a newsletter called
The Creative Process. It's for filmmakers, writers,
artists and musicians. And every week I send out a newsletter that gives them an example or a timeless
piece of advice. But what I've done here is
I've created a notion database that I want to give away to try to attract
new subscribers. And so this is what's called a lead generator
or a lead magnet. And so I'm going to post
this on my website, hopefully have people sign up, and then when they
go to access that website or that
resource, rather, I want to give them a video that walks through how they can enjoy that resource
and how to use it instead of just
getting a PDF. In fact, they're going
to end up going to a webpage and with a
dynamic resource there, a notion database, with all of my tools that I use in
my creative business. But instead of just having text, I want to have video. Now creating a video
like this is daunting, especially if you're using
software programs that are full blown video
editing programs like Final Cut Pro or
Adobe Premiere Pro. But with tell, it
becomes very easy. Instead of sort of taking the easy way out
and just writing text, I'm going to create a video. And I think that will
make this resource much more dynamic. You're going to follow along
as I create this video in tell and then edit it
to make it look nice, nice and beautiful,
and really engaging. Before we do that, we're going
to do a little planning. I want to show you around
some of the tools, Intel, in a little bit more
detail so that we can make sure that when we
record the video we have it set up just
as we would like. I'm back here on the website, I'm here in my Videos workspace, and I'm going to
click New Video. But instead of just
clicking Record, let's look at a
couple things here. First of all, we have
a couple options. The quick option means
I will record and it will go straight to upload the video as soon
as I push Stop. Multi, on the other hand, allows me to record
multiple clips in a row, more on tell and clips
in a little bit. Select allows me to re, use an existing clip, and Upload allows me to upload a video file that
I have already created. I'm going to quick here. Let's look at some of
these other options. Down here I have
my audio options. If I click on this up arrow, I can see that there are multiple sound sources that
I can select from here. I have selected this microphone that you see here
just in the picture, and that's how my microphone
is being captured. But if I wanted to use my iphone microphone via
Bluetooth, I could do that. I can my Macbook Air built in
microphone if I wanted to, or any other sound source
that I had plugged in. Now for the camera, we also
have a couple options. Now, I actually have
selected my iphone camera, and that's the camera that
you're seeing right now. It's connected
through Bluetooth, so there's no wire
that's connecting it. It's pretty sweet actually.
It works really well. If I wanted to change to my face time HD camera,
you can see that here. But that's a weird angle. I think I like this much better. It's a higher quality camera, it's more eye level. I think it's better now
for sharing the screen. You saw this earlier, but we have a couple options. You can select an
individual chrome tab, you can select an
individual window that you have open
on your computer, or you can select
the entire screen. To share your entire screen, I want to use just the window, and I want to select the web browser
window that has that, that tool that I'm
going to be explaining. Then I can click Share. Great, now that that is set up, let's look here at
the more options. There are other options here, like you can present slides
which we can go over later. Then you also have this
show speaker notes function which allows you to type notes here of that will help you remember
what you want to say. You can put bullet points, you can put full
scripts here that will not show up on
your screen recording. I'm going to hide those for now because
I don't need them. I think at this point
we are ready to go. If I wanted to click record
and go on, I could do that. But I want to show
you one other thing, another way to actually
record your videos, and this is by using
the Chrome extension. If you go to Chrome extensions, you can download the
tele Chrome extension. There's another basically
the same controls but they look a
little bit different. You can do quick or multi, I can access my camera here. And of course it's asking
me first for permissions. I'm going to allow
permissions for my camera. Then I'm going to click Allow. Then it's going to get
no permission is needed. Audio Here, let's select
the iphone camera again. Now you can see that
through this web extension, I'm getting basically
the same options but just slightly different format. So that's another
way I could record. The final way I could
record is if I'm on a Mac, I can use actually the Mac app. Let's just find that here. Okay, so if you have
a Mac computer, they have actually
a standalone app. You can use that as well. Those are the various ways
that you can record Intell. In each one you have basically the same features,
the same options. This is a fast moving software and by the time you watch this, some of the options have changed or maybe there are
some new options. You should be able to
just poke around a little bit and find all of the
options there for you. But what I'm going to
do now is I'm going to go ahead and record
this entire video. I'll do that after this lesson. And then in the next lesson, we will take that video
and we'll start to edit it into the final
product that we want. In this lesson, we've
gone over all of the various recording
options that you have with tell including
the audio source, the video source, and
sharing your screen. As well as some other options. If ever you need to try and find something else
just I encourage you to poke around or to access
their knowledge base, which is actually very helpful. I'll show that to you real quick before we go to the next video. It's right here in the three
menu in your workspace. Okay, that knowledge
base will be there and you can see
videos and tutorials about all of the various
features and most up to date functions of
the tele platform. Great, thanks so much for
sticking with me in this video. I'm going to go
record the video that we're going to edit starting
in the next lesson. So I'll see you in
the next lesson.
5. Trim the Beginning and End of Your Video: In this lesson, we're
going to start editing the video that I just created By trimming it to make sure that the main pass is all
set and ready to go. I'm here on tell
in my workspace. And as you can see, there's
now this video there. This is the video that
I created that is the complete explanation
of this tool box. I'm going to click
on it in order to get access to these
editing tools. And now you can see I
am in the tele editor. There are a couple
of things here, this can take me back
to my workspace. I have some tools over
here on the right. The first thing I
want to do is change the name of this video so that I can find
it easier later. And I do that just by clicking on it and then
selecting the text. I'm going to call
this, let's see, Creative tool box walk through. Okay, because that's
what it's about. And I'll just call
it that for now. The first thing I like
to do when I'm editing a video is I don't want
to worry about layouts. I don't want to worry
about backgrounds, I don't want to worry about
any of the fancy stuff first before I get my clean cut. This is just what exactly the
same thing I would be doing if I were editing on Final Cut
Pro or Adobe Premiere Pro. I would want to make
sure that the role cut, the main footage
is how I want it. I do that using
this trim feature. If I click Trim, that will access the trimming features
of the tele editor. You can see along
the bottom here, the entire video represented. And you can see
the length of it. It's 9 minutes. And you can see some of the audio and where the
audio has cut in and out. Now the first thing of course, I want to do is probably trim the beginning and
the end to make sure it starts right
where I want it. Let's just push play and
hear what's going on. So let's push play.
Hello and welcome. Hello and welcome. Thanks
so much for deciding. Okay, I had a little
false start there. It often happens, just like
with a final cut or whatever, I can use my cursor, I'm just using the arrow key on my Mac to find where
I want to start. Let's see. I think
that's about right. Then what I can do to trim this, I'm in the trim menu. I just ab this handle
here on the bottom left. And if I start pulling it over, you'll see that
when it gets close, it snaps to that playhead. The playhead allows me to select the point where I want
that to be trimmed to, and then by dragging
the handle over, it will snap to that place. Let's see how that plays now. Hello and welcome.
Thanks so much for deciding that's the beginning. Let's go ahead and trim the end. So I'm going to listen to
the last part of this. I can see there's a little bit of dead space here at the end. All right, thanks. And I'll stop it there. I want to see if I can get
it before my eyes go down. And I just, I selected this playhead and moved the
cursor over to the left. And I can drag this handle
and snap it into place. And then let's just
end. I'll consider it. All right, thanks. Great. A couple
other things to show you is that when you're
using this playhead, you can see that when it's selected it has a
little bit of extra glow. And so I can use that cursor to do more fine tuned selection. But if I hold shift and
then use the arrows, then it will jump a
little bit faster. This is nice when you have a, maybe a longer video like I do here now that we've trimmed off the
beginning and the end. In the next lesson,
I will show you how to cut out bits
in the middle if you have maybe a misfire or a
bit of silence and need to do multiple takes
within a given clip. I will see you in
the next video.
6. Cut Out Any Mistakes in the Middle: Now that I've trimmed
off the beginning and the end of this video, I want to go in and make
sure that I take out all of the bits where I stumble over my words or I mess up
in what I'm saying. There was one moment here in the middle where
I did just that. Let's go ahead and
take care of that now. First, let's hear
how the beginning of this video sounds so that we can get a sense of
what it's about. So let's click Play.
Hello and welcome. Thanks so much for
deciding to get access to my creative process toolbox. My name is Mark Samples. I run the Creative Process
Newsletter where I share resources and examples
for creators just like you. Okay, so that's
the introduction, and I go along here and I start
to introduce the toolbox. But then around here you can
see these long silences. And this is where I messed
up and had to start over. And it was right when I was describing the
affiliate links. So let's listen to
this and try and find a good place to cut out. So to trim out so that
then we can jump back in. So this is the beginning
of that section. Helps from the
businesses to give you an overview of what
that product is. And then for complete
transparency, Yeah, it's right there.
I want to cut in. And then for complete
transparency, as you can see, I tried this a couple times and continue to mess
up, it's totally fine. This is often what happens when you are recording
longish videos. What I want to do
here, I want to, actually, I think this
is a good take here. Let's just make sure that
this is where I want it to start or full transparency here. Okay, that's the
one that I want. So I'm going to click
on the playhead and use my arrow keys to just find
the beginning of that. Okay, So this is where
I want it to start. At this point I'm
going to push split. Okay, That just puts
a little marker. And now this has been split
into two clips basically. And then I want to go back here, I want to find where
that section begins, where I want to cut out and
then cut back in again. Let's see if I can
find that here to give you an overview of
what that product is. Great, that's the moment after I say that's where I
want to cut out, what I'm going to try to do is just press the Space Bar
where I want it to stop, overview of what
that product is. Okay, then all I'm
going to do is I have this clip selected.
Let's try it again. Because I moved that
playhead is to give you an overview of
what that product. And then I'm just going to grab this handle and pull
it all the way over. As you saw it snaps
to the playhead. Okay. Now let's check
to make sure that this cut is how we want
it with audio hijack. And then what I've done is I've included a Youtube overview, and these are from the creators themselves, from the businesses. To give you an overview
of what that product is. Then for full transparency
here, I've indicated, great, I think that cut
will work really well. Now we have cut out this little one section
here where I messed up. Now I will tell you
something about the way that tell is constructed. The way that it works,
that's very cool, is that it operates on
this logic of clips. You can see down here clip one, I have recorded this
whole thing in one clip, but if I wanted to add a
second clip, I could do that. All I would need to
do is click Add clip, and then I can go
back into recording. I can add another
section on here. It's an outro, right? Like I want to have
a closing section and have a conclusion and say, hey, here's where you can find me on Instagram
or what have you. All I need to do is
add that new clip. In this case, I actually
don't want to do that. I just want to keep one clip. It's just my habit,
The way that I've learned to record
videos is just in one long stretch and then
to edit out the mistakes. But this makes it
really easy for you to modify your videos. It's going to save
you a ton of time if instead of having to re
record the entire video, you can just add
clips here and there. Another cool thing is if
you have multiple clips, you can drag them to
move them around, put them in a different order, and then tell somehow intelligently stitches those
clips together in the end. And it makes it one
seamless video. Your video can have
one long clip in it or it can have several clips, many different clips that can be stacked one
against the other. You have a lot of options
there when you are, when you are working in Tell. It's one of the things that I love about this
piece of software. Okay, in this lesson
we have trimmed out a bit in the middle of my video where
I made a mistake. And so now we've completed
the trimming process. If I had other moments in the video where I may be
stumbled or messed up, I would want to go and make sure to clean out all of those. Remove those and then do that for all of the
clips that are available. And then once you've done that, you are done with
the trimming stage. And so that's the end of this lesson. I'll see
you in the next one.
7. Killer Feature: Layouts in Tella: Okay, now that I'm done
trimming my video, I've gotten the beginning
and the end right and I've taken out all of the
mistakes in the middle. I'm ready to explore some of Tell's other features and this next one is my
absolute favorite. It is the killer feature
that made me so excited about tell in the first
place. And that's layouts. So from the trim menu here, you can see there are a
lot of other menu here. There's zoom layout,
background border, mirror, crop, and redo. And I want to skip down to
this layouts menu here. And you can see that we
have our entire video here. It doesn't show that trim, even though those
trims have been kept. Now we get to start
playing with layouts. Now, if you've ever used professional level software like Final Cut Pro or
Adobe Premiere Pro, you perhaps have
had this experience of trying to create a
very simple layout like maybe show your screen with your camera feed in a
little bubble on the side. If you're anything like me who I'm not a professional
video editor, it took me hours and hours of
video watching on Youtube, which were great tutorials, but it just seemed so difficult to do such
a simple thing, which is I want to put
my camera in the corner, I want it to be in a circle, and I want it to
overlay over the video. And, you know, I was getting
into things like masking, and tracking and all this stuff. Anyway, half the time I
did it incorrectly anyway, and just kind of had to
cobble things together. But the long and
short of it is I have really lost a lot
of hours editing videos, trying to get just
simple layouts. And there are only a
couple that I want, right? Just a full screen
of my feed of me. I maybe want a side by side
video, like a comparison. And then I want that
little bubble or like a little picture
in picture type layout. Those three are going to
get me really, really far. I'm really excited to
share this with you about. Tell, check this out there. Layouts, they have a number of just preset layouts
that you can use. And you can see over here on the side what those look like. Now let's say I want to have a full screen with one click. I get that full layout. But now let's say I want to
go to a side by side again. One click and boom, it's there. No masking, no tracking, you know, building out graphics to get the
border, et cetera. But maybe I don't want
it to lay over there, I want it to be
truly side by side. Or maybe I want to switch it
to the picture on the right. You can see how easy this is. Let's say I want to have the
picture up in the corner. I think you get the
idea here that one of Tell's killer features
is to give you access to these really
beautiful layouts. But to make it
infinitely easier than if you were using something like Final Cut Pro or
Adobe Premiere Pro. The question I need
to ask myself is, how do I want to use layouts to tell a good story in this video? That's a much better
question than how do I create a bubble
picture and picture. That's not a very
creative question, it's a technical question, but with these layouts, I'm allowed to get more back to the creative questions
a little bit faster. I think what I want to do
is I want to start with a full screen of
my camera of me, and then I want to
move to a side by side as I first introduce
the tool box. And then when I get down into the details
of the tool box, really the screen should
take the most focus. And I'm going to go to
a picture in picture a bubble with my picture
in the top left. Let me show you how
to do that in Tela. For a video or for a clip, you can add multiple layouts. The first thing I'll do
is I'll select this clip. It's just the whole video. At this point, I'm
going to start with this full screen of my picture. In fact, I'm going to do a
little bit of a trick here. I'm going to start with a smaller picture that
doesn't fill the frame. I'm going to use that for, let's say the first, I don't
know, 5 seconds or so. Then I'm going to do a
cool transition into a full screen and it's
going to look like it zoomed in. Let's
start with this. Hello and welcome. Thanks
so much for deciding to get access to my creative
process toolbox. Right here I'm going to say
I think I'm Mark samples. And so in order to
split that right there, I'm going to add a layout. Then I'm going to have this
portion of the clip selected. You can see this
part is de selected. That's my first layout. I'm adding a layout here and I want it to go to full screen. In this layout, if we go
back to the beginning, you will be able to see that
effect. Hello and welcome. Thanks so much for
deciding to get access to my creative process toolbox. My name is Mark Samples. I run the creative process, you get that cool zoom in effect that you've
probably seen on Youtube or in other courses
that you've watched. Great. Now what I
want to do is I want to go to this side by side. I think I want to have
it on the left here. And I want that to
be right when I start directing my attention, what I'm talking to
or talking about, directing my attention
to the toolbox. So let's listen in and I'll find a good spot for
that as newsletter where I share resources and examples for creators
just like you. Let me show you a little
bit around this toolbox. So maybe right there is
a good time to do that. The playhead is right
where I want it. I'm going to add a layout, make sure that this section, the section that
I want to change the layout for, is selected. And then click
Screen Plus Camera. And I want to have
it be side by side. It doesn't show you
right away because the playhead is technically
still with that last clip, but as soon as I push play, you'll be able to see
that and how to use it. One of the great, so now I have the resource over
here on the right. And then I have my
picture on the left, but it's still a bigger image than the standard bubble
picture and picture. That's exactly
what I want. So at the beginning I'm going to just talk through a little bit about, you know, what the
tool is and so forth. But really, it's when
I start to click into the tool box
that I want to. Let me show you around. Okay,
let me show you around. That's probably a perfect time because now I'm
going to actually start clicking into these pages. And the text is a bit small, so I want to make
sure that the screen gets most of the real estate. I'm going to click to
add a layout here. Then I am going to select one of these here that has this
picture in picture effect. What I need to decide here is, do I want a picture in picture
where tools are, you know, you can still see some
of the background, or do I want to have a
full screen effect here where this bubble is
here on the overlay? I think for now what I
want to do is I want to the background
partially visible here. But this isn't exactly
how I want it. I think what I want to do is I can modify these
as I would like. Maybe what I want to do here, what I did was I clicked this portion of the layout to select it and dragged it over. Maybe I want to make
it just a little bit bigger and then my image, I can just a little bit smaller. Because I want them
to be able to see most of what is on
the screen here. Again, if you've ever used
other software programs, especially professional
ones, making these kinds of edits are not actually as
simple as they might seem. So having this ability
to do this is really, really helpful. Okay, great. Now that layout is
actually going to apply to the entire
rest of the video, and that's what I want,
but only until the end. So here somewhere at the end, I move back to kind of talking about my website and how they can find me and so forth and how they can share
this web page. I think at that point
I want to pull back because this story is
pulling out of the tool. And so I want to pull
back from this view, this layout, and go back to, I think, a side by side. So let's see, where
is a good time, a good place to maybe do that? It would be great
if you could share. Okay, so I'm talking
about sharing this here. I want to go a little
bit earlier than that, so let's see if we
can find a good spot. All I'm doing here is trying to find a good spot
to cut in and make that transition ways that
you can interact with this. Okay, one final thing. I would really appreciate
it if you shared. I think that's a
good place to do it. When I say one final thing here, let's add a layout. And what I want to do is pull
back to the side by side. And we can see that that'll pull back to the side by side. And at the very end we'll see, maybe I should go all the
way back out to full screen. Let's see if there's a good
place to do that as well. So core to my business
at this point. But please feel free to
connect with me there again. Okay, again. Thanks so much. I think at that point I'm going to zoom all
the way back out. I think that's a good
place to have that switch. Let's click Add Layout. Here you can see that
there's that last layout. Let's go all the way to this camera where there's a little bit
of a background. I think that's all of the layout changes that
this video needs. It's really not about
going crazy with layouts, It's about how can the layouts help you tell a story to review. Here what I've done
with the layouts is I have started with full screen and then done that
little zoom in trick. That means hopefully that'll
bring the viewer in. Then I've gone to this side by side view where I start
to introduce the tool. And then when we
dig into the tool, and I'm actually walking
you through the tool, you get a fuller screen there. And then we zoom back
out to the side by side and finish with
the almost full screen. But just to focus on me, one thing to know here is once you've gotten
these layouts, you can add as many
layouts as you want. Then once you have one, you can actually adjust where
that transition point is. If I click this handle here, I can extend it one
way or the other. That makes it really easy
to change your layout, get the precise point where
you want that layout to move. One last thing before we close this lesson is
about transitions. You may have noticed that
when you add a new layout, tell has added by default a transition that gets you
from one layout to the other. It smooths out the change into that transition as opposed
to being a hard cut. You can change this if you
would prefer for it to cut directly to me, directly to that new layout instead of having a transition. There are a couple
ways to do this. Let me show you how if you
click transitions here, you can change all transitions
to hard cut from smooth. You'll notice that smooth is
the default selected here. But this one is just
a simple change all. If you want to just change
one layout or transition, you can select that clip
and then you'll see here and Edit Layout Transition
button for this one. You can change that
particular transition to be a hard cut or
to keep it smooth. I'm going to keep all of
my transitions smooth in this video because I
like that transition, but there is that
option there for you. Now in this lesson, we have gone through
and we have used the magic of layouts in Tell. Again, one of my favorite
features by far, the feature that brought my attention to tell
in the first place, because I have just had
so many hours struggling, frustrated, trying to get simple transitions like
this on Final cut pro. Then tell does this
just so easily. And you can even modify it, you know, just by selecting
and cropping and so forth. Explore the transitions
for yourself. I like to keep them
pretty modest. I use them just in
terms of how to tell the story, but go wild. It's easy to make these
different layouts there. Use this to craft the video
that you want to make.
8. Adding Backgrounds and Borders: In this lesson, I want to talk about backgrounds and borders. These are two additional
features that will just help your videos look nice and
clean, and beautiful. First, let's talk
about backgrounds. You may have noticed
that there is this background image
here behind my video. When my video doesn't
take up the whole screen, you can see that it's on
a canvas of some sort. So let's go to the BG
for background menu. And you can see that we have
several different options. We have options to have
an image as a background. You can see that we have
access to unsplash, which is the free
image database. So we can look at those options and we can have mountains
in the background, we can have various
types of scenery there. I don't want to do that, in this case, I'm
going to go back. There's also here
textures and patterns. Nature, there are some
categories there. You can look into that one and really find something
that works for you. Tell also provides some
of their own backgrounds, like this purple one, which is one of
their brand colors. I like this one here which is a gradient but also a
custom gradient They have, in addition to image, you can choose an animated background. And these are backgrounds
that will actually move or change in some way,
oftentimes very subtly. If we choose this one, which looks like the Northern lights, we can see when we play it, we will be able to see
that changes slightly. My name is Mark
Samples, I run the creative, hard to see there. But these things move
just very subtly and you get a little preview of that over here on the right. The third category is a color. You can, you can have just a solid color and
try out different ones. See which ones work for you. They also have some
gradients down here. You can add those again. See how quickly you can
toggle through these. And then you can also
add another gradient if it better matches your brand colors or
your preferred colors. I'm going to stay here with
this hot pink gradient. We are going to just keep
it with that background. What I want to do is I want to select this and click
Apply to all clips. That way I know this video
is only one clip long, but if you were to
have multiple clips, you want to make sure that
you apply that to all clips. The next thing we want to
talk about is the border. If I select somewhere
here in the middle, let's try and get
this side by side. Notice that I can
change the way that this really translucent
border looks. I can change the shape of the corners from
rounded to square. I like rounded. I can take
off a border altogether and just have that be
flat onto the canvas. I can add a little shadow. This just as a little shadow. This one has that
translucent border with a little bit of a shadow. And this one is a bit
more of a cartoony look. This one is cool, it looks graphic and modern. You can take that look and give your videos a
little more character. We can also change the
nature of that shadow, which side it's on, et cetera. I actually really
like this border that it applied automatically, the translucent with
rounded corners. Now throughout the video, we'll have this nice background that's a vibrant
contrasting background. And we'll also have the borders exactly the way that we want. That's all for this lesson. Play around with
borders and layouts. Think about using a branded
background with your logo. Or maybe if you're
making a Youtube video, you can put a subscribe
logo on there. You can do a lot of things with these backgrounds in
combination with layouts. That's it for this lesson.
I'll see you in the next one.
9. Killer Feature: Adding Zoom Effects: In this lesson, I want to
tell you about another of the killer features of tell, and that is the zoom features. If you're giving a
demonstration like a screen recording as
I'm doing in this video, the zoom feature allows
you to zoom in on different parts of the
screen very easily. Let me show you what I mean. Once I am in my
video editor here, I want to select the zoom tab. I'm over here, and this
is my zoom interface. What I'm going to do is I'm
going to move the playhead to a moment where I'm actually
talking about the toolbox. I really want to zoom
in on some of this to direct the viewer's attention to specific parts of the screen. Again, in pro level
video editing programs you can definitely do this, but it's not as easy again
as it probably should be. This is another reason I like
tell you can get these zoom in effects quickly and easily. I have one right around
here when I start talking about one of the
first items I want to zoom in so that the viewer
really focuses on that item. Let's see if I can find
a good place to do that. We'll have everything
in the entire list. And what you can see here, we have the name on the left. Okay, Right there. When I say we have the
name on the left, I'm now talking about one
of these specific items. I'm going to use a zoom in. Right when my mouse
hovers over that item. I now have moved the playhead
using my arrow keys. And I see that my cursor
is right over that item. And what I'm going to
click is Add Zoom. When I do that, you
can see there's this little new
section that's been added here on my timeline. Then over here I have this
preview of a couple things. This little target shows me where that zoom is
going to zoom into. This is where I want to
put the focus of the zoom. I'm going to move this
target over here. I wanted to capture that item, that audio hijack item. But also show me a little bit to the right
because I'm going to be talking through and
going column by column. You can also see that my
default scale of the zoom is 200% Let's see how that looks, just with the auto features. Just moving that
target a little bit. Let's see what it looks like. Name on the left, and then
we have other columns. What categories?
Okay, it got close. I think we need to modify
this a little bit. I'm going to make
it a little bit longer then as you can see, it's not quite zooming
exactly where I want it. So I'm just going to
click and drag this so that I can get it in the
frame exactly how I want. This is about how
I want it because I want to have these
four columns in view. Because I'm going to talk
about these four columns. Now. The next thing I want to do is figure out
the length here. Let's see, really when
I want it to stop. That's my next question. I'm going to view this and
see when I want it to stop. I can use that with audio
hijack, okay? Right there. When I go to the next column, to the video overview column, that's really where
I want it to end. And I'm going to go just
before that moment, then it's going
to zoom back out. Let's watch that whole
section just to make sure it's looking
just like we want it. I'm going to put the
playhead before that. And then we're going
to watch the entire Zoom Creative Process toolbox. In this link, you'll have
everything in the entire list. And what you can see here, we have the name on the left, and then we have other columns. What categories does
this fall under? This is a productivity design, e mail marketing, et cetera. Then there's a link to go
check out that resource. And then I give you a little
bit of how I use this tool. So for audio hijack, this allows me to easily capture any audio
from my computer. So if I need to grab
10 seconds of a song, okay, now let's skip
to the end and make sure that it ends just
in the right spot. I just want to keep
the audio there. Maybe for later I
can use that with audio hijack and then what I've done is I've included a Youtube. Great. Just at the
moment when I'm going outside of the
frame it zooms back out. So I really like that
zoom right there. There are, I think,
two other places where I want to add zooms here. And the first one is
right around four, five to four oh seven. And this is where I click
in on one of these items. And show what the page looks
like when it's opened. Let's play the video
right here and see if this is the spot where
we want to add this zoom. You can do this for
any convert kit. Perfect. Right. When I
open that sidebar page, I want to now zoom
into that page and draw the viewer's
focus right to that page. Let's go ahead and add
a zoom right here. Let's move the target to be right in the center
of this page here. Let's go ahead and see what that looks like. Same information. Okay, I'm just going to pause it there and adjust this zoom. I want it to really
go all the way over here and maybe catch
the top of that. This card, really, I
think I want it to be a little bit zoomed
in, not quite so much. Let's scroll this back. I'm going to grab
this scale slider and I think I'm going to go to about 1:50 So I can also
just type this in one, 50 should be good. Let's see if that works
and give you an overview. You can do this for
any convert kit. Same information. Yeah,
I think that looks good. We didn't zoom in so
drastically as before. And what I want to do now
is find the outpoint here. The outpoint is
going to be when I close out of that card. Let's see. I just want to make
sure I can find that spot. It looks like I've gone a
little bit too far here. So let's just roll it
back a little bit. I think I'm going to
roll the zoom back to about 4:22 and see
if that works. Let's preview that.
I also mentioned here I made a skillshare course called Intro to Convert Kit, so there's a link there to that. If that's of interest to you, great, I think
that's the perfect. I zoom back out just
before I close that card. It's a really nice book end for looking at that card there. There's one more place
where I want to add a zoom effect and it's going
to be slightly different. Really a more zoom for
emphasis than zoom for kind of getting that clarity
of being able to read things like I did
in the previous one. I'm here at the end
of the video now, where I'm encouraging
my viewers to share this landing page with others who might
benefit from it. So what I'm going to do here
is I'm just going to add a slight zoom to emphasize this window
that holds my screen. Let me show you what
that looks like. So I'm first going
to make sure I'm in the right spot to add the zoom. So let's listen in and make sure I'm talking about sharing this landing page link
to the landing page. Okay, so this is where I'm
talking to the landing page. Once that page loads
on the screen, I want it to zoom in, so I'm going to try to find the specific spot where I'm
going to do the zoom in. And that will allow them
to sign up for my site, sign up for my newsletter, and then they can, of course. Okay, that's where
it's fully loaded. I am going to add
a zoom right here, and I'm going to leave the
target right in the middle. What I'm going to do
here is use the scale of about 1:36 is what I've used before and
works pretty well. We're going to
hopefully see that this just in that screen, A, B. It takes up a little bit more of the frame and gives
it that emphasis. Let's click on that. Let's see if that works. Sign up for my site, sign up for my newsletter. And then they can, of course, access the toolbox for free. Of course, I won't know if you just send them the
link to this page, but I would appreciate. Okay, that was kind of cool. I think I want to make this
a more noticeable effect, so I'm going to make it
really short actually. And I'm going to have it
pop in and pop out so you can see it's less of a storytelling thing
and more of an effect. And that's okay too. We're just going to play around
with this a little bit. So I'm going to try to find
exactly where I click off of that tab and then we'll
have it pop back into place. Pre, of course. So right there, I'm going to
have it pop back into place. I'll grab this handle, it'll snap to it. Now let's see this little
mini effect there at the end for emphasizing
this website. Sign up for my site, sign up for my newsletter. And then they can, of course, access the toolbox for free. Of course, I won't know. If you just send them the
link to it, that's it. The viewer might not
even notice that it's popping forward
and popping back. But either they
will notice it or subconsciously they'll
see that pop out there. So these are zooms, of course. We could add many more zooms and make it much more intricate. Here, again, for this video, I'm trying to be modest
and understated, so I'm not going to
add any more zooms. But think about how
if you were using a screen recording to give a tutorial or to
give a demo, maybe, I don't know demo graphic
design techniques, how useful it would be to zoom in using that
target feature on one portion of
the screen so that the viewer can really focus on what you want
them to focus on. So that is the zoom
feature of tell. And that's it for this lesson. I'll see you in the next one.
10. Mirror, Crop, and Redo: In this lesson, I want
to show you some of the features that we
haven't covered yet. Just briefly, I won't change
the video in this lesson, but I'll show you
just a couple of the other things that
are possible with Tela. We've covered the trim tool, we've covered the zoom tool, layouts, backgrounds
and borders. This mirror tool allows you to do what it would seem like, which is to flip the, flip the video image
on the access. Horizontal access, I guess this would be the
vertical access. This would make a difference
if you have, let's say, a sign in the background
that uses text and you want it to actually
be readable as opposed to being a mirror image. Then the crop tool
only works when you have a layout that has
the screen recording. The crop tool would
allow you to crop this. Let's say, I don't want to have the top of this
screen visible. I can just crop out that
portion of my screen. Or let's say I actually
recorded my entire screen. And there are portions of
the screen like the doc or whatever that I don't want to have visible. I
can just do that. And then of course I
can control or command Z to undo any changes
that I want to undo. And lastly, this redo
allows you to redo a clip. If you have a clip selected and you want to do another take, you can just click Redo and it'll pull you right back into that record feature where you
can redo a specific clip. This is on a clip by clip basis. If you only want to
redo one of the clips, you can do that if you
don't want to do that. If you want to get out of that, you can just push the back arrow and you're back here
into the editor. So those are a couple
of the features that I hadn't covered before. Just want to make sure
you know those exist. So now that we have
fully edited our video, the next thing we want to do is figure out how to share it. I'll see you in the next lesson.
11. Sharing and Downloading Your Video: Okay, so now that we
have trimmed our video, we have adjusted the
layout of our video, we've adjusted the
background in the borders, we have added some
zoom effects in there. I think we are done
editing our video. And now what we want
to do is we want to figure out how can
we share this video? And there are several
ways to do that. So once I'm done
editing my video, I can click this purple
finish button right here and that will finish
the editing process. Now I can always go back in and edit this
further if I would like to. The editor Intell uses what's called non
destructive editing, so for instance, if you delete
a section of the video, you're actually not
deleting that section. If you want to undo that
later, you can do that. If you add a zoom, it's not printing that onto
the original file, it's adjusting the
original file. If you want to back that out,
you can do that as well. Now what we have here is
this view of the video, and you can see a
couple things here. You can see that it's giving me this nice gift
like introduction, which looks really great when you are sharing
it on a website. You'll only get this if you use Tell's video hosting and
you embed it through Tell. I'll show you how
to do that. But I really like that feature. And you can see that
there is a title here. Now to share this, we
have a couple options. We can click the Share button, and the Share button
will just give us this model that gives
us a couple options. I can just copy this link and
send it to whoever I want. I can put this in an e mail. I can put this in
a text message. And what that receiver
will get is a link that they can click that
will take them directly to this hosted page. In my experience, this
works really well if you want to send a quick
video message to someone, I use it on my team. So I work with some
coworkers and if there's ever anything that's hard
to explain via E mail, I find myself just
hopping on tell, making a quick video, explaining it to them with visuals and then
sending that as a link. And my coworkers
have told me this is a really effective way
to communicate quickly. So that's one way you can do it. You can also share
here via e mail, via gift, I'll show
you that in a moment. Or you can get the embed code and put this on your website. Let's look at the embed code. What we can do here is we have some options and you can
see how this will look. You can toggle these things off. Are the Tylan avatar
visible record your own. That gives a little indication where if someone's watching
this and thinking, oh, that's cool, can I use
that video recording software? It just gives them a link to tell autoplays on
mute when loaded. There's an Autoplay option, there's an animated thumbnail. Again, this allows
for that gift. Like preview video starts
again when it ends. So that's a looping feature and then the player has a link
to the video on tell. Then once you're ready, you just copy this code
and you can put that into your webpage,
onto your website. You can also show the code. If you have coding ability, you can adjust things there. Now, this gift option
is also very cool. It's a gift maker, so you can
use your videos and create a two to five second
gift out of your video. Basically, what you can do
here is the number of seconds you want for this and
then give the size of. It's taking a little
while to load here, but you select the
portion that you want. Select length that you
want, the size of it. And then you can copy that
gift and paste it into messages or other places
you can have fun with that. That's a fun feature. But what if I want to actually download this and host
the video myself? Like maybe I want to
put it on Youtube. To do that, we go to
this download feature. Just one note is that if
you're in this edit menu, all you'll get are
these edit tabs. In order to find that
download button, you have to click Finish. Once you click Finish, you're out of that
editor's mode. That's where you can see
this download option. I'm going to click on that.
Once you click on that, you'll get again,
a couple options. You can download
the subtitles file, you need to do that separately. Then you can get a couple options for the
resolution that you have, some of which require an
upgrade in your plan. This is top K resolution,
very high resolution. You can export them where the
clips are separate files. If you leave that de selected, that's probably what you're
typically going to do because then it'll give
you your whole video as one file and then you can also burn the subtitles
into the video. One thing we haven't
talked about by the way, you just click Start
Export and it'll download to your computer. Then that file you can
use like any video file, upload it to your website, or upload it to Youtube or
wherever you would like. Let's do now talk a little
bit about subtitles. As you probably saw in playback, there are some auto subtitles. It uses auto detection and transcription to
create subtitles. But if you want to edit any of these subtitles,
you can just click, Edit subtitles, and go in and change anything
that you would like. Okay, It does a pretty good job. It's not perfect, that's how
you can share your video. You're either going
to want to share a link directly to that video, or you're going to
want to embed this in a webpage, for instance. Or you're going to want to
download a file and then use that video file in a way that you would use any
other video files. That's it for this lesson.
I'll see you in the next one.
12. Conclusion: Create Beautiful Videos in Tella: Congratulations, you have
made it to the end of this course and now you know how to create
beautiful videos. Intel. We've covered the
process from beginning to end, from how to record a video in, to how to edit that, to trim out the
beginning and the end, to edit out any
mistakes in the middle. Then we covered how to use some of these
killer features of tell like layouts and how to use those layouts
to tell a story. We covered how to
change the background, how to change the
border of your videos. Then we covered how to use
the zoom effect to, again, direct your viewers attention and to tell a more
engaging story. Then we talked about how to share these videos
in multiple ways. In the end, I hope that you
have found that tell is a really great tool for
content creators who, who maybe know how to use those pro level video
editing software programs, but maybe don't need all that
horsepower all the time. Tell is a great option if you want to create
content very quickly, make it look really
beautiful but not take all of your time
in the editing room, just slaving away at
that editing process. If you put a tool
like in your toolbox, you will be able to create
more engaging video content to share with your followers
and your fans more often. I hope that this course has
been really helpful to close. I want to share a
couple things with you. First of all, I would, if you want to say
thanks for this course, if you got something
out of this course, I would ask you to
do a couple things. One is to leave a review on
skill share for the course. Leaving a review on skill
share helps other people find this course to know
that it was helpful. So I'd really appreciate it if you leave a review
of this course. Also, if you would
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but that means that you get 30% off of the subscription. If you end up choosing
to subscribe, you'll also get a
free trial there. Even if you don't
end up subscribing, you can check out the tool and then just use the free version, the free plan for the future. My name is Mark Samples. Thank you so much for sticking
with me in this course. I really hope that you
are as excited about this video editing tool as I am. I have been waiting
for a tool like this for years and I'm so happy
that it's finally here. I hope that this tool
brings joy to you, allows you to spend more time having fun
and enjoying your life, and less time editing, but still have the
same level of great, beautiful videos to
share with your fans. Thanks, and I'll see
you in the next course.
Mark Samples, Writer, Musician, Musicologist
