 Last year I created a tutorial to show how to use the zoom background feature for timing speeches. I created timing videos for the most common scenarios, table topics, evaluation, ice breaker and the standard 5-7 minutes speech. You can download these videos from the link in the description. The video has over 24,000 views and lots of comments. Most people loved the idea of a video timing device but there were some requests for instructions on how to create their own timing videos. This tutorial shows you how to create your own video in less than 5 minutes. So let's get started. I will use the free version of Kenwa to create these videos. To learn more on Kenwa, check out my other videos on this channel. Kenwa is a simple to use website that allows you to create designs in a matter of minutes. Go to kenwa.com. If you have not already signed up, you can create a free account. Once you are logged into your account, click on create a design and we will choose a custom size. The width should be 1280 and the height should be 720 pixels. This is the preferred size for Zoom virtual backgrounds. Click on create a design. To create the timing video, you will need 5 files. You can create the video without these files but it will be faster if you use this. You can download the files from the link in the description. You can also design your own files with your own branding. The first thing you need to do is to upload those 5 files in Kenwa. To do that, click on uploads, select upload media, select device, navigate to the folder that has the files, select all the files like this and click open. All the 5 files are now available in Kenwa. Let's say I want to create a table topics timer. A table topics timer is where you show the green at one minute, the yellow at one and a half minute and the red at two minutes. After that, you have 30 seconds grace period. Let's start by adding this slide which will act as a main slide. This slide will tell us what this timer is all about. We do that by adding a text box, click text, replace it with the appropriate text. Let's call it table topics timer. Move it around. If I want to add more information, I can do that. Position it properly. This that it shows me 5 seconds here, which means when this video starts playing, this slide will remain on the screen for 5 seconds. That might be too much. Let's reduce it to 3 seconds. Click on the clock, reduce the time to 3 seconds. Let's add the second slide. Click on add page, go to the uploads and choose this slide. This is the slide that will indicate to the speaker that the timing is in progress. If you want, you can add some animation to this slide. Go to elements. Let's search for moving arrows. I like this one. I will resize it and that looks good. Since our first slide is made up of 3 seconds, I would like this slide to stay on the screen for 57 seconds to make up for one minute. Click on the clock, increase the time. You will notice that it doesn't go beyond 30 seconds. That's the limit in Canva for every slide. I still need to add 27 seconds more to this slide. The easiest way to do that is to click the plus sign to duplicate this. And on the third slide, I will change the timing to 27 seconds. Notice that our total video length right now is one minute, which means it's time to show the green signal. Click on the add page. We will bring the green image. We need it for 30 seconds. That's very easy to do. We know that the maximum length of a slide is 30 seconds. Drag the slide all the way. We are now at one minute 30 seconds. Time to show the yellow signal. Click add page. Drag the yellow image. Click on the clock and drag it all the way to 30 seconds. You can see now that we are at two minutes. Add page. Bring in the red image. Clock all the way to 30 seconds. Our total video length now is two minutes 30 seconds. Ideally, this is more than enough. But the way Zoom works is that when it reaches the end of the video, it will automatically start from the beginning. And this may be confusing to those who are looking at the timing video. One solution is to add another 30 seconds of the red slide. That is very easy to do by clicking on duplicate page. If you really want to bring to the attention of the speaker that they have exceeded a time, we can add a text box. Click text and type something like exceeded time. This is optional. A total video length now is three minutes, which should be more than enough. To be on the safe side, why not make one more copy of this? So a total video length now is three and a half minute, which should be more than enough for table topics. When you're ready, click on the download button. Choose MP4 video and click download. It will take a few minutes for the video to be downloaded and we are done. Once the video is downloaded, go to Zoom and use the virtual background feature and load this video in Zoom. Please refer to the tutorial I had shown at the beginning of this video, which explains how to take this video and use it as a virtual background in Zoom. Now you're ready to create a video of any length of your choice. All the best.