 All right, I'm so delighted you found the chat software. So today, this is how to create a video tutorial about WordPress using free computer software. Yeah, and I'm Sarah Snow. So a little bit about me and where this came from. Florida resident by weekday, traveler by week, debt or weekend. I'm a former middle school teacher, so you will totally see that coming out in how bubbly I am. I'm a parent and a sharp pay mom. So if you hear whistling or dogs barking, that's what's going on there. I love cooking. I love learning languages, love the ocean. It's great. I am a training team contributor to the WordPress project slash man scientist. I'm sponsored by automatic. But yeah, so let's set some expectations here. As always, stay courteous, respect yourself and everyone in this room. We are learning it together. So that's including me. I'm Sarah, your facilitator. I am learning how to make these videos using free open source, just already built in software as well. So you may know some things that I don't and I can't wait to hear about them. But I'm hoping you learn some things from me today too. I really see you all as the source of brilliant information. So please share what you know. This really works well with kind, deliberate participation. If someone has a question in the chat box or if we have a problem like we did earlier with the microphones, please make sure to just let us know, ask questions, answer questions. There really aren't very many like wrong ideas. You can really throw out whatever comes into your mind provided it's courteous and respectful. So yeah, you will be able to find this later online. So let's start a little bit with like where this idea came from. Thanks for that of this for real quick. So I'm a contributor for learn.wordpress.org and I'm lucky enough to create lots of little video tutorials that are anywhere from four minutes to 13 to nine. Like they tend to be pretty short but this is where this came from basically is, hey, we are training team contributors but you don't have to be sponsored by anybody to do this. Any one of you in the WordPress community can contribute to learn.wordpress.org. So because I'm sponsored, I had a lot of paid technology, like I have a really nice microphone and things like that, which is great. Also causes some problems which we'll talk about later but I really want to hear more voices. I want you to be able to create videos whether it's for learn.wordpress.org or for yourself, we're gonna talk about that too. I really wanted to start exploring how do you make videos just using stuff you've already got or stuff that's free? So this is just one process. I'm probably gonna repeat this process on an ancient Windows machine that I have and then I may also try doing this again with a cell phone but today I am using a Mac but I am going to provide information for people who are using Windows and I have done this before using a Windows machine as well. So yeah. Oh, there we go. It's people in the way there and welcome. I am flying a little bit solo today. All right, perfect. So you can create a video for learn.wordpress.org. Let's talk about the software that we are going to be using today. So tools, you might notice on my cursor that there is a red outline on this and also it's been made a little bit bigger which can be really, really helpful. This one's optional but it's something that I really like. We're also gonna be using a local WordPress environment and FakerPress with this that can give you a very quick and easy way to create sample content that you're welcome to use. We're also going to be using open source image searches such as Openverse, Pixabay and Unslash because one of the things that I encountered when I first started making videos was where do I find images that I'm allowed to use? So these are three places you can. We'll go there in a minute. Google Slides are also your friends. I have a template for you as well but that's basically one way that I make videos. So we'll get to that template in a minute. Oh no, well, you can kind of see it. Anyway, we're also gonna be using some noise canceling software. So we're gonna be using CRISP today. You also have other options such as Magic Mic which is open source. Let me buy in solo today. So thank you for your patience. Normally we have co-hosts for this but you can use either one of those as well. Today we're using CRISP. There is a free version. That is not the one that it is. Let's go to CRISP plans. So the free version allows you 60 minutes of noise canceling software. I usually don't use that in a day unless I'm running videos like this as well. So it's just something to know. Any standard headset that you use, you can see the one that I'm using here today and also we're going to be using Zoom for this. And then the final step is gonna be using either iMovie which I will show you or Windows Movie Maker. So I've done this process multiple times on multiple different machines. I just happened to be using an Apple product today. So yeah, first of all, I'm curious as to why you're here. So you're obviously interested in making videos about WordPress, which awesome. I cannot wait to see what all you maybe come up with soon. So for whom are you hoping to make videos? Do you want to make them for Learn.wordpress, a WordCamp maybe, or a Meetup event? I see Larry says that he's doing that for a WordPress Meetup. Yes, absolutely. That's exciting. If you wanna do this for your own website, a client, someone else, I'm just curious, who is your audience today? So I see some clients, yep. No biases, no novices, no biases. So you wanna make videos for novices, yes, wonderful. Staff at the university where you work, awesome. Internal content creators that need to update pages, yes. Oh, I love it, all these user guides or WordPress users with slow sites, awesome. Okay, for remote coworkers, yes. Oh, I'm so excited. Ah, y'all have such great audiences. I really hope that this helps you today. Okay, well do know that if you make something really, really cool, whether it is for your audience or learn.wordpress.org, you are welcome to use this information. So the next thing is what is something that you think that everyone should know about WordPress? This is about idea generation. Where do ideas come from? What is something everybody should know about WordPress? We're just gonna generate some ideas here really quick, just for tutorials. If you were to make a tutorial, what would your tutorial even be about? Backups, yes, oh my goodness. Ah, I don't actually know that we have that many tutorials on WordPress about making backups. That would be really cool. What is WordPress? Awesome, that's another good one. How to install and configure it to begin with, yes. I'm also curious, other topics might be like what are some things that people get wrong about WordPress? WooCommerce or just how to sell stuff with WordPress, right? Like that's a really important topic for sure. Or special use cases, ACF pro interfaces, et cetera, yep, yep. How to translate WordPress. 20 myths about WordPress. Oh, that reminds me of like a YouTube. Like a lot of people go to YouTube to learn about WordPress for sure too. How to make a menu with Gutenberg or the block editor. Yes, that's might be something that people get wrong. Other ideas, what's something that you'd love to learn about WordPress, something you'd love to teach? Obviously, y'all came with an audience in mind. This part was supposed to be about idea generation, but I can see y'all really like have some stellar ideas. Awesome, okay, so that's not the issue, great. So I really wanted to just make a point that you, our community, you are the source of great inspiration. Like you know best what you need. So thank you for bringing your ideas today and sharing some of those. And because I'm working with Learn WordPress, like if you're making a video, I would really love it. If there is a need on Learn WordPress, that maybe you submit it and see how that goes. So I noticed, oh, I think, no, you can see all of my movies. So some of the topics that y'all threw out were things like backups, right? Actually, yeah, let's see that. So for Learn WordPress, like how do we make backups? If I scroll down here, I'm seeing a tutorial on managing updates, maybe local WordPress installations for beginners, how to choose the right hosting, but like that is one of the gaps that we have on Learn WordPress right now. And it's a really important one. So that's something to keep in mind. Somebody else mentioned how to make a navigation menu. And I'm gonna look at that. Okay, how to create a menu with a navigation block that already exists. So as you're making your videos, if you're like, hey, like I want to contribute to WordPress, I wanna contribute to the open source project, highly recommend that you consider contributing here. So we talked about where tutorial ideas came from. Most of you have not said that you're doing this for Learn WordPress, which is fine. I'm gonna try and move a little bit faster on this so we can get to like the good stuff here. But if you do wanna contribute to WordPress, if you do wanna contribute to Learn WordPress, you definitely wanna check to make sure it doesn't already exist first, but otherwise, like there's a whole process there, there's a GitHub board, like I'm not gonna get into that today. This is about how to make a video tutorial. All right, moving forward. If you do want to join us, if you do want to submit a video or something, you're gonna wanna join us. You're gonna wanna check out our GitHub board, things like that. But my goodness, if you're interested in submitting video tutorials and having your work up here, I'm just getting you a quick link. Now we're gonna move on because it is 12.14 and we have a lot to cover, woo-hoo. So this is everything about the training team here. You can join, where's that join button? Not that one. Join our team, here we go. If you would like to join, if you're interested in getting started, by all means take a look here. But oh my gosh, why won't you copy and paste where I want you to go? Y'all, I'm having technical difficulties today. Okay, my chat box is not working. That's a problem. Let me close this and try this again. There it goes, I fixed it, huzzah. All right, but you can join our training team here, talk about what we do. Basically, if you make a video tutorial and you think it would be valuable and learn WordPress, we'd love to hear from you. So, all right, let's move on. Yeah, I'm just gonna skip all this because yeah, I'll know your audience. All right, so let's get set up some tips and tricks. So one of the things that you're really gonna wanna do if you're using free software is if you want a bigger cursor, it's a really good idea to change your pointer size. So if I just look for this pointer size, this is in my system settings, which is opened on my other screen. Let's move that over here. And you'll notice that on a Mac specifically, I can change that outline color to something else, maybe a yellow or a blue or a red. You definitely want it to stand out. So I'm gonna pick like a really nice light yellow for this. You can see it changing on the screen there. So if it's red, it's there, if it's yellow. So this is one way that you can take a minute to make sure that where you're clicking on the screen is extra highlighted. And it's also easy to quickly reset your colors as well. And this option I believe is available on Windows as well. Again, I think I might rerun this at a later point, but I can also make the pointer size anybody or enormous. So bigger is better, especially for people who have low vision, but you also have to be able to like actually click on things as well. So we're gonna pick a nice big size for that. And that's something that you can just do on a standard computer here. I was going to send a link, but I think I put it in the wrong thing. Oh yes, so if you need the Windows version of this, because you are using a Windows machine, here is a link there in the chat that allows you to figure out your pointer, I believe. So again, I will probably do a Windows specific tutorial next month on this, I love that. So once you have your cursor effects set up, it's nice and big, it's easy to see. The next thing that you're gonna need is a place to play. Now, if you have a quiet website and you're just showing people on their website like how to do things, great. But if you're like me and you're making new material all the time, a local WordPress environment can be really, really useful. So you can use things like Shamp, which is open source. You can download this. Oh my goodness, my chat is still not working. Okay. Chat. So you can use Shamp. You can use MAP, WordPress, or the one that we are going to be using today. The one we are going to be using today is Local by Flywheel. I use them quite a bit until WordPress Playground is a little bit more finished. So there is gonna be a way to do this using an environment that's just like a link. So you type in a link to a WordPress thing and it would automatically have that Playground. But for today, we are going to use Local by Flywheel. I already have this set up. All you have to do is download it here, install it like you would any other program. And I'm just gonna open this and show you just how easy it is to create something new. So I've got a whole bunch of different sites here, but if you start off with this, it'll just be blank. You just click this little button here in the corner, create a new site, give it a title. I want to make WordPress video. That's gonna be the title of our website today. I'm just gonna say up whatever's preferred, give it a username, give it a password. It's going to automatically create this. Just takes a minute. One says that it's a little slow on your computer. I haven't had that issue on this computer. It wouldn't surprise me if there might be something else going on in the background or if there needs to be like an update to the computer as well. Here's Windows 11, yeah. So you might wanna check and see your CPU usage. It's probably outside the scope of today. I haven't had a problem. If anybody has a suggestion though and is like, hey, this was slow and here's how I fix it. Drop it in the chat because that would probably be really helpful. But again, there is going to be another way of doing this soon, so soon, we're not there yet. But I'm gonna turn on this one click admin. This will allow me to log in without having to input my username and password. This is just on my machine. And suddenly, we have a WordPress installation that we can do all kinds of fun things with. How many of you have like a sample website? I'm just curious. Have you created a sample website before? Do you do that? Or is there a tool that you use? Yes, no one says yes, you have a sample website, great. Many sample websites using local, awesome, awesome. Tracy says that they use VVV. Okay, I don't know what that is. I don't know that acronym. Okay, it's a sample website on .com. I have a sample website, it's on, I have one on Prossible and I have one on Bluehost as well, but it can really be hosted anywhere. But let's say that you're new to this. You wanna make a tutorial, but like you might be a little time pressed. One of the plugins that you are welcome to use here is known as FakerPress. So I'm going to plugins, add new. I'm gonna type in FakerPress. And what this is gonna do is it's going to allow me to create a very quick sample website, which can be really, really useful. So I've installed this plugin. I'm clicking activate. We're just getting set up and I'm gonna speed through this really quick just to get it set up. Again, you can watch this again later if you need to like slow it down. But it really seems like we've got some really good experience people here too. So I wanna honor that. So once I have FakerPress activated, I can have it auto generate stuff. So before I do this, currently my theme is the 2023 theme. It looks like this. It's not particularly pretty. Clients may not enjoy looking at this. I wouldn't use something like this for the most part. I'll learn.wordpress.org. I'd probably want something with a little bit more meat too and make it a little bit more robust. So using this FakerPress plugin, I can generate random posts. So I'm gonna generate 14 posts and I'm going to backdate it from, I don't know, this month, right? What is today's date of the 10th? So two, oh, one, two, 10, because if I do it in the future, it's gonna schedule those posts. I don't want that. And I'm gonna use rather than placeholder, I'm gonna use Lorem Pixum. And Lorem Pixum uses images from Unsplash and it will randomly pull images that you can use as placeholders that you can also use in this as well. So that's really helpful there. There's a lot of other things here. We're not gonna go into depth about how to use this, but I'm just gonna show you that if I do that, I have Lorem Pixum. I've made 14 posts from this month. I'm going to generate this and it's going to sit here and load. One thing that will start happening is that my posts over here will start to exist. So if I click over here, you'll notice that all of these new posts are here. It's still generating on the background on the backend, but if I go to appearance editor, behold, I have a website. It's a lot faster. I may need to add a few more images in here as well to get the effect that I really want. But now you have a very quick and easy way to start playing with this. So you have your WordPress environment set up and ready to go. Chris, thank you so much for that suggestion. You can try webserver.com. There may be less limitations and it might have better performance. So that's great. I love that option. Okay, so once we have our WordPress installation set up, we have our cursor. What next? What next? So we've got FakerPress. You also probably need to find some free images. A lot of this is like the pre-thinking work, right? So you do definitely want to use free open source or at least free for commercial use images. So some of the things that you can use here, WordPress.org has recently launched a beautiful, what is it? New ecosystem known as Openverse. And here I can search for images. I don't know, we'll prepare it because I have words. I can look for images and I can filter how I want to do this. So use, use commercially, like if you're using this for clients or whatever else or the public domain mark. And now with this in mind, I can use any of these images that I would like for whatever type of project. So that's one place that you can look. Highly recommend this as a resource. Another place that I tend to use is Pixabay. They have their own license here as well. It's a little bit more limited, but it's pretty clear where you can find the license, but it'll say things like free to use, no attribution required. And it's very, very polite to say, yes, I got this from Pixabay from this glorious photographer. It's a really good idea. It's really nice. It shows that you appreciate their work, but you don't have to. So it's just something to note. And the last one is on Splash that we will mention today. Now there may be others. Does anybody have another resource that they love for images or maybe videos? Because as you start to collect these things, you will eventually put them together, which we will get to you in a minute. I'm just curious. Are there any others that you want to include as I fix my chat box again? Pexels.com, yes. Okay, that's a good one. Yep. Thank you, Yusuf. Appreciate that. So a lot of this is the pre-work, right? Like you have a topic in mind, like making a backup, right? So you need to figure out your cursor. You need to figure out what your local environment's going to look like. You definitely are probably going to want some images in there to add to your website. Chris says that they use burst.shopify.com for free images. Fascinating. Okay, cool. So the next thing that you may want to set up is Google Slides, because as much fun as it can be to... You know what? I'm going to open this in a new tab and I'm going to be able to switch back and forth. That's what I'm going to do. There we go. Beautiful. Lideshow. Here we go. Maybe. There we are. So you can, with the tools that we're about to talk about, just kind of talk your way through things. You'd be like, okay, if I want to make a, I don't know, for example, migration plugin, I'll go to plugins, add new. I will search for a glorious backup plugin. Obviously you wouldn't write that, but there's probably is no plugin called that. Or just backup plugin, right? And you can just talk your way through it. Like that is totally a valid way to do that. But if you're like me and you tend to struggle with remembering what you were saying as you're saying it. So I'm neurodiverse, I have ADHD, which means that a lot of the times like I need a script, I need to follow it because if I'm like, okay, well I want to say something and it needs to be targeted and pointed and whatever else, like it can be kind of challenging. Google slides tends to fix that. I tend to make a lot of mistakes. I lose where I'm going as I'm going to it. A lot of the time, which is not great for like a learning video because I don't want to be like, okay guys, like let's go to pages as I go to posts. I do that a lot. So it can be nice to have something to fill some of that space. So especially if you're doing this for Learn WordPress, but you're welcome to use this anywhere that you would like. Google slides is your friend. So I'm going to share this resource with you. Again, you can use this for a Learn.WordPress one. You can use this for your own. You can play with it. The biggest thing to keep in mind is you want to have a really strong contrast. You want to have a dark enough background with a light enough text so that it's very readable. But this allows you to really clarify. So you have a title. This one is specifically for Learn WordPress. We usually like to have a strong learning objective, right? So a learning objective is basically what someone will be able to know and be able to do at the end of it. But specifically this be able to do. So like if we were to make a backup one by the end of this lesson, you will be able to install a backup plugin, make a backup plugin or make a backup of your WordPress website. And then, I don't know, reactivate. I don't even know if that's what, reactivate. Activate backup. So it's really what people are able to do. That's one way that you can make this really clear, right? And you can use these templates here. With the technology that we're going to use, this is a really good way to move from slide to slide. This is another way that people can also, like especially if you're doing open source work, you want to be able to translate things. Using Google Slides allows someone to take this, make a copy and then translate it into their own language. So that's just something to keep in mind. It's a lot easier than putting text on images. It's a lot harder to edit an image with text than it is something like this. So highly recommend Google Slides. And then we're going to talk about audio considerations. Oh, the slide template requires access. Whoops, let me try it again. Anyone with the link, boom, done. All yours. Thank you, Jen. So you are welcome to use this. Make a copy of it. Let me actually fix this so it's back to its default state. Just want to be able to do the end of the video. So again, you're super welcome to use it. And Chris is suggesting template.net. Ooh, this is the first time I've seen that. Thank you, Chris. What's template.net? Already made designs and documents and templates for everyone. Fascinating. I don't know. I'd have to do some research to make sure that you are allowed to use this for any purpose. Like I know there were some people who were doing this for education, but if it's a commercial purpose, like we'd have to double check that. So just keep in mind that as you find these resources, double check that you are allowed to use it for the purpose that you are going to use it. So yeah, so all of these are ways that you get set up. They are how you set up your WordPress installation. They are how you find images to add to your media library. And all of these are things that absolutely trip me up when I first started making videos for Learn WordPress. And so that is something that I think that you would probably have as well. So I hope that you take these and put them in your toolbox. Now let's talk about audio considerations, your microphone and Chris. I don't know how a lot of my birds been today. Have you been hearing any whistling or has it been pretty quiet? I've got my noise canceling headphones on. So I'm just curious. Have the birds been back today? Oh, I can hear them turning away. Okay. Pretty quiet birds. Okay, sound is good. Well, that's great because normally they are very loud. So today, before I did this today, I made a quick four minute long video using iMovie today, using the software that I'm going to show you. And I know around Learn WordPress specifically and probably for you, if you are doing this in a public space, your audio considerations are things that you may not have ever thought about. Hitchcock would be disappointed about the birds. My birds are not quite as scary as they could be. Anyway, back on topic. I need to, and I meant to do this. I need to share my sound, which is somewhere so that you can hear the difference. I was going to do this live, but then I realized that I wouldn't actually be able to compare and contrast this. Share computers on. Here we go. Oh, can you still hear me? Awesome. All right, so Charlie said I must have a condenser. Mike, because I hear a slight echo. Yes, okay. All right, we're gonna see if you can hear this, but what I did here is I am going to compare and contrast three different mics. So one, I have a kind of high end microphone. It has a screen in front of it. It's something that you could use to record voiceovers, things like that. I also compare this little headset here. Right now, it doesn't have anything to muffle. So you can definitely hear some explosive little puffs, right? So if I go, you might have heard, it get a little louder, like, you know, wind hitting your car. And then I use my computer as well. So these are just some considerations you have before you start recording to just keep in mind so that you can decide for your use case, like what you need. There's obviously a lot of prep work when it comes to creating videos. So these are things that I didn't know that I didn't need to know. So I'm hoping that they're gonna be helpful for you today. All right, I'm gonna press play. Please let me know yes or no if you can hear this and go. All right, hi friends for this recording, please note that there are other noise cancelling softwares out there, including Miyami CVMVNS is one of the top ones, as well as Audio Commander or Iris Clarity. Today, we're just going to use Chris to demonstrate the effects of different microphones with noise cancelling software. So right now, I am using a super fancy microphone and Chris with the noise cancelling. So you can hear this audio quality now, maybe it changed a little bit because I picked up my microphone, but here is our example of that. Now I'm going to switch to this standard gaming headset. Now I'm switching to my external microphone. Here we go. So this is the external microphone you see here. This is just your standard gaming headset, got it off of Amazon. It was something like maybe 30 USD at the time. So not super expensive, but you can kind of hear the difference of it. This is not using Chris, so you might hear some parakeets or parrots whistling in the background, which is good. I want you to hear the difference. Then now I'm going to switch just to my MacBook Air microphone. Here we go. Now this is me talking using just my MacBook Air. So the computer that I'm using to talk to you today is capturing my voice. So now I'm going to try and do that with Chris so that you can hear the difference here. Here we go. So right now it's set to be my fancy one. Let me change this to my external microphone. All right, let's move this now. All right, in theory, you should be hearing this here right now. Chris is on. There's noise canceling in the background, so I'm going to make a little noise here with my chair so you can just kind of hear it or maybe not hear it. My parakeets are being suspiciously quiet right now. So there's that. But if you have kids in the background, you're using this gaming headset or just a general gaming headset, you can kind of hear the difference in the quality there. So now let me switch back to another one. This is one of the curses of having a really fancy microphone. It picks up everything and my sound quality, if I get a little closer versus if I'm over here versus if I'm in a different room, it all changes. So it's just, it's something to be aware of. So now I'm going to turn Chris on using my MacBook Air microphone. Here we go. And I'm going to switch back to Chris. All right, this is now my sound quality. My birds are being nice and loud. I'm currently using just my laptop. So I wanted you to be able to compare and contrast this. So another thing to consider is recording in another software. Right now I'm using my high-end mic and Chris, but I'm using iMovie to record this. And you might notice the sounds a little different from earlier, compare. So right now I am using a super fancy microphone and Chris with the noise canceling. So you can hear this audio quality now. And now I'm using iMovie, not Zoom. Same microphone, but do you hear a difference? I do. At the end of the day, do your videos need to sound like a radio commercial? What are the most important considerations there? The question is for you to answer now in chat. Thank you. So I guess the question that I have for you to consider for you is what, I'm going to type it in the chat so you can look at it. What means, like what makes good sound quality? Does it need to sound like a radio jingle, right? Like fall into the gap. Like does it have to be something that could play on the radio or not? So Linda just asked, if you're using the microphone, does Zoom change the sound? I think what you're asking is if I'm using Zoom to record is the sound different than an iMovie? And the answer is yes. So the video that you just saw is one that was recorded in Zoom and then it was edited together in iMovie. So like the transitions and the fade to blacks and stuff like all of that was made in 20 minutes, which is why it was like a little choppy. I was putting it together specifically to like compare and contrast all of the different sounds. But I really wanted to demonstrate this because one of the challenges that I found in making consistently high quality videos was that like my office would change a little bit. Like I would put something on the wall or I'd move a little bit or my desk would be a standing or like because my desk could go up or down and the sound quality, like I would leave the closet door open in the background and the sound quality couldn't be matched. So that was really challenging. And the challenge came because I was using a really high-end microphone because it picked up every little difference. So if you're the type of person who really wants high quality sound and you're going to be in the same spot every time you're going to have the same like hand distance that can impact how things sound, great like a high quality microphone might be really good for you. But if you're like me and you work all over the house and sometimes you have to move rooms because one of your parents is screaming for whatever reason or if you are traveling if some days you may be recording in a library and other days you may be recording at home something else might be a little different. So something that I noticed was that my headset while the quality was not as high just because it is less expensive there isn't a screen on it anymore because I lost it. I should probably get one that has like a little bit of foam on the end to prevent the p and the p and the b sounds from doing that. The biggest thing to know is that like different microphones work for different purposes. So sound quality is really important. So if you were to ask me unless you're staring at my desktop for your audio considerations is what you're saying clear and can it be understood? And keep in mind people have different levels of hearing things like that. So if you are making something for television you're gonna wanna have a really high end microphone. If you're making something for a client or a series of clients maybe something like this headset might be best for you but it's good to do just a little bit of testing. And you may have noticed with just using my laptop like my laptop itself was probably okay. It wasn't great. There was a lot of echo. You could definitely hear my birds in the background like it picked up a lot of peripheral sounds even with crisp but it just kind of depends like if I were making something for students in my middle school classroom the sound quality on my computer would be just fine. So it's not something to overly stress about but you do need to know your audience. You do need to know where you wanna go and what you wanna do with it just to make sure. So yeah, just something to keep in mind before you get started. And like I said, if you move around a lot your sound quality may be hard to match and you may find that you need to re-record something WordPress updates pretty frequently. So finding that consistent sound quality is key. So let's see. We have about 15 minutes left. So we've talked a lot about planning. We've talked a lot about where to find the images and all of that you've been here for that. So the easiest way that I have found that works across all different devices which we'll call it Apple computers. I didn't even call that now, Mac computers, windows maybe even your cell phone. You can fire up a zoom just like you're doing right here and you can click share your screen and you can also record that on your computer. So the same technology that I'm using to bring this to you now can be used to save things. So if you look, try and find your options on your screen. I'm not gonna click stop-stare but there's a button that says share screen. Now, if you click it now with me I'm not gonna let you share your screen just because it's a safety feature we've been zoomed in the past but you share your screen and then there is the record button and this record button allows you to save files to your computer. So to find where they are, zoom. Remember what the name of my zoom recording was. I have a whole lot of them. I've done this quite a bit. Like I've got one here from 127, 111 but you just, you basically open the file in your iMovie. So I'm going to open up iMovie just really quickly. And you can see how I made that quick little video for you today. And now apparently it doesn't like that I am both sharing and doing this. But yeah, so trying to think. Give me just a quick second. I should have thought about which movie I wanted to share with you ahead of time. Oh, zoom apps. Okay, for example, I could do a picking France video. So I'm going to start this over right here and it's going to load. So I did make a video on how to pick fonts. Oh wait, that's a Camtasia video. That won't work. This one will work. MP4 is not all videos, work. You can hear my computer video. So one of the fun things about iMovie is it will play the sound. So you can kind of tell where you are. Wow, that's super distracting. Anyway. So from here, you can do a whole bunch of stuff. So this was made the same way. I just shared my screen with Zoom, recorded it and pulled it in here. So let's say I wanted to split this clip and put something else in there. I can right click and it's going to load very slowly because we're currently doing lots of things that my computer needs. I should be able to split this clip. Where's that button? So if I split this clip right here, I'm going to go ahead and detach the audio because my brain cannot process. I'm just going to actually, it looks like it's already split. So I'm just going to go ahead and remove the sound entirely. You can see how quick that was. But now I've added a transition here. And just using your iMovie, I can do all kinds of things. I can add a fade to black transition between these things. And then it turns on to something else. Like you have all of these different options that you can use. You can replace it really fast. You can see how it's slid there that way. Oh, that's fascinating. You can also re-record audio. So I won't be able to do that now, but there is this, just because Zoom is using my sound right now. But if I press this button here, maybe it'll work. I guess we'll find out. Maybe I can do this simultaneously. But I could record using Zoom, just having it entirely out of there. Yeah, since I'm using the audio, it's not recording an iMovie. But you would just speak and you could explain what you were doing. Oh, press add local font and then you will be able to have this font here. And then you press stop and you can listen to it. We won't be able to hear it because again, we're using it here, computers. They're so smart, but not smart. Oh, wait, no, I did it. I thought I could only do one at a time. See, we're learning with you. But this might be a way to ensure that your sound quality is consistent. Record the screen shares using Zoom and then actually do the audio after the fact. But you have a lot of options here. So you can add titles. So the fun Star Wars effect that I got earlier was right here, right? So, hello, this is like Star Wars. And you'll notice that this is nine seconds long by default, but I'm not gonna play the whole thing, but you'll be able to see this effect. And these types of things are available both here in iMovie and a similar thing is available in Windows Movie Maker. So there's a lot you can do with things that are just already built into your computer as it stands. As far as the presentation for Windows goes, that'll probably be next time. That's one of my projects right now. But I just wanted to show you how easy it is to do that. So, yeah, and I can definitely do a presentation on this as well, quickly running out of time here. So, we talked about PC, I'll hit your video together. You add transitions, there's finishing touches. But yeah, so that's basically what you would do is one, you'd prep your workspace using all the tools that we've talked about before. And then two, you would just record using Zoom. And then three, cobble it all together using iMovie or Windows Movie Maker. And that is how you would make a video. One of the things that was really cool about this was I was trying to make one that was a pretty high quality, not something that I would put as a Super Bowl commercial, but something that is high quality for learn.wordpress.org. And I was able to do that using Zoom and using iMovie here, just using that free technology. So it is possible. I've found that this has actually been a lot easier than some of the paid technology that I've used. It's very user-friendly. Yeah. So James just made a really good point. And I think that I needed to make a video. And I will keep this in mind for my next segment or show you one of these. In order to access the video over here, you have to finish recording everything in that one Zoom. Now, you can make lots of little short videos like I could do something here and then quit the meeting and then start a new one. It would create lots of little files right away. Or you can do everything that you need to do in one fell swoop. So James, that was a really good point. Thank you so much for bringing that up. You have to record in one session or lots of mini sessions and then you can drag and drop multiple recordings into this as well. So we had, since most of us are not doing this for learn, if you wanted to do this for learn.wordpress, there's the whole process there just to review it and make sure that things are accurate enough to date and spelled correctly and all of that. So if you're interested in this, definitely hop into our training channel. But we did have some user questions today that I wanted to address. And the first question is, is it hard? So before I get to that question, I'm gonna answer a question that just came in the chat because it's a really good one. Someone asked, in order to record in Zoom, do you have to be the host and do you have to have a paid account? So no, it's totally free. You can do this using a free account, number one. Number two, the way to do this is you wouldn't have any viewers. So when you fire up a Zoom like this for yourself for the very first time, it's just you hanging out in the room. So with that in mind, like you're basically just, you're having a Zoom call with one, but it's a really fun way to record a very accessible way to record. So as far as, is it hard to make a video tutorial? I think it depends on how comfortable you are experimenting. I would say that they're usually more time consuming than you would expect. But once you get comfortable with some of these tools, once you've experimented, once you've played around a little bit, it does get easier and easier. You find a process that works for you. So my process is usually, you know, record this, do this as if, or record as if I am like giving a short little talk without my face on. I try to turn that off cause I don't know, I don't really like to see my own face. And then I go back and I edit it. And times when I get lost, I'm like, okay, like we'll cut this out. And you can, you can cobble it together, right? So like, if let's say that I did something incorrectly here, right? I can put the cursor here. I can press split, so I can move over. I can let it play until the part where I don't like it. I can split it again. And then I can delete it and boom, it's gone. So it's just a matter of getting familiar with the tools. And yeah, it is way more time consuming than you'd ever imagined. So that it depends on how much time you've got. Somebody else asked, what are the best open source tools? That's a really great question. We've gone over a lot of these things that are pre-built in that are free. I don't know that they're necessarily open source. If anybody has any suggestions in the chat, there is open source screen recorder. So there are open source screen recorders that exist. I can't remember the one. There's this open broadcaster software is one. OBS is open source, beautiful. So this is another one that I may experiment with and like have like a more detailed process as well in the future. So open broadcaster software is one. Looks like they have it for Windows, Mac and Linux. So it allows you to do video recording and live streaming. That's pretty cool. Yeah, so I haven't experimented with this yet. This is just the process that I've used and I've had really good results so far. That doesn't mean it's the best way. This doesn't mean that it's your way. So again, this may end up being kind of a series. Cam Studio also has an open source version. That's really cool. Thank you, Larry. I appreciate that. So someone did ask, can I make tutorials about like useful plugins or premium plugins? I think it depends on the plugin. If you're, I wasn't sure. This is something that was sent through Meetup. If you're asking about learn.wordpress.org, if you wanna submit a tutorial here, can you make one about plugins? I think the short answer is yes. We do have some brand guidelines. Like you'll notice that when I talked about like using Chris, but I mentioned two others, you just have to mention that there are other options out there. I think we would probably stay away, at least I'll learn from endorsing any like premium content, just because we don't wanna show favoritism. There are thousands of beautiful plugins and incredible creators who have poured their time, their life, their money, their passion into their plugin. And we definitely wanna make sure that we honor everybody there. But if you're doing this for like your own client, if you were doing this for the plugin itself, like by all means, like there's no reason that you couldn't. But again, I am not a lawyer. So just make sure that you double check. So we talked about like what hardware or software resources are required. We had that list at the beginning. So for the most part, you just need a way to record your sound. You just need a way to record your video. So zoom and you just need a way to edit that. And then if you want to include visuals, we provided resources for that as well. And somebody asked, how do I make my tutorial clear and interesting? Which is such a great question and such a detailed question. And we have four minutes left. So I wanted to ask all of y'all how you felt about like would you be interested? Yeah, Larry says it's the hardest part. How do you make this interesting? How do you say something that hasn't necessarily been said before or how do you say it in a new way? How do you say it in a way that helps the world or helps your clients or helps your students? So I was interested in maybe creating a series of these where we work together in workshops where you pick a topic that you wanted to create a tutorial for and we would write scripts together and we would workshop them together. And we would storyboard and figure out the content figure out the ways to make it as engaging as possible. And then you'd have a little bit of homework like you'd have to record your videos since it's really hard to, as you saw with the processing issue, just it took a lot longer because we were on this call for my video software to work. So we'd record videos and then we'd piece them together and maybe co-work online a little bit and then polish the videos, review them for accuracy, give suggestions, things like this. And then if we were doing something for Learn Word President we would submit it to the training team. So I'm just curious, like would anybody be interested in a series of this where it's really hands-on, we're all doing this together, we're coming up with the interesting things and we're critiquing each other's work? I see one, yes, okay, that's great. I'm just curious, because this is something I would love to do. Be helpful, yes, yes, okay. Okay, so I may put together something that's a little bit more interactive. This one was obviously a very high level overview of the things you needed to consider and how to do, how to kind of put it all together. Okay, cool. Well, thank you for that. Do we have any final questions today? Someone asked which microphone that I'm using. Right now I'm using my fancy microphone. It was my Rode microphone. And the reason for that is that I have left this headset out in the rain one too many times and halfway through talking it sometimes goes in and out. So that's why, but yeah, it's a little bit more of a higher end microphone than something that you'd get off of Amazon. So any final questions before we hop off today? On a scale of one to five, one being I've learned nothing and five being I know everything. Like this was so great, like where do we fall? One, this wasn't really helpful, I kind of knew all this. Five, oh, you really showed me how to put this all together. How was this for you today? I saw 19, oh, that's so nice of you. A six, a four, okay, okay. It's tricky, there's all this tech and putting it together is challenging. I took some master's courses in 2020 when everybody was going from teaching in person to online teaching. And they were using technology from 2004, 2005, things my teachers were showing me when I was in high school. So I figured this, I hoped that this would be valuable. Okay, great. I'm seeing some fours and some fives, excellent. All right, well, that's it for me today. Have a great day. I hope you go make some really cool tutorials. If you wanna find me in Slack, if you make something cool based off of this, I'm Aerosay in Slack, or you can find me at, yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to say, I guess you can reach me there. Have a great one, y'all, see you next time. You can, oh, that's right. You could leave a comment in this meetup. That would be really cool if you make something awesome. All right, bye.