 If you want to know how to add audio to your designs and graphics in Canva, watch this video, I'm going to show you exactly how to do it. In today's session, I'm going to walk you through how to take your graphics that you're creating in Canva. If you don't know how to use Canva, I haven't done other videos that are in the channel around that. So go check out my training on Canva. But if you already know how to use Canva and you want to know how to create really snazzy graphics that also have audio with them, I'm just going to take you through a very quick process to show you how you can do that. So at this moment in time, I'm getting everything ready for the next RippleMakers podcast that are going out and we've got the promotion that goes out alongside them. So every Monday and Friday, we have a new RippleMakers podcast interview that goes out where we're interviewing our RippleMakers mastermind members and our one-drop movement community about what their oh fuck moments are in business, what have they gone through and what advice would they give to anyone else that might be hitting that obstacle or coming up against that block. And so every week we interview more people. And so I've got a new episode that's coming out in a couple of days. So I've just been going through and getting all the graphics ready for that. And I thought actually while I do it, you could also benefit from learning from it. So as you can see, I've created a whole bunch of graphics. Now I've got this one that is going out. So Jackie's, hers is going out this coming Friday at the point of me recording this for you. But Daniel's is going out on Monday, so I'm going to get his ready to go. So as you can see, I've gone and got a little animation graphic. And where you'll find that is if you go to elements, you can go and type in something like sound bar and find all kinds of graphics that have animation. So you could have sound waves as you can see like this. So that's an alternative version. So I've just gone and animate. I've gone and got one that's already animated. So I don't have to animate it. And all I can, all I've done is just simply found it and then drag and drop it over the graphic that you're using. So it doesn't matter what artwork you've got, whether it's square or if you're doing something for Instagram. And so you've got more of a portrait one. It doesn't matter. All you need to do is go type in sound waves, for example, if you're wanting to show that there's sound in the, the link to whatever it is you're driving them to go type that in and then go grab it. You'll see if there's a little crown on it, then it means you can only use it if you've got a pro account. I do have a pro account, but if you don't have a pro account, you'll see that things like this, they're free because they don't have a crown on. So I've got it. I've created my graphic as I want it to be, but now I want to add some sound to it. So I, what I've done is I went and created some audio files that I can then bring into the, the camera graphics so it can play audio as well. So what that will look like is let me just show you because I'm setting these all up for my VA to go now. So let's show you an example of that. And I was asking questions, but nobody was giving me what I felt was the truth. And I nearly became very insular then. I just, yeah, put blinkers on and just head down, just carry on working. My mantra was I was work hard, get recognised for what you do. Please, that does not happen usually. But that was my instinct. Just keep on going, keep on going. So you see, I've taken a snippet. So I've got my audio file. I can do other videos on that. If you want me to create you a training on how to create those audio files, then let me know. Put it in the comments so that I can show you how to do that as well. But what we're going to do is we're going to assume that I've edited my audio. And by the way, you can animate it and add sound to it up to 30 seconds. So if you're going to create something using Canva, using this sound by opportunity, then what you need to do is make sure that it's no more than 30 seconds. My advice would be, because it seems to cut things off pretty quickly, is if you make sure that you've always got one second. So for example, if the audio for this, now I've already imported my audio into here. But let's imagine that I'm going to go grab an audio file right now. So episode 20, this is Daniel Woods one. This is the full episode, so I'm not going to pull the full thing into here. But I am going to edit little sound bites from his full interview. And once I've got them, all you do is drag and drop them. So you can see there it says drop to upload your file. So you literally go grab your audio file from wherever it is. And you just drag and drop it in there. So I'm not going to do that at this point in time, because I'm showing you and demonstrating you how to do this. And I can do that as I say in another video. But for this one, all you've got to do, once you've dragged and dropped it in there, it will appear. So if you go to your uploads, it will then appear in your audio uploads. Okay. So any images that you've imported into Canva will show here. Any videos you've imported in, they will show here. And any audios will show here. So let's imagine that I've already put Daniel's audio in here. And I'm now going to go drag and drop it. So I can see that this is a 10 second audio. Remember, I said you always want to add one more second. So I'm going to drag and drop that just as an example. And you can play the audio effects so you can listen to it if you want to. But because that's 11 seconds now, what I need to do is go and bring that down. So I'm going to bring the video down to 11 seconds. So it's got 10 seconds to process and then an extra second on the end because it does finish very harshly. So if you decide that you are going to have a 15 second video, say you've got a 15 second clipping and you want to pull that in, then you want to change that to 16 seconds. If it's 28 seconds, you want to change this bit here to 29 seconds, but it won't go longer than 30. So you don't want your audio to be any more than 29 seconds. Otherwise, it cuts it off very abruptly and it doesn't sound good. It feels like it's unfinished. So always make sure you've got no more than 29 seconds of audio content to stream into there. As you can see, I went through. I was making sure that everything was less than. And this one here that was 30 seconds, I actually went in and edited it and made sure that it was 29. I brought it down to 29 seconds so that I would be able to have that buffer to make this 30 seconds. Now, if you're going to use something like for Instagram, for example, then 15 seconds and 30 seconds are the premium times for you to create shorts and reels, for example. Whereas a minute you might use this for TikTok or this is good for, as I'm sharing here, little sound bites. You don't want to give the whole podcast away in a promo to the podcast. You only want to give like a 30 second little snippet of what they can find inside. So if you want to create snippets and you want to do it like that, that's the way to do it. You just go and edit your audio first. If you want to know how to edit that audio, like I say, put it in the comments below and I will do your video on how you do that as well. Otherwise, I'm going to assume you already know how to do that and I can't wait for you to share all of your graphics. 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