 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. The show is broadcast live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. Would you record the show every week as we are doing today and it is posted into our archives. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. For those of you not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries in other states that may be your state library. And we provide services to all types of libraries in the state. 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Here on Encompass Live, we do have speakers from Nebraska Library Commission that come in and do presentations. And we have speakers from across country that will come in and do presentations for us. This morning we have with us is actually a Library Commission employee. Amanda Sweet is our Technology Innovation Librarian and she joins us every the last Wednesday of every month for her pretty sweet tech sessions. Good morning, Amanda. Good morning. And if you are a techy person at your library, this is definitely the show for you. You know, sign up for her last Wednesday of the month shows you always have something that is definitely more tech geared. We have other things during the month that can be techy too, but in guarantee she'll be talking about something like that. And today she's going to be talking to us about video production and I am going to hand over presenter control to you now Amanda so you can get your screen up and share your guide with everyone. There we go. Looks good. And I will just hand it over to you to tell us all about how to do the best videos we can. Sounds like a plan. Me. I also started the link for this video production guide will be sharing it into the chat and it'll be available to you afterwards in the arc and recording as well. So, and I did put the link to this video production guide into the chat already so you can click it open at any time you like. If you want to follow along. Yep. So on here, you can see the general steps that I've laid out for making your own videos. So I've been making videos for libraries for about maybe about six years now. And you'd be amazed at how many different types of videos are available to be made. So the first thing that you'll always want to do is plan plan plan plan. Because when I first started this out I used to just say why do I need a plan why do I need a storyboard why do I need to script this out. So I just started shooting video and started trying to put it all together. And it was a mess. So I started over the years I started putting together a video planning guide which I'll click open here. So these are the major decisions that you'll make when you are deciding to put together a video. So I put this together so that you can either print it for yourself, or you can type into it and print it out so it's actually legible if you don't trust your own handwriting. So you'll start off by narrowing down the focus to a topic. And I put in the recommended length for a video before people's attention kind of starts to wane a little bit. And that that tends to be between one and 10 minutes according to several research studies. I tend to go down to about five to six minutes myself for most tutorials and then I chunk it down into smaller segments. And it really helps to know who's going to be watching your video. And you may not always have a solid understanding of what your target audience is going to be because when you post a video online anyone can watch it. But you do want to design a video for a specific audience. So and this will also help you land down your color scheme and any different bits of extras that you need to put in for accessibility. And yes, they do make videos for blind people. It happens. I used to work for at Beyond Vision where we made training materials for blind visually impaired and videos were a big part of it. And they were mostly all posted on YouTube. So it's something that keep in mind. And you'll also want to know why in the world is your audience going to care about what you're saying. It sounds a little flippant and almost rude to say that. But it's true. People have a lot of competition for their attention out there. And even just thinking about this and starting it as just starting out right away with why should people care can help a lot. And just understanding what people should be getting out of this video that you're making. And then you'll also want to start considering what kind of video you are going to be making because traditionally most people think about the live action video. And the live action video is where you get your standard camera and you go out with your camera guy and you start taking footage of the tutorial or footage of a scene and start stitching the scenes together into a larger scale video. But that's only one small kind of video that is usually braided together and combined with other types. The kind that I usually do is screen recorded tutorials. So screen recorded tutorials are great if you're using a software based tool. And if you want to be showing people how to use technology tools software if you want to demonstrate something on a computer. Since everything is going digital nowadays screen recording is an awesome awesome thing to do. And the animation and kinetic typography would be if you've ever seen Star Wars that's the opening of Star Wars where you have the text that's going up out into the galaxy. Oh yes, and if you've ever seen. And if you've seen those music videos where you don't have any images you just have text. And the text just pops up in different shapes and sizes and colors and it can tell a story all on its own. So that would be kinetic typography. And I actually have guides with different tools and options to help you make each one of these different kinds. And we'll get to that a little bit later after we run through the important bits of this planning guide. So the other important part of planning is choosing your tools. If you've ever gone to a consultant and asked which tool should I use which video editor should I use which audio editor should I use. They're going to ask you what do you want to do. And then if you've never heard of video editing before, you're probably going to stare at them blankly and just and just say, I want to make videos. And that's not going to help the consultant and it's not going to help you. So that's where we're going to go back to this video production guide. And in these video editing and audio editing sections, I'm going to help you kind of shake off the newness of what all this means. So you're going to start learning different key terms and different key tasks that you can do in video and audio editing. So when you're trying to choose your tool and when you're talking to the person trying to sell you stuff, you'll know that this is actually what I wanted. You can communicate to them and say, this is what I want to accomplish. This is what I absolutely need my video editor to do. I don't need it to do this. I'm not going to pay extra for that. And I'm going to choose this tool. So that is the purpose of this section of the guide so that it will help you plan out the tools that you need. And the pieces in between here will help you so that you don't waste time, energy and money in putting together a video that you could have done in half the time. So after you've filled out that planning guide, you've chosen what kind of video you're going to make. And you start laying out the different shots and the different scenes that you want to be in your video that will actually reach the target audience that you want to reach. And you'll decide if you want to use a word for word scripting or if you want to do an outline script or if you're feeling really confident and want to skip an outline all together. And then once you've had all that major planning together, you'll start either recording or finding your video so that you can put all the pieces together and make it look the way that you want. And editing is actually the last thing that you do. So once you've had all of this together. This is just one final piece of it and a lot of libraries actually just ask a volunteer to do it for them. So it really depends on how you want to use this and what you're planning to do with it. And if I could ask in the chat, could you say in there what you actually plan to do and what you want to get out of this. Yeah, so yeah go ahead and type into the question section everybody and just say you know why are you here what are you looking for. I know the as you're going through this I've done have had to edit edit videos before like our show videos for this sometimes. And when you're talking the video editing part about choosing your tool and knowing what they do that would have been very helpful to me sometimes I know I've kind of flailed around. I'm trying to figure it out and then discover Oh wait this other thing actually did exactly what I wanted in like five minutes. Pretty much. Yeah. Some planning or looking ahead would have been very helpful. Yeah. Let's see we've got we're trying to create craft tutorials. But sometimes they seem really long. I can see that yeah it takes a long to talk about how to make a thing. In my game readers advisory interviews animations and interactive components, potentially updating tutorials on the basics of using the library catalog, etc. Yeah. Just here to get an overview. I have very little experience, possibly tutorials some fundraising requests, make story times with my bunnies, oh bunnies reading books about bunnies I need to make an intro verse. Someone is concerned they will lose their audience about losing their audience I see you got that marketing section there to make better videos for the online course I teach how to videos for library databases youth programming story time. We got here make captivating story videos and get more people to watch and enjoy them and maybe start tutorials for our patrons. Instructional videos cooking tutorials crafts or others yep. We're going to make a better quality virtual programs virtual story times looking for free tools for libraries that's something to us wondering about like is there tools that don't cost I'm sure there is. There's a ton of. Some ideas for streamlining the making and editing of story time videos programming tutorials story time story time. Let's see cooking and library videos are jumping around a little bit here because a lot of things here tech tutorials about who is in Koopla or Libby wants to know more about editing our book chats to look less rookie ish yeah. And how to use a GoPro to create library programming. The shakiness is a thing. Being video quality yep. Oh and recommendations and the best equipment to use like what cameras and whatnot yep. So what will help the vast majority probably everyone on here. I'm going to click into step to the video styles so this planning your video it's basically just take 15 minutes. Put dump out everything your head in your head onto a piece of paper and just start getting your thoughts in order. And video styles for those who don't already know which types of videos are available to be made. These will help. So each one of these. It has a related section. So this live action video is the most common type and the people who are doing cooking shows some of the craft tutorials and the youth programming will probably want to use this live action video. Because you're going to be taking a camera in front of real subjects. And so this will lay out the basic steps that are included in making the actual live action video. And then if we scroll down a little bit I pulled some relevant tutorials that are based on the type of equipment you're going to be using to shoot the video. The two most common ones are the smartphone because you already have it. And if you don't have one yourself you can probably find someone who does and who let you use it. And the camera on the smartphone is already usually really good and can do what you want to do. And then the next step up is the DSLR camera. And the DSLR camera is great for video making. It's great for pretty much everything you want to do. And this will tell you the different settings that you're supposed to use. And because DSLR cameras you get so many different models of them you can find a video that will show you a specific settings for a specific tool that it helps to understand why those settings are in existence and why you're doing the things you're doing. And that's what these videos will help you do. And then this DSLR camera how I make YouTube videos that will give you different tips and tricks for how to angle and orient your camera to do what you want to do. So if you're trying to shoot a story time hour it'll show you how to angle the camera downward and how to do the lighting so that you don't get a glare off of your pages. Because most children's books use those glossy pages that you really want to highlight the illustration and you'll be able to know how to kind of fix up all the lighting and stuff to get the best out of your game. And the webcam is one that I included because it's getting a lot more popular. You can do an entire story time hour show just with a really good webcam. Just make sure that you get a 1080p because you'll be able to put it up on YouTube. And then that will make sure that whoever is viewing the video, no matter what size screen or quality of screen they're looking at, whether it's a TV or a computer, they'll have a really good quality image to see and they won't be able to say, oh, this is just a library video, it's super grainy. So that's what it sounds like a lot of people are trying to get away from and these resources will help you avoid that. And for the people who are looking for specific tools and different tutorials to look for, Canva and the Windows Video Editor are the free options that are really great for beginners. If you are looking for cost-effective options that range between free and paid that have varying different experience levels, I pointed you toward Tom's Guide. So Tom's Guide, he'll give you the different tools that are available and why you would want to use those tools. And these are in existence as of 2020, but as we all know, software and hardware go in and out of existence at the turn of a hat. So it's a thing. And if you happen to have a little bit of money, you can go into the Adobe Creative Cloud. And if you're attached with a school or associated with a school, you might already have this and you will qualify for a lower cost for getting the Adobe Suite. That is a collection of 20 plus different tools that can be used for image editing, video editing, and a variety of other things. So Adobe Spark is $9.99 a month and it's a really simple editing tool. If you want all the bells and whistles, that's not the way to go. But if you just want to be able to stitch together some different scenes that you've already shot, then it's a good way to go. But I'm going to click over into... You have a question about a software that I'm not sure if you're going to get to yet, but it might be a good time to ask since it did just pop up here. It's something that I have heard of myself about Screencast-O-Matic. Have you got that in there somewhere? So let me go down to ScreenRecording. If that's something you're going to get to, that's okay. So the ScreenRecording, I have the same tutorials that are available on here. If you want the Cadillac of free ScreenRecordings that has a higher learning curve that can do everything you want to do, OBS Studio is a good one. If you just want something that is quick and easy to use, Flashback Express has a free option. Flashback Express is the one that I use. It's made by Blueberry Software. They also have a Pro version that will do a little bit more with all the and has added in editing capabilities. So if you need basic editing and you need to do ScreenRecording, getting the Pro version of Flashback Express works. I kind of got around that by using the free Flashback Express recorder and using alternative editing software just to keep it all free. So that's something too that I think is the key that sometimes you might be using more than one product to do everything. It's not necessarily, some of them may have the extra bells and whistles you're mentioning or the editing feature or some advanced features for a fee, but there might be some other product that will do similar or at least close to what you want to do for free. And it's going to take some digging around and knowing what each product offers, yeah. Pretty much. And a lot of times these free tools will shift what's included in their free product. So you might have to check on you suddenly, yeah. And so if you want one of the ScreenRecorders that you can either highlight text or draw things on the screen like you might have seen in Khan Academy. This, I might not be pronouncing this right, but a PowerSoft or a PowerSoft will do that. It just takes a little bit of a learning curve because it's all web based. You just go to the website, it'll ask you to download a plugin and then you'll be able to record your screen and draw things on it, add text onto it and different things like that. I would just practice with that one a little bit before you actually record something because there's a bit of a learning curve to it. And if you are using something like Flashback Express, you can also add in those drawn arrows after the fact. And sometimes adding in those arrows and those different images and features after doing the screen recording is actually easier because if you try to add it in while you're doing the screen recording itself, you can get kind of thrown off a little bit because you're trying to do too many things at once. You're trying to remember what you wrote in your storyboard or your outline. You're trying to navigate the screen and make sure that you're displaying the right thing. And then you're also trying to get a perfectly drawn arrow or a perfectly drawn text using a mouse, which can be a bit difficult to do. So if you use something like After Effects, which is another Adobe product that's included in the Creative Suite, or if you use this free tool from Canva, you'll be able to add all those arrows and images afterward when you don't have to think about it so hard. Do we have any other questions about specific tools or options? No, we have a question more about recording your video, but let me see here. Thanks, scripting and storyboard. We might get into that in a later part, so I'll just wait until you go ahead. So it sounds like people kind of want to know what their options are right away. So I'll just run through these really quickly. I'm going to go back up to the video styles and we'll run down to... I know someone had a question about the... They wanted to do the kinetic typography and the animation options. And luckily the tools that do that, they usually do both. So I'm going to go to animation or kinetic typography. So if you want to... So in a lot of those introductory slides or introductory openings to videos, there's usually a little bit of animated text that moves across the screen or you have those animated shapes that kind of create motion and imagery on the screen. And you can also... I don't want to get overly detailed right now because this is more of an overview, but if you're using an SVG, a scalable vector graphic, you can digitally break those little pieces apart and that is what gets animated. So if you have access to... And there's a bunch of free SVGs that are available. And when you use these tools, it will show you how what that looks like and why you might want to do it. So I put in these YouTube videos so that you can click them open and you'll be able to see examples of what this actually looks like. And if you want to try to recreate this in your videos. And then down here, Adobe After Effects is the most user-friendly, easy-to-use version of it. But whenever something is user-friendly and easy to use, it usually has a price tag attached to it. And indeed, Adobe After Effects does. It's included in the Creative Suite, but I believe you can also get it independently. Biteable is an app that's online and it's actually specifically designed for animation. And it can do the kinetic typography where you can pop up different words that pop up on the screen in accordance with something that you're speaking on here. And PowTune is another one that I realized that I haven't put on here yet. But Biteable and PowTune, they both do that. And Filmora is another really low-cost editor that I've used a bunch of times. And they have a free version, but it may have shifted over to a free trial by now. I'd actually have to double-check that. But they will do all the kinetic typography. They'll do basic to intermediate level animation. And they will most likely do everything that you would need to do for an introductory slide or an introductory opening or just those little basic animations that pop up along the way. And I've also included a list of alternative options just in case this isn't doing it for you. So with the kinetic typography and animation, audio is key. Audio is really important. Audacity is a free resource that you can use. It has a lot of different tutorials that are available. And I've included a whole bunch of those audacity tutorials down in the audio editing section in the common audio editing tasks, which we will get to after going through these options. And Canva is what I recommend for beginners. So Canva is what I have open here. And I'll click open this screen here. This is a video that I made using all open source video clips. I didn't shoot a single thing. And I just added text on here. And this was all made in Canva. So you can see on here sort of how this works. You have your timeline down here. And when you click open and then click on this, this entire thing is actually a video. And you can see this little place button down here. Up here, it's showing you how many seconds long that video clip is. If you click on this, it'll start to play it. And you can actually trim it down. So if you want like a little 0.8 seconds of an egg, you can do that. Just look. Well, since you're talking about the audio before with audacity, someone did actually have a question that's related to that about sound quality. And I think people are asking about this as well too about audio quality. And what about equipment for that using a separate microphone? Speaker, what do you have for that? I know here, I can tell you, we do have microphones we use for some of our things right now. I use the microphone built into the webcam that's sitting on top of my monitor. So this, I will also include a link to the podcasting guide. Yes. So that would be related to that in that one. Yep. So this one has the recording and editing. It'll have the, this will go deeper in depth into specific audio tools and specific things that you would need to do for audio and sound quality. So that when you save the, when you save this and export it, you'll be able to use it with a video and you also won't blow up people's eardrums if they're trying to listen to it through headphones or if they're trying to listen to it in like a quieter area. And they also won't have to like turn up the volume just to be able to hear you. And part of actually last month's pretty sweet tech that Amanda did was about doing podcasts. Yeah. So if you look in our archives, we've got that whole, the recording of that show offers with the guide as well there. Yeah. And once you know how to do editing for podcasting, you pretty much know how to do audio editing. And you'll just be able, so the major differences that you'll be lining up the sounds differently. And the software that you use is a little bit different. So you can make your audio soundtrack in Audacity Reaper or Adobe Audition. And then you'll use something like Adobe After Effects to be able to line those sounds up so that you can have like a little playing sound that lines up perfectly with your video clip. And that is something that Adobe After Effects can do, but something like Canva wouldn't be able to do. Because if you click on this happy whistling ukulele, this is the background music that's going along with this video. But you can change where you are playing the song. But it won't let you do very much more than that. That's kind of happy song. So if you want to be able to play a really specific little sound bite of this with this clip, you'll either need to use something like Adobe After Effects or you'll need to be able to really specifically set up that clip and then attach it directly to this little clip, directly to this clip, which is actually done using a different method. So you see this Present and Record up here in this upper right-hand corner. So this only works in Chrome. I happen to be in Mozilla Firefox right now, so when I click on this, it's not going to work. It's going to ask me to download Chrome. But if I put this into Chrome, it will actually let me start doing a basic presentation and start recording my audio narration with this sound. So you can get a little bit more specific with it, but it's still not going to let you do the exact lineup that you would need to be able to do to do a higher quality animation or kinetic typography. So Canva is great for stitching together and trimming audio clips. If you want precision, it's probably not the way to go. But this is what the recording studio looks like. And Canva couldn't access it because I'm using it in a different application. So rather than shutting my audio down here, you can just play around with that on your own using Canva and Google Chrome. There's also YouTube tutorials that I'll show you how to do it. All right, so now I'm going to go back into... Does anyone want me to do a quick demonstration of how I made one of these slides in Canva? And you can just give a yes or a no in the chat. Yes, yes, sure. Yes, of course they do yes. All right, so I'm going to go down. I'm going to hit this plus sign at the end here. And I'm going to say that I want to add just one more little scene on here. So Canva has pre-made video clips. Some of them are available for free. And others will have a little crown symbol in the bottom right hand corner, meaning that they are with the pro version only. So I'm going to grab one of these free clips. And something that fits with my theme here, this. And so we'll drag this up to the corner, resize it. And you can also do an oversize and drag this to feature what you want to feature in there. So if you drag this to be larger than the size of the designated canvas, whatever is outside of that canvas is not going to appear in your final product. And you want to position this so that you have an area to add in any additional text. So you can go into text, go to add a heading, click up here. And you can change your font. I believe that I used Allegra in the previous ones, but I'd have to double check that. And then you have to click off of it and then click back in. We'll shrink this down, change the font to the font size to about 40. See, we want this to be legible. We'll go 88. Move this where you want. And this is basically just like shifting stuff around on any graphics editor. I'm just clicking it and moving it. You can also have built-in guidelines. So if you have other things available on your screen, you can line up elements. So I'm going to go into my stickers. So the elements would be some various different little stickers, icons, or anything that you happen to pull in. And if you want to line this up with the top of the text box or center it up, you can also do that on the other side. And you can also center it down along the right. And you can see that little purple line that showed up right here. And if you have your own videos, you can also upload them in. So all of these videos actually came from Pixabay. So Pixabay has free open source videos that you can use in your own projects. The cool thing about Canva is that it's actually automatically integrated with Pixabay and Pexels. So when you go down into More and click into Pixabay, it will let you search in for free images. However, that's an integration for the images section of Pixabay, but the video section of Pixabay, since it's a little bit on the newer end, doesn't always show up in here. So what I did was I went into Pixabay, went to Videos, and this is actually where I got all of my typing shots. This is where this one came from. This is the opening slide if you remember it. And let's grab this one. We'll go into Free Download, download it. I'm going to save the file. I'll go back into Canva. Then I'm going to open a new slide. We'll go into uploads, upload the video. I'm going to choose my device as the location that I'm looking for. It automatically goes to my download folder. I'd show apparently that file clip was called Workspace. So we'll open it. And so this little waving line here shows that this video is still uploading, but it is usable in here while it's uploading. So I'm going to click it over. I'll resize it. Now, I don't want a full 33.1 seconds on this video. So I'm going to click this and crop it. And I'm going to watch this to find out where I actually want this crop to land. So as you're going to learn later in the editing section, so sometimes there's going to be a something called a J cut and an L cut. So a J cut and those kind of scenes means that you're following the action into the next scene. So if you watch this, you'll see his arm isn't moving. So I'm going to wait until his arm is moving and he's indicating in this direction. So we can grab that little clip of the SNP. So right here is where we want it there. It's that action right there. And so we want it to go to about here. So when you're planning your videos, this is what you're looking for. Because you're going to be planning this to say, I'm going to be indicating people's attention to be going to this side of the screen. And I'm going to use this to set up the next bit so that the action is either happening over here. And people are going to already be looking over here. Or you're going to be mirroring this action and may there might be a woman who's doing this exact same thing. And they're going to be mimicking that action and you can turn that into a montage. You can turn it into an introduction. Or you can just make your videos smooth, like smooth and flow together like that. And that's what you start to learn when you start playing around with what's available in video editing. Oh, we do have a question about Canva. Can you use Canva with iMovie? Do you know if it would... In what way? I guess would you do some of the editing in iMovie and then finish it up in Canva? To edit and add details. So what I've done before is... So I'm a PC user, so I've used either OpenShot or Windows Movie Maker. And it's now called Windows Video Editor. If you have Windows, it's automatically available on your computer. But if you just search for a video editor, it shows up. So I've done some of the editing on there and then uploaded the clip into Canva. So that upload media I can see in the upper left there. So you could upload something that you originally got had in iMovie. So if you haven't saved anywhere on your device flash drive, you can upload it and then finish it off in Canva. And I should show you what this will look like. And bear in mind that this is all free open source clips. So I actually had, of course. I actually use that in a... So I do a teaching technology in the library course and I use that in a section that people were asking, how can I use technology to solve real problems in my community? And you can see that little montage was all the different ways that you can use technology to just help you do everyday things. So cooking dinner, you don't necessarily need an app for that. But you can find a recipe online and order ingredients. And I cook things too. I've done that looked up like how do I? Yeah. I've never done before. And you can see there's also continuity throughout this whole thing. So as I was searching for these open source clips, I found the same or similar hands. So a lot of times when people upload these clips, they are using the same model to do different tasks. And a lot of times it's themed. So I was able to find these same hands doing different things. And you can see them showing up later. Something I would not have thought about. And when I couldn't find the same hands, I found male hands. So similar ones, yeah. They show up later. There's one more clip in here where those same sleeves show up. So that's kind of the continuity that you're looking for. And a lot of times if you don't have the same exact hand, when you've had other things that go in between, people don't notice. Like I would, if I hadn't made this, I would never notice that it was a slightly different male hand. I didn't even pay attention. I was reading the words and mainly looking at the technology, honestly. And that might be subconscious. People, it makes the connection better or something. Yeah, I don't know. But if it had been a female hand, you might have noticed. And when you start doing that content, and this is where that storyline comes in and where those storyboarding comes in, because I made like a general, a fake character from my fake movie. And then I said, well, it's just going to be a guy doing all this stuff. I'm going to run through and have them do all these different tasks. And I wrote through a storyboard. So my storyboard, here's an example of a storyboard. So this is what a completed storyboard would look like for the simply save social distancing sweater video. I found out that the easiest way to show how storyboarding works is not by asking someone to just write a storyboard, because people go insane. Instead, it's easier to start with an example of a really short video, and then ask, what are the different things that people are doing during this video? What are the different items that are showing up in the shots? How was the camera angle during this video? And how would you recreate this shot by shot in a storyboard? So I'll show you. So this is the simply save social distancing sweater. The holidays are here. Unfortunately, so is the pandemic, which got us thinking. If simply safe home security can protect your home. Could simply say protect your holiday. Remind your family you're happy to see them. But happier six feet apart. The simply save social distancing sweater. Happy holidays to all. To all a simply safe night. And I chose that video as an example, because it would be really easy to do it yourself. Because what was it really? It was a set of figurines that someone took a photo of. And when you're shooting it, you focus on the house, but you blur the workshop in the background to keep focus. You add wrapping paper in the corner of the frame to show that it's around the holidays. And this is the section of materials and editing tools that you'll be able to use to make that scene. These are the collection of props that you would use. These are the tools that you could use to edit it. You would use your own editing tool in place of this just to let the team like any team members that you're working with know what you're using what's coming up next and how they should be using this tool. If you have any relevant script or any text that you want added during edit, this is what you would add on here. Because when you're adding text in edit, you have to plan for that. You have to say, okay, I'm going to be shooting this shot in here, but I need to frame it so that I have an open space on the right hand side that I can add my text in this section. I'm going to be able to set the scene so that I have a blank smooth background that is a solid color or something that won't heavily contrast with the text for that I want to use. And that will help that will just work wonders when you're trying to do your final edit. Otherwise, you're going to have to be doing a taking a whole lot extra time just to fix the shop. I'm going to go through this line by line shot by shot and saying I want to close up the workshop wall with a mask hanging because I want to demonstrate that it's during the pandemic. And when I frame the shot I'm going to center it and I'm going to add in an area for text. And then you say what you're going to put in it the tools you're going to use and the text that you want added. And you're actually doing this in practice it might be all all of this might be you who's doing it, or you might be delegating it out to different people. You might be asking someone one person to be behind the camera you might be asking a volunteer to come in to do the edit. You might be asking just a variety of people. I'm going to have to start practicing with making this document, but also understanding who's looking at this document and saying, Okay, well, I'm going to be this one person can be doing the shot, but they're never even going to touch the editing part of it. So people need to be able to see the whole thing but understand what their role is in it. So this just takes a little bit of practice. So this is a lesson plan that'll show you how to run through a simple exercise with either library staff members or if you happen to be teaching this in a library for any purpose. This will show you how to set up the social distancing sweater video or insert video of choice if you don't like social distancing sweaters. So I'm going to run through a discussion and ask the right questions to start backtracking and figuring out how to make these videos that you see. So when you see a video and you say I really like the kinetic typography in this video. I really like the way that they're targeting my young adult audience. That's working in this video and how can I recreate it. You start picking that video apart pulling out the elements that you like and then figuring out how you can recreate it in your own work. And with your own subject matter. So if you run through these different questions asking about what's included in here, what did they use as a script, what was spoken what was added on the screen. And what was at what was pre thought out during shooting and what was added in the edit. And how can I do this myself. Nice. Right we do have a bunch of questions that have come in that maybe we can get to. And I'll just let everyone know we are getting to the top of the hour again we did start a little after 10am so that's fine. So as officially our show goes for 10 to 11am, but central time, but we will stay and go on as long as everyone has questions they want to ask of Amanda. We won't get cut off right at 11 o'clock or anything. So if you do have any questions or anything you want to know more about type into the question section and we can answer some of those questions. There's a lot of resources and information in the video, the guide that she's put together. So you'll probably send lots more answers and things in there too, but I'll definitely grab all the questions you have right now so we can get them answered while we're here this morning too. Is that cool Amanda. Yeah. You want to start with the questions. Yeah, yeah, let's get some of those done so we can let's see. Yeah, here. Oh, I think you might have mentioned this in the beginning so I'll jump into it right now. I deal. What is the ideal video length for social media. Oh, so no research for social media specifically, it depends on what you're trying to do. If it's an ad that is going to show up on social media, usually about 30 seconds or less. It depends on the video that people are going to be watching on social media. One to 10 minutes. If it is, I guess what specifically would it be depends on what you're trying to get out. Yeah, but no longer than 10 minutes really like sometimes people I think we said at the beginning people lose interest depending on what it is, you know, story times and things that most libraries are doing. Yeah. And this guideline generally applies to social media to because you started even when you have your phone or your computer on silent it will sometimes start automatically playing the video with captions. And there is a time when people will watch maybe three minutes of a video on silent with captions then decide to watch it. So, I actually want to see you hear more about this one let's start over again and yeah. Yeah. One to 10 minutes is general for most settings. Okay, and speaking about closed captioning that was another question that was asked so it's just cool that you mentioned that. Do you have any information about the best auto captioning that might be out there that people could use how would that auto captioning quality auto captioning using like machine learning to do the caption cost money. I haven't actually found a free one to do. I did find a free labor intensively to do it though. I know YouTube does it for ours. Yeah, it's because I use that for our encompass live that's why I rely on for them, since we use YouTube for our posting of our archives. It needs tweaking every time I've kind of not been able to keep up with that I mean it's in there and the basics are there it doesn't know certain things like it doesn't know the name of our show and compass live that confuses that kind of it. But it does, you know if you do use YouTube and know that has it there yeah. You might want to look at SRT captions generator. So, fun fact I used to be a captionist right out of college. Nice. Okay. Just typing the things into. Oh, I was. I was like a real time caption. Okay, like, speech to text and I caption phone calls, but I also like it is doing SRT captioning. So, the, so if you search for the subtitle generator. Most of the good ones are paid, but there are some free ones that are out there that I'm not going to lie there's not a lot of great ones. I have to do automatic yeah. And, and as you said, YouTube caption. But there are some things like niche Academy and some learning management systems like that don't like to use YouTube they will ask you to automatically upload your own video file and it's hosted on their platform. And it won't work as well if you try to embed a YouTube video into it so there are some services that don't let you do that. Like niche Academy actually recommends that you use an SRT captioning file. So there are some times when the automatic the automated YouTube captions aren't an option. So, find something else yeah. And that's the same thing with Facebook, Facebook's captioning kind of means that you're putting it up on Facebook live stream or Facebook, like loading it into Facebook. And you might need something alternative to do it. And unfortunately the best free way that I found to do it was using the video editor or Camtasia to add in captions. It takes a long time to do it though. It does. It takes a long time to edit the ones that are automatically done to and somebody asked you go in and edit on in YouTube captions. Yes, I go I try to go in and edit them. And if I have the time I don't always have the time to get in to do them every time but you can go into YouTube editing and do it. Yeah. That's the SRT caption file there's a specific format for it. So if you do have something that you need to add captions for and you don't want to do it manually. There are some platforms that will let you load in a separate SRT file. And there's just tutorials for how to do it. This how to create custom SRT files is what I've used before you can see it because I've clicked it before. Yeah, and some just it's just a recommendation you can download the SRTs from your YouTube videos. Yeah, I've seen that too. And then embed them with MQM KV tool next or something else. Yeah. If you look it up you can find information about that. Yeah. And just thank you for the SRT info that was very helpful. Yeah. Sound quality audio quality. We've got a few questions about that actually. Let's see what about sound quality when you are not close to your camera iPad like when you're recording story time. And I think someone else has a similar question about what about tips for improving audio and live action recording if I'm recording someone else doing a task and take the audience to do it so I've seen lots of story time videos where it's obvious that the person is back from a camera or someone holding the iPad or whatever. I guess sound quality has been an issue in those kind of situations. You can use multiple microphones and you can use the little clip on microphones. So if you are shooting something that has the conversation. They actually make little clip ons that are almost invisible underneath a shirt. You might be able to just see the edge of a little dot poking out. You have the present the person reading on this one you have anyone asking questions or anyone behind the counter read behind the camera read wearing another one and you can merge those two lines together. The two different audio sections yeah so that you have two microphones to sound to audio files that you would then put into the final video yep. And if you do something like that. Make sure you clap or something because when you clap that clap will spike the audio and you'll know when to line up. So when you go into audacity reaper or any audio editing software. You'll see the way for like the audio waveforms and that clap is just the easiest way I found to line everything up. And then you'll know that that's where it is that's where instead of trying to just have to listen and listen and listen till you get to it. And if you're lining up with a video when you see the clap, you know where you are. Yeah, then you know you do that ahead of time and then pause a bit before you go into what you actually want the audio to be. I have to this is like as long as storyboarding have to think about this ahead of time that we're going to have two microphones we're going to have to recording things going on. We're going to have to pay attention to what we'll need to do with it afterwards. Yeah. And you can practice clapping and unison. Nice. Alright, we're a little after 11 o'clock that's okay as I said we'll stick around for as long as you guys have questions if anything else you want to ask get it into the question section. I just saw some earlier that it held on to a bit here. And this is more about acting but how do I read my notes while filming and not look like I'm looking at notes. I want it to look like I'm looking at the camera. Prompter. So there's like, there's things that you can get that are those yeah. So what I've used before is I've set up a teleprompter on my computer and I put the teleprompter directly underneath the camera. And so then it looked like you can put it right above right below. But when you start putting it side to side it starts looking like you're looking off into the distance. Right. But if you start setting up your props so that your props are mirroring your indicated I've movement. So all of your props are down and you're looking slightly down. It just looks normal. So it really depends on how you set up your how you set your scene to and if you start flowing all of your design downward to match your eye movement. It just looks like you're supposed to be looking there. That makes sense. Yeah. So instead of, you know, having your piece of paper here that you're reading off of there's going to be something on your screen right there. I've done that. Yeah, I've done it with just faking I get like I'm like here I'm sitting at my desk so I'm doing things and I'll have like a word doc or something up and it's right there. So if I'm reading off of it, it looks like I'm looking at them but I happen to be reading what's right below. Yeah. It's a little tricky. Yeah. But never thought about that there'd be free teleprompter type things that exist out there. That's awesome. And you just copy and paste your whole script in here and then you can set the size of the size of the screen. And there is there are a lot of them where you can set the speed of it too. If you're getting really into it, you can also use a foot pedal. So a foot pedal is something that it's just it's hidden visible underneath the desk and when you press it down, it'll pause your teleprompter when you release it, it'll keep it going again. And so if you are getting really into it, then, or if you, you can use the foot pedal or just have someone standing out of view on the camera that just pause it, go, pause it, go. Slick. Okay. Another question just popped in here. Do you have any specific ideas or suggestions out for help with filming and editing using a green screen. Yes, about that in your guide there. Yeah. Green screen. There we go. Awesome. So the green screen, the software that you'll most likely use. There are apps that are specifically designed for it. So for those that don't know green screen is pretty popular. But what you do is you set up the green screen behind you. Make sure the lighting is really even. Because unless you have like, so during the editing process, you're going to be going into a video or image editing software, you're going to use that software to select the green color that is showing up as the background. You'll pull that out and then you replace it with the background of your choice. And then you'll want to adjust the contrast and adjust the setting of your, your footage so that it matches the contrast and color setting of your background otherwise you're going to just look unnatural. So what the stop motion studio app and what the Filmora app recommended app, like the recommended apps do is instead of asking you to change out the to pull out that color frame by frame, it will automatically do it and automatically color match it. And you'll be able to adjust the threshold of color that you're pulling from the background so that you don't start making people like lose the edges of their arm or lose the like the pixels on the edge. And so it just makes it a lot easier. And the Adobe Creative Cloud, the creative suite, they have things like the pro and they have After Effects that will do it automatically. And so Canva's free video editor I put in here because not because it supports chroma key, but because once you've completed pulling out the chroma key, you can put it into Canva to finish off the editing. So I should probably indicate that because Canva does not support chroma key. But stop motion does and these recommended and the creative cloud, they do and the same audio editing software works for the same thing. And one other thing that'll be really helpful is this tutorial from Filmora video editor. It'll show you how to set up the green screen how to shoot using a green screen and pretty much everything you need to do to add the common effects that's used during that. Nice. And that just included in the resources to learn green screen. Cool. All right. There's no other questions right now if anybody has any questions you want to ask get into the question section. Amanda's anything else you wanted to share as part of your presentation anything to finish up or you wanted to make sure you got out there or wrap up. The last couple of things that I'll touch on is how you can shake off the newness of learning the terminology for video editing and audio editing. I added in the common video editing options so you can start watching through these tutorials, and you'll start learning about all those different common cuts and transitions that are used in video. So when people start asking you which video editor you want to use what will work for you what do you need it to do what don't you need it to do. You can look at these and say I need to be able to do a jump cut and I need to be able to do an L cut so that I can bleed the audio over from one screen to the next and be able to do what I need to do. And you'll ask for people to just even learn what can I do with video because some of these things I wouldn't even know that it was a possibility to do that these are a thing. And I just did the same thing with the video editing. So I with the audio editing. So these are the basic tasks that you can do in audio editing so when you're choosing your tool. You can kind of use this as a baseline to say I need to be able to do this I don't care about this, but I really want to do this. Nice. And there's also just recommended tools throughout here. People ask about marketing how to get it. You get people to watch as a whole marketing section there too in the guide. Yeah. And probably what's most helpful for that is the section here. So these will link out to this public library association they've been doing it forever in a day. Oh yeah. These. This one is also a good one because it'll also give you specific tutorials for how to make the videos for those platforms and these examples are just kind of awesome. Yeah, we have a comment someone just say thank you this is an amazing resource list now I want to go play. And then we have a question about can we share a link to this video production guide for librarians with our libraries. Yeah, go for it. Yeah yeah the link will be well the link I shared it into the questions and chat, but it'll also be available. When I send the archive link to it's just out there publicly this is a Google doc that's out there for anyone to use yep. In case the link got lost somewhere in the chat I just put it back in there. And I'll also put in the one to the podcasting guide in case people want to learn a whole lot more about audio editing and podcasting. I think since it is related. I'll put a link to the podcast archive recording when I put the archive up for this particular show. And do we have any other questions. Anybody have any other desperate questions you want to ask right now, while we are still here. I'll also put in at the end of this guide contact Amanda for all any help you want for anybody can you. And so that it shows up in here. The last minute. Great thing about Google docs can be edited right away and there it is awesome. It doesn't look like any other urgent questions are coming in right now that's fine. Just some thanks thanks for the great info wonderful thank you for sharing your knowledge. And thanks for coming. I hope you have a great holiday weekend. Yes, hopefully have some people some time off alright. I'm going to pull back presenter control to my screen here just to wrap things up. There it is. Alright, so as I said, we have recorded the show it will be available on our encompass live page in our archive section here, which is underneath our new shows will be at the top here everybody attended today and register today we'll get a link letting you know when the recording is available. It will have a link to the video on our YouTube channel and a link to and I have them open here because I've been clicking on the message been sending the video guide, the podcasting guide. The, the previous show, just last month, the last end of the month when Amanda talked about the podcastings with the podcast guide there as well and also the recording of that show if you want to watch that. We'll have links all of that in there for you. That should be done by the end of the day tomorrow. I mentioned at the beginning if those of you are here we are here at the Nebraska Library Commission where we are closed on Friday for New Year's Day where state agencies are closing Friday so have that done for everybody by the end of the day tomorrow. So look for emails from me, and we also post out to our various social media and compass live does have a Facebook page if you like to use Facebook and give us a like over there. If you have reminders about when our shows are coming up information about our presenters and when the recordings of the previous shows are available. So if you'd like to use Facebook go ahead and give us a like over there. We also pose into other social media using the end comp live hashtag hashtag a little abbreviation for our show. So Twitter, Instagram, not sure where else our social people do but you can keep us there as well. That will wrap it up for today's show. Hopefully you join us and we invite you to join us for upcoming shows we've got our January shows our first show of 2021 best of Children's books of 2020 will be next week show. So please do sign up for that one and any upcoming shows will get February dates topics up there soon as well so keep an eye on that. And I don't know what Amanda has get planned for next month. I don't know yet. I can join her again at the end of January January 27. Would anyone ever be interested in doing a specific show just on one of those like green screen or screen recording. Oh, like more in depth on a particular product or service. Yes, I would love that. Lots of exclamation points yes. And like, I think that's a big thing that people are doing of like showing us a lot of people mentioned the beginning, how you know how to use the library catalog how to use the online resources and so many more people are using them. Those kind of screen capturing type things definitely a lot of screen recording requests coming in yeah screen recording screencast. So the next month will be screen recording and screen casts. All right streaming. Yeah, and green screening to yep. That could be another one. But yeah so look at that we'll get a description in there soon. But if you want to you know that next January 27 you're welcome to go and register for that right now on that it will be about doing screen casting and screen recording more in depth into that particular. Maybe a future one on green screen. How to do tutorials. I've done quite a few. And so it says Yippee they're very glad you're going to be doing that awesome. Yeah, so come back and join her next month. Absolutely. All right. Thank you so much. I think we'll wrap it up today. The last thing I do want to mention to as a reminder for people I've been trying to remind about this. We also hosted the Nebraska Library Commission addition to our weekly end cup of slide to an annual big talk from small libraries online conference. It's specifically presentations from smaller libraries. Usually population served or FTE of 10,000 or less. If you are from a small library you know some of the call for speakers is open through into January the event will be on Friday, February 26 that's always the last Friday in February. But submit your proposals now share this out to anyone you know who is at a small library and when you know that any groups that may have small libraries, small and rural libraries in there and all types are talking public academic school anything. We're looking for presenters for that it's coming up. The deadline is coming up in January. And that thank you very much everyone. I'll get the link to the archive page and the podcasting show will be in there for you so we'll see if that works. All right, I think that we'll wrap it up right now since it is getting a little even later after 11. Thank you so much for being with us again Amanda. Thank you everybody for joining us this morning. Stay warm, stay safe, and have a happy new year and we will see you next year on our next and compass live. Bye bye.