Ok I’m back after some time off and ready to go back into the swing of things! My apologies in advance for not writing for the last couple of weeks. However I’m back and ready to talk more things techy! 😀

As my badly alluded title to Daft Punk has already mentioned, this week (three weeks ago 😬) we did more video editing! Yay yay yay amazing! And this is me not being sarcastic, I actually fully enjoyed this week’s lecture as it was 1. Pretty chill and 2. Pretty hilarious. We were required to practice our video editing skills we learned from the previous week while also adding in some new skills like screen capture and graphics. Of course, as usual, I didn’t know much about these new video editing skills so it was all very exciting. As most things go, I was pleasantly surprised at myself at how quickly I was able to understand and apply the skills once I got going so really, there is hope for all of us even if you haven’t done any video editing before. I am starting to realise more and more that video editing in this day and age can be very useful in many ways and as a teacher, it really gives me a wider area of expertise which will hopefully be easily translatable to my teaching career.

So let me walk you through the whole process and how I ended up making my amazingly useful tutorial to playing Club Penguin 👍

First of all, our whole class had to download Premiere Pro and we have thankfully been able to download that for free though unfortunately for anyone else who doesn’t have access to it through their educational institution, it can be quite pricey. Even so, if video editing is something you would like to get into and are seriously considering doing it quite often, then I do highly recommend this program! I haven’t had the chance to fully explore it yet but the little I have used has been really good quality! Here is the website for more information!

When I opened the program, our lecture has already provided us with some material (a video tutorial he recorded with different camera angles and some graphics which we were able to use) so I decided to follow his tutorial (a tutorial he recorded on how to video edit). There was definitely some Inception kind of stuff going on there 🤯

I’ve fiddle around and followed the tutorial and by the end felt that I was ready to make my own video. Premiere Pro wasn’t difficult to grasp, at least not the basics. You can even use shortcuts for easier navigation – a standard in any program but I found these shortcuts particularly easy to remember and use. The shortcuts that I did use were C for cutting the video and V for going back to selection mouse. In terms of editing videos, there are several different ways in which you can organise it and it really all depends on your preferences.

You can either a) layer them on top of each other or b) cut the videos out and put the final cuts next to each other. Option b might be a bit tricky if you have one audio file for all video frames which means that you will have to go with option a). Because why not, I decided to do a mini tutorial video with screencapture explaining what you need to do in this case (no this is not the final video I’ve made, that is yet to come).

Screen capture, which I’ve used in both of my videos, has been quite an easy thing to figure out. If you’re a Windows 10 user, you should have Xbox Game Bar app which is able to take screenshots. For Mac users, I believe Quicktime is a good built-in software to use.

We experimented with a few other things like putting graphics into the video. Unfortuntaely, I struggled with this part a little as I didn’t know where to find good graphics with no background. So I made some. And yes it does have a white background and in the end the effort was a bit useless but I was running short on time and needed to get the video sent for review. Even so, I believe that it ended up being quite a useful little tutorial video. But FIRST, a commercial break!

Do you often find yourself reading Ebooks and thinking ‘Man, is this a boring ebook! Books are so boring, I need to be entertained more!’? Well you won’t be bored ever again with these amazing softwares for creating interactive Ebooks! Do you want to embed a video about that one boring concept you just read (blegh) about? You can do that now! Do you want to add some colourful and exciting pictures because words look soo black and white and boo-ring?? You can do that as well! Just download Kindle Creator here for Mac and Windows or iBooks Author for Mac-only users here (tutorial on how to use it can be found here).

Ok, after the commercial break (which was btw the second part of our lecture and I will definitely discuss it more in the future -stay tuned!), I believe you have deserved to see the amazing tutorial on what everyone has been waiting for! You ready?

Image by Mudassar Iqbal from Pixabay