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💜  HOW TO MAKE A GIF WITH PHOTOPEA 💜

Hey everyone! I recently got asked to do a tutorial on how I make my gifs. I know that many people (such as myself) don’t have access to Photoshop for various reasons but they’d like to get into gif making. When I started making gifs, I only had a free trial of Photoshop, but when that ran out, I had to find another way to make gifs. Enter Photopea! A free, web-based software that you can use anywhere and that works just like Photoshop! 

In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to make a basic gif like the one I did above. I use a macbook air, but it should be doable on a regular pc too!

If you found this helpful, feel free to share it with your friends! The tutorial can be found under the cut below 💜

THINGS YOU’LL NEED

A browser (I switch between Safari and Chrome, more about this later)

A screencapping software (like MPlayer OSX Extended) or, alternatively, a presentation program like Keynote or Powerpoint.

A program to screenrecord or a program that let’s you download from YouTube 

Lots of patience bc gifs are annoying little shits <3

1. GETTING A VIDEO BY SCREENRECORDING

First things first, you need to have the clip you want make a gif out of. There are plenty of ways that you can get them. I’ve seen some gifmakers say that they torrent entire movies and gif from that. The way I do is I screenrecord the part I want to gif directly from where I’m watching the movie or show (like Disney+ or Netflix [or something like 123movies if you’re a pirate 🏴‍☠️)]). That way, I don’t have to download the entire movie and I have just the part that I want.  

To screenrecord, I use my macbook’s built-in program called Screenshot. 

Open the program by pressing ctrl + command + 5 on your keyboard and you get these funny little buttons.

Click on the button that says record entire screen. The program is now recording your screen. Play the scene and make sure you expand the video into full screen so you get a full resolution. When you’re done, click the stop button that is at the top right of your screen (next to the wifi and battery symbols.)

If you don’t have Mac, I suggest you look into how to screenrecord on your computer, as I don’t know how other operating systems work. Sorry!

1B. GETTING A VIDEO FROM YOUTUBE WITH CLIPGRAB

Another way you can get videos is from Youtube. I use a program called ClipGrab for this. Download and open the program. You’ll get this window

Simply paste the link and chose the highest quality, then click ‘grab this clip!’. Done!

2. SCREENCAPPING

After we’ve obtained the clip we wanted, we can do this two ways. The first way is to use the program MPlayer OSX Extended. Here’s a tutorial on how to set it up, make sure you do this if it’s your first time using the program. Make sure that you have a special screenshot folder!

Open MPlayer, then go to file > open and find the video of the scene you screenrecorded or downloaded. MPlayer will now play the video. Use the left and right keys (< and >) to go go backwards or forwards 1 minute, but try not to move around too much because the software crashes if you do. If that happens, just click the reopen button when the popup comes on, and reload the video again.

When you’ve gotten to the point you want in the video, press the command + shift + s buttons at the same time and the program will now take a screencap of every single frame until you stop. 

If everything goes smoothly, you should find all your frames in your screenshot folder that you’ve made before when setting up the program! 

2B. USING A PRESENTATION SOFTWARE TO MAKE A GIF

If you want to skip the screencapping part and you want to have a fully completed gif, you can do the second option. That’s what I used to do before I got MPlayer. In my experience, it’s a really fast way to make a gif, but the quality isn’t really good. 

Here’s a tutorial on how to turn a slide into a gif in Keynote.

Here’s a similar tutorial on how to make a gif on PowerPoint.

Basically, you make sure that the size of your presentation is the same as your video, and that you make sure to export one slide into a gif. Also make sure that you export in the highest quality!

3. LOADING THE FRAMES IN PHOTOPEA

Finally, we can start giffing! As I said at the start, Photopea can be used anywhere, but I switch between Safari and Chrome. The reason why is that if I upload the frames in Chrome, the frames will be out of order. In Safari, that doesn’t happen, but the downside is that once I start editing, Safari will reload the page because it takes up too much memory. 

So, first I go to photopea.com on Safari. I click New Project and put in the same dimensions as the screencaps (in my case, they are 1440x900 px). You’ll get an empty project. 

Then click file > open & place and select your screenshots. Wait until Photopea has loaded all the frames, then, at the speed of light, quickly click file > save as psd before Safari reloads! You’ll find it in your folder where all your downloads are.

Next, I open Chrome (I use the incognito window because I have adblock on my usual Chrome, the program won’t work as usual if you have it enabled) and I click Open From Computer, locate your saved .psd file that you saved from Safari. 

Now, you’ll see all the frames as individual layers. Select everything by clicking on the first layer, then golding the shift button and clicking on the last layer. Press command + G to group the frames into a folder. Here’s how everything should look after you’ve grouped the layers.

^^ See how Agnes approves! Agnes things you’re going a great job!

Now, it’s time to crop the gif and get rid of the black borders. Making sure that the folder is selected, click on the crop tool (or press C) and click on Fixed Size

W is Width and H is Height, write in your sizing here. Tumblr’s max width is 540, so I put the width as such. For the height, I use 405. Then you just drag the corners until you’ve selected the part that you want, like this

Press enter and the image will be sized down 540x405 px. 

Now, our gif looks like this after cropping!

Open the folder so you can see all the layers. Select all your layers and right click on them, then click rasterize. 

Then, go to layer > animation > make frames. You’ll now see that each layer begins with _a_ - this is crucial because this is how Photopea knows that the layers are part of a gif. If your layers don’t begin with _a_, then it will not play as a gif

If you instead already have a gif done, all you have to do instead is simply click open from computer when you first open Photopea and load your already finished gif and it’ll have the _a_ at the start of every layer. You won’t have to go through the steps of loading your frames into a new project to make your gif as it’s already done and in a folder :) Just start cropping once you load it

You can preview your work by going to file > export as > gif. Make sure to change the speed in the preview window until your gif plays the way you want it! I put my speed at 500%

4. SHARPENING

Hooray, we now have our gif! But to make it look a little nicer, it’s good to sharpen it. I always use Smart Sharpen when I sharpen my gifs, and many other gifmakers use that too. It’s really good :D

To sharpen your gif, again, make sure that all your layers are selected. Go to filter > sharpen > smart sharpen. I use two different settings for my gifs, it really depends on the gif.

Setting 1 (which is the default setting)

Setting 2 

 Again, it depends on the gif, play around until it looks good to you!

Here’s our gif after sharpening it 

I ended up deleting the last few layers as the gif got bigger than 10mb (that’s Tumblr’s file limit, it your file is bigger than 10mb, it won’t upload). I also added a gradient map and it made the file size smaller, more about that in the next segment!

5. COLORING

Here’s the fun part! Now we get to play around with the gif, making it brighter and look Extra Nice™!  Since this is a black and white scene, I make sure that the blacks and the whites really pop. 

Notice how in the original scene it’s not actually b&w, it has a slight sepia tint to it. I want to remove this, so I add a gradient map by clicking on the white square with a black circle (I want to point out that we’ll be clicking on this button a lot in this step)

and I change the blending mode to Saturation

Then I add a curves layer using these settings

Then a second curves layer

Brightness/contrast 

Then my favourite! Selective color! First layer, I deepen up the blacks

Then another selective color layer, this time the whites

Lastly the neutrals

Here we have the final results!

Wasn’t this a gas! I hope this helped you out, let me know if you want to know anything else about gifmaking, I’m happy to help! Also, sorry if I wasn’t very clear, I’m bad at explaining 🙈

MORE RESOURCES:

Here are some other tutorials that are really helpful in making gifs. These users use Photoshop, but you can still use their tips most of the time in Photopea too, you just need to play around and see what works for you!

Gifmaking for beginners by @chloezhao (this one saved my life)

Pale coloring tutorial by @itsphotoshop

Two-Toned Gif Background by @clubgif​

Text with white outline tutorial by @anya-chalotra​

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How to make a lyric video for your song (without using Motion or After Effects)

Lyric video: a video that shows your song lyrics while the music plays. [Pretty self-explanatory.]

Not only are lyric videos a great and manageable way to keep your video content coming in between bigger projects that involve more complicated production, but I’ve found they can actually be a lot of fun to make.

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A few things to keep in mind:

I’m not a video guy. Every time I make one of my own lyric videos it’s a process of trial and error. A pro could probably create something twice as good in half the time, but I enjoy playing around to find solutions on my own. Plus, video budget? (Pshaw).

You can make really cool lyric videos with programs like Motion and After Effects. I didn’t. For one, those programs cost money (see pshaw above). But diving into one of those programs would mean I have yet another learning curve to climb. I’m interested in exploring Motion at some point, but in between family, work, and everything else, I’d rather use what time is leftover to make music and bang out some videos, not hunker down in the lab for days on end. Maybe those programs are easier to use than I’m imagining, and I’m missing out (let me know in the comments), but for the sake of this article, let’s just refer back to the zero-budget appeal of making lyric videos WITHOUT Motion or After Effects.

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Beginner tips for making lyric videos

Open your movie-making software and set your new project’s aspect ratio to 16:9.

Import your song and any other media (like video clips, still images, logos, etc.) that you plan to use.

Move your first clip or background image to the project pane. If you plan to use one static background image the whole time, you can click and drag to adjust the duration that it appears so it’s long enough to display during your whole song.

Place your song into the project pane. If you want it to start playing right away, drag it all the way to the left. If you have a title page or some other introductory elements, you can leave a little room before the song starts.

Use “titles” to place the lyrics on the video at the appropriate time during the song, matching with the vocals.

Use a font size and style that’s readable (or that looks cool at the very least).

Position your titles on the video (again, by dragging) so they appear in a place that’s legible. For instance, if you’re using a still image of a sandy beach below a light gray sky, you don’t want white font to appear over that sky. Better to drag it down so it appears with starker contrast over the dark sand.

Make adjustments to the length of the titles (you can do this by clicking and dragging) to smooth out the transition from line to line.

Watch your whole video a few times through and make any needed fixes.

Export your video file and upload it to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, etc.

Some tricks to spice up your lyric videos

This is the lyric video for my single “Collapsing Star” — a long fade-out kind of song about devotion in the face of aging — so I thought the visuals should do exactly what the music and lyrics do: fade, shrink, collapse.

The creation of this video involved some really basic elements:

Still images of space that slowly evolve — I wanted there to be a extraterrestrial time-lapse effect, so I used some super hi-res photos from Unsplash, applied a very long cross-fade between each transition, and also used just an imperceptible touch of “Ken Burns” (an effect that creates some motion using a still image).

A shrinking sun — Scientifically speaking, I know stars don’t collapse in this way; they usually get big and bright before dwindling into white dwarfs or black holes. But I thought a slowly shrinking star would paint the lyrics in a haunting way, so I used Canva to create dozens of colored circles, each one small than the next. I then placed them on the timeline with overlap so that each one could (like the space images) fade into the next and depict shrinking. With the addition of some blur and some “stencil” effects, I was able to hint at dark sun spots and the rippling surface of a star, as well as the halo around a star.

The twinkle of space — Because I was using static images, I needed to add some other light effects that made for a kind of twinkle or oscillation in the background stars. The main one I relied on was the “sketch” effect in FCPX.

This is the lyric video to my song “Irretrievable Beauty.” To create it I followed all the basic steps mentioned above, but here are a few of the bonus elements I added for (hopefully) extra impact:

Additional text — No one ever said a lyric video should contain ONLY your lyrics. So I wrote a bunch of other text (a letter from the 22nd-Century) and placed my lyrics within it. Check out the video and what I’m describing will make more sense.

Color contrast of text — The actual lyrics of the song needed to be easily readable, so they’re all in black against a lighter background. The rest of the words are white, and it’s fine if they roll by without anyone being able to read them all. I intended to create the feeling of being flooded by text, so lots of it is supposed to wash over you.

Public domain image — I found a super hi-res image from 1905 to use for the background of the video (and my cover artwork too), and slowly zoomed in throughout the whole video.

Above is the lyric video for my song “1+1+1=3.” Some of the things I did to make this video:

Slow fade between different versions of the same photo — The background image for this video is the same as the cover artwork, a photo I took of arithmetic on a chalkboard. I then applied different filters to the photo to create three separate versions. While editing the video, I started by laying the three images out in a repeating pattern and then cross fading them all so it looks like there’s some kind of slow transformation happening.

More extra text — The additional text in this video is nowhere near as crazy as in “Irretrievable Beauty,” but I wanted to add a few bits here and there. You’ll spot ’em.

Directly reference the subject matter — The song is called “1+1+1=3.” Yes, it’s about love, but the math element was a fun visual reference point. Arithmetic on a chalkboard. Strange equations in the text. Etc. What’s the visual reference in your song?

Above is the lyric video for my song “Silently.” Some things I did to create this one:

Hyperlapse sunset — One afternoon when I was visiting Oregon, I ran up to the top of Mt. Tabor (an extinct volcano in the heart of Southeast Portland) and found a good spot to film the changing sky as dusk fell. I made sure to be out of the way of anyone who might walk in front of the camera and ruin the looooooong time-lapse shot. Hyperlapse is a free app from Instagram, and it makes it easy to shoot long videos and then speed them up at various rates. I think my 4-minute music video required about 45 minutes of footage.

Intro titles from Word Swag — If you read this blog frequently, you probably know I love Word Swag, a free app that lets you add cool fonts to images. I used Word Swag to create both the circle logo at the beginning with my name in it, and also the “Silently” title. You could use this app to create text for every single lyric, but that’d get time consuming so I just ended up using it for those two elements at the beginning. For this purpose, within Word Swag you’ll usually want to lay the font over a transparent background so you can fly it into whatever video you’re creating without disrupting the moving footage. [Note: I used Word Swag to create the intro text for all the lyric videos below.]

Sketch effect — I then added some built-in effects, including a color saturation effect and two doses of a sketch illustration effect, to make the video look grainy and lo-fi. Like I said above, this wasn’t premeditated. Just playing around with effects to see what looked promising. On that note…

Earthquake wobble effect — I used the earthquake effect because I thought it kind of made the text look like it was on a transparent slide overlay that was out of focus for a second.

Alternating pacing of lyric appearances — Sometimes the lyrics appear and disappear with the vocal. Sometimes certain lines linger. I just went by feel, and payed more attention to how the titles looked laid out across the screen than anything particularly musical.

Alternating the color of the text — This is another obvious way to add some variation if you feel like your lyric video is too much of the same thing: change the colors of the lyrics!

Here’s a video for a song called “Morning Edition” which I posted right before the election in 2016. The recording is actually just a super lo-fi Garageband demo, but I only had two weeks until election day, and I figured if I’m going to make some kind of statement, there’s no time to wait to get my band into a proper studio. So, a few notes about this lyric video:

A lyric video can still have live action — I’ve never really liked the distinction between “music video” and “lyric video,” as if one is more legit and exciting than the other. As someone who listens to lyrics just as much as the music, I love good lyric videos, and I think there can be an interesting hybrid between these two approaches. For “Morning Edition” I lip-synced to my song, 10 seconds at a time, while using the Face-Swap tool in Snapchat to graft a certain someone’s mug onto mine. Then I edited all those takes together and applied a sharp contrast filter to blend the background of the Snapchat clips with the large black borders on both sides of the clips.

Did I say the lyrics have to be legible? — Well sure, it’s good to have legible lyrics, but I don’t think they need to be HUGE if that means you’re ruining the aesthetic of the video. For this one I figured I’d keep the text in a thin minimalist font at the top of the screen, out of the way of my face, and anyone who really wanted to read along could watch the video in full-screen mode.

Here’s the lyric video for my song “Veterans Day.” By complete accident — again, lots of playing around with built-in options — it ended up with a kind of Zen art aesthetic. Here’s how:

Stock video — I looked through tons of stock video sites to find an affordable, hi-res clip that could be used as the background for the whole video. I ended up buying (for less than $10) a short video of milk being poured into a clear glass of water with a black background. But 6 seconds of video wasn’t going to cut it for a 5 minute song, so I…

Slowed the clip WAY down — I stretched the clip as long as it could go and still only had about 2.5 minutes’ worth. So then I…

Reversed the clip — By duplicating the clip I had 2.5 minutes of forward motion, and 2.5 minutes of backwards motion. So the result is like a palindrome, or like that famous bass solo on “Call Me Al.” Halfway through, the whole thing turns around and the milk goes back into the bottle by the end. Another accident that I ended up enjoying.

Color inversion — I used the built-in tools to invert the colors so the white milk became like black ink, and the black background turned to a light gray.

B&W — I then took that video and turned it to black and white, which ended up darkening the whole thing in a nice way.

Scrolling text — One of the built-in title options on many video software programs allows you to scroll text vertically, like the end credits of a film. I used this effect separately for each verse and chorus of the song. Then I did another layer of scrolling text with just a bunch of randomly spaced letters and symbols, with a high transparency on the font so it appears as a graphic element, and I think it gives the whole video a kind a translucent papery feel.

Here’s a few things you might be able to learn from the lyric video to my song “Premiere:”

Still photos are your friend — Check out royalty-free photo sites such as Unsplash. I made the entire video for “Premiere” using photos I found on that site. The one risk you run is that other artists use the same photos in their work, but you can always tweak the images so they’re barely recognizable as I did with the milk video in “Veterans Day.”

Don’t be afraid of Ken Burns — He has a built-in video effect named after him for a reason; that technique of zooming in and out on still photos can be really effective for creating mood. Dynamics! Don’t go crazy or anything with the motion, but a little Ken Burns here and there can make flat photos come to life.

Mix and match fonts — I used a bunch of different kinds of fonts on “Premiere,” giving each section of the song its own feel.

Apply effects and transitions to the titles (text) too — Don’t forget that many of the same effects you can use on pictures and video will work to give your lyrics an interesting look as well.

Don’t publish your video until you’ve proofread it a dozen times! — If you watched my lyric video for “Premiere” you might’ve found a typo. Whoops. I didn’t catch it until it’d been posted for over a week, and by then… oh well. Staring at text while you’re editing gets tiring. Your brain tricks you. While you’re in the process of creating, you might not catch something that seems glaringly incorrect later on. So get some bandmates and friends to watch the video a few times to make sure you don’t have any spelling or grammar issues on your lyrics (I mean, besides the usual grammar or syntactical issues that ALL lyrics have). Another way to limit errors is to…

Write your lyrics out in Word and then paste them into your titles — When you type your lyrics in Word first, you get the benefit of the program’s spellcheck system. Some of the popular video editing software doesn’t have spellcheck, so paste those lyrics in after you’ve vetted them in the external doc.

Okay, those are some of the tricks I’ve used to make my lyric videos more interesting than just white font on a black background, all without paying for extra software or expensive stock footage and images. Hopefully they’re helpful as you create your next video.

Do you have any advice to add? I’d love to hear it. Holler in the comments below and be sure to post a link to your best lyric videos on YouTube!

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I’ve been assigned 2 different video projects conveniently at the same time. The first being for adobe photoshop. There, I have to utilize the basic video editing tools given by the program to make a simple 10 minute video. 10 minutes. That seemed like a long time. Well, before I worked on the project for Social Media Design. I think the objective for that project was to post a video on your youtube channel that is at least one minute long and basically promotes yourself in some way. I think I accomplished that. 

So let’s talk about that. My video is about 7 minutes long (cut from a total of 28 minutes of footage) and I put a decent amount of editing into the sucker. From music to fast forward sequences, I worked frustratedly into the night. I’d like to put emphasis on frustratedly. Is frustratedly a word? I think it is. It’s not being auto corrected. Anyways! No matter how hard the editing process got, there seemed to be a way around everything. Like, for instance- The software only allows you to speed up segments by 400%. That seems like enough, right? Wrong. Basically, I had to export and save that cut of the video and then import it as a new clip. Since it had already been sped up, I could then speed it up an additional 400%. This may not be groundbreaking to some people, but I was pretty proud of myself.

My video ended up being a “how to”, sort of. It’s basically me just drawing and mumbling like a half asleep jubrone, but I think that after the editing, its quite the charming video. It’s pretty fascinating. The things you can do and how easy it is to do them. Pretty fast too. Recording and editing everything took about 3-4 hours. My only hangup, however, was uploading the hunk of junk. I uploaded the thing like 6 times, and each time it screwed up my audio. Eventually, Youtube took it without ruining anything. Other than that, it was a pleasant learning experience. 

Editing a video is very much like editing a picture. Same frame work and tools almost. So it was an easy transition getting into the groove of things, Easier than I thought, at least. After I saw how easy it was to edit a video, I was eager to jump into things and get to work. I honestly can't wait for future video projects.

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Item: VidViral 2.0

Release Date: 2019-Sep-16

Release Time: 11:00 EDT

Front-End Cost: $27-$37

Sales Page: https://www.socialleadfreak.com/vidviral-2-0-review/

Particular niche:

What Is VidViral 2.0?

VidViral 2.0 is a Newest Updated Version of VidViral launched back in 2017.

VidViral 2.0 is a cloud based Video Booster that turns any kind of Video clip(YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Amazon.com s3 or self upload) into a Focus Ordering Masterpiece by adding Focus Grabbing elements to the video which directly talks with the visitor, making them Interested as well as actually forcing them to click on the play button, Inevitably obtaining more views as well as even more Traffic.

Users can include Engaging CTA Texts, Photos, Symbols, GIF's, Timeline Night clubs, Smileys to the Header & Footer of any kind of YouTube video clip or video clip on their disk. They can Make and also Download Completed videos or share on social media sites websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus as well as extra from a cloud based control panel.

VidViral 2.0 Review - Quality & Perks

Innovative remedies to involve with video

You can now add introductions, outros, images, icons, forms, GIF's as well as more to make exciting video clips that involve, delight, and also are a cut over the competition.

Make a wonderful first impression

With many terrific brand-new enhancements-- border frameworks, subtitles, font styles, images, backgrounds, to the newest version of VidViral, you can be assured of making a wonderful perception with your video meme from the second it begins having fun.

New elements included in help you inform your story

With countdown timers, emojis, timeline bars, as well as much more, you currently have a number of brand-new ways to order your visitor's attention, inform your tale and also involve with them.

Videos prepared in simply a few minutes

You only require to spend a few mins to make your video clips spectacular. You can get going immediately and build a library of wonderful video clip content in extremely little time.

Economical solution to increase your Videos Ads CTR

Video clips advertisements might melt your money if it fails to bring in video involvement. This will decrease your CTR. Yet with using VidViral, you can add custom-made headers and also footers and make your Videos standout. This will certainly lead to higher involvement and also enhance your Video clip Ads CTR, causing greater purchaser traffic at reduced advertisement invests.

Choice to choose your video resource

Usage video clips from YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, Amazon.com S3 or your own laptop computer or desktop computer to get going with your video memes right now.

Select from a collection of high converting themes

The latest variation of VidViral features 25+ square as well as 25+ upright high-converting templates to make sure that you can personalize your distinct video clips for Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest as well as lots of various other sites.

User friendly super-intuitive software application

With a new UI as well as an easy-to-use editor, VidViral brings you loads of attributes at the click of a button. You don't need to be a video editing expert-- you can make a spectacular video utilizing the easy drag as well as decrease attribute even if it's your initial attempt at video production.

Make your video clips go viral on social networks instantaneously

Not just can you keep your video clip meme on your own gadget however you can also publish your interesting video clip right to your social media web page in an immediate. Share your video clips on your social channel, spread understanding, go viral with your video content, and produce unlimited buyer traffic completely free!

Can Develop 50 Campaigns with FE

Export Videos upto 720p

Transform any Video Clip to Meme Video right into Square and Vertical format. (so it supports Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest along with Stories of Fb, Insta and Snapchat)

Access to High converting Themes - 50+ Consisting of 25 Square themes and 25 Vertical Design templates

Brand-new UI and Easy to use Editor

Include Countdown timer to the Video

Include Computer animated GIF's to the Video - Upload or Resource it from Giphy

Include Timeline Bar on top or base of the video clip - This bar display the video clip size.

Source Videos from Youtube, FB, Vimeo, Instagram, Dailymotion, Amazon.com S3 or from your Computer system

Accessibility to Substantial Image Gallery to utilize on the Videos - Upload or Resource it from UnSplash

Accessibility to Massive Icons Gallery to use on the Videos - Can Publish very own Symbols also

Accessibility to Backgrounds, Shapes, Lines as well as Videos

Social share - YouTube and also Facebook

Can deal with videos upto 30 minutes.

Verdict

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Sketch Maker PRO Review

Sketch Maker PRO Review - Are you searching for even more expertise concerning Sketch Maker PRO? Please review my straightforward evaluation regarding it before selecting, to review the weak points as well as toughness of it. Can it be worth your effort and time and also cash?

Introducing Sketch Maker PRO

The 5 Finest Explainer Videos (& & How to Make Your Own) (Component 3)

Step 2: Recording the Voiceovers

Once you have a manuscript, you'll require a voiceover. Some options are:

Voices.com: This site has a huge network of specialist voice stars to choose from.

Craigslist: Ah of course, old reputable. You can find just about anything on crazy Craigslist, consisting of voiceovers.

Fiverr: Yup, you can obtain a good voiceover for your explainer video clip for simply $5 on Fiverr! You'll possibly have to pay a little bit more than that ($5 is generally the starting price-- some fee by the second, others by the word. Chances are you won't be in the most affordable Sketch Maker PRO price bracket). Still, you aren't most likely to locate a voiceover anywhere for cheaper.

Action 3: Explainer Video Production

There are a number of various paths you can take when it comes down to the actual creation and manufacturing of your explainer video clip. Alternatives include ...

Highlight the Pros: There are some extremely skilled specialist video clip manufacturing business out there that can aid you make an awesome marketing video clip. You'll have some high explainer video clip prices if you go this path-- be prepared to pay out anywhere from $5,000 - $20,000 for a solution similar to this. The advantage is that you'll have video professionals aiding you every action of the means, and you're video clip is assured to look excellent. Trial Duck, Wyzowl, LessFilms, Flikli and also Studio Pigeon are a couple of explainer video business to think about.

Pow Toon: if you're making computer animated explainer videos, have no computer animation experience, yet want to do it on your own on a budget, Pow Toon is the method to go. Any individual with some basic computer skills can utilize this animated explainer video software. It likely won't be a masterpiece, but it's easy to create and free (to begin at the very least). They also have a guide collection to stroll you with building your development.

Do It Yourself Explainer Video with iPhone: That's right, you can movie your very own explainer video clip on your iPhone! This incredible article from Wistia will reveal you exactly how. Do It Yourself recording is a wonderful means to develop cheap explainer videos. For the editing, iMovie or Camtasia are good choices. If you intend to take on a Do It Yourself computer animated explainer video clip, this computer animation toolkit from Salsify can offer you with a lots of terrific animation devices and also sources.

Employ a Freelancer: Experienced freelancers can provide high-quality explainer video clip manufacturing aid at a much lower cost than a huge production firm. You need to be able to find one easily enough on craigslist or various other freelance sites.

Crowd Sourcing: One alternative you may give a go is the video crowd-sourcing business Video clip Brewery. Submit a general job review and also obtain a bunch of propositions from Video Brewery's network of relied on freelancers. Pick one you like and you get on your method! Sketch Maker PRO notes that these explainer video clip expenses normally run someplace between $3,000 - $5,000.

Step 4: Songs & & Noise Impacts

Chances are your animated explainer video and even your online action explainer video requires some wonderful sound impacts as well as music. Some locations to rack up tracks include ...

MusOpen: Supplying totally free songs sources such as recordings, sheet music, etc.

. Free Sound: A data source of Creative Commons accredited audio examples and recordings. YouTube: The king of video clip itself provides some complimentary background songs to make use of in video clip creations.

Audio Forest: Nobility cost-free audio documents consisting of loopholes, sound effects, and a lot more.

Audacity: This free device isn't a source of audio data, yet instead aids you create your own.

Keep in mind to check out the small print carefully on these websites with regards to what is or is not allowed under the audio documents's licensing arrangement. Some are an economical one-time purchase and also aristocracy free, others require attribution, etc .

Sketch Maker PRO Evaluation & Introduction

Maker: Jimmy Mancini

Product: Sketch Maker PRO

Launch Date: 2019-Apr-18

Release Time: 10:00 EDT

Front-End Rate: $18

Sales Web page: https://www.socialleadfreak.com/sketch-maker-pro-review-from-a-real-user/

Particular niche: Video

What Is Sketch Maker PRO?

Sketch Maker PRO is a brand-new Whiteboard Video clip Manufacturer that deals with any type of Internet browser connected to the Internet (Chrome, Firefox, Safari ...) enabling you to develop amazing Explainer Videos in Minutes and all is done on the Cloud!

Sketch Maker PRO Features & Conveniences

Advantages

Use it when you are online

Forget about downloading significant data, installing bulky software program, obtaining intallation mistakes or absence of space. Currently with the brand-new Sketch Maker PRO you just open your Browser (Chrome, Firefox ...) login as well as done; after that you can start creating outstanding Explainer Doodle Videos!

Produce Videos With Different Formats as well as Dimensions

We understand that you may want to produce video clips with differente sizes/dimensions, that's why we developed Sketch Maker PRO in such a way that will permit you to choose your preferred video clip layout 16:9 or 1:1 * (for social networks) or your preferred measurements, 1920x1080 *, 1280x720 *, 640x360 - * PRO PLUS Accounts Only).

Easy to make use of!

Yes, it is so easy to use! You simply select or drag and drop your preferred photos or include some message to the canvas preview and then preview it before developing your video. That's it!

Maintain a couple of Videos Online or Download them

When you crate a video clip, your video is stored on the cloud, after that you will certainly have the alternative to download it, maintain it saved online (restricted area) or delete it. So you can constantly monitor your 'Master Pieces':-RRB-.

Export it in Minutes (Making)

Some 'other' devices on the marketplace make you wait a long, long, time to produce a video clip. Sketch Maker PRO making engine is among one of the most effective as well as fastest on the market, so you obtain Impressive Whiteboard Videos done very quick! (* if your video clip is as well large it will certainly take longer that common, it wil depend exactly how busy the server in fact is, but generally is quick).

Produce Fantastic White Boards Videos in Minutes (Save Time & Cash)

There is no need to pay a designer or a company to do it for you, you simply spend a few minutes and you will certainly get it done! Map out maker PRO will certainly allow you to create fantastic explainer videos, that look professional as well as are done quick! Saving you Money And Time!

Functions

FUNCTION 1: Add the consisted of Images or your OWN photos

We have actually consisted of a number of photos for you to select from, beginning with animated SVG pictures to wonderful looking personalities from various particular niches. You simply need to browse the consisted of classifications and choose the one that fits your specific niche.

And also, we have actually added the alternative to upload your very own pictures or logo designs (Just on PRO accounts), so you can individualize your video clips even more. You just click on the upload switch, post your photos and then they will stay saved on the server (restricted MEGABYTES per account).

FEATURE 2: Include Text

Adding message to your explainer video clips is much more easy then ever before, you just compose your text, click the include switch and also the message will certainly be added to the sneak peek (and also in the future your explainer video clip). As Easy as that!

You can individualize your text by changing the font kind, typeface size and font style shade! Plus the message is integrated with the audio of your video clips so if we include the hand composing impact (consisted of) your video clips will certainly look impressive!

ATTRIBUTE 3: Include the consisted of backgrounds or add your OWN Backgrounds

We have actually included some wonderful backgrounds for you to choose from, there are some great histories however certainly you will have the option to get even a lot more histories (optional).

You just require to go to the background's tab as well as scroll down to have the ability to see all the readily available histories!

ATTRIBUTE 4: Add History Songs Tracks (Included or your own)

Sketch Maker PRO features a few music tracks to contribute to your videos (around 3 minutes each), yet you might have the option to upload your own songs as well.

You'll have the alternative to get monthly songs tracks (optional).

ATTRIBUTE 5: Add Text To Speech * (optional), Add Your Own Audio File or Record Your Voice

Sketch Maker PRO comes with several Human-like Text To Speech voices to add to your video clips (optional).

You'll have the alternative to tape your very own voice using your OWN microphone * or simply publish SHORT audio data * to develop your video clips. * PRO PLUS Accounts Just).

FUNCTION 6: Preview an Slide or All your Animation (Adjustment hands also!)

You can sneak peek your video prior to rendering it. You can preview each slide or all your computer animation on the preview canvas.

Plus you can change the hands made use of, also the pens/pencils the hand utilizes to simulated the composing message could be changed!

FUNCTION 7: Slide Consequences, Allocation, Download Your Video clips!

We've included the option to use some slides effects, even an arbitrary impact is consisted of to enable you to provide your video clips a much more professional appearance!

Inside your account's web page you will have the ability to see your individual information as well as your Allocation per day! We've included a distinct web page to enable you to access all the videos you have actually produced, you can simply download them by clicking the download switch.

Rate & Evaluation

Front-End $17.95: Sketch Maker PRO (PRO Variation).

Produce 48 Video clips per day (2 video clips per hour)

Shop 10 Sketch Videos (Cloud)

Up to 10 slides per task

10 Songs Tracks

20 Backgrounds

144 SVG Characters

199 SVG Path animation images

Publish very own Images/Music/Backgrounds (5mb)

OTO 1 (Month-to-month) $12.95

Develop 96 Videos per day (4 videos per hr)

Shop 20 Lay Out Video Clips (Cloud)

As much as 30 slides per job

10 Songs Tracks Monthly

10 Backgrounds Monthly

50 SVG Personalities Monthly

100 SVG Path computer animation photos Monthly

Submit very own Images/Music/Backgrounds (50mb)

Text To Speech Voices

TTS Summary: 28 Voices/ 11 Languages

OTO 2 $19.95: Commercial Certificate.

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Conclusion

" It's A Good deal. Should I Spend Today?"

Not just are you getting accessibility to Sketch Maker PRO for the very best cost ever before supplied, however additionally You're spending entirely without danger. Sketch Maker PRO include a 30-day Money Back Assurance Policy. When you select Sketch Maker PRO, your contentment is guaranteed. If you are not totally pleased with it for any type of factor within the very first 1 month, you're qualified to a full refund - no question asked. You have actually got absolutely nothing to shed! What Are You Waiting on? Attempt It today and get The Complying with Bonus offer Now!

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Creating a good lyric video for less than $10

How to make a lyric video for your song (without using Motion or After Effects)

Lyric video: a video that shows your song lyrics while the music plays. [Pretty self-explanatory.]

Not only are lyric videos a great and manageable way to keep your video content coming in between bigger projects that involve more complicated production, but I’ve found they can actually be a lot of fun to make.

Below I’m going to talk about how I created six different lyric videos along with info on some of the FREE tools I used.

A few things to keep in mind:

I’m not a video guy. Every time I make one of my own lyric videos it’s a process of trial and error. A pro could probably create something twice as good in half the time, but I enjoy playing around to find solutions on my own. Plus, video budget? (Pshaw).

You can make really cool lyric videos with programs like Motion and After Effects. I didn’t. For one, those programs cost money (see pshaw above). But diving into one of those programs would mean I have yet another learning curve to climb. I’m interested in exploring Motion at some point, but in between family, work, and everything else, I’d rather use what time is leftover to make music and bang out some videos, not hunker down in the lab for days on end. Maybe those programs are easier to use than I’m imagining, and I’m missing out (let me know in the comments), but for the sake of this article, let’s just refer back to the zero-budget appeal of making lyric videos WITHOUT Motion or After Effects.

That leaves you with free video editing software like iMovie or Windows Movie Maker. Pros might scoff at these intro-level video production tools, but when you combine them with a few other tricks, plus some creativity, I think you can create compelling lyric videos with little more than what comes loaded on most desktops, tablets, or smartphones. [Full disclosure: I used Final Cut Pro X on three out of the four videos below, but I’d worked in iMovie for long enough before that to know most of the things I’m doing in FCPX can be done in iMovie.]

Beginner tips for making lyric videos

Open your movie-making software and set your new project’s aspect ratio to 16:9.

Import your song and any other media (like video clips, still images, logos, etc.) that you plan to use.

Move your first clip or background image to the project pane. If you plan to use one static background image the whole time, you can click and drag to adjust the duration that it appears so it’s long enough to display during your whole song.

Place your song into the project pane. If you want it to start playing right away, drag it all the way to the left. If you have a title page or some other introductory elements, you can leave a little room before the song starts.

Use “titles” to place the lyrics on the video at the appropriate time during the song, matching with the vocals.

Use a font size and style that’s readable (or that looks cool at the very least).

Position your titles on the video (again, by dragging) so they appear in a place that’s legible. For instance, if you’re using a still image of a sandy beach below a light gray sky, you don’t want white font to appear over that sky. Better to drag it down so it appears with starker contrast over the dark sand.

Make adjustments to the length of the titles (you can do this by clicking and dragging) to smooth out the transition from line to line.

Watch your whole video a few times through and make any needed fixes.

Export your video file and upload it to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, etc.

Some tricks to spice up your lyric videos

This is the lyric video to my song “Irretrievable Beauty.” To create it I followed all the basic steps mentioned above, but here are a few of the bonus elements I added for (hopefully) extra impact:

Additional text — No one ever said a lyric video should contain ONLY your lyrics. So I wrote a bunch of other text (a letter from the 22nd-Century) and placed my lyrics within it. Check out the video and what I’m describing will make more sense.

Color contrast of text — The actual lyrics of the song needed to be easily readable, so they’re all in black against a lighter background. The rest of the words are white, and it’s fine if they roll by without anyone being able to read them all. I intended to create the feeling of being flooded by text, so lots of it is supposed to wash over you.

Public domain image — I found a super hi-res image from 1905 to use for the background of the video (and my cover artwork too), and slowly zoomed in throughout the whole video.

Above is the lyric video for my song “1+1+1=3.” Some of the things I did to make this video:

Slow fade between different versions of the same photo — The background image for this video is the same as the cover artwork, a photo I took of arithmetic on a chalkboard. I then applied different filters to the photo to create three separate versions. While editing the video, I started by laying the three images out in a repeating pattern and then cross fading them all so it looks like there’s some kind of slow transformation happening.

More extra text — The additional text in this video is nowhere near as crazy as in “Irretrievable Beauty,” but I wanted to add a few bits here and there. You’ll spot ’em.

Directly reference the subject matter — The song is called “1+1+1=3.” Yes, it’s about love, but the math element was a fun visual reference point. Arithmetic on a chalkboard. Strange equations in the text. Etc. What’s the visual reference in your song?

Above is the lyric video for my song “Silently.” Some things I did to create this one:

Hyperlapse sunset — One afternoon when I was visiting Oregon, I ran up to the top of Mt. Tabor (an extinct volcano in the heart of Southeast Portland) and found a good spot to film the changing sky as dusk fell. I made sure to be out of the way of anyone who might walk in front of the camera and ruin the looooooong time-lapse shot. Hyperlapse is a free app from Instagram, and it makes it easy to shoot long videos and then speed them up at various rates. I think my 4-minute music video required about 45 minutes of footage.

Intro titles from Word Swag — If you read this blog frequently, you probably know I love Word Swag, a free app that lets you add cool fonts to images. I used Word Swag to create both the circle logo at the beginning with my name in it, and also the “Silently” title. You could use this app to create text for every single lyric, but that’d get time consuming so I just ended up using it for those two elements at the beginning. For this purpose, within Word Swag you’ll usually want to lay the font over a transparent background so you can fly it into whatever video you’re creating without disrupting the moving footage. [Note: I used Word Swag to create the intro text for all the lyric videos below.]

Sketch effect — I then added some built-in effects, including a color saturation effect and two doses of a sketch illustration effect, to make the video look grainy and lo-fi. Like I said above, this wasn’t premeditated. Just playing around with effects to see what looked promising. On that note…

Earthquake wobble effect — I used the earthquake effect because I thought it kind of made the text look like it was on a transparent slide overlay that was out of focus for a second.

Alternating pacing of lyric appearances — Sometimes the lyrics appear and disappear with the vocal. Sometimes certain lines linger. I just went by feel, and payed more attention to how the titles looked laid out across the screen than anything particularly musical.

Alternating the color of the text — This is another obvious way to add some variation if you feel like your lyric video is too much of the same thing: change the colors of the lyrics!

Here’s a video for a song called “Morning Edition” which I posted right before the election in 2016. The recording is actually just a super lo-fi Garageband demo, but I only had two weeks until election day, and I figured if I’m going to make some kind of statement, there’s no time to wait to get my band into a proper studio. So, a few notes about this lyric video:

A lyric video can still have live action — I’ve never really liked the distinction between “music video” and “lyric video,” as if one is more legit and exciting than the other. As someone who listens to lyrics just as much as the music, I love good lyric videos, and I think there can be an interesting hybrid between these two approaches. For “Morning Edition” I lip-synced to my song, 10 seconds at a time, while using the Face-Swap tool in Snapchat to graft a certain someone’s mug onto mine. Then I edited all those takes together and applied a sharp contrast filter to blend the background of the Snapchat clips with the large black borders on both sides of the clips.

Did I say the lyrics have to be legible? — Well sure, it’s good to have legible lyrics, but I don’t think they need to be HUGE if that means you’re ruining the aesthetic of the video. For this one I figured I’d keep the text in a thin minimalist font at the top of the screen, out of the way of my face, and anyone who really wanted to read along could watch the video in full-screen mode.

Here’s the lyric video for my song “Veterans Day.” By complete accident — again, lots of playing around with built-in options — it ended up with a kind of Zen art aesthetic. Here’s how:

Stock video — I looked through tons of stock video sites to find an affordable, hi-res clip that could be used as the background for the whole video. I ended up buying (for less than $10) a short video of milk being poured into a clear glass of water with a black background. But 6 seconds of video wasn’t going to cut it for a 5 minute song, so I…

Slowed the clip WAY down — I stretched the clip as long as it could go and still only had about 2.5 minutes’ worth. So then I…

Reversed the clip — By duplicating the clip I had 2.5 minutes of forward motion, and 2.5 minutes of backwards motion. So the result is like a palindrome, or like that famous bass solo on “Call Me Al.” Halfway through, the whole thing turns around and the milk goes back into the bottle by the end. Another accident that I ended up enjoying.

Color inversion — I used the built-in tools to invert the colors so the white milk became like black ink, and the black background turned to a light gray.

B&W — I then took that video and turned it to black and white, which ended up darkening the whole thing in a nice way.

Scrolling text — One of the built-in title options on many video software programs allows you to scroll text vertically, like the end credits of a film. I used this effect separately for each verse and chorus of the song. Then I did another layer of scrolling text with just a bunch of randomly spaced letters and symbols, with a high transparency on the font so it appears as a graphic element, and I think it gives the whole video a kind a translucent papery feel.

Here’s a few things you might be able to learn from the lyric video to my song “Premiere:”

Still photos are your friend — Check out royalty-free photo sites such as Unsplash. I made the entire video for “Premiere” using photos I found on that site. The one risk you run is that other artists use the same photos in their work, but you can always tweak the images so they’re barely recognizable as I did with the milk video in “Veterans Day.”

Don’t be afraid of Ken Burns — He has a built-in video effect named after him for a reason; that technique of zooming in and out on still photos can be really effective for creating mood. Dynamics! Don’t go crazy or anything with the motion, but a little Ken Burns here and there can make flat photos come to life.

Mix and match fonts — I used a bunch of different kinds of fonts on “Premiere,” giving each section of the song its own feel.

Apply effects and transitions to the titles (text) too — Don’t forget that many of the same effects you can use on pictures and video will work to give your lyrics an interesting look as well.

Don’t publish your video until you’ve proofread it a dozen times! — If you watched my lyric video for “Premiere” you might’ve found a typo. Whoops. I didn’t catch it until it’d been posted for over a week, and by then… oh well. Staring at text while you’re editing gets tiring. Your brain tricks you. While you’re in the process of creating, you might not catch something that seems glaringly incorrect later on. So get some bandmates and friends to watch the video a few times to make sure you don’t have any spelling or grammar issues on your lyrics (I mean, besides the usual grammar or syntactical issues that ALL lyrics have). Another way to limit errors is to…

Write your lyrics out in Word and then paste them into your titles — When you type your lyrics in Word first, you get the benefit of the program’s spellcheck system. Some of the popular video editing software doesn’t have spellcheck, so paste those lyrics in after you’ve vetted them in the external doc.

Okay, those are some of the tricks I’ve used to make my lyric videos more interesting than just white font on a black background, all without paying for extra software or expensive stock footage and images. Hopefully they’re helpful as you create your next video.

Do you have any advice to add? I’d love to hear it. Holler in the comments below and be sure to post a link to your best lyric videos on YouTube!

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