2. Training Overview Monday: planning and pre-production
Wednesday: creating the video
Friday: post-production

3. Scope of this series: How to plan, create, and edit short videos for
instruction or marketing purposes
using tools
you have on your computer
are free to download or
are available from Walden.

4. Post-production Takeaways
Understand basic video editing techniques such as cutting video and adding transitions, and audio.
Become familiar with editing best practices.
Understand web accessibility requirements for videos

5. Video editing tips & best practices
Keep it simple
Be consistent
Always have a reason for your edits
Organization is a life saver
Save, save, save, and then back it up

6. Conceptualizing the edits
Shawn’s editing formula, or the magic behind the curtain…

7. Editing software Video Editing Software Windows Movie Maker
(part of Windows Essentials, free to download)
List of video editing software (Wikipedia)
Comparison of video editing software (Wikipedia)
Audio Editing Software
Audacity (OS X/Windows, free)

8. Movie Maker: getting started
Video file formats: all standard video file formats
list of Movie Maker file formats (video/audio)
Video converters:
Handbrake
Freemake Video Converter
Any Video Converter
Audio file formats:
list of Movie Maker file formats (audio/video)
Audio converters
Freemake
Format Factory

9. Movie Maker: getting started
Start a new project
Upload your audio and video files
Wait for files to convert

10. Movie Maker: editing the video
Cut out errors
Splice and move pieces around
Fade the audio in and out
Adjust the audio volume

11. Movie Maker: editing the video
Add title slides
Add transitions
Add credits
Add captions/texts
Experiment with video effects
Grab a screenshot

12. Movie Maker: saving and publishing the project
Save as you go!
Save the project
Publish the project
Save the published video file

13. Let’s edit a video!

14. Audacity: audio editor
Beyond our scope; here are some resources.
Audacity manual and tutorials
Podcasting with Audacity Video Tutorials
(covers the basics of using Audacity)
A Full Introduction To Audacity (Part 1) (YouTube)

15. Web accessibility Captions (of the audio)
Transcripts (of the audio and video)
Must have pause/play controls for anything that auto-plays for more than 3 seconds (gifs shouldn’t auto-repeat)

16. Post-production: back to ADDIE
Implementation and Evaluation:
Save images from video for marketing and stuff
Where to publish the video?
Market the video
Decide the measures of success and then track and analyze the stats

17. Series Wrap-up
Watch videos for inspiration and to learn what the pros are doing
Google anything you don’t understand
Bookmark the training resources
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