Have you heard a chat GPT? Good! Because you can
forget about that because Canva has its own version called Magic Write
and I have to say if you're a content creator like me it's so much better!
You will never have to sit and stare at a blank piece of paper waiting for inspiration.
Canva's Magic Write is a simple but very powerful writing tool that will allow you to create high quality
documents in seconds. So in this video I'm going to share with you everything you need to know
about Magic Write so far and how to use Magic Write to create content in seconds like this
Instagram carousel. Also before you rush headlong into publishing that book that's been on the back
burner for months please stay tuned because I've got some quick but very important points to share
with you regarding AI and copyright. Okay let's dive into Canva.
Let me first answer a couple of potential questions you might have
So who can use Magic Write? Essentially everybody can
use Magic Write apart from people who use Canva for Education. If you have a free Canva account
you have a total of 25 queries and that doesn't reset every month or every year, it is in total.
If you have Canva Pro you have up to 75 queries per month. Each query is limited to 500 words.
Since Magic Write is in Open Beta at the moment it's only available in five languages: English,
French, Spanish, Portuguese and Indonesian, but I'm fairly certain that will change and
more languages will be added in time. There are some very important copyright issues that I need
to share with you at the end of this video but for now let's dive into the fun stuff.
Currently there's only one way to access Magic Write and that
is via Canva Docs. You'll find Canva Docs from your home page by
clicking on this little button here or clicking on the thumbnail image.
This will open up a blank document in the design editor. At the top you'll find a handy toolbar of
text editing features. A blank document will have an example of a heading at the top and a little
bit of body text. You don't have to delete this text before you get started, just start typing.
The text will be formatted according to the Brand Kit you're currently in. So I'm sure most
of you will just have one Brand Kit which will be your own. But if you're a virtual assistant or
a freelancer and you work with different clients you can easily change your Brand Kit from within
the design editor. Click on the little downward arrow to access the text drop down menu, find
where your Brand Kit is located, click on this little downward arrow to change your Brand Kit.
And you can do that directly within the design editor. Of course you're free to use any of the
fonts in the usual way, you have no restrictions unless of course there's a little crown icon next
to text and that means that's a Pro font. To begin adding magic to your Canva Doc just hover
your cursor over this little plus icon and click on it and that will open up a new menu of magical
writing options. And here is where you will find Magic Write. But before we get started
I do need to show you how to use the other features because you'll need to know how to
use them so that you can transform your document into something like these beautiful templates.
At the top of the menu you can quickly add a heading a subheading and some body text.
Underneath you have the option to add a table quickly into your Canva Doc.
Use your cursor to select however many rows and columns you want to add.
Add text by placing your cursor within a cell clicking on it and then start typing.
If you want to learn more about how to create beautiful tables in a Canva document make sure
you watch this video, I will leave the link in the description box underneath.
Next in the menu you will find data charts and you have three sorts: you have pie charts,
bar charts and line charts. Just click on one of the icons to add it to your document.
Doing so will bring up a data menu on the left hand side of your screen in which you'll be able
to add all the data that you need. Customising the data within a chart is incredibly easy,
in fact it's now possible to upload data into a Canva chart using a CSV file.
Going back to the document, underneath the data charts you will find a tool which will enable you
to embed a link from another website and even a link to a template in Canva. Click on 'Embed', now
copy and paste the link into this box provided. So for example to add a link to a YouTube video paste
the link into this box, hit enter and your YouTube thumbnail image will appear in your document.
Now just double-click the thumbnail image to start the video.
It's also possible to share links to Canva
templates in the same way. So I'm just going to get rid of my video
and from my Canva home page I'm going to select the document I want to share,
selecting the link to share it, so in my case 'View only' link. I'm going to copy that link
I'm going to go back into my Canva Doc, find the embed option again,
click on it and then paste that link into the space provided and then just hit enter.
And there it is!
I need to double click on the thumbnail image to activate it but after that I
can scroll through the different pages and even play any videos contained within it.
Underneath 'Embed' you'll find a handy little timer which you can use if you're working in a
Canva Doc with a team and you have say a 3-minute window to have a chat with
your team. Just click on the start button to start the countdown timer and keep you on track.
Underneath the timer you can add a design. Now this is really handy and it would look lovely
at the top of a blog post or an article. Click on 'Design' and Canva will magically present you
with a bunch of beautiful pre-formatted templates from within the design editor,
so you can use any of these in your Doc. Select the template you like the look of.
Unfortunately at the current time you can't do a quick re-brand using your Brand Kit because
they're not available at the moment. So as a quick work-around you can use the Styles
option and Recent Designs to quickly add your own brand fonts and colours to your template.
Alternatively of course if you don't like any of the templates you can design your
own in the usual way. Once you're finished give your banner a name,
click on Save and Canva will magically add it to your Canva Doc.
Now let's have a look at Magic Write! Click on the plus icon again and select Magic Write.
Now type in your search query using five or more words to describe what you want.
You can write absolutely anything so have a play first of all and see what you can do.
If you're a little bit stuck you can try an example.
If you don't like that try another one.
Once you've typed your search query just hit enter and wait for the magic to happen...
And here are the results of my search query! The search query will form a heading at the top so
"Write a new blog outline for a product launch", and underneath is the content that Magic Write
has just generated. So you can start to see how fantastic this is for content creators. Now all
you need to do is start fleshing out this content using all the features that I've just shown you.
There are so many ways Magic Write will help you brainstorm ideas and
come up with content suggestions. You may have noticed at the start
of this video that I used Magic Write to help me create this Instagram carousel.
I started by typing my search query into Magic Write, I then created a new Carousel template
and copied and pasted the point's Magic Write generated for me into my template.
If you're not confident about starting a carousel template from scratch you
can search for and use any of the beautiful Carousel templates available within Canva.
Okay I now need to talk to you about some copyright issues that you really need to be aware of
if you're going to be using AI such as Magic Write for commercial purposes.
Firstly you may not have exclusive rights to the content generated by Magic Write.
So if you are going to be using that content for the purposes of, say, selling a book
which is written in part by Magic Write you might need to seek legal advice.
You can read more about this on Canva's own website, and I'll leave
a link, a handy link in the description box underneath this video, so do check it out.
Next time I'm going to be showing you how to use Magic Write to create an outline for a
Canva presentation and then convert that text to a set of branded slides in Canva in just
one click! Meantime be sure to check out my new YouTube video Shorts which is coming up
in just a second and I'll show you how to use Canva Magic Write in Canva's mobile app. Thank
you so much for your time and thank you for your interest and I will see you in the next video.