Hi! This is the Daily Overpass. My name is Eric and I make apps.
Now today, I want to talk about creating app videos with Lumen5.
Alright, a few weeks ago I hired a new person to help us out with some of our content and
our social media and stuff like that. He's not with the team anymore, it didn't
quite work out, but he did- there were some things he did that we're
really pretty cool. He taught me about this new- about this tool I'm about
to show you called Lumen5. So, to give you an idea what it is,
you probably see these videos all over the place, like information videos
with text and music and images. It's not really- it's not a blog, it's not
really a full video, it's not like some guy talking to you guys like this,
whatever. But it's just a bit of information. So, let me show
you what I mean. If you follow us on Instagram, you'll see this. Let's
have a look at our Instagram page here and you'll see some of them. Here some of
the videos we have, let's see.. Does your way- Does your app need good
design? If you click out here, playful little music or whatever, you
see images, you see text and everything like that. You know,
little bit of text, so it's just one minute long. Runs it-
runs through it and at the end, it has the Overpass logo. It's supposed to
be creating something that's shareable. Something that's interesting for users
and stuff like that.That's what it is. I share this video today
so you know we've been trying those new kind of things. It was- we
haven't been doing on the YouTube channel, but we've been doing it on
Instagram and Facebook and stuff like that. I started looking at this as a
way of creating app videos too. So, let me show you this tool, it's called Lumen5.
You guys, it might be of interest to you, I thought it was
pretty cool. Like we- I use Canva a lot. Canva's a free tool that you
know, it's just a graphics editing tool, but it's a lot easier than
you know firing up Photoshop. Yeah, Photoshop all the time or GIMP
or whatever. It's- yes, Photoshop we use. I used to use
Paint Shop Pro and I can still keep getting confused about the two of them
but, yeah, Photoshop. Alright. so it's this
tool here called Lumen5 and what it does is, it takes a- it
use artificial intelligence to do this. I don't know if that's really true, but you
you take like any blog post or any article and you put it in there. And
you could select things like I tried it with it but with my Google
Play page. And that worked pretty well.Let me just show you this dashboard here,
and let me just walk through the steps here. So, supposedly
you can take any blog and there's no specification on whether or not has to
be your blog. I think it's kind of creepy, that's why we've only been
using our blog post for for these videos so far. If I go-
if I'm going to start by doing a Google Play page, just to show
you how it works because it always not sure if it work with Google Play and it
did. Let me just say play to google.com, type in "spy" , I'll get the ear
spy one because it's the one I always use. It's just the easiest
one to find, so it's going here and if I take this, just take that URL, I go
back to Lumen5 and I create a new video.The first thing when you
create a new video, it says paste in a blog article or an article of some sort.
We can do a blog article and it would take the bullet points and all
this kind of stuff. Or we can use our Google Play page. Let's go here, we'll
paste in that one there, we'll create and it takes a few seconds it parses the
text and it will sort- randomly generate some some images and
stuff like that. See, I went through and just to the defaults and it
took like less than five minutes to do this. Ideally though, you'd go
through and select everything a little bit better than I do. So, here
you go over here, we've got the text of the description here on the left.
What you want to do is go through and select a storyboard. So let's say, your
agent is to prove the power- prove you're hearing with the power of Android, click
on the center button, you hear the world- I'm just going finding key sentences
within here, or like if it was bullet points or something like that. I would
say something whether you want to hear nature or the world, there's more
going around then you realize blah blah blah...
You download the resources here. So let's just go with those
ones and so we go- you go preview and it would give you like an
idea of what it would look like. But it's still like- at this point it
took a little while to load there, but you see it with text but without
images. It is actually pretty cool. It already has to
figure out what the icon is and it just sort of shows them and it highlights
different parts of the sentences. Let's just go ahead and click
continue. Oh! You have a sense with more than 140 characters which would be this
one. Let's get rid of this one, just trash that one, trash that one, let's go. So just
picks on that random here,
your agent perfectly safe to use, okay. So, let's just go, continue and then it
generates some images. Now, this part does take a little bit of time. I might
stop the video here. Cool. That took about 30 seconds only.
That wasn't too bad. So here, it's gone away and based on the tech- the text that
I've chosen, it's went and found some some images that were allowed to use, so
royalty-free images, community commons, all that kind of stuff. Here you
see, we've got Android apps on Google Play, your agent attempts to prove
hearing click, on the center button and you hear- sometimes these images
don't quite make sense. But you could select other ones here too.
There's more going on here than you realize. We'd love for you to tell your
readers about our apps, your agent is perfectly safe to use, you are
surrounded by sound here. So that's kind of how that works.
You go here, select other images and you go in here and you could change
these images, you could change the text, there's lots of different stuff
you could do. Let's go here and go preview.
Let's go continue to editing. Now, but we don't have- we haven't selected music.
So, here you got several music tracks that you're allowed to use. Let's go
and do Jessie Frenchy because that's like really- really- okay let's do
that one. Sure why not. Let's choose that one and let's do
branding, we've got all that done.
There we go. Now, it just generates this video. As you can see, that
just took me a few minutes to do. If I was really going to be good about it, I
would go through and do- it does all the panning and zooming and all that
kind of stuff. This music is annoying. I saw
this, now what I could do with this, I can publish this video, I can put
it on YouTube and then put it up against my app. But it's- it's never
get downloaded, right? I could put this against my app, I could
put it on social media, I could put it on Instagram, on Facebook, you know, all this
kind of stuff. Anyway, it was just really interesting tool. I wanted to tell
you guys about. It might help you a little bit with your apps, especially if
you're not into doing the whole video thing. You can see how it
works, or at least if you're looking for something to put out there on social
media. You know this is something that we're trying lately.
And another thing you may notice when I showed you my Instagram page, here let me
just go back here, is that a lot of times we'll take our favorite reviews and
we'll make image quotes out of them. See image quotes all the
time like Thomas Edison or whatever, so we just take some of our
good ones and we'll go through and we'll just take
them and make some image quotes and that gives us something to put out there
on social media. And hopefully get it shared and everything like that.
We're trying different things. Anyway, this is a really quick one today. I hope
that's been helpful. I hope- if you guys are already using Lumen5,
let me know how you're using it. Let me know how you're finding it. One of the
things I think is creepy about it is that, you could take somebody else's blog
post and create your own content with it, which seems a bit sleazy to me.
But, you know, I don't know if that's a problem or not.
Anyway, that's it for today. I will talk to you, guys, tomorrow.