This is a tutorial on how to make Spotify Canvases using a free
template. You'll be making videos
like these. These are actually used with this template.
They're 3-8 second video art pieces that play underneath your song and they
enhance the feelings and emotions of the music that you're sharing.
The biggest problem with making these videos is that they need to be 9x16
And currently,
iMovie doesn't let you make videos like that and other software is
really expensive. But don't worry,
we'll be using Kapwing.
It is a free software, online.
You can add multiple clips. You can add transitions.
You can resize, reposition layer at color graphics.
You just need to login to remove the watermark. To start, click on the
link in the description to take you to the Spotify canvas maker.
Click "make it." Already perfectly sized just for you. The first step is to upload
your footage.
So click over here, "upload." And drag and drop, or click here to open up
your files. I've already loaded a bunch
of files. Your files will be saved here in Library.
Let's pull this one in. Grab these little pull bars on the side and reframe.
I can also repositions by clicking and dragging. Now you need to make
sure your video is 3-8 seconds long.
So you have two ways of doing that. You can go to trim right here.
And then pull this purple layer, blue layer down.
until it is within 3 to 8 seconds long.
This will tell you how long it is. You can also see here.
Move this whole section by clicking and dragging. The other way to trim
your video is to click in your timeline.
Go here the timeline and you can drag and pull the end of this clip to
make them shorter.
Just make sure you scoot it back to the beginning of the time line.
Your other option is to hit play.
See where you want to make a cut, and then hit "split" right here.
And then just delete whatever you don't want. Go through it and just
make sure you have the right moments in your footage and then a good
technique is to copy and paste your footage a few times to make sure
that it feels cool and right when it's on Loop.
Command C, Command V. Play them one after each other.
See what that looks like.
You can even get to like the subtlestest little bit and it kind of just
You want to also make sure that you delete your extra copies.
So that way you don't export a video
that's too long.
You can add text by clicking here.
If you want to add images or emojis, click image button and the image tab
will search Google for you.
And then we have emojis here.
Okay, when you're done click the read export button up here. When you're
all done click, "download."
Now I need to go to Spotify for artists, click the music tab, find
your song and upload your canvas.
If you click on the link in the corner, you'll see a video from
Spotify on how to do this in much more detail.
Stick around for more tips and tricks.
There's also really cool stock footage out there.
There's bad stock footage, but there's cool stuff like this channel ,
"free synth Loop animations," you know, you can create some pretty
cool videos there for you.
Another thing to remember is that the bottom portion of your frame might
be cut off by graphics
that get overlaid by Spotify.
So try to avoid putting any important information at the bottom.
This isn't a music video so you don't want to do shots of you singing.
Because if you're trying to sing along with a music, remember, this is
a 3-8 second Loop.
Your words will not match up with the rest of your video.
If you want to add your song while you're making this, click this "audio"
button up here and you can drag-and-drop your song. Just make sure to
delete it at the end because if it's really long then it's going to
make your timeline like 3 minutes long and you know, this
piece has to be 3 seconds.
The audio is going to get deleted in Spotify. You can alter the
footage, click "adjust."
And then you have options to change the opacity.
You can change the brightness, contrast, saturation.
Here's a cool technique for adding color overlays.
This is also great idea.
If you're doing multiple videos and an album and you kind of want them
all to feel similar you could use the same color overlay.
Click, "elements," and I'm going to use the square.
Make it really big.
And then click on it and then you can just change the fill color.
Pinks and oranges are warmer colors and blues and greens
are colder color.
So let's do still like this pink.
I don't want an outline on it now.
Let's lower the opacity.
Looks at what that looks like. Kinda cool.
Maybe I like even lowered a bit.
This is what it looks like without it.
like makes it feel a bit nostalgic. You could probably do like maybe
that would make it look more sepia-toned. If you wanted to feel like
cool, cristp, we could try this.
They're both so fun.
Let's try adding in another shot.
So if we go into out timeline, and then upload, here's another clip that
I have.
At the time I know you want to make sure the size appropriately case
it is going to the timeline and lay one after the other.
You also can shorten it a little bit.
And make a split here.
Shorten that.
Now you'll notice that I had that blue overlay on the first clip and
I don't see it here.
That's because when you add new video layer are going to be stacked on
top of each other.
So you'll see this video that I added is over that rectangle switch
click on the video and then click down here to send back another all
matching.
This is a great way to make multiple clips feel cohesive, either all
through all of your album or multiple clips in one video.
It'll really make them feel like they're unified.
Now if you want to add a transition between these two clips that make
sure you select a video clip you want to animate in and then go to
animate and then do Fade. You can do pop-in, slide-up.
I'm just going to fade because I think it's like a soft video options for
transitions.
You could also do a huge rotate, which is pretty cool.
Your son that you put so much hard work into deserves a good canvas.
So take some time explore the tool and make something that you're
really really proud of and definitely sure we complain cuz we love
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