Hello everybody today I'm going to show you two ways to add a voiceover to a Canva template. Doing
this will allow you to speak directly to your audience via a social media post for example.
Your followers will then feel more connected with you which in turn increases that 'Know,
like and trust' factor which is so important to businesses to increase sales.
Recording a voiceover is also a great way to start recording videos if you're a little camera shy.
And lastly I'm going to be sharing my new and rather sneaky Nicky Ninja tip which will help
you create even more professional and entertaining voiceovers in Canva. If you're new to my channel
and we've not met before I'm Nicky Pasquier, I'm a Canva Certified Creative and Canva Creator,
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I publish a new tutorial. Right so we've got a bit to cover so if you're ready follow me over to Canva.
So from your Canva homepage open up any template that you want to add your voiceover to.
I'm going to use this template here which I created to promote last week's tutorial so some
of you may already recognise it. So originally I was going to just download and share the graphics
as they were and maybe add a music track to them to make them more interesting. But then I thought
"How about actually talking to my audience and telling them in person why they should watch my
tutorial?" Before we go into the nuts and bolts of adding a voiceover to a template, before you
do anything else, do consider whether you want to use any notes during your voiceover recording.
I would highly recommend that you take this step unless you're really confident about speaking
without hesitation, 'ums' or 'ers'. And I'll show you exactly what I mean in a moment. But if you
did want to add notes go right down to the bottom of your Canva desktop and click where it says
'Notes'. And this will bring up a column on the left hand side of your screen and you can go ahead
and add your notes here, and you can add notes for each page of your template. They don't have to be
copious notes just whatever you need to give you a prompt and ensure that you speak fluently without
any hesitation. Once you've finished your notes head on over to the top right hand corner of your
Canva desktop and start by clicking on these three little dots. Now from the drop-down menu select
'Present and Record'. It may not be at the top of the menu like mine in the Recommended section
so you may have to go down to the Share section and click on these three little dots here to
expand the menu. And you'll probably find it there. Once you've found 'Present and Record'
click on it to open it up and then click on the purple button to go to your recording studio
Next you're prompted to set up your camera and your microphone but since we're only
doing a voiceover we won't need to bother with the camera. Just go straight down to the microphone,
click on the downward arrow and select whichever microphone you want to use. Your options may look
slightly different to mine depending on whether you're using an external microphone. I'm going to
select my Røder microphone. And now I'm all set up so I'm going to click on 'Start Recording'
Whatever you're recording will appear within this red frame right here. As you can see
your notes will appear on the right hand side of your screen.
You can toggle through each page of your template by clicking on the side arrows.
When your recording is done you can either click on Pause or end it by clicking on 'End Recording'.
Once that's done Canva will save your recording and you'll eventually see a window...like
this. You can now discard the recording completely if you're not happy with it; you can Save and Exit
to go back into Canva or you can download it. You can also click on this purple button here to
Copy and Share a link to your recording (and we'll talk about this in just a moment). But for now
I'm going to Save and Exit to take me back into my Canva template. And from here you can still
download the recording, delete it and copy a link and share your recording using this button here.
One bonus is that the recipient doesn't even have to have a Canva account to view and listen to that
recording. So to answer the question "Where does Canva store that recording if need to go back to
it?" all you need to do is click back into your template, repeat the steps to go back into your
recording studio. So click on the three little dots, click on Present and Record and there is
your recording right here. And it will stay there unless you just delete it. One very important
thing to point out here is that you CANNOT EDIT the voice recording when it's finished, and
that's why I suggested you write notes because you can't go back and edit out the 'ums' and 'errs'.
So my Nicky Ninja tip is coming up next which will help you get around this problem. You may
have already noticed that if you add an audio track to any template in Canva by dragging and
dropping it into your template the same audio track will appear on every single page, so you
cannot have a separate audio track for separate pages. However I have got the solution for you.
What you want to do is you want to save your (presentation) file, go back onto your home page
and from the top banner I want you to select 'Video'.
Select whichever template you want but I'm going to select slideshow video.
Now from the left hand side toolbar scroll down until you find the tab that says
'All your designs' and click on it. And find that presentation which you just designed,
click on it to open it up. Now add one slide to each page.
Next you're going to record your voice separately using a free app on your
smartphone. Once you're done recording upload the audio file into Canva via the Uploads tab.
Now drag and drop the recording into the video timeline. And from here you
can start editing your audio track. You can add separate audio tracks to separate pages,
you can even mix up the audio by adding music tracks. You can even collaborate
with a colleague or client by adding a voiceover from them to a template. You can finish off your
voiceover recording by adding some really professional transitions between each page.
To summarise then the Present and Record tool is an excellent way to add a quick voiceover
in a Canva template. The key though is to make really good notes so that you don't
need to edit anything out when you're finished recording. When you're ready to take the next
step make a separate voice recording, upload it to Canva and use Canva's new video editor
to add some really professional touches. To learn more about how to use Canva's video editing tool
you can refer to my video which I created a few weeks ago. And if you'd like to learn how to
connect your camera and record yourself as well as your voice using the Present and Record tool
you can learn more about it you might be interested to watch this tutorial.
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Thank you so much for joining me again this week and I will see you in the next video.