- What's up everyone? My name's Larry Snow.
In this video, we're going to be taking a look at Headliner
or headliner.app specifically.
A website where you can transform your audio
to video.
Quick, easy, and free.
Stay tuned, it's coming up next.
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If you're a podcaster or a marketer
and you've been creating audio,
you know, for your podcast
and you wanted to be sharing it out to social media,
it's kind of cumbersome.
You have to create a video file
and then upload it to social media.
And that's what I've been doing.
I use ScreenFlow specifically
and I'd have to create images
and play along with the text,
and switch out the images
and what a different subject is talking about.
And it just becomes very cumbersome for me
and I don't do it a lot
because it takes up a lot of time.
And Headliner, their idea is to make it
a heck of a lot easier to do that type of thing
with their own video, online video editor.
So that's what we're going to take a look at,
how you can upload your audio
and then on top of it, add in images,
text, and also video
that will play along with your audio.
So let's get started, taking a look at Headliner.
Now the first thing you'll need to do
is create an account, and yes it is free.
And Headliner themselves have said it's going to be free,
they have some things in mind,
what they're going to be doing to monetize the app
but from all accounts that they've said publicly,
that they're not going to be charging anyone
even when they do start to monetize.
So I like that right off the bat.
And so create an account with them
and then when you're ready, click login.
We're going to go over and we're going to create a new project.
And as you can see here, I have already created a couple.
So we're going to create a new project
and I've already done an audiogram
and I've already shared that out at Facebook,
it worked very well.
And they also have something here
called the Automated Wizard
where you would upload your audio
and they would try to match images
based on your audio, which was really cool.
And you can start with a blank project if you'd like.
I'm going to start with the Autogram Wizard.
So right off the bat, we are looking at uploading
our audio file.
I'll upload that one.
All right, and again this is only a five minute video
so everything has got to go real quick for me,
quicker than probably your podcast audios.
You can do an audio transcription if you'd like.
And select your transcription language
and then click next.
And here we are having the timeline
where you can trim it down if you'd like.
And you also have a timeline limit selector,
so for Twitter, it's two minutes and 20 seconds.
Instagram is one minute.
Instagram stories and all the like.
So if you click the buttons,
they'll shrink down to how much time you have
to put your audio into that specific timeline.
So, I think that's a pretty neat feature.
But we're not going to do that.
So we're just going to expand that all out.
And we can click next.
And now you have your different aspect ratios
for your video.
So we have landscape, square, and portrait.
Now portrait now is all the rage
because of IG TV, Instagram Television.
So I might do it in portrait,
click next.
Now you get your wave bar.
If you'd like, you can have none of course
if you don't want one.
But I think it kind of adds some of the animation,
keeps people interested if they see
a wave file going across.
And you have different choices here,
you have a round, you have curve,
you have pixelated
and what was the other one I liked?
Was it equalizer? No.
Bricks, whoops I clicked on the wrong one.
Bricks, bricks is the one I like.
And you can change the positions if you'd like
or you can customize the position of your audio file.
I'll do bottom.
And you can change the color.
I'm going to choose a lovely green color
that kind of stands out from the background a little bit.
You can add in a background image if you'd like.
I'm going to skip that,
so I'm going to click create project.
So it's uploading the audio now,
it will take a few seconds for me.
And again, if you have a longer audio file,
it's going to take a little longer for you.
But this is going to take about 20 seconds for me or so.
All right, so they've uploaded the audio
which you can see down here in this bottom layer.
And again, if you're not familiar with video editing,
it really is all about layering.
And so the bottom layer is the audio file.
And this is how things are looking so far
with our black background
and our green bars
for the audio waveform.
And over here on the left hand side
down at the bottom, we have text one,
text two, and media.
So the text areas obviously, if you click
on this little doodad here, yup.
If you just mouse over this little doodad here
it will say you know, click the plus sign
to add blocks.
And you'll just add a text block.
So let's do that now.
And this is our little text block
and if we double click in there,
we can say, this is a podcast.
I know, very official.
And you can move it around,
you can position it anywhere you want.
And you have styles here
where you can change the look.
So we can do a custom, we can do a quote,
we can do a title.
We can do into customization
if we want to change the font size here,
we can change that here.
Let's make that 18-ish.
We can change the color, the size, the background
and we can do some transitions.
So let's do a fade in from left
and a fade out on right.
And click add to video.
Now we're not going to see it right away
because it's going to be fading in,
so if I click play.
(podcast playing)
You kind of saw it fade in a little bit right there, right?
So if I just scroll across, see how it fades in?
So that's pretty neat.
Now you'll have this little bar here
of your text.
And you can stretch that out as long as you want
or you can make it as short as you want.
And if you want to add in other text,
you can click the button again.
Double click, and say,
this is still a podcast. (chuckles)
And we can click add to video, okay.
And if we move that across here,
we can put it right next to the old one.
Now it would be better if I had moved this here.
This is our little scrub line,
this little white line here.
And so we can position things here
if we want to add things at that point in time
on our timeline here.
So just move that up against there.
So now if I move this across,
it will change from, "This is a podcast"
to "This is still a podcast" like that.
So you go further along with this process,
you'd add in your text,
and if you want to add in media,
so you can add in images and video.
So here's our images.
Now they do have providers here for images.
Getty, my guess is it's going to cost some money.
I don't think that they do anything for free on that end.
I mean, Getty Images, they have lawyers
and all that good stuff.
So be careful with that.
I know in Google, they say that they only search
the creative commons usage rights
that you can do on Google Image search.
Microsoft, I'm not really sure what,
that might be Bing, I think.
And then of course Pixelbay,
which is my favorite.
Or you can just upload your own image
or your video.
The images can be JPG, PNG, or SVG
and the videos can be MP4 and MOV,
and you have a max file size
so be careful of that, of 200 megabytes.
So these aren't going to be huge video files
that you're going to be putting on top of your audio.
So that's all about the timeline and everything.
The other point I want to show you
is the captions.
These captions are automatically transcribed
by, I assume some type of AI component.
And so you'd probably want to go through here
like you have to do with YouTube sometimes,
where they get the word wrong
or it's not exactly what you said,
is written down here.
So I would go through the captions
if you're going to use them
and make sure everything is good to go.
You can also change the style
and obviously turn them on and off if you'd like.
Change the style here.
So you can have the default,
you can have a bold description
so it shows up a little bit more.
And you could have a centered heading.
I'm going to stick with the default.
You can customize it here as well,
you can change the font size, font color,
highlighting, all that good stuff.
And then they have animations
where you can do like, a karaoke style as you see here.
We'll turn that on.
And you can add in a color
so that it will highlight the word as it is spoken
in the audio.
Let's do a little orange.
Orange type of thing there.
There you go.
And click save.
Now obviously, this is for demonstration purposes.
This is not a complete file
that I would share on social media or anywhere else.
But let's just go forward
and let's demo this thing, we'll click on export.
Now when you click on export,
you can change the frame rate, up to 30.
You can change the video quality, low or high.
And you can change the vertical
up to 1080x1920.
You can also add in an intro and an outro if you'd like.
Once all that's set, you click export.
And this will take some time.
In my testing, it's taken about a minute,
close to a minute.
And this is again, a five minute podcast.
So bear that in mind when you upload your audio
and want to export it here as a video.
It might take a little bit more time for you.
So we'll come back to the video when it is done.
All right, once your video has been exported
it will have a little video is ready
and you can download it here, you click here
and it will give you a download and share option
right from Headliner.
And again, this is our vertical podcast video.
We can download the video straightaway,
it will obviously be an MP4.
You can share the link right here
throughout social media if you want,
share it right to the Headliner app.
Or you can store it in your Google Drive or Dropbox.
So there you go guys, that was a quick look at Headliner,
headliner.app.
I think it's a very cool feature
and it's something that I think will help me a lot
in my business and in my security business
to get the word out about the podcast
that we've been doing for the last couple of months.
And hopefully it will help you as well
to convert your audio, your boring audio
that only is for podcasting, which is great,
but how do I get that to social media in video format.
And that's what Headliner does.
So thanks so much for checking out this video.
I really appreciate it.
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