- Do you wanna learn how to make Instagram stories
like Peter McKinnon, Jon Olsson, or Jesse Driftwood,
right from your iPhone or Android device?
Well in this video we're gonna run through
a step by step tutorial showing you how you can easily
create professional Instagram stories,
including some of my favorite tricks and apps,
and how to create multiple Instagram stories
quickly and easily.
Hey, it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video.
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So let's jump into it.
Now one of the biggest benefits with Instagram stories
is how quick and easy they are to create.
Simply record and post.
So most people then just shoot and upload.
But if you're looking to take the quality
up a notch, or five, then there's some simple ways
you can easily edit your Instagram videos
with just a little bit of extra work
to create something that really stands out.
So in this video, I'm gonna show you exactly
how to do it, and my favorite apps
on both iPhone and Android.
And stick around to the end because I'll also show you
my favorite Instagram story trick.
A quick and easy way to break your videos down
into multiple 15 second segments
to make the most of your Instagram stories.
Now while we're stepping through,
why not grab your phone, head over to Instagram,
and follow my Instagram account.
Once you're done, give you're Instagram handle a plug
in the comments below to share it with the rest
of the primal video community.
And I'll be down in there as well.
So first off, we need some apps.
Now we recently released a full break down
of the best apps for Instagram video
on both iPhone and Android.
And I'll put a link up in the cards now
if you're interested in seeing the options.
But if you're just looking for the best ones
that we recommend, then if you're on iOS,
check out Lumafusion and if you're on Android,
check out Powerdirector.
All right so the first area we're gonna focus on is
with the filming of your Instagram story content.
And this is where you wanna step away from
your Instagram app and use either your built in camera app
on your iPhone or Android device,
or you can grab a third party or an after market
camera app, something like Filmic Pro,
which will give you a whole heap of more control
over what your video files are gonna look like.
Now in this video,
we're not gonna get to in-depth with Filmic Pro,
we have done a full walkthrough on the best settings
and how to get the best out of it,
and I'll link that up in the cards as well.
There's gonna be a lot of things up in the cards.
So open up the camera app on your phone,
or Filmic Pro if you're gonna be using that.
And the most important thing to remember here
is that the content that you're creating needs
to be filmed in portrait, or vertical, video.
Which I never ever thought that I would say.
You don't wanna be using landscape videos
for your Instagram stories because then you've gotta
crop in, you gotta lose quality to be able
to get them to fit and match the rest of your story.
So stick with vertical video.
I know it sounds obvious,
but there's a lot of people that miss that step.
Now there's three big advantages with using
the built in camera app or Filmic Pro
to create your Instagram stories.
The first is that it's higher quality.
The second is that you don't have a record time.
You can actually record for much, much longer periods
of time because we're gonna be cutting that down.
And the third is the control that you have
over your shot.
So you can lock off your exposure,
you can set your focus,
or if you're using Filmic Pro, you can do a heap
of other stuff that would mimic
what you could do on a DSLR or video camera.
So you've got a heap more control
over the look and feel of the videos that you're creating.
But it's still really important to keep in mind
that you are creating these for Instagram stories.
So you will still wanna keep your shots
nice and short wherever possible.
Or film for a longer period of time,
but with the intention to edit that down,
so it will be nice and seamless to watch
for someone watching your stories.
Okay, so once you've got all your footage,
the next step is to edit that down.
Now as I said, on iOS we'd recommend Lumafusion.
On Android we recommend Powerdirector.
So for this example, I'm just gonna show you
on power director on Android,
but the process is almost exactly the same
for Lumafusion on iPhone.
Okay, so here were are in Powerdirector on Android.
The first thing you'll wanna do is create
a new project by pressing the button in the middle
of the screen.
And we'll give the project a name, let's call it JB.
And here's where you get to choose if you want
a widescreen video or a portrait video.
So we choose 9 by 16 or portrait, and we'll hit okay.
And you can see that this is your editing interface.
So down the top right hand side,
you've got your export, your settings button,
you've also got your play,
you got your timeline down the bottom.
On the left hand side you got a back button,
you got your import media, you've got your layers,
and you've got your effects button as well.
So I won't dig into too much detail,
we do have a walkthrough on Powerdirector.
Taking you through step by step with that.
And I'll put a link up in the cards.
But the first thing you wanna do is import your footage.
So hit the media button there,
and we'll come through and we'll find our footage.
So for us, it's under FilmicPro.
And here's a few quick clips of me making an iced coffee.
Very exciting stuff here.
So what we'll do is we'll just tap on the clips,
and hit the plus to drop them down into our timeline.
Next one. Next one.
It doesn't really matter what order you're adding them
down to your timeline here.
I'm sure there's some extra footage that I've shot along
here as well.
Once you've got all your footage down,
we hit the back button in the top left.
Now we're back to our edit.
That doesn't matter what order that you've dropped them
down in as I said,
because you can pick the clips up and move them around.
You can see I'm zooming in and out,
just a pinch to zoom, to zoom in and out in that timeline.
So you can see that we've got around three minutes
of footage.
It's a lot of footage.
We're gonna cut this down to a 15 second story
so it's short, it's sharp, and it's snappy.
For Instagram. Snappy for Instagram. Makes sense.
So the biggest thing to keep an eye on here
as we zoom back in is the time.
So you can see here, 15 seconds is about there.
So we wanna finish our video
at that 15 second mark.
To keep it short and sharp for Instagram stories.
Okay. So the first clip here.
We'll scrub through to see what happened.
Open the freezer.
And we get some ice out and we put it down on the bench.
So we'll start this clip, scrub along to where we want
to start.
Probably about here.
So we'll select the clip at that point,
you can see on the left hand side we've got a razor blade.
So when you press that, it's actually split our clip
in two.
So I've got two clips. Out of that one.
So we can delete the first one.
So press on that and press the trash can on the left.
That clip is now gone.
So we'll come through.
Open up the freezer.
Grab the ice tray. And we'll stop it there.
The other way that you can shorten your clips
is select your clip,
you can grab these green handles on either side
of your clip.
So we'll grab the handle on the right hand side.
And we'll slide that back along to where
we want our clip to finish.
Let's just say ... about here.
And when we let it go,
that's applied that cut.
So you can see now that longer clip,
only goes for around three seconds. Four seconds.
And then it's on to the next clip.
So add a short bit of this next clip as well.
We'll shorten it. So I'll select it.
And we'll grab that handle at the start.
And let's start the clip about here.
Get a bit of the walking.
And we'll finish it about there.
So we'll select our clip, we'll add a cut at that point.
And I've got a short little clip
in there as well now too.
So it's just a matter of going through
and cutting down all the footage
so that you've got a really fast edit of your longer video.
So I'll give this a play now.
You can start to see what we're doing.
So you can see we're about nine seconds in at this point.
We've really shortened a lot of that footage down
to make it a really fast edit.
So we'll keep going through.
We'll shorten these clips down.
So we're just going through, adding cuts,
removing the sections that we don't want.
It's that simple.
We're just using those really basic trim tools
in Powerdirector.
Okay, so we've done our first pass on this.
You can see that we're down to around 20 seconds.
Spot on 20 seconds.
So that's five seconds too long,
so maybe just go back through and cut out
and make this more refined to get it down to 15 seconds.
So we'll shorten up a couple of these clips.
Okay, so there's a heap of time on here.
We can probably shorten this one right down.
Right to the coffee just about to come out.
So there you have it.
You can see out clip now is down to 15 seconds.
If we play that through.
Now you can obviously keep editing this
and really get crazy.
There's some really awesome effects and tools inside
of Powerdirector and Lumafusion to really take these
up a notch as well.
So you can get into color grading.
So just to show you some of that,
if we tap on one of these clips
and we come up to the pencil here.
We've got a heap of control.
You can adjust the speed,
speed it up, slow it down, the volume,
you can flip it, you can play it backwards.
You can adjust the color.
Let's have a good color.
So then we can add some filters to it,
to make it look a bit different.
A bit better.
Let's go back original but with something like this
you'll also get more advanced color controls.
So down the left hand side,
you can adjust the brightness, the contrast,
the saturation of each individual clip.
But you've also got white balance adjustment as well.
Where you can change the look and feel of the shot
and make it warmer and cooler. Adjust the tint.
To really dial in the look that you're after.
Now you can also do things like add in titles
and graphics as well.
So if we come over here to this layers button,
then you've got titles, video, image, or stickers.
Let's add in a title.
And you can see here you've got a heap of pre-sets
that you can use.
So you can pick the one that you want.
Let's just amplify the vertical and hit plus.
Dropped it down in your timeline.
We're going back to get back to our edit.
And you can see that is there in our timeline.
And we've got some text that appears there.
Says Cyberlink.
So if we tap on that,
we can edit the text up here.
Let's just type in coffee ... coffee time.
It's always coffee time.
Press okay. Now you can use your pinch to zoom.
To scale it up, to rotate it.
And just the same with all the other clips
that you've got in here.
You can tap on them, you can pick it up,
you can move it around.
Maybe move it to the start.
So you're gonna adjust the start and end time
for your titles as well.
But this is also the same for additional footage
that you wanna add on there.
So we'll make this really really short.
And let's just play that back now.
Of course you can also add in things like music.
So if we come back up here to the media button.
Then go over to music.
Over the horizon, that's Samsung's song.
So we'll hit on that.
You can press the plus to drop it down in your timeline.
You can see it's actually gonna generate
a waveform as well,
so you can see the visual representation of that music track
once that's done, we can move it around
and adjust it, put it where we want it.
Make it zoom out.
We can chop it off at the end here.
We can delete the rest of it.
And there you go.
And then I've got some music in behind it.
And we play that.
Lovely music track, that one.
Okay, so when you're done,
all you need to do is hit the produce button
in the top right hand corner.
And hit save project is always a good idea.
But you wanna go produce video.
And in here, all you need to do is go save to gallery
or SD card.
And choose full HD.
You don't need to choose ultra HD.
We can produce video.
And that will save the video out.
And save it to your phone.
Okay, so we go over to Instagram,
we go across to stories.
We swipe up to bring in our video clip.
There is our clip there in the top left hand corner.
We'll select that.
I'm gonna mute it though.
So that we're not infringing on Samsung's copyright
for their music.
And this is our clip.
You can see it's gonna play through.
All you need to do then is post it to your story.
And the process, as we said, is almost exactly
the same in Lumafusion on iOS.
When you're editing your videos down.
Okay so that's the process for creating professional
looking Instagram stories.
Now if you're creating longer than 15 second videos,
or you wanna create videos that stack in sequence
over multiple Instagram stories,
then follow the exact same process
and edit a longer video and then you'll need
one of these two apps.
So if you're on iOS the app is called CutStory.
And if you're on Android, the app that I recommend
is called Story Split.
And what these actually do is to import your video files
that you've just created and they will automatically
create smaller video clips from that bigger video clip
down into 15 second chunks.
So then, once you've gone through that process,
all you need to do is open up Instagram,
go to post your story, and you'll have all
the little chunks of that bigger video
in the right sequence for you to run out and post
your Instagram story.
So it's such a simple tool,
but really really powerful.
And a really easy way to up your Instagram story game.
Especially across multiple Instagram story posts.
So now that you've got the editing side sorted.
If you're interested in getting the most out of your
iPhone and Android camera, when you're filming
your Instagram stories,
check out the free guides to getting amazing results
when filming with smart phone,
which are linked on screen now.
And I'll see you soon.