Hello lovely friends it's great to see you again!
How would you like to showcase a PDF document, a Canva template
a snippet of an eBook you're using as a lead magnet...like this?
It's a perfect way to be completely transparent with your audience
if they're downloading a freebie from you because you can show them
exactly what they're getting.
Or maybe you're a website designer and you want to show off your new web design?
All you need to create this fantastic scrolling effect
is a Canva account and a free screen recording tool.
So let's jump straight in!
First of all locate your Canva document. I’m going
to use this recipe template which I created a little while ago. My document is in A4;
the orientation can be in portrait or landscape. It really doesn’t matter how many pages
your document has but ideally it needs to be 10 pages plus. And you can see here my
document has exactly 10 pages. So what we’re going to do now is we’re going to download
our template as a ‘PDF Standard’. Download all your pages.
The next step is to locate where you saved that PDF document
and open it up onto your desktop.
The next step is to take a screen recording of you
as you scroll through your document. Now there are loads
of fantastic screen recording tools that you can use. I’ll leave some suggestions in
the Description box below. But for now I’m going to use Monosnap and, as I say, I’ll
leave the link to this fantastic free tool in the Description box.
So make sure you check it out!
So I’m going to click the little link to Monosnap here and I’m going to select
“Record video”. You can see there is a white frame around the current selected area.
To change the size of the frame just go to the top where you’ll see a double-arrow,
hold the cursor down and just drag it into position. And what I want to do is I want
to capture the exact area of the first page of my PDF.
So there we are, that is captured in that frame.
Now all I need to do is press “Record” and then scroll through my document
as smoothly as possible.
When you’re done just press “Stop”.
You can preview your screen recording just here.
That looks perfect to me so I’m going to save it to my desktop…and
close this all down.
I would strongly recommend that you compress your video file
using a tool like Handbrake
so that it makes it much easier and quicker to upload your video file into Canva.
Next go back into Canva and create a fresh new template.
Since I want to share my video snippet on social media
I’m going to use a regular, square template.
Now I need to upload my video snippet into Canva.
So I’m going to go to the LH side toolbar and
select “Uploads” and then “Upload an Image or Video”.
It may take a minute or two to upload your video
but you can check on the progress in the progress bar here.
Fantastic, that was really quick! And here is your uploaded video snippet.
Now what I want to do is search for a photo of an iPad.
So I click on “Photos”…
click in the search bar here and type "iPad".
And you can see that Canva has brought up all the photos of an iPad.
I think I’m going to use this one so I’m going to click on that.
Unfortunately you can see that it is Canva Pro only so if you have a free Canva account
you may have to filter the results. So click on the filter tool and go down to “Free”…
...and “Apply filters”. If you can’t find anything suitable you can also go to “Elements”…
...go down to “Frames”…
and you’ll find a selection of free frames here.
Let me just show you what this one looks like.
I think that is really nice, so I'm going to use this one.
I’m just going to make it slightly bigger by pulling on the corner arrows here.
And I’m going to move it to one side ever so slightly. Right now, the next step is to
upload your little video snippet into the frame.
So go back to “Uploads”…
... find your little video snippet and you’re going to drag it into the frame just like that.
And there it is!
Now ideally your video needs to be between 15-20 seconds because otherwise
people are going to get a little bit bored. So if I click on my video once you can see
that it is 24.4 seconds, so I need to just crop it a little bit.
So I’m going to click on the scissors,
I’m going to go to the end of the video, I’m going to select the
end bar here with my cursor and I’m going to drag it along until I’ve got to about,
let’s say…15 seconds.
I’m happy with that so I’m going to click “Done”.
And there you see my video has been cropped to 15 seconds.
Now all you need to do is pretty up your template for sharing on social media.
You can preview your final template by going to the top of your Canva toolbar
and clicking on this button here.
I’m really happy with that so all I need to do now is go to this button here
to download it as a video file.
As I mentioned at the start of this tutorial I used an A4 document to showcase a recipe
template and it fitted perfectly into an iPad frame.
You don’t have to use an A4 document.
You can use the same scrolling effect to capture a website for example.
And this is something I very often see on social media.
Follow the exact same steps as we did do before.
But instead of of finding an iPad frame you’ll want to locate something like
a laptop frame to pop your video into.
And that is all there is to creating a really eye-catching scrolling effect in Canva.
If this is something you're going to test out give me a 'thumbs-up'
and maybe if you share something on social media be sure to tag me
so I can take a look at your fantastic designs.