if you're looking for a creative way to repurpose a podcast perhaps a zoom meeting
perhaps a recorded phone call or another piece of
video content then you're in the right place because in this video i'm going to show you
how to create an audiogram for free and in just a matter of minutes and we'll do that right now
hey video creators i'm brian white and this is videozeus on this channel we make videos about
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consider clicking that subscribe button now in today's video what i want to talk about is ways
to repurpose a podcast a zoom meeting a recorded phone call or another piece of video content
into a piece of content known as an audiogram now an audiogram is basically
an audio visualizer showing the waveform bouncing up and down according to whatever is being said
it's a pretty cool looking effect and if you have some audio content like a podcast or a
phone call recording then this is one way you can repurpose that audio
into a video asset now audiograms come in all shapes and sizes so today what i'm going to
show you right now is exactly what we're going to create and the audio from this recording
was recorded using the app rev call recorder which i have just done a video on i'll link it
up there so you can watch it so you can too can take advantage of recording audio phone calls
with that app a podcast audiogram is an audio clip that functions as a valuable social media
video content piece a recent study suggests on facebook audiograms outperform image posts by 58
and when an audiogram is coupled with captions it can increase content consumption to 85 percent
those are great engagement rates for a piece of audio that otherwise has no face value so
today we're going to be making this audiogram inside an online application called kapwing now
it's one thing for me to show you what buttons to click and where it's another thing to see how i
build the audiogram into a valuable piece of content it's got to have a certain aesthetic
or a certain appeal to it to look like a credible piece of content people actually want to engage
with so i encourage you to use the link in the description below to create a free kapwing account
let's go ahead and jump into kapwing so i can show you exactly how i made this audiogram all
right so once you have created your account inside compliant you will be taken to the workspace right
here and to get started with this audiogram we're going to simply click on this button right here
for new content now when you're on your screen right here you want to decide what format or
size you want your audiogram to be i believe the most safest size you can build this audiogram
is in some sort of square format we're going to click right here on start with blank canvas
and then by default kapwing sets the dimensions or output size to a one by one which is a square
format so we're good there the next thing we want to do is pick a background color i like to
use a color that's not uh relative to the platform you're going to be posting on or post on the most
uh you know facebook is blue instagram's like purple or pink youtube is red that whole thing
so we can do that by clicking right here on background color and i'm going to click on this
gray right here and the next thing we want to do is bring in a logo maybe you have a logo for your
company maybe you have a logo for your brand and if you don't you can simply just add a text or
maybe it's a photo of yourself something that's going to brand this piece of content over here
on the left is the media area you can click right here to upload a logo i have one already
inside component here and i'm going to bring this one right here by clicking the plus icon
and right away you see that this is now on our canvas but it has this white background
on it and we certainly do not want this white background on our logo because it as you can
see it takes up the screen so to get rid of this white background inside kapwing with our image
clicked here we can click over here on erase and that's going to launch this little erase tool and
make sure you have the magic wand selected click into the white and as you can see it turns gray
click on remove pixels and do the same thing for these little areas if you have an enclosed
area in your logo we're going to remove these as well just so everything is nice and transparent
it also will have these um these little handles these little outlines here so we're just going
to click on this erase button bump this up to like 150 or something like that and just simply click
and drag to erase these little white outlines sometimes when this tool uh you know when you
use this tool it just has these white outlines on the edges which is kind of annoying but
it is what it is and it's actually pretty simple and quick to fix so once you have all that set you
want to click on done and now you can see on our canvas we have our logo without that background
the next thing we want to do right here is click on lock ratio that way when we resize this
all the proportions stay the same and we're not squishing or stretching our logo so i like to
just make it a little size here we're going to pop it up at very top that way it's nice and neat and
as you can see when you go to center it kapwing helps you out with this little red line let you
know that this is in fact the center of the image so we're going to leave that right there the next
thing we want to do is add a piece of text content and this will be something that we can use to
help viewers and people on social media to identify what this is actually about this could be
the title of your podcast the title of your zoom meeting the title of the content itself so over
here on this thing we click on text right here and you can pick out whatever whatever font you want
there's certainly a lot of templates right here to choose from i'm just going to click right right
here in this one called bold text which i believe is just a sample text yeah it's like an arial font
with bold uh since we're doing this audiogram i'm going to title this how to re-purpose
recorded audio content okay and then we can use these lines here to better proportionate
and then i'll click lock ratio and now we can resize it without it moving up and down
and we're going to center that bad boy right there the next thing we're going to do is bring in our
recorded audio this could be audio from a podcast because this could be audio from a recorded
call we could bring in a video and take away the video and just use the audio this could be a zoom
meeting um anything that has audio in it that you want to repurpose and and change and make it new
and consumable on social media this is where we're going to do it so up here incomplete i'm going to
click on media and then we're going to click right here on add media and we're going to click here to
click to upload and now we're going to go out and find the file that we want to add now once it's
uploaded you can simply click on the plus icon here to add it to the project and what that's
going to do it's going to add it the timeline as you can see just appeared on the screen showing
the audio in the layers as you can see now this audio clip in particular was during a phone call
i was sharing some tips with a friend and after the phone call as i recorded it i realized that
hey this might actually have some purpose to make into a social media piece of content and so that's
what i'm going to do and i know it's somewhere around here so what you can do is you can click
on the play button to find out where in the spot or in the clip that you actually want to use
but now we certainly don't want to use this whole audio clip so we want to go out and find and trim
the part i know it's somewhere around this area so what i'm going to do is i'm going to
zoom in with this magnifying glass just just helps me get really precise on exactly where
i'm going to be trimming and what we can do is we can click the split button right here which will
put a little split in between we can delete all this because we don't want this
and then we can zoom out just a little bit and over here to where i'm about done
talking and then we can click here click split and delete okay now let's zoom all the way out
so we can see the whole timeline so now let's click here and we'll drag it to the beginning
now when i do that it's going to have all this other stuff here that we have
already added to the clip simply just want to trim this back so hover over the edges here
and as you trim back it'll kind of snap you'll feel it kind of snap
and do the same for this layer as well okay so now we have our layer and our audio trimmed
it's about a 27 second clip which is fantastic the next thing we want to do is actually add
that audiogram waveform effect so with your audio layer selected we're going to click over here
onto convert waveform and when you do that it'll automatically start playing and apply the effect
now there are two types of waveform styles that you can choose from as you can see we have this
one so we can play that you can see it looks pretty cool we also have this one right here
which just is a different look i personally like the first one because it fills the screen more
and it just looks cool what's also neat is that you have the option to change the color
of the actual waveform and so you can do that by clicking into here and picking a color i
personally like to use colors that are specific to my brand so i'm going to click on this little
eyedropper tool and hover over the blue on zeus here and select that now that waveform is the same
color as my logo color all right now we're almost done here that the one thing that we're going to
do to really spice this up because again we're converting this audio into a piece of content
people can we'll be able to see in the uh in the feed that there's audio to this but to really
help them capture and engage with the content we're going to add subtitles and subtitles are
going to increase engagement because folks on facebook on social media 85 percent of the time
they are watching videos without sound so if it has subtitles they can get that content without
clicking on the audio button alright so at to add subtitles what we want to do is make sure we have
our audio layer selected and we want to click up here onto subtitles now built into kapwing
they have the auto subtitle tool which will auto generate subtitles onto your video it's really
easy all you do is click this button right here called auto generate you select what language
the audio is in and then you click auto generate if you need to also transcribe
your language into a different language you can do that with this tool as well and coping will
go to work and processing and transcribing your audio into subtitles and depending on how long
your video is will depend on how long it takes for it to transcribe and as you can see just
in that short amount of time it has transcribed my video so let's click on the play button right here
to see it go through and so now we can see that the subtitles are active on our screen all i
need now is just a little bit of formatting so what i'd suggest is finding the piece of
subtitle that's the biggest you know like the this one's got three lines this one's
on one line this one's on two lines so this one looks pretty good right here three lines
click on play so you can see the little waveform with it we're going to click over here in the text
options and click on none because we don't want a background on that i think we can roll without it
and then we're going to click right here on the color and i'm just going to make this black
and then we can click right here in the move up and we can bump this up a little bit i like to
bump it up a little close to the waveform because as you know with the video players on social media
they'll have a play button a progress bar at the bottom here you don't want that covering up your
subtitles here what's also special about this tool is once you get everything formatted the
way you want it you can edit the actual subtitles so if you see something that's uh incorrectly
been transcribed you can go back and you can click inside here and fix it uh one thing i
see right here is right here where it says a recent study suggests on facebook audiograms
outperform image posts it is actually plural and they didn't catch that so i'm
going to put that little s right there just to make it correct and now we can back it up
and we can see that now it actually reflects so once you have edited all these just review them
edit them accordingly you can click right here on done and that's going to add it
right there into your timeline as you can see right here everything is nice and neat and synced
up and ready to go and so we can play it back by clicking the play button and as you can see
it looks like a valuable piece of content now to finish this up let's click up here on export video
and what component is going to do is output that into an actual file that you can then download you
can copy the link to share it actually on social media or you can grab an embed link and embed this
onto a website now i kind of sped through this because i respect your time and i know that you
can go back and and revisit certain parts of the video and pause it and and work on it your
own but if you have any questions about this please let me know down in the comments below
and just like that kapwing has outputted our thing and it begins a preview video of it as
well you can pause that and click on the download button and that's going to download the actual
video right into your downloads folder where you can actually view it and listen to it and that's
how you make an audiogram inside the point now the audio that was used inside the audiogram that we
just made was recorded using an app that allows you to record any phone call on an iPhone
i discuss on how to use that in this video right here so if that interests you go ahead and check
that out once again thanks for watching videozeus helping you create videos that get results