Steve Dotto here.
How the heck are you today?
As you can tell, I am going to try and do my green screen with the chroma key effect
one more time.
If you watched my last video, we had an attack of the cat and dog when I was trying to use
the green screen and it ended up being a disaster.
Not only that, but the editing software went all swirly on me as well.
So I ended up having some significant challenges making it work.
But I think this one’s going to be better.
For one reason, it’s going to be a far shorter video so it should be easier to keep it all
in control.
What is the topic today?
Today, we’re going to talk about calendars.
We’re going to talk about calendar events based on a question.
It’s going to be a little, quick tutorial here based on a question from one of our viewers.
Chris Hebbron said, “Maybe you could tell me how I can set up the Google Calendar to
show a regular event, say in the last Tuesday of each month.
Bizarrely, it does not seem to be considered by Google.”
In point of fact, Chris, it was considered by Google but just because they considered
it, didn’t mean that it is readily evident to you or I exactly how to use this feature
but I will show you.
It is actually not all that difficult.
I’m sitting here in my Google Calendar.
Let’s say that we want to create an event for the fourth Saturday of every month.
I’m going to count out the Saturdays and here, the 26th this month, is my first fourth
Saturday of the month.
I’m going to call this Awesome Event.
That’s an awesome event that happens.
I create that event and what I can do is I can go in and edit the event.
I can either it as I’m first creating it or go back in and edit it later.
If we take a look within the editing field here, we can see that we can set up a repeating
event.
The repeating events, they’ve got a bunch of presets created for us automatically – daily,
weekdays, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays; Tuesdays and Thursdays, so it’s taken those two rhythms;
and then weekly, monthly, or yearly, which are great for doing things like birthdays,
anniversaries and that sort of stuff, being able to remind yourself of them on a regular
basis.
But if those don’t necessarily work for you, you could say choose monthly like you
wanted to do, repeat it every month.
But look here, instead of going by the day of the month, you can go by the day of the
weeks so you can now choose to have it on the fourth Saturday of every month.
Now I’m not too sure how it would work if we have a fifth Saturday of the month; it
might just do it on the last Saturday of the month.
But typically people don’t do that.
They don’t have it for the ones that are long.
So it’s usually first, second, third or fourth.
Actually, we always have to be the first, second, third or fourth because the odd time
is not going to happen any other time.
But I digress.
Calendar science…
But this is the way you do that.
You set it up based on that.
Once that’s done, it will now become an event for me.
I will have an awesome event.
Well, let’s go and check if it’s indeed in on the fourth Saturday of every month.
I saved that change and here it is in April, which is what we’re in as we record this.
Now let’s go to May, one, two, three, four, there it is on the fourth Saturday of May,
fourth Saturday of June, and so on and so and so forth.
That is how you set up a recurring calendar event.
Mr. Chris Hebbron, I think you very much for asking me this question.
If you have any questions for us, please, either post them in the YouTube chat area
or drop me an email.
Drop by our website.
In there, you can find contact information for sending me an email and I’ll always
try and fill you in on how to do these things in these little tutorials that I’m calling
Tubetorials.
Pretty catchy name, eh?
I hope the green screen has worked for this entire video.
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