how to add slides to your video in Shotcut to help engage viewers and make your explanations
easier to follow let's head over to the computer and get started so to start with I have created
a new Shotcut project added a few clips into the playlist and then put them into the timeline for
the purposes of this demonstration I'm imagining that this is my finished video and this is the
thing that I want to add my slides on top of so let's set that up first of all come over to the
three dots track operations and add video track the new video track is where we will add all of
our slides now that's great but we also need a set of slides to add so now you need to go over
to your favourite slide presentation software and create the slides this demonstration I'm
using impress which is Libra office but Microsoft PowerPoint or Canva or anything like that will
also work the same way so first of all create your slides in the software once you've done
that you basically want to work backwards so if I demonstrate what I've created here
it starts off with freebies and then it goes to the video editing checklist ultimate YouTuber
framework and Video Creator framework and then it all kind of Fades out a little bit and free
downloads Link in the description maybe that's something that you wanted on your slides or maybe
you wanted something just like a list going down the page entirely up to you but we're just using
this as an example and for reference all of these documents are actually available on my website in
the link below so coming out of slideshow mode and then entering into how we would need to set
these up for Shotcut Now Shotcut only accepts still images so you're not going to be able to
make fancy transitions from your slideshows to the Shotcut project however you can replicate
those transitions once it's all in Shotcut so what do I mean well what we need to do is every
time you've got a transition or an animation on your slides you need to make a new image so the
easiest thing to do here is to duplicate your slides as many times as you have transitions
what I mean by that is every single time you click next or a new transition happens on the screen you
want a new slide if that doesn't make sense then bear with me it should in just a few moments time
on my slideshow here I had five transitions so I've now got five slides so now you've
got the amount of transitions that you need in your project and you've got the same image for
each of them at the moment what we're going to do now is go through each one in turn so
we actually see what the transition should show us so image one when we first start off we don't
want any of this stuff we don't want anything at all it's just the word freebies on the screen
but number two we want to get rid of most of it but we want to keep
the video editing checklist
slide three
we want to add in the Ultimate Youtuber! Framework
for slide four we want all three of them to show and then slide five we want the
fade out and the link description image to show next so effectively this is now the slideshow
hopefully you can start to see this coming together and now we can export each one of
these images and then add them into Shotcut now just before we continue if we're meeting for
the very first time then my name is Joe and this channel helps YouTubers edit their videos and use
free software if you're creating YouTube videos regularly and not seeing the growth you'd hope for
you're probably missing one or more elements of the video creator framework you can download the
free pdf in the description below to get started now let's get back to the video you might have to
do this in slightly different ways depending on your package but for me I come up to file I click
on export and then I select jpeg you can do jpeg or jpg it doesn't really matter I would suggest
selecting an image format rather than a PDF file for Shotcut though make sure you're in the right
location and then click save depending on the application you may also get some options now
you click save now for me I have to do that for each and every one of them otherwise it
won't export every file as you do that make sure you you're using names that make sense
once you have all of the images saved you can then import them into Shotcut
now back in Shotcut we can add our slides one at a time
and then modify them as we see fit by default they come onto the screen at four seconds long and you
would probably want to change them for each slide now you can butt them up to one another so they
don't really transition past they just show one image after another let me just demonstrate that
so it goes from one image to the next and the quality of my screen is because I've got proxy
and preview scaling on but these will render at full quality but the basic slideshow is now in
Shotcut to make that look a little bit better you might want to transition from one slide to another
and you can do that by overlapping each of the video files so now it will fade in just like
it does in the actual presentation folder as we Shotcut you can also add any of the
filters or anything else on there that you want so if I demonstrate with this clip if
I wanted this to be maybe half the size of the screen I can add in size position rotate
resize the frames and then let's imagine you're on the screen and you can also have your slideshow
presenting to the side you could also do it the other way around where you have your slides
maximized and then you in the small bottom corner which is quite a common scenario especially when
you're presenting a long presentation now this style is actually better for short presentations
or lists that you'll want to run through very quickly on screen it's not made really for
full presentations because you'll be doing the work effectively twice if you wanted to do full
presentations then I recommend using a screen recorder which will enable you to record your
screen and your webcam at the same time instead of having to do this method for a full presentation
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