In this video I'm going to show you how incredibly easy it is to make an awesome
video in Adobe Spark Post. So if you are
assigned to make a video in Adobe you're going to go up here to the blue
plus button and then you're going to select 'Video.'
When you select 'Video,' it's going to take you to a screen where
you can enter the title of your video if you know it.
So here I'm just going to write 'Demo Video,' and
then click 'Next.' The first option you'll be given is
an option to select from some different templates.
You're free to choose from these templates if you'd like
or you can just start from scratch. So if you start from scratch
it's going to just take you to a basic video builder. Now when you think of
video you probably think of actual video
content ,but with Adobe you can also make videos
out of images, you don't actually have to have video
content. But if you do have video content you can
bring that in as well, which makes it really cool. So here
you'll see that you have some different options
for what you can do. First you'll see at the bottom that the video builder is
essentially structured like slides. So if you click the 'Add'
button, it's going to add new slides and those will be different parts
of your video. I'll start now by adding some text so
that you can get an idea of what this looks like.
I'm going to hit plus in the middle and then I'm going to add
text. So here I'll start with my demo video
so you'll see that I can make that text smaller or I can make it larger
and I can also delete it if I want. Then once I have the size of the text
I can change the layout of the slides on the right hand side.
If I want to have a split screen, I can choose 'Split Screen,'
which will allow me to add a video, photo, or icon
next to my text. You can set it up to be a caption style so that the text
indicates what media is on your video page
or you could set it up to be title and text, in which case you would have
larger text on the top and smaller text on the bottom.
Let's go back here to 'Full Screen.' Now that I have some basic text
let's look at some different theme options. If you go to the 'Theme' tab
you'll see that you have some different themes you can choose from
and if you hover over those themes it's going to show you what that theme
will look like. In addition to the theme, you also can choose
from different colors that you would like to appear
in your video. So let's go ahead here to orange and then I'm going to select
'Title.' Before we look at some of these other
options, let's go ahead now and bring in a background image or video
behind this video slide. So here I'm going to go to the 'Add' button on the top
left hand side of the screen and then let's start by adding a photo.
So here I can search from photos that are going to be available through either
Unsplash or Pixabay, both of which are websites that
allow you to use images without worrying about copyright
violation and you also have the option to upload a
photo from your own computer. So this would be
a great idea if you're being asked to do something
where you need to take pictures and then bring them in to a video. Let's
just go ahead here and start with 'Find free photos,'
and I'll just find a photo of a wolf, since that's my favorite animal.
Now that we have our image in the background, there are a couple more
things that we can do. One choice you have is to add your own
voice over to this slide. So if you wanted to be explaining
something that is happening, for example, you could click on the microphone, hold
down, and then it is going to record your
voice. When you stop holding down on the
microphone it will add your recording to that slide and if
you press play and don't like what you hear, you can go
over here to the clock, select it, and then click 'Remove
Narration.' Speaking of the clock, what this does is
change the duration of time that this slide will play. So if you drag
it longer it's going to stay on this slide
for a longer period of time, whereas if you drag it to be a shorter
amount of time, it will play this slide quickly.
Generally you're going to want the slides to move relatively quickly
but you want to be careful not to make it so fast that nobody can read or
understand what's on that particular slide, yet at
the same time you don't want to make it really, really long so
that people get bored. So for example, for this type of slide,
something like three to four seconds would probably be
a good choice and we can see how that would look here.
Now you notice that there was some music in the background of that slide as well.
I can customize the music that I put in by going up here to the 'Music' tab.
So if you click on 'Music,' the first thing that you can do
is choose whether or not you just want to turn music off.
You might want to have music off if you're planning to have your own videos
with sound in them or do your own voiceovers.
You can also adjust the volume to make the music
louder or quieter. Then you can choose to either add your own music. So if you
have your own music files from your computer, you can select those,
or you can bring in music that's already
built in within Adobe Spark. So if you click on one of
the pieces of music and then press play,
you'll be able to preview that music and then if you click on it,
it will add it to your video. Great now that we have this slide done,
let's move on to another one. So here let's go ahead and check out what it
would look like to bring in an icon. You'll see that it's already
detected what I searched for in the last slide, which was a wolf, and
then it's pulling up some icons for a wolf.
So if I selected one, it would show up now in my slide.
One way you might want to use icons is actually with
the split screen layout. So if you select 'Split Screen,'
it's going to push that icon over to one side and then allow you to put some text
on the other. And then again you would have the option to add that voiceover
there if you wanted to as well. So now we've
looked at text, photos, and icons, but what would happen if we brought in a
video? Let's check that out now. So here I'm going to bring in my own
video that I have on my computer. You can only bring in short, 30 second
video clips in Adobe Spark, so it's not really built
for long videos, but rather just shorter video clips. So
what you might do is take a video with your smartphone or
with a tablet for example, and then download that onto your
computer and bring that video in. So for example I took this video of
my dog on my smartphone, downloaded it onto my
computer, and now I can add it into Adobe Spark.
The editing tool below will allow you to clip sections from your video
and this bar represents those 30 seconds. So if your video is longer than 30
seconds, you're going to see that you're not able
to bring in that entire video, so you just have to drag it to the 30
second segment that you wanted to add. Similarly if you
only wanted to bring in a really short segment, you could clip it way down so
that it's just this short segment at the end that
you're bringing in and then when you're ready to bring that section of the video
in, you're going to click 'Save.' Now that that
video clip is uploaded, you can also add text over the top of
the video. So now that we've seen what it's like to
add an image in the background with some text over the top,
to add some music into our video, then create a split screen with an icon,
as well as bring in our own video clip, let's see
what this video would look like.
So looks pretty cool and didn't take me a lot of effort to make
and then if I want to add additional slides to the video I can continue to
add them below and then if I need to drag them in
different places, I can drag them around. And again if I want the duration of that
slide to be longer or shorter, I can do that there as well. And if you
want to delete a slide because you decide that you didn't need it,
you can just click 'Delete' and that will get rid of it. So let's say that we're
ready to actually publish or share this video. One option is that you could
download the video, which will put the video on your
computer. Another option is that you could click the 'Share' link.
If you click on 'Share' and then click 'Publish,'
click 'Create Link' and then copy the link and share that link
wherever your teacher has asked you to turn it in.