if you want to edit your videos or maybe
you're looking for a platform to edit
your videos on
in today's video i'm going to be taking
you on a spin on a tour
a guided tour of the platform i use keep watching
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i upload a new video so if you are
at the point in your business where
you're already making videos or you're
thinking about making videos and you'd
like to move them on
to the next level whatever the next
level is
in today's video i'm going to be sharing
the software that i use and also
giving you an introduction to it as well
now the editing software that i use is
called screenflow for mac
and it's by a company called telestream
and i'll leave some links just below
this video so
if you want to check them out if you
want to try it out for free
and just see if this is the kind of
thing you're looking for
then as i say i'll leave the links just
below this video
in a nutshell screenflow for mac has
two primary functions number one is
to give you the ability to edit a video
so you would film a video on your
on your phone or in your maybe a
camcorder or maybe a dslr camera
you'd import the file into your computer
and then edit it
so that's the main function that's the
one that i think most people use i
certainly
use it for that and i've used screenflow
for mac for about six or seven years now the other and it's kind of a usp
that screenflow for mac has is it gives
you the ability
to record your screen and to record your
screen
with sound as well and then afterwards
of course you can go back and edit it
because it's an editing software so
what i mean by recording your screen is
that you can
potentially if you want to record a
webinar
so whether you use powerpoint or keynote
if you're on a mac or a pc
you can record yourself basically
narrating
slides you can include within your
slides
a video of you presenting or doing
something or a video of some content
and then whilst you're recording your
video to camera
also record your screen and that
captures that
real time as well so when you take all
of that content
into screenflow and i'll show you how to
do that in a moment it means that
you can not only use the content that
you recorded from your camera as i'm
doing now but you can also record the
content
you will have recorded from the screen
and that gives you
as a trainer as a speaker as someone who
is creating content
a greater possibility of being
being able to create content for your
client base so let's jump into the
software now i'm going to share my
screen so you can
look over my shoulder and see what i'm
doing on the computer now i'm going to
be opening the
app screenflow and you can see it's
going to open an initial screen a box and it's
going to give you options of what
it's really asking you what kind of
material
do you want to work on so it can be a
new recording where you just talk to
camera or you're talking to your camera
and you just
we call it real time into the screenflow
you can import a document
and that's where you import some film
you've maybe recorded before
an example is i'm recording this
video into my iphone and then
i'm going to be uploading that
document onto my computer and into
screenflow so that's my process if
you're on a dslr camera or a camcorder
you record your video onto a
a memory card and then when you
finish recording it take the memory card
out of the camcorder or the
camera
and put it into the sd the
the memory slot on your computer and
then you can
upload that file so that's what a new
document means
recent documents are basically projects
you're working on so if you click that
you'll see all the
recent documents you've been working on
you can see it's got
various presets so the the preset the
standard preset
and you can just click this blue
arrow up and down over there and get all
the different presets as well
but i'm just going to click the standard
one and it's called a preset because
it's preset it's the standard one is
it's 1080p
okay so the dashboard is the main screen
on the top left and it's the majority of
the screen here this is
you can call it a viewfinder or
the video screen so this is where in a
moment when i
import a file you'll see the video
and what that will show you is what your finished edited video will look like
one of the additional benefits of
working with screenflow
is that it comes with a media library
where you've got
an endless supply of clips of b-roll and
equally in music as well so you don't
have to go hunting around the internet
unless you want and some people do that
but equally you can get a version of
screenflow and i'll talk you through
that in a moment
where it's all in there as well and
equally with b-roll
you can record your own b-roll so you
can go out with your phone with your
camera whatever it is
and record things on the street in
the city in a coffee shop and you know
wherever you might want to record video
to use as additional just mini segments
of additional video which we call
b-roll
so you put all these files in this
top right hand corner and this is where
your media library is and now just
above the media center you've got some
icons
and so i'm going to talk you through all
of these if you want a more in-depth tutorial training video on how to use
screenflow and equally edit a video and
upload it and all the rest of it
let me know in the comments box below
and i'll gladly do that for you
as well but the icons the tools that i use are these so
the first one is i'm just gonna click on
it so it's in the top
right hand column just above media
library and
it's i'll zoom in a little bit there you
go and it's this
and this is the i'll just click that it's
basically an icon of a movie tape
basically and so you click that and
you'll see when i
import a video in a moment you this will
then
be activated and i can make
the video i can zoom in
zoom out i can change the rotation move
it around a little bit
i can change the colour so there are
things you can do that to make it look
the way you want it to look
in the viewfinder the next icon along
i use every single video yeah it's the
audio that's it and again when we bring
the video into this suite and in a few
moments you'll see this is activated the next icon i use is the t
it's for text and it's where you can
create a text box over your video
where if you want to for example have a
title so if
you've seen in many of my videos i
sometimes share three or five or ten top
tips or how to's or
mistakes to avoid or something and when
i introduce each one
there'll be some titles slide across the
screen and then slide out again
and then the final icon on the right is
it just
clicks you back to the media library
all right and so then we move into the
bottom third of the screen and this
is the timeline so this is where we'll
be putting
the file and depending how long your
file is whether your video is
two minutes or ten minutes or an hour
you'll see it in here
there are various grey areas here
where
that i'm sure you can see on this
recording there are lines there are dark
grey lines here
basically these are channels so each
piece of content you
upload into screenflow will be a channel
so
the first channel is usually your video
that's it
if you import a some music
that will be another channel if you
import some slides that will be
another channel
if you import some intro and outro
graphics that will be another channel if
you import
some b-roll each of those will be
another channel
so there are some other tools here
one is this
red bar that goes across the
the timeline and this is your splicer so
this is where
when we import the content
in a moment you
you'll be able to see we can start to
move this depending where we want to splice so cut content and then maybe
delete a bit where there's nothing
happening or we make a mistake
and it's gone and so this is your splice
like a chopper tool that's that
at the bottom of the screen on the left
hand corner
is a zoom in zoom out slider and
again
there we go it just zooms in and zooms
out and then finally
we've got the the three controls here
that you've you'll have seen on every
mp3 player and tape recorder probably
ever seen and this is the play the
rewind and the fast forward button
one final box and you'll see this in
action in a moment is your timer as your counter it'll show
you where you are in your clip
as you're working through the project
right
so let's let's begin this project so
i think a good place to start and i'm
not going to go into how to edit a video
today it's really that's quite in depth
and if you want to know how to do that
i will talk you through one of those
videos real time you can look over my
shoulder again
leave a comment in the box below and let
me know that you'd like to see
a video where i edit a video so
step-by-step guide you can do that as
well so i'm just going to whistle
through it today i'm not going to really
spend a lot of time
showing you how to edit a video but i am
going to
import a video so you can see it as well
okay so the next step is where we
import a file the main
i guess the main body of work your video
so that you can start
seeing what you need to edit as well so
i'm going to click
insert so on this top toolbar you can
see
the words here are from the left is
screenflow and then file edit mark
insert i'm going to click insert and
the bottom option is choose
i'll hit play and you can see what we do
here i'm just going to show you how you
can
use the splicer just one time and maybe
a couple and then you can see what we
can do there so i'll just hit play
so if i wanted to start the video here
this bottom red square is well if you
click that
now you've just spliced it you've cut
your video down that
down to that point and let's zoom out a
little bit again so you can see it all
so this first bit if you click on it it
highlights that first bit
you can see that that is now cut that's
a segment
and we don't want that segment so all
you do is hit delete
and it's gone and then if you click on
the
part of the timeline that you still
got that you want to keep
then you hold your mouse or your
finger on your tracker pad down and just
slide the timeline
to the zero to the beginning and then
click the rewind button and play it
again it should go straight into the
video now
if you've ever wondered what software
there you go
if you want to edit a mistake in the
middle of a video and i'm just going to
do this very quickly i'm not even going
to play it so
i can see there's a gap there so i would
slice that
and i can see there was another gap kind
of
here maybe so if you
played this through if this is your clip
and you think i made a mistake there i
want to cut that
30 seconds or a minute or 10 minutes out
you just
splice at the beginning and the end of the
bit that you want to remove
click it and it highlights it hit delete
and it deletes and then you can just
again move
slide the clip over and join it together
you can even overlap it if you want to
but
and that's when one one shot fades into
another that's what you do when
when you overlap a clip like that but
equally if you just want it to be
one shot moving very nicely and
smoothly into our next shot that's where
they sit
side by side okay so next let's look at
the
media library this is additional
content that you can
include in your screenflow if you want
to and i'll explain how that works
in a few moments but
as i mentioned in the beginning you can
have three main types of content video
audio and graphics
and so if you're going to include some
b-roll and
by the way b-roll you
remember
i mentioned in the beginning you can
shoot b-roll yourself with your own
camera or your
your cell phone as well and then import
that into this but equally if you want
to
use the b-roll that's supplied within
the media library
from screenflow they have like i don't
know how many like
thousands upon thousands and thousands
of little clips
of b-roll that you can use as well so
let's just unclick audio and graphics
and by the way if you're looking for
audio like background music or intro
music or you have
sound effects that's in audio and
graphics obviously what things happening
on the screen like explosions or
whatever
they're in graphics so the same would be
for that so let's just say
we want video and you put in a
description of someone
or a description of what you're looking
for example
office worker i don't know let's see
if there's anything comes back
okay office workers so and equally there
are just literally
and as you scroll down it uploads more
and more and more and there's so
many here so let's find something that
just shows someone
using a computer just for a few seconds
remember
a picture or graphic or a video can tell
a thousand words it can explain what
you're talking about
so let's select this one so you just
double click it
and it downloads it into this place on
the timeline
where my cursor was okay so but equally
we can move this wherever we want to
move it as well
now if you're interested in downloading
the free trial version of screenflow for
mac
obviously it kind of does what it said
on the can for
this software it is for mac users and
then just follow the link below the
screen and you can get that free trial
and then use it for as long as you want
and that's that's good to go that's
great
and then if you want to then get the
screenflow for mac so get the paid for
version where you can use it for real to
upload your content and create your
courses
then there are two versions the first
one is
everything i just showed you so
screenflow for mac editing suite
and then the other version is where it's
all of that and
it comes with the media library as well
so one is without the media library so
you would upload your own music or
get music from elsewhere and then bring
that into
screenflow and equally you could
shoot your own b-roll i'd get view often
somewhere else and then upload it to
a screenflow for mac or you can get the
but it's called a bundle where you get
the screenflow for mac editing software
and the media library imported
or included in that as well and it means
you have the
royalty-free rights to use whatever
content is there
within your programs within your videos
within your whatever you use promotional
materials etc you've got the license to
do that
so the price of the two editing
softwares if you want to get the
screenflow for mac editing software and
all that it comes with
without the media library that's a
i think it's $129US and
if you're here in the uk i'm in the uk
that works out to about £97-£99
depending on currency exchange rates i guess and if you
want to get the
the what it's just the word screenflow
use the bundle so you get the
editing software and the media library
as well that's a $175 and that works out
to
around about £130 to £135
here in the uk and i think it's a
really
really useful framework to use now
i have tried some other platforms before
and i do use some other platforms at the
moment as well and i'll share those if
you're interested
in the coming weeks or months so if
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