Easy Ways To Rotate And Flip Your Videos - Week 5

Have you ever taken a video with your phone that you thought was taken correctly, only to find later it was rotated upside down or in some other direction? Luckily there are different options to help rotate and flip your video.

Using your iPhone or iPad

Video Rotate & Flip app for iOS

• This FREE app is easy to use and can be installed on your iPhone or iPad. 
• After you rotate or flip your video, the app will not leave a watermark on your newly saved video. 
• Another bonus is that there is no time limit. Your video can be short or long in length of time. 
• Your video will export as MPEG-4 (default) or QuickTime 

Select the video from your photo library, you'll have an option to crop (if needed). On the bottom, you will see icons to Rotate: counterclockwise or clockwise & Flip: vertically & horizontally.

Once your video has been rotated and flipped, click Export on the top-right corner. You can then select "Save Video" and your new video will be saved back into your iPhone or iPad Photo Library. You could also select to save it into your Google Drive.

Using Your Desktop, Laptop, or Chromebook

iMovie - iMovie software must be installed on a Mac desktop or laptop. Import your video (called "media" in iMovie). Your video will be located in "My Media". Click on the video clip you want to rotate. On the top-right you will see a crop icon.

Click the crop icon and then on the top-right you will see rotate left and right icons. These will allow you to rotate your video.

WeVideo - WeVideo is web-based and can be used on Mac, PC, desktop, laptop, and Chrombook. You can sign-up and login with your Google account or register using an email address. WeVideo has a free and paid "premium" version. Import your video (called "media" in WeVideo). Once your video is imported into My Media, drag the video into your Timeline or Storyboard. Click your video clip and you will see a pencil which allows you to edit. Click the pencil. ** Exported video in WeVideo will have a WeVideo watermark and bumper unless you are using the Premium or paid version.

Under Transform, you will see Rotation (Left or Right) & Flip (Horizontal or Vertical).

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To help prevent your videos from being rotated in the wrong direction, notice where your timer is when taking video. If you're taking a video and the timer is on the bottom of your screen, your video will be upside down. The timer should be located on the top of your screen.

WOW Everyone With Adobe Spark - Week 4

Adobe Spark is a free design tool suite that allows you to create graphics, web pages, and animated videos in seconds. You can use this tool on your computer browser or your iPhone & iPad. You can access Adobe Spark by logging in with your Google single sign-on or an Adobe ID. Spark contains three different tools:

Post, Page, and Video.

Once you login and click the yellow-circle plus-sign, you'll see this:

Three different creation options: Video (red circle), Page (blue circle), Post (green circle).

Adobe Spark Post (for creating graphics/images)- Design custom social media images in seconds. You can upload your own photo as a background, search from tons of free photos, or even use solid color backgrounds. Add eye-catching text and in no time you can create images to be used for almost any reason imaginable: social media (with preset sizes for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc), memes, event invitations, custom graphics for presentations or projects, the options are endless. You can download your image to your computer or phone or tablet library. And the ease with which you can create all this on your phone is so great.

Choose what size you want your graphic to be i.e. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Poster, Slide, etc.

On the top right, you'll find the tools you need to customize your graphic. 

Adobe Spark Page (for creating a webpage) - Create magazine-style web pages in minutes. This is an easy and modern looking way to communicate information like newsletters, photos, reports, etc. You’ll find different page designs and layouts, colors, and text to use and can add photos and different text to customize. Everything comes to life by what’s called “Glideshow”; your page will have a smooth sleek motion to it. Sharing your page can be done via social media or by a direct link via email.   
When you begin creating your page, it looks like this:

Once you begin, you can click the plus-sign to add photos, text, buttons, videos, photo grid, glideshow.

Adobe Spark Video (for creating animated videos)- Create quick, beautiful, compelling animated videos. You can combine video clips and photos into your video plus add customized text, search free music, add your own personal music, or add your voice. There are different styles and themes to choose from to match your story and message.

You'll see an inspiring prompt that focuses on the story or idea right when you begin a new project.

To help guide your video creation, you can choose to a story template such as: Promote an Idea, Tell What Happened, A Hero’s Journey, Show and Tell, Personal Growth, Teach a Lesson, An Invitation, or Start from Scratch.

Easy to customize and navigate "storyboard" style template.

For your iPhone or iPad:

Adobe Spark Post iOS App  

Adobe Spark Page iOS App

Adobe Spark Video iOS App

Quick And Easy Screen Recording With Quicktime Player - Week 3

Did you know you could create screen-recordings on a your Mac with Quicktime Player?

Yes, you can, and it’s easy. Make sure you’re running Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later and with Quicktime Player screen-recording, you can record whatever is on your screen, whether it is web-based or not. This sets it apart from web-based only screen-recording apps or extensions which record items that run in your internet browser.

Here's what to do:

1. Find and open Quicktime Player from the Applications folder located in Finder. If it’s not already there, drag the Quicktime Player app/icon to the Dock for easy access to it.
   
   
   
2. Click File > New Screen Recording
3. Next to the record button, click the down arrow and select either the internal microphone unless you’d like to add an external microphone.
4. Click the red record button to begin recording.
5. This message will appear to select either recording in full screen or dragging to select part of a screen.
6. To stop recording, click stop from the menu bar (you'll see a tiny stop button on the top-right near the clock) or right-click the Quicktime Player icon from the Dock and select Stop Recording.
7. Click File > Save > and select a place that’s easy for you to find your recording, like the Desktop.

You now have a video file of your screen recording that is ready to use. You can do things like upload it to YouTube or upload and share it via Google Drive. If you want to enhance your screen-recording further, you can easily import it into a movie editing tool such as iMovie or WeVideo.

SafeShare.TV To Cleanup YouTube Videos - Week 1

Using SafeShare.tv is a great way to cleanup distractions from a YouTube video. It's quick and easy to use. 

From the SafeShare.tv website:

How to use SafeShare.tv:

• Find the video you want from YouTube
• Copy the video URL
• Paste the YouTube URL into SafeShare.tv
• SafeShare.tv will cleanup the distractions from the video and you can share the clean version with your students via link or even QR code
• You can even customize the start/end point & the title & description

Customizing your video....

 Before SafeShare.tv....

After SafeShare.tv....