{"id":4657,"date":"2014-06-19T15:16:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.promosimple.com\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2014-06-17T15:24:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:24:36","slug":"creating-how-to-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/creating-how-to-videos","title":{"rendered":"Creating How To &#038; Promotional Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I spent a few days researching video creation and editing software to find a solution that would allow us to create some very simple screencast videos to showcase how it easy it is to use some of PromoSimple&#8217;s more advanced features. After installing and testing out about 20 different options I came to the conclusion that using iMovie and QuickTime Player (which are pre-installed on most Macs) actually provided everything that I needed.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;padding-bottom: 25px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oqZQBZACtVE?list=UUDKbf36nxixDARJ1PJyBvNw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>Creating a ScreenCast<\/h3>\n<p>Using QuickTime Player you can select the option for creating a &#8216;New Screen Recording&#8217; which allows you to select your whole screen or a portion of the computer screen to be recorded. It is extremely simple and straightforward. Once your recording is finished you can save or share the file. <\/p>\n<p>At PromoSimple we also use a screencast app called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsmith.com\/jing.html\" title=\"Jing\" target=\"_blank\">Jing<\/a> for creating short videos to share internally. This is a free service by TechSmith that allows you to record screencasts, upload files to Screencast.com and share the videos with others. You can also download these videos as Flash (swf) files.<\/p>\n<h3>Editing Videos and Screencasts<\/h3>\n<p>Using iMovie to edit the screencast is also a simple process. Import the video that you&#8217;ve taken using QuickTime into iMovie and you can edit the video to crop out certain portions or combine multiple screencasts to create a single video. Adding text, music or audio recordings is also possible and quite easy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/iMovie.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/iMovie-1024x613.png\" alt=\"iMovie\" width=\"80%\" class=\"size-large aligncenter wp-image-4658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/iMovie-1024x613.png 1024w, https:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/iMovie-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/iMovie.png 1435w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once your video has been created you can save it to your computer or upload to a variety of services like YouTube, iTunes, Vimeo and Facebook using the Share function. <\/p>\n<h4>Sample Video of our WYSIWYG Design Editor<\/h4>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;padding-bottom: 25px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZyoDsGKSmrU?list=UUDKbf36nxixDARJ1PJyBvNw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCDKbf36nxixDARJ1PJyBvNw\" title=\"PromoSimple on YouTube\" target=\"_blank\">View more videos on our YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/giveaway-designs\/add-video-giveaway\/\" title=\"How to Add a Video to your Giveaway\">embed videos<\/a> from YouTube or other video hosting sites within your giveaways&#8217; entry forms within the Description area or the Thank you Message area on the Bonus screen for users that have completed the required portion of the entry form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I spent a few days researching video creation and editing software to find a solution that would allow us to create some very simple screencast videos to showcase how it easy it is to use some of PromoSimple&#8217;s more advanced features. 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