Thursday October 23, 2014

Learn how to clip and multiply you content using 23 Video

Teddy Falsen Hiis, the product evangeliser at 23, goes through how Clips work in 23 Video.

To get started, pick any video in your 23 Video backend and click the Clip option. Use the timeline to select which parts of the video you want to reuse and click Save. If you want to create a new clip, hit Save a new clip and type in a title for the new video.

You will always be able to keep track of all clips from the same video source, and you can even create layout blocks for your video website grouping together clips to make them browsable to your visitors.

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With Clip in TwentyThree Video you can clip and multiply your content. Let's take a look at how to use this feature. I log in to my TwentyThree Video backend and in the overview page I find the video that I just uploaded. I click on the video and I choose the option called Clip, which I find in the left sidebar. Let's say this is a video I just shot with my phone. I now want to remove certain parts of the video before I publish. Some parts in the beginning and some in the end of the video. I simply use the handles on the timeline to do this. I pull the handle so it matches the content I would like to publish. The marked areas will contain what will be my new clipped version. The preview window on the left will provide me with the current version of the video. When I'm happy with the preview, I go to the top right corner and click the button called Save Video. The original file will then be replaced with the clipped version. I can always undo clipping. In the top right corner I find the option called Undo All Clipping. And I'm then presented with the original file. I can also use Clip to create multiple shorter versions of my original file. In this case, a video from a seminar here at TwentyThree. At this seminar we had three speakers, so I want to create three separate clips. Again, I find myself in the backend of my TwentyThree Video account. I've chosen the video that I want to upload. I scroll down and I choose the Clip option on the left sidebar. What I now would like to do is to take out three shorter clips from this video. I use the handles to find the exact time frame. And I can even use the Keynote shortcuts for fine tuning. I use the preview window for making sure I hit the right frames. As I'm doing this multiple times, I want to mute the preview window after my first clipping. When I'm done, I click OK. I choose Save as New Clip. And I get the option of adding a title right away. When choosing Save as New Clip, a new clip with a unique video ID is created. I'm redirected to this file where I can add a new description, choose a suitable thumbnail, and of course share with my audience. Now, what I'll do is go back to the original file and simply do it again. I can also create clips that contain multiple parts of this video. I then simply mark the timeline again. And these two marked areas will become my new video as I click Save. Below the video, I can see all the clips that have been created by the same file. Good luck clipping!