Hi All! I am George Pierce. This post is about making your own templates for quiz videos. I started with Canva, a fantastic site for helping you and me with any kind of images or videos. Canva is free and perfect for getting started. I soon discovered a problem, however, which is that creating quiz videos is slow and tedious. The following is a brief overview of how I am solving this problem.
I am using video creation software called CreateSudio. CreateStudio is awesome; it extremely over-delivers, but it is not free. Stay with me, however. I am using the Basic version. It is $67, which is a one-time cost, and you own it for life. It may be the best value on the Internet, and you are about to see how it can save you so much time and help you avoid a lot of tedium.
The following snapshot is a group or a scene, it can act as a template, which you can save to My Scenes.
When you save it to My Scenes, it means that you can use it over and over again. Even better is that you can access all the components! In other words, you can modify it to fit your audio (speech), as well as make changes.
Notice that on the left side, you also have easy and quick access to all the text, as well as the imagery. Your image can also be a video, and changing it is as easy as uploading and hitting 'replace'.
To access the components click on open group.
To create your scene, add your components as you would with any other segment of your video. CreateStudio is automatically hooked up with sites such as Pixabay, Pexels, Coverr, and more, as well as providing us with thousands of backgrounds. There is much more such as animated characters that we can sync to the speech, special effects, doodles, music, built-in unlimited text-to-speech (I prefer Luvvoice), and on and on.
We can animate text and images as well as add special effects. In the above, I used special effects for swirling the multiple choices (text) in and out and for the doodle for the answer.
As in most editors, once you create the template you want, drag or scroll your mouse over the components, and click on group. Click on rename, add a name that describes your template, and then add it to My Scenes, which permanently saves it. You can easily drag and drop your saved My Scenes template to your videos/ future videos. You can also use group and my scenes for multiple scenes, 5, 10, or more.
Shhh!
Do not steal, but look at your competition and let their quiz videos help with ideas for your quiz templates. CreateStudio will make creating easy.
(When something works...do more of it!)
Use your CreateStudio search box and you should find whatever you need. I searched for 'ELF', and of course, I found a 3D animated elf, the host of the video along with a background of an elf workshop. I wanted a rectangle to put behind my choices and answers, typed in rectangle, and found one with an outer edge, I can control the color and size of the rectangle and the color of the edge...minor enhancements such as this, and such as sound effects (also available) add up to helping us to keep viewers watching!
I feel that CreateStudio gives my videos an edge, perhaps it can do the same for your videos.
Thank you for reading.
Much success.
George Pierce
PS. The Elf Quiz will be posted soon on The Quiz Geeks Channel.
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