Recommended Workflow for Explainer Videos
The recommended workflow for Explainer Videos that we use as of 2/2016:
- Record voiceover. Voice is the most important part of a video.
- Use Audacity to Remove Noise from Sound and to save as mp3 for PowToon in next step.
- Use PowToon for intro screen. See PowToon for library assets for video production.
- Record short video clips of person talking as needed.
- Upload clips to YouTube straight from a smart phone. Download from YouTube using Savefrom.
- Edit videos and other content in Kdenlive. Add one of Open Source Soundtracks.
- For interactive videos, create destination webpages for clicking to.
- Upload to YouTube or Vimeo, and use the Interactive Video capacity in YouTube or use Popcorn to add the interactive features (click-on events, etc).
Collaborative Workflow
To achieve globally distributed video editing collaboration, here is a potential process:
Use open source video editing software such as Kdenlive and uploads to public video repos such as YouTube or Vimeo. Because Kdenlive saves projects as project files, one can share this project file, and download the actual working clips manually from public repositories.
Libraries of assets such as Video Editing Library Assets and High Resolution GVCS Media can be used in videos. This allows for an easy and zero cost method of collaborative editing, while drawing from any video repositories as needed. Automating the download of certain media assets would be the next step for automated collaborative video editing - so that the project file can contain either the actual clips, or links to those clips. OSE's approach is always modular, for which reason a mashup of various simple and robust tools is usually the easiest way to accomplish complex tasks.
