Making Video Tutorials

Open up Adobe Spark and create a new Project. After naming your video, you'll be taken to the primary editing screen. At the bottom, you have your timeline of slides. In the middle, your current slide. To the right, your options for Layout, Theme, Resizing, and Music. 

Inserting Content

To add a slide, simple click on the "+" icon at the bottom left. When you do this, you'll see the options below.

Video

Clicking on "Video" allows you to upload video clips in thirty second increments. If you need to upload a longer video (as is often the case), there are options to extend the video in 30 second increments. This will allow you to record (and re-record) voice over for every discrete 30 seconds of your video. To extend the clip, click on the Pencil icon in the top right of your slide, then click on this icon to "continue clip": 

Text + Photo + Icon

These options are for creating dynamic slides that are powered by Spark's theme animations. Photo allows you to upload your own images, but you can also insert free images by searching the Unsplash database. You can also search and insert icons from the Noun Project with relative ease. Depending on the Layout option you have selected on the right sidebar, you can put together fairly complex powerpoint-style slides.

Recording Audio

At the bottom of your slides/video clips, you'll see a little microphone icon. (screenshot below) Click on this to use your microphone to record audio for the slide. Spark will automatically extend the duration of your slide based on how long your audio recording is.

It's always best practice to include the Libraries' branding on the content that we share with our users.

Adding the library brand to videos in Adobe Spark is easy.

1. Download our Logo to your desktop
2. Log into Adobe Spark
3. Click on "Brands" located on the left side-bar.
4. Then click on the blue button labeled "Create a Brand."
5. Upload the logo you just downloaded.
6. Select "Black" as the color.
7. Select "Proxima Nova Black" as the Heading font and "Proxima Nova" as the body font.
8. Scroll down to the section labeled "Personalize how your logo and tagline are displayed"
9. Click on the "Stamp" box and then select your new logo.
10. Save!

You did it!

When you're ready to publish, click on Download at the top to get a perfect .mp4 recording that is ready to upload to talks.pratt!