Annotation

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The easiest way to annotate your video is to use the inbuilt tools on YouTube.

There are a few apps which have added functionality like being able to freehand draw onto the video but some of them may cost you a couple of Euros.

Ink 2 Go  – is very good and very easy to use. You can have a 15day free trial but the license can be bought for a one off fee of €20.

For iPad, Telestrator app is nice, you can buy it from the iPad app store.

For still images Snagit is a good, free annotation tool. Annotate your picture and then insert it into your video.

For Windows users, Demohelper lets you annotate parts of your screen and may be useful for technical tutorials.

 

Graphics

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There are a couple of options for inserting still pictures into your video.

In iMovie you can upload a picture to your timeline in the same way as you would upload a video clip.  The default setting is to display the picture for 4 seconds but if you click and drag the yellow border you can adjust the time.

In other versions of video editing software you may need to paste the same picture into the timeline multiple times to get it to display for longer than one frame.

Your graphics can be photographs, presentation slides (in powerpoint use “save as” to change the file type to a picture format), cartoons, scanned hand-drawn images, or a freeze frame from the video (in iMovie, “Modify > Add Freeze Frame”).

Play around with green screening – film against a blue or green background, use green screen software to add whatever background you want.  Interview  famous poets / Romans / people in different countries!

Here is a useful tutorial to show you how

And here is some free software to do it http://www.123videomagic.com/download.asp

(Thanks A.Lydon)

 

 

You can change the colour/font of the opening titles and end credits. You can also manipulate the slide transitions (fade in/out) etc and add a soundtrack or voice-over.

More information, ideas and instructions can be found in this great on line tutorial for teachers prepared by Roli Straub