For those of you who follow me on social media (as @ZenaShapter), you may have noticed a few videos happening lately! It all started at a recent writing retreat, after I photographed some beautiful Australian flowers during my morning walk. I posted them online, then thought they might have made for better viewing as a short video clip. It was time to teach myself something new!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After all, every professional author runs a small business, and every small business needs to continually try new ways to present its core message and values to consumers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first video I created was an ‘Instagram<\/a> reel’. After recording a few short vertical clips, then editing them on my phone, it was relatively easy to upload them to Instagram as a ‘reel’ and set the montage to music. I had a lot<\/em> of fun selecting the music! However, I wasn’t always able to then download or share the result on other platforms without\u00a0affecting the sound or format in some way. So I also started using iMovie, the desktop software program I’ve used before to create horizontal videos. It took a while to figure out how to edit my vertical videos, though I eventually figured that out (you have to create a project as a ‘New App Preview’), as well as how to upload my videos to YouTube<\/a> as ‘shorts’. I can then email the result to my phone to share on social media from there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n My YouTube channel is over here<\/a> if you’d like to subscribe, whether it’s to watch how I develop my film technique or just for fun. To view my creative ‘shorts’, just click on the heading ‘shorts’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n