đĄ How to use Scenery with Ecamm:
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Repurposing your live stream video
Once your live stream video is complete, Scenery will let you repurpose for quick, social cutdowns in the matter of minutes. Tips to repurpose your live stream video:
Upload full live stream episode using the Ecamm X Scenery integration
Select âEdit with AIâ
How it works:
The AI Editor analyzes and categorizes your content based on the transcript, then lets you quickly create an edited cutdown by selecting a prompt or describing what you want to create.
Once your live stream is loaded into Scenery, you can choose from various AI prompts to edit down your video
You can also describing what you want to create. For example, you can take that hour long live stream and ask the AI Editor to:
âEdit this to only show the responses from the interviewee, removing all the questions that the interviewer asksâ
âCreate a 90 second edit that features the funniest responses for sharing on social mediaâ
Once the edit is generated, you can refine the edit as needed by:
If youâre happy with your first social clip, you can rinse and repeat steps 1-6 to generate various other social cuts.
Finally, itâs time to let others take a look at your great work. When youâre ready to export, click export and finalize your video with a specific naming convention, resolution and quality of your choice.
Once the export is complete, you can push the video directly to YouTube
Edit down a better produced video from a recording session
Whether youâre a one take wonder or not, Scenery will help you produce a better version of your recording session, especially if you tend to say âumâ or âuhâ a lot. Tips to enhance your recording session within Scenery:
Upload full live stream episode using the Ecamm X Scenery integration
Select âCustom Editâ
Once your recording is loaded into Scenery, you can begin to trim down, split, reposition your media, and add visual layers and effects.
Fine tune every aspect
Trim your media
Trim your media
When hovering over the edge of your clips in the Main Track, youâll have the ability to choose the type of edit you want to do - either a ripple trim or a roll trim. To choose which edit you want, wait for the cursor to change and then click down on your clip edges. When you hover to the left edge youâll be doing a ripple remove, the right edge a ripple add and the middle is a roll trim.
Ripple trim: A Ripple trim, as described, is when all content downstream of your trim will move in sync, with this edit you are increasing or decreasing the overall duration of your Scene.
Roll trim: A Roll trim will change the outpoint of the outgoing clip while simultaneously changing the In point of the incoming clip. No other content is rippled since youâre only changing where one clip starts and another ends.
When hovering over the edge of clips in Secondary Tracks, you can Roll trim clips that are adjacent or do a Simple trim on standalone clips, these trims will never ripple any of your downstream content.
Simple trim: Once you click down on the edge you can simply drag to trim or you can use the Right and Left arrow keys to trim one frame at a time.
Split your media
Split your media
Aside from trimming, Splitting your media is another alternative to making a precise cutdown to your edit. Once you split your media you can select the section you do not wish to have in your edit and click [delete].
Split: You can also enter a split mode by clicking on the scissors icon on the left side tool bar or using shortcut key [c]. Once you see a plus sign (+) appear, click down on the media to create a split.
Split at timecode: If you donât want to enter a split mode, you can also make an instant split on the media using shortcut key [x].
đĄ Note: In the Main Track you can Insert gaps between clips by selecting an edge and choosing Add Gap. This allows you to leave gap as a placeholder, or as a spacer between clips. Gap only exists in the Main Track. A gap can be trimmed, split and deleted just like any other content.
Position, scale or crop in the preview player
Position, scale or crop in the preview player
In the preview player, you might want to reposition the subject. Select the media clip you want to adjust and simply click down on the preview player and either drag your mouse around or use your right and left arrows to move the subject. From here, you can scale up or even crop the selected clip.
Precisely control and clean your audio
Precisely control and clean your audio
Scenery lets you adjust your audio to your liking. To give your audio a boost, select your audio clip and simply drag up on the audio bar. Dragging the audio bar down will decrease your volume. You can also manually adjust your audio in the properties panel under the section labeled âaudioâ.
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The standard audio level of your audio mix (all of your audio combined) should normalized between -6db to -12db. Take a look at the meter next to your preview player to see where your audio levels are hitting.
Within the audio section of the properties panel, âClean Audioâ will remove background and ambient noise.
đĄ You can also look to Sceneryâs Keyboard short cut menu for help
Add visual layers and effects
Create automatic subtitles and customize to match your brand
Create automatic subtitles and customize to match your brand
Select the "Tâ icon to access our Title library and select "Create subtitlesâ. You can also select the ââŚâ on any of the tracks and click âCreate subtitles from trackâ.
From here, choose the subtitle style you'd like to be applied to your video.
Once the subtitles are generated, you can change the generated words if needed. You can also customize the font, size, and color to match your brand
Add titles and customize with detailed text styling controls
Add titles and customize with detailed text styling controls
Add shapes, transitions, effects, and animations
Add shapes, transitions, effects, and animations
đĄ Note: To add shapes, transitions, effects, and animations, navigate to the icons on the left-hand tool bar that read: âOpen Shapesâ & "Open Transitions, Effects, Animations".
Shapes can elevate your story by giving your audience an appealing graphic to focus on. Like titles, explore from a variety of shapes and drag a shape onto a Secondary track above your Main Track
Transitions create a smooth feel from one clip to another. From the Transition, effects, and animations library, drag a transition between any two assets on your timeline.
Effects give your story a look that your raw video couldnât naturally capture. Drag and effect onto any clip and fine tune within the properties panel.
Animations up level elements like shapes, titles, and media clips on your timeline. With animations, you can customize its duration, scale, fade, direction, and more. Choose which animation you want and drag it onto the element you want to animate. Adjust the animationâs build in and build out within the properties panel.
Import any Green Screen, ProRes animation or Lottie file
Import any Green Screen, ProRes animation or Lottie file
If you have any pre-built green screen graphics, you can import these assets and apply the âgreen screen filterâ within effects to key out the green screen
If you already have pre-built title wipes or animated graphics saved in another location, you can import those as a ProRes or Lottie (.JSON) file into scenery and drag it to your timeline. This asset will then appear as an overlay.
4. Finally, itâs time to let others take a look at your masterpiece. When youâre ready to export, click export and finalize your video with a specific naming convention, resolution and quality of your choice.
Once the export is complete, you can push the video directly to YouTube
If you have another editor on your team who works in another tool, like Premiere Pro, you can export the draft as an XML. Simply export the scene as an XML to finish in Premiere Pro and download the source media affiliated with the scene.
Presentation recap from Zoom
If youâre looking to condense your presentation into a recap video, Sceneryâs AI Editor will help you get moving a lot faster. Tips to create a recap video from your Zoom presentation in Ecamm:
Upload full live stream episode using the Ecamm X Scenery integration
Select âEdit with AIâ
How it works:
The AI Editor analyzes and categorizes your content based on the transcript, then lets you quickly create an edited cutdown by selecting a prompt or describing what you want to create.
Once your live stream is loaded into Scenery, you can choose from various AI prompts to edit down your video
đĄ âSummary under 5 minutesâ is a prompt that will generate a nice recap for your presentation
Once the edit is generated, you can refine the edit as needed by:
Finally, itâs time to let others take a look at your great work.
You can simply select âScene reviewâ and share the Scene with others to give feedback
When youâre ready to export, click export and finalize your video with a specific naming convention, resolution and quality of your choice.
Add engaging automatic subtitles to your completed video
Perhaps, youâre please with the final outcome from your live session and simply want to add fun, generated subtitles to your video. Here are the steps to quickly create automated subtitles:
Upload full live stream episode using the Ecamm X Scenery integration
Select âAuto subtitlesâ
Once your video is loaded into Scenery, choose a subtitle style that you like
Once the subtitles are generated, you can change the generated words if needed. You can also customize the font, size, and color to match your brand.
đĄ Scenery will automatically adjust the font, size, and color to all of the subtitle boxes. No need to change each subtitle one by one.
When youâre ready to export, click export and finalize your video with a specific naming convention, resolution and quality of your choice.