My clients frequently ask me to describe the steps for adding video clips to their events. Here are the steps and video options for creating and sharing a video in WebEx Event Center:
- Write down your message. Your message should be embedded, not only in the video, but in all your marketing demand assets; brochures, presentations, whitepapers, etc.
- Create a storyboard. What are the scenes in your video?
- Write the script. Shooting a talking video without a written script from which to read is like jumping off a boat into the ocean if you do not know how to swim ... WRITE EACH WORD.
- Select a room to shoot your video
- Quiet
- Blue, white, or neutral backdrop
- Some natural light is good for shooting videos
- If the narrator will be drawing or writing, pre-write any frameworks, then add-in finishing words and touches during video.
- Whiteboard and flipchart
- Shoot your video
- Shoot it two or three times if you think you can do it better
- The better the "raw" file, the less editing and cleaner the final output
- I use a Sony DCR-SR200. This saves files as ".mpg" - MPEG
- Connect your video camera to your computer
- I use a network storage device store my raw videos. A short video can be over 1.5 GB
- Use Windows Media Viewer to find your video(s) on your camera (which will show up as a drive under "My Computer" and save the files to your network drive.
- I use Pinnacle Software to edit my raw videos. You can use any video editing software you prefer
- Launch your video editing software
- Create a new project
- Edit your video to remove dead zones, ums, and ahhsss.
- Save your new movie. Save it as a Windows Media File - wmv. This is the most universally readable movie file
- Launch a WebEx meeting or event
- Click the "share" feature
- Navigate to your .wmv file
- click the file
- Your movie will now launch into your event!
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