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A YouTube demo of how to add subtitles to a video for free online with Kapwing

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A look into Kapwing's Slideshow maker and how it can help you make youtube compilations, photo montages, and other movies.

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"Video editing" is a broad term. Video editing software helps creators with complex tasks like pixel adjustment and simple tasks like making a meme. We think that one of the basic functions of a video editor is the ability to combine and arrange clips, scenes, and media into a movie. Yet today's users have to choose between confusing, overly-powerful desktop editors and mobile apps that make it hard to multitask and import videos from YouTube.

Two weeks ago, Eric and I launched the Montage Maker, a tool that makes it way easier to make movies online, on Kapwing. You can merge videos, combine clips, append intros to a longer video, and much more. In this article, I'll describe how you make some popular movie formats with Kapwing's new Montage Maker tool.

Introducing the Montage Maker

The Montage Maker is Kapwing's solution for combining video clips, images, and GIFs into a single continuous movie. It's the simplest, most straightforward way to make a compilation, slideshow, montage, stop motion, or multi-scene video. No frills, software downloads, technical tutorials, silly transitions, or advanced export options. Just a tool that combines your media into a video, instantly, for free.

Making Movies with Kapwing

Stop motion videos: Stop motion videos are made up of a series of photos where the scene's subjects show subtle differences or movements between frames. With the stop motion technique, you can make inanimate objects look like they're moving. With just a smartphone and an idea, you can make funny, surprising short films. Here's how to make it:

Step 1: Set up your camera on a stable position or tripod and create the first scene in view. Take photos as you make gradual adjustments to recreate the action you want.

Step 2: Once you've captured the frames, go to the Kapwing Montage Maker and click "Get started"

Step 3: Upload all of the photos that will make up your stop motion movie. Using the video preview as your guide, drag and drop to put the photos into the right order and add/remove photos to smooth out the action.

Step 4: Choose how long you want each frame to last. Most stop motion videos show each frame for .5 seconds or less to given the effect of animation.

Step 5: Once the preview looks right, click Create to process your stop motion video. Download, share and publish the video!

A multi-clip movie: YouTube videos, ads, home videos, and short films often have multiple video clips, images, and transitions. Footage of different scenes and perspectives can help tell a story, entertain, and inform. Here's how to make it:

Step 1: Gather all of the videos and photos you want to add to your movie. You can either have the media saved on your device or you can have a link to Google Drive, Dropbox, YouTube, Vimeo, or any other video website url.

Step 2: Go to the Kapwing Montage Maker and click "Get started"

Step 3: Upload the video clips you want to merge. Then, rearrange the video clips so that they appear in the right order.

Step 4: Choose your size options. You can choose 1:1 or 16:9 to automatically size your output video for YouTube or Instagram. All of your media will be either cropped or fit with padding to the correct aspect ratio.

Step 5: Create your video to download, share and publish!

YouTube compilation: Videos are a great way to show off a curated collection and arrangement of highlights, moments, or memories. For example, you might have a collection of Best Dunks in the MBA finals or Best Disney Princesses. Here's how to make it:

Step 1: Gather the links to the YouTube videos you want to use. If you only want to use subsection of the video, use the video trimmer first to cut out the parts you want. You can also embed captions or titles into the scenes using the subtitle maker.

Step 2: Go to the Kapwing Montage Maker and click "Get started."

Step 3: Paste a link to the YouTube videos or upload the editing clips. Then, rearrange the video clips so that they appear in the right order.

Step 4: Choose your size options. You can automatically size for YouTube or Instagram.

Step 5: Create your video to download, share and publish!

Convert photo to video: Podcasters, music artists, speakers, and other audio creators with a presence on video platforms like YouTube and Instagram might need to convert a image to an mp4. Here's how to do it:

Step 1: Once you have the image (png or jpg) you want to convert, go to the Montage Maker and click 'Get Started'

Step 2: Upload the image you want to the Montage editor.

Step 3: Make your video the correct length for your audio track. The montage maker has a maximum image length of 5 seconds, but you can repeatedly upload the same image to extend and customize the length. You can also add an intro or outro to the montage.

Step 4: Choose your size options. You can automatically size for YouTube or Instagram.

Step 5: Click create to process the video.

Step 6: Download your mp4 video. Kapwing doesn't yet have a tool to add audio to a video, but we're working on it! In the meantime, you can use another website to add your audio track on top of the converted video.

Conclusion

The launch of the Montage Maker brings Kapwing closer to offering a full-featured replacement for desktop editors like iMovie and Windows Movie Maker. Like all Kapwing tools, the Montage Maker is free and online, so it can be accessed on any device. It's designed for speed and simplicity, so you don't need any video editing experience to use it. Just open it up and click go.

As always, Eric and I would love to hear your ideas, thoughts, and feedback on what works for you and what doesn't. Subscribe to the Kapwing blog to get more updates on our journey to growing the web's leading video editor!

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Two weeks ago, we launched the Montage Maker, a tool that makes it way easier to make movies online. You can merge videos, combine clips, append intros onto a longer video, and much more. In this article, I'll describe how you make some popular formats with Kapwing's new Montage Maker tool.

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2018's best ChromeBook Video editors, featuring Kapwing

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Chromebooks provide convenient access to the Internet, but they don't have a hard drive that allows for software downloads. As a result, many video editing programs including Adobe, iMovie, and Camtasia don't work on a Chromebook since they require storage space for installation. In this post, I'll share the best software options for editing videos on a Chromebook.

Kapwing

Kapwing video editing suite unbundles tasks like adding subtitles and converting video, making it simpler and easier to learn. Users can import from Giphy, YouTube and Google Drive, so everything is conveniently in the cloud and users don't need to download the video they want to edit. Like Adobe Spark, all of Kapwing's features are free forever with an unobtrusive watermark. Users don't need to sign in. One great feature allows video content creators to make video montages. Kapwing is also great for school projects; interested teachers can sign up for Kapwing's EDU pilot program to get a free Kapwing Pro account.

Ideal for: Creative professionals, schools, and casual creators.

Adobe Spark

Adobe Spark is Adobe's web-based platform that allows anyone to create content like short video clips and web pages. In its free plan, Adobe Spark has highly structured templates, which are easy to make but don't allow for much customization. This video making platform makes it easy to create visual stories thanks to its pre-designed layouts and its ability to import images from cloud storage services like Adobe Creative Cloud and Google Photo. However, it requires a monthly paid subscription to access its full features, including live technical support, brand personalization with templates, and watermark removal.

Ideal for: Content marketers looking for structured video templates to bootstrap video creation.

Clipchamp

Clipchamp is a unified video editor that lets people edit from their web browser regardless of their video file's size. Content creators can also take advantage of its prominent features, such as filters, a splitter, and a combine feature to create longer videos. Content creators must sign in with Facebook, Google or their email. Clipchamp also offers a limited free trial where users can create and edit videos free of watermarks and have trial access to its stock library. However, content creators who want to produce more high-definition content will have to subscribe to Clipchamp's monthly premium plan.

Conclusion

Creating great media doesn't require an expensive laptop or heavyweight, pricey software. Today's modern and reliable online editing platforms, enable creators to edit on their Chromebooks.

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Ideas for assignments, creative projects, and studying methods that use video for 3rd-7th graders.

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Video is an engaging, memorable, and dynamic medium that has surged in popularity among young people in the last five years. With modern tools and smartphone cameras, video has become much more accessible and student-friendly, even for young students. In this post, I'll describe some creative video projects that you can assign 3rd-7th graders to supplement classroom learning across subjects.

Literacy and language arts
Video memes

Assignments: Have students make a meme out of a new word by finding a photo or video clip to demonstrate its meaning. For example, what does "malicious" or "generous" look like? What does it mean to "stumble"? Older students can find a piece of visual media to represent a concept, quote, or character from a novel they're reading in class.

Tools: Add captions directly and trim out the relevant section of the video using this meme maker.

Benefit: It's easier to recall the meaning of a new word when students have an illustrative example to recall, especially if it's funny and/or relevant to popular media.

Literacy through transcription

Assignment: Transcribe the chorus of a favorite song, poem, or TV show scene and embed subtitles directly into the video. Review other students' subtitled clips for mistakes.

Tools: This Subtitle Maker helps you listen, type out, and time the dialog to add subtitles to the video.

Benefit: For English Language Learners, transcribing a video clip is a great exercise in close listening.

Record a poem or a passage

Lady Macbeth scene

Assignment: Record a passage or skit from a novel or screenplay you're reading in class.

Tools: This video trimmer lets you trim out the relevant part of your footage. Students can also add an audio recording to a still image instead of a recorded video.

Benefit: Students learn from dramatic reenactments and recitations, but for people with stage fright an on-the-spot video might be much more intimidating than filming a video.

Introduce a family member

Assignment: Film a video interview with a family member (a grandmother or parent) to tell the story of their lives

Tools: You can use this Slideshow maker to combine video clips and images and add audio to the montage. You can add subtitles to translate the video if their family member speaks a different language.

Benefit: Often times it is easier to tell a story about someone else than it is to tell a story about yourself.

How to video

Assignment: Make an informative how-to video for your classmates. Show how to make something (a meal? A craft?) step by step. Your output can be a montage of photos or video clips.

Tools: Use this montage maker to merge video clips and photos together into a continuous video. You can add titles to your video to label the steps of the process.

Foreign Language
Translation and subtitles:

Assignment: Subtitle a video clip into a foreign language by transcribing the dialogue. Then, review other students subtitles to identify mistakes. This subtitled video library can help as a great study tool for future students.

Tools: After finding a video clip on YouTube, use this Subtitle Maker to add and time out the captions.

Flashcards

Assignment: Find a video clip or film a video that illustrates the meaning of a new vocabulary word. Then, embed the word into the video clip.

Tools: You can use this Meme Maker to caption and trim your video

Foreign songs

Assignment: Find a section of a song in your foreign language that you enjoy or that has interesting lyrics. Then, transcribe the video and add the lyrics as subtitles. In class, students will present their video clip and explain the meaning of the lyrics. You could also have students find a clip that supports a lesson they're learning in class.

Tools: Use this Video Trimmer to clip out the section of a video that you like and this Subtitler to add the lyrics to the video. Upload the mp4 to a shared class folder.

Pronunciation:

Assignment: Practice how a word is pronounced by making a video of yourself saying it.

Tools: You can loop and slow down your voice and sample pronunciation videos to study how the word is said. Optionally, you can add labels to your pronunciation videos to make visual flashcards.

Science and math
Stop motion

Assignment: Make a video that illustrates a reaction or science concept using stop motion. Set up a camera and take photos of the different scenes as you animate a science idea.

Tools: This free slideshow maker makes it easy to combine images and GIFs together.

Example: Cell Division, Cells Merging

Memes

Assignment: Make a funny meme to represent a concept, chemical relationships, or biological principles.

Tools: This online meme maker works for videos, GIFs and images. You can also convert videos into GIFs to share through email or Google Docs.

Equations and problem solving: Step by step

Assignment: Take a photo of your work at each step in the process to illustrate how you approached the final answer. Then, append all of the photos into a slideshow to help other students understand the solution.

Tools: This slideshow maker can help append all of the photos together into a single video. You can also rotate the photos, if you need to.

History
Video memes

Assignment: Make memes to represent a historical movement or event. Find an image, video, or GIF that illustrates what happened or how people were feeling at the time. Your memes can be silly/funny or serious and realistic

Tools: This meme maker supports videos, GIFs and images

Reenactment:

Assignment: Make a video of yourself re-enacting a historical moment, reciting a speech, or impersonating historical figures. Your classmates will try to guess who you are or what moment you've chosen.

Tools: To make the video feel historical or vintage, you can use Sepia and Grayscale filters.

Video collage:

Assignment: Compare two pieces of art, moments in history, or time periods by putting videos, images, or gifs side by side.

Tools: You can place videos, images or GIFs side by side with this collage maker. You can share as a video or convert back to a GIF

Example: Comparison of two government buildings in different European cities

Recent events

Assignment: Pick out a short, 30-second segment from the evening news to talk about in class

Tools: Use this trimmer to slice out a short mp4 and submit it to a shared class folder.

Photo slideshow

Assignment: Make a slideshow of historical photos and video clips to illustrate a certain time period.

Tools: Use this slideshow maker to merge video clips and photos together into a continuous video.

Example: A photo slideshow from WWII

Conclusion

Video is a popular and relevant medium for young people since it engages both audio and visual pathways. Adding video projects to your classroom can reinforce lessons, inspire creativity, and encourage peer to peer collaboration.

Thanks for reading! Hopefully, these ideas for project-based learning help spark new creative video assignments for 3-7th grade students.

This post was written by the developers of Kapwing, a video editor for classrooms. Kapwing is a free online video editor that works on any device and simplifies video editing tasks, and we're running a K12 pilot right now for teachers and schools. Regardless, the ideas described below can be implemented with any video editing software. We hope you'll consider Kapwing, a free online video editing suite, to implement in your school, classroom, or home.

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Claymation: A great project for students at home or at school

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A guide to creating your own claymation videos

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Clay is an awesome medium for stop motion characters since you can change the characters in small ways as the action progresses. Filming a claymation video is easy to do from home or the classroom. In this post, I'll describe best practices for planning, capturing, and editing a claymation video.

What is Claymation?

Claymation (short for "clay animation" or another name for plasticine animation) is a type of stop motion animation where each moving piece is made from malleable clay. The animation is created by shooting a photo of the scene, repositioning the characters slightly, and repeating the process. The pictures are then played in rapid succession to give the impression of smooth motion. It's a fun, easy way to bring your imagination to life.

For this tutorial, I created a kitten working on a claymation, but the possibilities are endless!

Kapwing kitten stop motion animation

Tutorial: How to make your own claymation

Step 1: Planning and Set up

Shooting a claymation is fun but time consuming, so it's important to have everything planned out ahead of time to make the process as smooth as possible. Being properly prepared for you project is vital to its success, so have fun and take your time with it

Modeling clay or plasticine (available at most art stores and online for $5-$10, I used this one)

Smart-phone with camera

Computer for editing

Household supplies for set up

Tape

A storyboard is a sequence of drawings that outlines your scene. Your storyboard should successfully convey all the information you might need during shooting. Keep in mind that because you're not working with sound, your story will be told through action.. Your storyboard will give you an idea of what the pictures should look like, what and how action will occur, and the amount of time the action will take. You can time how long it takes you to do an action (walking across a room, for example) as a reference.

Draw on scrap paper, in your journal, or even on a whiteboard. Don't worry about making it look pretty, it's just for you.

Here is the simple storyboard I created:

My claymation is short and sweet so I only needed two panels to plan, but you can use as many panels as you think you need.

You can create your characters based on what you draw in your storyboard, or create your characters and then draw out their action. Because your characters are clay (as opposed to human actors), they can be as crazy as you want. Don't be afraid to experiment!

Some tips for working with modeling clay:

Clay can be hard, so play with it in your hands to warm and soften it

Mix the colors you have to get the colors you want in the same way you would mix paint (use more of a light color and less of a dark color to prevent the dark from overwhelming the light)

Make sure your character can support itself (my advice is to keep characters small and stocky so their body can support their heads but if you're looking to create a more advanced character consider using wires to create an armature that you can build around)

Think about what the world your character lives in looks like. You can build a background from construction paper, household objects, collaged magazines, a printed photo, or a solid color sheet of paper like I did (simple, but for a claymation studio set it does the trick!) Think about how your characters will move through the set to help decide what you want to include. Three-dimensional elements that your character can interact with can take your claymation to the next level. My kitten has a desk with a set, camera, and computer to create her claymation.

While natural sunlight is generally awesome for pictures, not so for claymation. Nature is unpredictable and the sun could move behind a cloud or be obscured by a large bird at any time! The best place to shoot is in a room with steady lighting. To make sure you aren't casting any shadows on your scene, avoid standing between your set and the light. Get creative and use lamps or flashlights you have available to create different moods (read more about lighting here.) If you are worried about your light moving, tape it down!

You don't need a fancy camera to create your own claymation, any smartphone camera will do. Make sure it is fully charged and that it won't to go to sleep on you (you can adjust your lock/sleep preferences in settings).

To keep the camera as fixed as possible, create a tripod. I used an ice cream container (any paper or plastic cup will do) with triangles cut out that I filled with rocks to weigh it down and keep it from moving.

Cheap tripods are available online (such as this one) that come with a remote so you can take pictures without ever touching your phone (even better for stability!). Your setup should look something like this:

My final stop motion setup

Use tape generously to fix things in place so a moving light or shaky camera doesn't distract from your action!

You've done your planning. You've built your characters and set up your scene, lighting, and camera. You have your vision in your mind's eye and have drawn it out in your storyboard. Now make it happen!

Position your character, remove hands from scene, snap the photo, and repeat! To make the process go faster, ask a friend to shoot the pictures while you focus on adjusting the character's position.

If an action is very fast, it will take fewer frames for the action to occur, so you want the movement to be more extreme between each picture. If an action is slow, the opposite is true: you want smaller movements between pictures. You can move parts of your background as well if that makes sense in your scene (for example, a flag blowing in the wind.) Luckily, you have it all planned out in your storyboard!

Finally, you get to see all your hard work come together! Transfer your pictures from your phone to the computer and put them in a "Claymation" folder. They should be labeled in the order you took them so make sure to keep them in that order. If they are not labeled properly, sort them by date modified and rename them numerically (0001, 0002, 0003, etc.)

To edit your photos into a seamless animation, upload your files to Kapwing Video Montage Maker. You can watch the video preview to get an idea of what your claymation will look like.

Ordering: Rearrange the photos to make sure they're in the right order. If you want to repeat or slow an action, you can upload duplicates of those specific frames, and you can delete frames to make the action move faster.

Tempo: For a seamless stop motion video, choose the shortest Image Duration (0.2s) so that the frames transition quickly.

Size: Choose the frame size you want (I went with 1:1 for Instagram, but there are options for YouTube and 9:16 as well).

When your video preview looks right, click Create to process the video!

After your claymation video finishes processing, you can download the MP4 or share the link with your family and friends! Kapwing also has tools for adding filters, text, music, or sound effects, if you want to make your claymation more exciting.

Thanks for reading! I hope this post helps other creators make awesome claymation videos. Looking forward to seeing your creations!

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Educator Review: A Simple, Online Editor for Videos, Images, and GIFs

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Educator Review: A Simple, Online Editor for Videos, Images, and GIFs

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"For any teacher or student looking for an incredibly easy and straightforward way to create or edit images, videos, and GIFs, I absolutely recommend Kapwing."

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Kapwing is a freemium online video, image, and GIF editor that is incredibly simple to use. It's an excellent tool for both teachers and students who are looking to trim videos, add subtitles, create memes, or any other type of simple video production activity. The free version of Kapwing includes all features, and finished products just contain a minor watermark. Plus, teachers and students don't even need an account to use Kapwing!

For any teacher or student who has worked in video production before, you know that many times these types of tools have a steep learning curve. Plus, for any teacher who has wanted to quickly trim a video, or add subtitles, you know that this process can sometimes be long and tedious.

Kapwing does an excellent job simplifying these tasks with their free suite of tools. With Kapwing, you're able to edit any major format of image, GIF, or video, and the only limitation is the file must be smaller than 80MB (since all processing takes place online). While this does mean Kapwing isn't well suited for longer videos, it is an perfect tool for videos of a few minutes, as well as images and GIFs.

In terms of the suite of tools Kapwing offers, it includes:​

All of these tools are straightforward and simple to use, for both teachers and students. As I mentioned above, one of my favorite things about Kapwing, is that it doesn't require an account to use. Students don't need to have another password to remember, and younger students can access the resource even without an email address.

Plus, Kapwing integrates with YouTube as well as the majority of other online video repositories, you can just paste in the link of a video to work with (as long as it's less than 8 minutes), even if it's not something you have stored on your computer.

In terms of practical uses, teachers can use Kapwing to create video flashcards, add in subtitles for ESL/ELL students, trim and resize already existing videos, and even mash up multiple videos to create a video collage. On the student side, Kapwing is excellent for student production tasks where students have the opportunity to demonstrate what they know by creating a video or meme about a particular topic.

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Finally, it's important to note that while you're only able to upload videos that are 80MBs or less, you can add in links from online videos that are up to 8 minutes. Once you've finished creating your video, you'll be provided a link to where you can access and download your video, which you can then use in your class, upload to YouTube, or do whatever you would like with it! If you have created an account, all the previous videos you've created will show up there.

In short, for any teacher or student looking for an incredibly easy and straightforward way to create or edit images, videos, and GIFs, I absolutely recommend Kapwing. Plus, you don't even need to sign up, you can get started immediately! So if you're looking to edit, trim, resize, add subtitles, or any other simple video editing ability, give Kapwing a try!

The opinions expressed in this review are my own.
I was not compensated for writing this review

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Kapwing is a freemium online video, image, and GIF editor that is incredibly simple to use. It's an excellent tool for both teachers and students who are looking to trim videos, add subtitles, create memes, or any other type of simple video production activity.

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Award: Best Website for Teaching and Learning, 2018

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EdTech Review: Engaging Video Tasks with Kapwing

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Kapwing is a great free online video editor that makes a number of video editing activities simple.

Using the tool you can:

Add subtitles to videos

Trim the length to focus on specific sections.

Resize and loop

Add meme text to video

Add sound effects

Create stop motion video

All you need is either your own video file or the link to a clip online.

Go to the site, choose what you want to do and then use Kapwing's easy interface to carry out your edit.

Once you have finished just click on create.

The tool is free to use and just adds a small logo. If you want to get rid of the logo, then you can pay a minimal amount to download a version with your own brand or logo on. There are no subscriptions necessary so you just pay for the videos that you want when you want them.

Here are some great activities you can do with these tools.

Adding subtitles

You can students use the tool to transcribe or translate a video.

You can get them to add narrative to a silent video or cartoon.

You can ask them to add what the people are thinking or feeling instead of the script.

Trimming video

You can focus students on just a short part of a clip.

You can edit one clip into 3 - 4 sections and then get students to watch and put the sections in the correct chronological order.

You can create a video gap-fil and take a section out of a video clip and see if students can guess what happened in the missing part.

Add meme text

You can use short action clips and get students to think of memes to go on them. These could be quotes, advice, idioms or just something funny.

Having a free browser based tool Kapwing can help you to create interesting and engaging materials for students, but it can also allow students to get some hands on experience of editing video and so help to build their digital literacies.

I hope you and your students enjoy using Kapwing. You can find lots more ideas, lesson plans tools, video tutorials and teaching suggestions in my award winning ebook - Digital Video - A Manual For Language Teachers.

Nik Peachey

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EdTech Review: A very sweet web-based video editor

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It solves so many problems. And it is sooooo easy.

I just discovered Kapwing. The free web-based video editing suite offers nine features (and promises more to come) and I am so excited about sharing it with my students and using it in my teaching. It's a kind of media Swiss army knife perfect for schools.

Kapwing features currently include:

Meme maker: for creating text captions to create memes from online images, GIFs, and videos

Add Subtitles: to caption your videos with text overlays

Video collages: frame images, GIFs, and videos either side by side or top and bottom

Subtitle maker: Type and time out any text to overlay on top of a video

Video Filters: get the perfect look by adjust the color and lighting of your uploading or online video

Video Resizer: for cropping or resizing your videos' aspect ratios to fit Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook in just three clicks.

Loop Video: to repeating a video by looping it

Video Trimmer: for trimming and cutting video to the perfect length

Stop motion: for transforming existing footage into a stop motion video

Sound Effects Maker: for adding trendy sounds to your videos from a library of effects

Kapwing is ad-free. It requires no registration, no account creation and no sign-in. It works on iPads, Chromebooks, Macs, Windows, and other devices.

Kapwing plays nice with media content from YouTube, Google Drive, Vimeo, GIPHY and other content with URLs and there is virtually no learning curve.

The About page explains that Kapwing is the product of Eric Lu and Julia Enthoven, 24-year-old web developers from San Francisco. They describe Kapwing as a website for casual creators . . . an online toolbox for short-form video and a place to browse funny and cool clips and they described their motivation for creating the site:

We noticed more and more video on our Facebook feeds, IG Explore pages, and Pinterest homes. When we looked into it, we learned that short-form video is eating the world. We wanted to help content creators, digital marketers, and video creatives make fun stuff in less time

Your work gets published with a little non-intrusive Kapwing.com watermark, but that is no big issue and it's not a bad thing to share the credit. If you wanted to, it would cost $2 to remove the watermark from an individual creation or you might subscribe for $10 a month or $100 a year.

I can see thousands of ways to use this as a utility for creating instructional and promotional materials and for so many student projects.

Though most kiddos won't need it, here's a little how-to article to help you get started.

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Kapwing: a very sweet web-based video editing suite

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It solves so many problems. And it is sooooo easy. I just discovered Kapwing. The free web-based video editing suite offers nine features (and promises more to come) and I am so excited about sharing it with my students and using it in my teaching.

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EdTech Review: Ideas for making videos in the classroom with Kapwing

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EdTech Review: Ideas for making videos in the classroom with Kapwing

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Curriculum and project-based learning inspiration

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Ideas for Using Kapwing Video Editor in the Classroom

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Kapwing is an online video editing website with a suite of tools.School-Friendly Features:No registration, account setup, or sign in requiredNo installation or

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Videos that students and teachers make with Kapwing

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Videos that students and teachers make with Kapwing

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Videos that students and teachers make in the classroom

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Kapwing is faster, simpler, and more accessible than leading video editing software. We help people with no video editing expertise make and share videos for free.

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Kapwing — Create more content in less time

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Kapwing is a collaborative, online content creation platform that you can use to edit video and create content. Join over 10 million modern creators who trust Kapwing to create, edit, and grow their content on every channel.

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We're looking for educators who want to help us innovate video technology for the classroom.

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Calling all educators who make video curriculum or use video in their classrooms! Kapwing is a two-person edtech startup that needs your help to make video creation faster, better, and more accessible for students across the world.

We're looking for teachers, schools and districts to pilot Kapwing, a free online video editor, as an educational tool in their classrooms during the coming school year. Sign up now to reserve a spot for your school or classroom.

What is Kapwing?

Kapwing is a video editor for classrooms and schools. Our suite of tools includes a montage maker, a subtitler, a popular meme maker, filters, sound effects, and more. Here's what makes it different than other video editors:

1. It works on any device, phone or computer, Chromebook/Windows/Mac. You and your students can use it at school and at home.

2. It's free

3. You don't need to register or sign in to use it

4. You don't need to install or update any software

5. It works well with Google Drive, Classroom, YouTube, and Vimeo

6. It's extremely simple: Our promise is that you can immediately intuit how to use our features, even as a second grader

7. There are no distracting ads or related videos

Why would we use a video editor in schools?

Teachers can use video to teach, remind, entertain, inform, and record your students' journies in the classroom. Video is:

A creative medium: Students and teachers can express themselves, entertain each other, and communicate.

A useful tool: Students can use to study, record their achievements and learnings, and complete assignments.

An informative asset: Educators can make video curriculum to cater to different learning styles, reinforce lessons, and give out as a reference material for flipped classrooms and extended learning.

Language learners (both ELLs and foreign language students) benefit a lot from multimedia representation since they can see and hear how words are pronounced and see them spelled out (with subtitles or captions) at the same time. Video is a hyper-relevant medium that appeals to young students, international students, and more. Thousands of teachers and students are already using Kapwing across all grades and subjects.

Photo: Students using Kapwing to make montages in class

What we need from you

We want to create the best possible product for classrooms, but we need input from teachers and students to get there. We're looking for teachers, schools, and districts to help us innovate software for the classroom by trying out the product and telling us what they think. As part of the Kapwing EDU pilot program, we ask teachers to:

1. Experiment with creating curriculum or assignments

2. Give us feedback about what worked and what didn't when you and your students. We would love your ideas about what can improve!

3. Submit any visual assets (photos and/or screenshots) of students using the product

What we promise in return

In exchange, we pledge our eternal gratitude and:

1. A free premium subscription for brand ambassador teachers

2. Features and shoutouts on social media for your awesome work to support students and innovate your curriculum

3. Availability to chat with your students about working at Google, working in tech, or life as an entrepreneur and software engineer. As a woman in CS, I especially love chatting with girls interested in STEM.

Who are you and why should I help you?

Eric and I studied computer science at Harvard and Stanford, respectively, then worked on Image Search at Google. We're 25-year-old entrepreneurs who care deeply about education and video. We've built Kapwing by ourselves and haven't raised any money. We depend entirely on word of mouth/referrals to get new users and customers.

You should help us because we're honestly trying to make a great product for teachers and schools. This pilot is all about you, your students, and how we can help their creativity shine.

(Also support first-time entrepreneurs! Support people that make free software! Support female founders and women in tech!)

If you're interested in participating in the pilot program, please sign up on this Google Form. You can also email Julia, Kapwing's CEO, at [email protected] or reach out to us on Twitter (@KapwingApp). We're looking for 200 schools to pilot Kapwing in the coming 2018 school year.

Thank you so much for the amazing work you do for students everyday!

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Calling all educators who make video curriculum or use video in their classrooms! Kapwing is a two-person edtech startup that needs your help to make video creation faster, better, and more accessible for students across the world.

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Kapwing: The Video Editor for Classrooms

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An Introduction to Kapwing and why it's a great tool for schools

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Kapwing is an online video editing website with a suite of tools. Thousands of teachers and students use Kapwing every day to make videos for classroom assignments, lessons, and entertainment. In this post, I'll describe how teachers and students are using Kapwing as a powerful educational tool.

Note: Interested teachers and schools can learn about and join our 2018 K12 pilot.

Kapwing features

So far, Kapwing has nine editing features:

1. Meme maker: Add a text caption above and/or below a video

2. Montage maker: Combine multiple images and video clips into a continuous video

3. Subtitle maker: Type and time out any text to overlay on top of a video

4. Sound effects editor: Add fun sounds from a library of effects

5. Filters: Adjust the color and lighting

6. Loop: Make a clip longer by playing it on repeat

7. Trim: Shorten a video to a specified time

8. Stop motion: With an existing video, add a stop motion "effect"

9. Resizer: Crop or fit your videos to the perfect aspect ratio for different social media channels.

...and we're constantly developing more. The first Kapwing tool launched in October 2017, and we've been hard at work developing useful video features in response to user feedback. Tell us what features you want by tweeting @KapwingApp or emailing hello@kapwing.com!

7 reasons why Kapwing is great for schools

With Kapwing, you just upload your media, edit, and download the output. There are no obstacles or distractions in the way. Here are 7 reasons why this makes Kapwing a great educational tool:

1. No registration, account setup, or sign in required: On Kapwing, students don't need to sign in, and teachers don't need to manage rosters. Users can immediately upload a video, photo, or GIF for editing without passwords getting in the way.

2. No installation or software updates: Kapwing is a website, so it is always up to date and you don't need to download anything.

3. Free to use: Your school doesn't need to make room for this tool in your budget. It is and always will be free to use.

4. Works on Chromebooks, iPads, Macs, Windows, and all other devices

5. No distracting ads or video content: Kapwing is a tool with no content that might distract the kids from their lesson or assignment

6. Works with YouTube, Google Drive, and more: Teachers and students can paste a YouTube, Drive, GIPHY, Vimeo, or any other URL to edit an existing video or recycle content that another teacher created

7. Simple: Every tool on Kapwing is designed for someone with no video editing experience. You and your students don't need technical tutorials - just open the website and go

Ideas for Kapwing in the classroom

I've watched videos and photos roll in from thousands of schools using Kapwing. Here are some of the ways that our creative users are learning with video.

English

Science and Math

History

Foreign language

About the creator

My name is Julia, and I'm a 24-year-old web developer living in San Fransisco. My co-founder, Eric, and I are the two developers behind Kapwing, the online video editing toolbox. Although I'm a "techie", I'm also super passionate about helping teachers and supporting student growth:

I have been involved in mentoring and tutoring programs for my whole life. Currently, I tutor an amazing 3rd-grader at Bessie Carmichael Elementary School through Reading Partners here in SF.

I worked at the New York City Department of Education and Rubicon, a curriculum products company

In college, I worked as research assistant for Carol Dweck, the leading psychologist behind Growth Mindset theory, and at Stanford's CEPA (Center for Education Policy Analysis).

I have a personal passion for education reform and child development, and How Children Succeed is one of my favorite books.

I'm a feminist and advocate for woman in STEM.

I'm not an expert in education by any means, but I'm extremely grateful for the amazing teachers in my life and care deeply about education. As the creator of Kapwing, it's important to me to make a tool for teachers and support student growth. Hope you enjoy and would love to hear from you!

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Kapwing is an online video editing website with a suite of tools. Thousands of teachers and students use Kapwing every day to make videos for classroom assignments, lessons, and entertainment. In this post, I'll describe how teachers and students are using Kapwing as a powerful educational tool.