Project Set-Up | Create the Project Folder |
| Submit a Proposal | Client Background |
Pre-Production | Write the Script | Create a Storyboard |
Production | Record the Narration | Edit the Soundtrack | Prepare Images |
Post-Production | Layout Text and Images |
| Add Animation | Add the Soundtrack |
Distribution | Screencastify Set-Up | Google Slides Recording |
| Video Editing | Submit Your Project |
Once you have animated your slides, added your soundtrack and made adjustments so everything works well, you are ready to convert your project to a video. You will be using your Chromebook, Google Slides and Sreencastify.
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Screencastify
Sign up for Screencastify
If you do not already have one, sign up for a Screencastify account using your NHUSD email. Go to https://account.screencastify.com/user/subscribe/edu and click the Sign in with Google button.
Enter your school email address then press the Next button.
Enter your email password then press the Next button.
When the Upgrade page appears, click the Redeem coupon button.
Use coupon code CAST_COVID to pay $0 to upgrade your subscription.
Click the ACTIVATE LICENSE button.
You should see a confirmation screen.
Unlimited access adds extra features. Click you can install it here to add the Chrome extension.
Install the Screencastify Chrome Extension
Look for the Screencastify icon at the top right of your Chrome browser screen. If it is not there you need to install the extension.
Visit ScreenCastify.com and click the Add to Chrome button.
The Chrome Web Store window should open. Click the Add to Chrome button.
When asked to Add “Screencastify – Screen Video Recorder”
click the Add extension button.
You will receive a confirmation that the extension was added.
Give Screencastify Access
Screencastify lets you record, edit and share videos. Click on the icon added to Chrome.
Choose Desktop for the source and click the setup microphone access button.
When asked to Use your microphone and Use your camera click the Allow button.
Click show more options to reveal more settings.
Make sure System Audio is on. All other options should be off.
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Google Slides Recording
Drag off the bottom of your screen and click on the Google Slides icon to open it.
Open your Google Slides PSA project.
Look to the top right of your Chrome browser window and click on the Screencastify icon.
Open Show more options.
Make sure Desktop is selected and System Audio is on, but all other options are off. Click the Record button.
In the Share your screen window click on the Desktop view under Your Entire Screen and make sure there is a check mark next to the Share audio option. Click the Share button to start recording.
Return to your Googles Slides PSA project and click the Present button.
Wait for the first slide to load and the cursor and controller to fade away, then click the spacebar to start playing the slide show.
Repeat the timing you practiced to switch slides according to your soundtrack. When the soundtrack ends wait a few seconds, then press the [esc] key to exit full-screen mode.
Click on the Screencastify icon and the Recording window should appear. Click the stop button to stop recording.
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Video Editing
If you are not signed into Screencastify you may be asked to sign in. Use your school email account. When the recorded video opens up click the
Click to unmute button. Stop the playback by pressing the pause icon or your keyboard’s spacebar.
This is the trim window. Your upgraded account gives you access to the Open in Editor option but you do not need to use it for this project.
Drag the playback slide to the recording start. Press the play icon or your keyboard spacebar to start playback.
As soon as you hear your soundtrack start, press the spacebar to stop the recording. Note the time then drag the left-side scissors icon just before that time. Press the spacebar to start playback. The sound should start playing almost immediately. If it does not, move the left scissors until your soundtrack starts playing immediately after you press the spacebar. In this example, the start time is 0:11 (11 seconds from the start of the video.)
Use the right-side scissors icon to drag 15 seconds later in the video. In this example the time is 26 seconds.
Playback your entire video and confirm it looks and sounds the way it should.
When your trim points are correct, press the Save trim button.
You will be asked to confirm edit. If you are certain, click the Trim button.
It may take awhile for the video to be trimmed.
When the trimming is complete the length of your video should now be 15 seconds.
From the Download menu on the right click on Export as MP4.
In the settings menu have a check mark next to Convert to fixed frame rate and set the FPS (frames per second) to 30. Click the Export button.
When the Download MP4 button appears in the Exports window, click it.
Navigate to your Google Drive PSA project folder and change the file name to PSA-CLIENT-NAME.mp4 replacing CLIENT with the one or two word name of your client and NAME with your first and last names. Remember to use hyphens instead of spaces and keep the .mp4 extension. When the file name is correct click the SAVE button.
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Submit Your Project
Once the file has been saved double-click it in your project folder and make sure it plays back the way it should. When your video is ready, open the class Google Drive Drop Box. (There is a link on the class website.)
Drag your video from your Chromebook project folder into the Drop Box opened in the Chrome browser.
When the upload is complete send an email message to the teacher with the subject PSA VIDEO. In the body of the message include your first and last name and state that a copy of your video is in the class drop box.
Although this project has been modified from the one you would have completed in the class computer lab, many of the things you accomplished are very similar, and some are identical. Congratulations!
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