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Music Online Free for YouTube Videos

Free music online from YouTube

The YouTube website has free music online for you to use in your YouTube videos. It has over 50,000 online music clips that you can filter by genre and mood.

Find free music online in 6 steps

Music Online
1. Go to your own YouTube channels.
2. If you already have a YouTube video on your website, you can do this by clicking the tiny YouTube icon at the bottom of your video.

3. Click on the blue icon in the upper right-hand corner.

4. Select a channel and then click on Creator Studio. Click on Edit > Info and Settings. (If you are having trouble with the above instructions, simply go to the help menu at the bottom of a YouTube page. Search for free music and go to the audio library).

5. Among the tabs at the top, click on Audio.

You will find a list of songs. Click on any one of them to hear it.

You can click on the dropdown arrow at the top to find the different genres of music. You can search over 50,000 songs by genre. Once you have your genre, you can click on the mood you would like. For instance, you can create a list comprised of nothing but happy, cinematic songs.<

Note: From time to time YouTube changes their software around and instructions do not work. If the above instructions no longer work, open one of your accounts and find the list of all videos in that account.

Scroll down to the bottom, click on the “help” button and search for free music. You will end up with a link talking about their free music library. Simply follow the instructions.

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Downloading your free background music

To download your free background music, keep your list of songs open. Then start your ScreenFlow screen capture/video editing program. Note that the music will stop playing as soon as your video stops. So, if your new YouTube video is quite long, have an equally long YouTube video playing while you are recording the music.

Keep music soft while speaking

While someone is speaking in your video, you want the music to go soft. Then it will go louder after the speaking stops. To learn how to do this, go to the ScreenFlow ducking tutorial.

Artificial intelligence composing music

On the Jukedeck website, artificial intelligence will compose free music for you. As long as you credit Jukedeck properly, you can use the free music in your videos.

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Pages related to free background music

25 websites with free music online

The About Entertainment website says

If you’re looking for the best to stream free music online, I found 25 great options for you to choose from. Read more.

Peter Enns has been developing websites since 1996. He is a social media blogger and author of a free YouTube tutorial. It’s called 7 Day YouTube and will teach you how to make entertaining videos & animated GIFs.

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Special Effects to Make Them Stop and Notice

Special effects found in ScreenFlow

Special effects are “illusions created for movies and television by props, camerawork, computer graphics, etc.” In this blog post we are going to examine some of the computer graphics that can be found in the ScreenFlow video creation software.

Special effects about time travel

I created a blog post about bending time, time travel, etc. In some of the accompanying videos, I required the concept of distorting time. The special effects in the above video illustrate how I illustrated distorting time.

Below are the steps required to create those special effects.

Creating special effects in 12 steps

special effects 1. Create a Keynote frame with an elaborate clock and mathematical symbols in the background. Give it an iris build-in effect.

special effects 2. Record it with ScreenFlow. The image on the left shows the video. The picture of the clock, etc. is what people will see when the video is played. The rectangle with the yellow border at the bottom is the video clip with all of the video data.

3. Select the video clip and copy it into clipboard (Cmd C)

special effects 4. Using the ScreenFlow file menu, create a new document.

5. Paste (Cmd V) about a dozen of the video clips onto the timeline.

6. Select all dozen clips and change scale so that screen is covered

7. Move slider so that video clips are longer and easier to work with.

8. Overlap the video clips

9. Each place where the clips overlap, ScreenFlow allows you to add a “transition” to create changes as one clip is changing to the other one.

10. Hover over any overlapped area and you will see a gear icon.

11. Click on any gear icon and you will see a list of available transitions.

12. Experiment with all of the transitions. Run the video to see if the transition creates the special effect you want.

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Special effects in video introduction

When you make a video, you must grab the viewers attention in the first few seconds. Otherwise, they may just stop watching.

Watch the first 8 seconds of the video below. That’s the type of introduction you can make with ScreenFlow.

If you are really interested in knowing how to make the 8-second introduction, go to the 10 steps to make the intro.

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ScreenFlow to Create YouTube & Wistia Videos

YouTube videos

Making YouTube and Wistia videos can be an important part of your social media marketing. For the past couple of years (ever since the days of version 3.97) I have been using ScreenFlow video editing software to make the videos.

I’ll make movement of text and images with Apple Keynote. Then I use ScreenFlow to capture the screen movement while I play the movement with Keynote. After saving my video, I use the program to edit everything. (Use the YouTube tab above to figure out how to do that.)

ScreenFlow 6.2

I just upgraded to ScreenFlow 6.2. I highly recommended it. You can even make animated GIF videos.

Buy ScreenFlow now or else get a free trial copy.

What all can ScreenFlow do?

Sample video I created with ScreenFlow

Read the instructions on how to create the above video.

Version 6.2 now available

The Multichannel News website says

The intuitive design lets anyone create high quality video tutorials, marketing videos or professional screencast video productions with ease. Version 6.0 adds a variety of new features that give users more flexibility in recording, more powerful editing features, and more options for exporting their videos. Read more.

The TV Technology website says

Telestream has announced the latest version of its screencasting and video editing software. ScreenFlow 6.0 comes with new features for recording, editing and exporting videos….Additional features include

♦ Motion animation effects;
♦ Ability to mix and adjust up to 16 channels of audio recorded from a USB mixer;
♦ Loop recording;
♦ iOS audio monitoring;
♦ ProRes 422 and 422LT export;
♦ Replace clip editing option;
♦ Updated user interface; and the
♦ Capability to publish directly to Telestream Cloud.

6.2 is now available for $99 (USD). Customers who had a previous version can upgrade for $34. Read more.

Dozens of features

If you click on the features link, you can learn much more about what you can find in ScreenFlow. Click on the various tabs to learn virtually anything you want to know about ScreenFlow.

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Social Marketing — Comments on My 6 Favorite

Start small with your social marketing

If you are working on your social marketing strategy, learn one medium at a time. Become good at it and then learn your next one. Otherwise it can be too overwhelming. You could end up doing a second rate job with all of them.

I recommend starting with Facebook, Twitter & Google Plus in that order. The links will take you to pages that will help you get started.

Next I would do Pinterest, SlideShare & YouTube in that order.

Social marketing & pictures

People are much more likely to look at your posts if they have pictures. Try to use some of the pictures to tell part of the story so that you do not have to use so much text. The picture here was used on a post to talk about target marketing.

Here is a blog post telling you about 8 different websites that have Free Stock Images. I often use Adobe Stock to get very high quality images for my pins. They cost me $3 each.

Sharing pictures among social media

Some of the pictures and text from your YouTube video can be used to make Pinterest pins and SlideShare presentations. This will shorten your social media creation time.

For instance, after I make a blog post, I will link to it from my Facebook, Twitter & Google Plus posts. I use the same main picture for each one. (The Twitter picture will have been made wider so that nothing gets cropped.) Note that I use slightly different wording for each of those 3 media. Otherwise I could get penalized for having duplicate content.

For YouTube, Pinterest & SlideShare, I use a number of different photos. Often I use many of the same photos in each of those social media.

For the sake of reducing your social marketing time for each blog post, I recommend always share photos among those 3 social media.

Pinterest pin creation

If you go to my first Pinterest blog post, you will learn that

The half-life of a Pinterest pin is 1600 times longer than a Facebook post
The average Pinterest user spends 14.2 minutes pinning every time they log in
Pinterest was the fastest growing social network in 2014
A picture you can post can gain MORE visibility over time and be sending traffic to your website MONTHS after it was published.

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YouTube video creation in 12 steps

1. Write video’s story line
♦ Only ONE main point
♦ After first draft, ruthlessly delete anything not pertaining to main point
♦ Give ONLY enough detail to get that one main point across. People prefer short videos.
♦ For more writing tips, go to bit.ly/CleverContent

2. Collect pictures

3. Open Keynote

4. Combine pictures and text to create Keynote slides. Try to have almost constant motion.

5. If you are new to Keynote, read tutorial from #3 above. Read to at least #17.

6. Using ScreenFlow, you should record all appropriate movement from your computer screen. This may be your Keynote presentation, the movement as you get into a website, etc.

7. Edit your movie

8. Find free music

9. Add the music clip to your ScreenFlow movie. Lower the music during speaking parts using audio ducking.

10. Most likely your YouTube video corresponds to one of your blog posts. Use URL shortening software to change your blog address to something descriptive such as bit.ly/linkfrompinterest.

11. Freeze the very last frame of your video. In that last frame display the shortened URL for 20 seconds. That will prevent your YouTube video from continuing into one of your competitor’s videos right away. Also, it gives people time to memorize the URL of the related blog post.

12. Upload to YouTube

SlideShare creation

Look at all of the slides in the Keynote presentation that you used to create your YouTube video. Then look at the introductory SlideShare blog post. Use it to help you change that Keynote presentation into a SlideShare presentation. Think about what page(s) at least one of your slides should link to. Use the URL shortening software to make sure the page(s) have shortened and easy-to-remember URLs. Create link(s) to the pages corresponding to those URLs.

SlideShare presentation

Here is an example of a SlideShare presentation I created using the above instructions.

Linking from Pinterest pin

Video Loop

Editor’s note, 2016

YouTube seems to have changed their software so that the instructions below no longer work. What I recommend you do to make videos loop continuously is make an online search for “video player plugins for websites”.

Alternately, you could go to the free video creation tutorial at bit.ly/7dayyoutube. It will teach you how to make animated GIFs. They loop for short periods of time such as 5 to 20 seconds.

Create a YouTube video loop

Today’s blog tells you how to make a YouTube video repeat over and over again on your web page.

Yesterday’s blog told you how to make a 3D video. The video that was displayed had a few special features added: It began playing as soon as the page opened. It did not display those nine related videos at the end.

Today we will use the same video as yesterday. We will explain how to make it into a video loop.

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Computer code

If you go to yesterday’s video and click on the YouTube icon beneath it, you will be taken to the YouTube website. Right-click on the video and select Copy Embed Code. The code snippet below will be copied into your clipboard.

If you had gone into the source code of yesterday’s blog before the video loop code was added, you would have seen that the code has been added to make it start upon opening the page and to prevent it from showing nine related videos. The code snippets are added after detailpage and before the subsequent closing quotation mark.

Note that the code for this particular YouTube video is 2EDbW4i_mQU?. In order to loop, that code must be added after playlist=. The video loop code is loop=1&playlist=2EDbW4i_mQU. The entire code for the looping video is below.

And here is the video.

Special thanks

After I could not figure out how to make a YouTube video loop, I submitted a help message to my LinkedIn groups. A very special online marketing specialist and web designer by the name of Eliecer Marchante graciously gave me the code that you see above.

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Peter Enns has been developing websites since 1996. He is a social media blogger and author of the free YouTube video-creation tutorial called 7 Day YouTube.

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3D Video to Make Your Ideas Pop Out

What is a 3D video ad?

A 3D video ad is an ad in which something appears to pop out of the screen. In the example below, the girl zooms out and into the white space with a message. There are more examples at the bottom of this page under Related Videos.

How to make a simple 3D video in 18 steps

1. 1. Go to a stock photo site and get an action picture with no background. In this example, I went to Adobe Stock and searched for “action no background”.
  2. I opened up my new action photo in GIMP.
  3. Using the instructions in the online tutorial, I changed the white background into an invisible background. (Here is a screenshot for you in case you are having trouble finding color erase.)
  4. The final scene of the video requires a speech bubble. To find a free speech bubble, go to images.google.com. Search for “speech bubble” and right click on the image you like. Select Save Image As.
    Save it in your pictures file with a descriptive name. Then use GIMP to add a message into the speech bubble. Export as a PNG file.
  5. Find a good background for your action and insert it onto a Keynote slide. Copy and paste the background into each of your 3 or so Keynote slides. Note that when you copy the image into your clipboard, you are also copying the location into the clipboard. Also note that there should be white space on the left side of your background. That is so that part of the image can move there to give it a 3D effect.
  6. Drag your action picture with the invisible background onto
    your first Keynote slide. Make it very tiny. Note that it must be a PNG file.
  7. Select your action picture. Then click on Inspector > Action. Set the effect to scale at 200%.
  8. Now this is a bit tricky. Click the play button and click again to play your action. You have to figure out where the figure is at its maximum size. Then you save the image in your clipboard and paste it onto slide 2. Looking at the tiny lines on the ruler to the left of your Keynote slide, double the size of your image.
  9. Move the figure to the place you think the image from the previous slide was at its maximum size. The 200% scaling action would have been saved when you copied the image into your clipboard. So, select slide #1 and play everything you have.
    Make note of how you will have to move the image in slide #2 so that it will be in the same position as the image as the #1 image at its maximum size. Keep moving the image around until you are happy with the position.

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1. Repeat the same procedure with slide #3. Note that you will want your final image to scale so that it partially moves into the white space left of your background image.
2. Drag you new speech bubble file onto your last Keynote slide. Build it in to appear as the final item.
3. Open ScreenFlowhttp://freewebdesign.club/screenflow-2/, select slide #1 in Keynote, start recording your screen with ScreenFlow and play your entire slideshow.
4. Edit out any extraneous material.
5. Upload to YouTube.
6. Wait an hour or two for YouTube to finish processing your video. Then right-click on it and click on Copy Embed Code.
7. The code for showing the YouTubevideo on your web page will be copied into your clipboard. Paste it into your web page’s HTML code.
8. You want your video to start playing as soon as someone opens your page. So, between “detailpage” and the closing quotation mark, add this code: &autoplay=1. You do not want YouTube to show related videos at the end. So, add &rel=0 next to the other code you just added.

Capture 3D video for less than $100

The ZDNet website says

Want to capture your kids in all their three-dimensional glory? This sub-$100 lens is a budget alternative to the growing list of more expensive stereoscopic video options. And the footage, which you can check out on the site with a 3D viewer, actually looks pretty amazing. Read more.

3D bouncing balls delights child

A Baby Beavers Google+ post has a 9 second video with a 3D effect. Their post says

We received another video of one of our Busy Beavers Fan & he Loves our new Super Circus 3D with Fun Cars & Color Balls. Watch it now.

One amazing 3D video

Kwojo the Infinite tweets about Taking 3D art to the next levels. Watch this 3D video now.

Peter Enns has been developing websites since 1996. He is a social media blogger and author of the free YouTube video-creation tutorial called 7 Day YouTube.

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Video Ads & 7 Social Media

80% video

A report by Cisco tells us that, by 2019, 80% of global Internet traffic will be online video. More than half of Americans who visit Facebook every day watch at least one video. That means that you, someone in your organization or a service supplier of yours MUST be able to make good video ads.

All of the social media items on this page link to a blog post that tells people how to make videos for Facebook video ads. If you want someone to learn how to make videos, have them study this tutorial about the creation of Youtube videos.

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YouTube online video

Ideally the Facebook video ad message will be less than 21 seconds. People have short attention spans on Facebook.

The sample YouTube video at the bottom of this page has a message 19 seconds long. A Bitly URL is then played as a stationary image for several seconds.

High profile comments on video ads

Snapshot advertising a threat?

The CNBC website says

By now, Facebook and Google are well-established as the must-buy platforms for digital advertising. But as Snapchat grows in popularity, especially among millennials and Gen Z, it will become a more important part of the landscape, say industry insiders.

But for now, the startup — which was valued as high as $22.7 billion in late May, according to TechCrunch — still has a way to go. Read more.

Facebook vs. YouTube

The Tech Insider website says

That video of the lady wearing the Chewbacca mask? It’s been played over 150 million times.

If Candace Payne — “Chewbacca Mom” — had gone that viral on a YouTube channel, she could’ve made a chunk of change in ad sales. Read more.

Amazon Video Direct vs. YouTube vs. Facebook vs. Netflix

The recode.net website says

if you are a content creator, you have more distribution and monetization options that offer scale than at any point in human history. Second, the industry is evolving at a rate that promises everything will have changed by this time next year. Read more.

Facebook video ad with no video

The Janet E. Johnson website says

Video ads work and sometimes you don’t have a video available. Videos grab people’s attention and tend to be less expensive. Read more.

SlideShare presentations

A SlideShare presentation is a group of related slides like the one you see in the sample below. People share on SlideShare in a similar way they would share on Facebook or Twitter. Starting at the fourth slide, you are allowed to have a link to a web page. If you hover over the “blog” link in the horizontal menu on this page and scroll down to SlideShare, you can see links to several SlideShare posts. The link to the first one gets you to this page.

IF you have eye-catching pictures, you can expect to get more visitors than you get on social media like Facebook & Twitter.

Pinterest is a social media in which users visually share images such as this one about how to create an online video. An image (usually a group of pictures and text in one single graphic) is called a ‘pin’. People pin their pins on their own or other people’s boards. (A “board” is a folder that is a collection of pins with a common theme.)

For more information about Pinterest, hover over the blog link in the horizontal menu in this page and scroll down to “Pinterest”.

Google Plus

Google Plus is a social medium that has a number of different features that people may or may not use. This includes:

♦ The ability to post photos and status updates to interest-based communities,
♦ Group different types of relationships (rather than simply “friends”) into a number of different Circles,
♦ A multi-person instant messaging,
♦ Text and video chat called Hangouts,

♦ Events,
♦ Location tagging, and
♦ Ability to edit and upload photos to
private cloud-based albums.

To see an example about online video ads, go to my Google Plus social media marketing page and scroll down until you see the picture of the three orange darts. To learn more, go to our Google Plus blog page.

Facebook pages

A Facebook page is a public profile specifically created for businesses, brands, celebrities, causes, and other organizations. See our Facebook page telling people how to create an online video ad. Scroll down to see the post with the orange dart you see above on this page.

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called “tweets”. The image (which in this case has been lengthened) takes up exactly 23 characters. It will usually link to a URL which always takes up exactly 23 characters. Go to our Twitter page and scroll down until you see the orange dart image. Notice that the link has been changed to a descriptive Bitly URL. It links to a page that tells how to make an online video ad for Facebook.

LinkedIn is like a Facebook for business people. So, if you can create an article aimed at business people, this would be a good place to display it. Look at this example.

Notice that there are a number of very high quality pictures there. This will encourage people to read your article. I buy inexpensive Adobe Stock images to make my articles interesting.

To write your article, go to your LinkedIn home page and click on “publish to post” near the top of the page. That will get you to the page where you can start writing. You may want to use a photo manipulation program such as GIMP to create your 700 x 400 pixel image.

SlideShare presentation

YouTube video used in Facebook video ad

Peter Enns has been developing websites since 1996. He is a social media blogger and author of the free YouTube video-creation tutorial called 7 Day YouTube.

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Facebook Video Ads

How to upload Facebook video ads

I am embarking upon some social media marketing with Facebook video ads and I came upon a problem.

I created the 30 second video you see at the bottom of this page and saved it as an MP4 file. As I was creating the Facebook ad, there was a point where it asked me to upload a video. I wanted to upload my video that had never been on Facebook before. But, the program would not let me do it.

I experimented and found that I could upload it by clicking on Browse Library. I thought I had better pass that one on in case some of you are having the same problem.

If you create a really good 30 second promotional video, Facebook is an ideal place to promote it. In my case, I’m paying just a little over one cent per view.

Here are the seven steps for creating Facebook video ads:

From home page, go to Ads Manager > Campaigns and then click on Create an Ad.
Click Get Video Views.
Enter the URL of your Facebook page that promotes the product you wish to sell and click Continue.
Enter budget and details of your target audience.
Scroll down and it will ask you to upload your video. If you wish to upload an MP4 file, this section is not as intuitive as it could be. Click Browse Library > Upload Video. Find your video and double click on it.
Set a thumbnail for your ad. This is the picture that would best make people want to click on your video. It will be there before the video starts and after it finishes.
Enter the text you want to show in your ad. This will likely be the most desirable feature of the product you sell.

For a free tutorial teaching you how to create entertaining videos, go to 7 Day YouTube. The tutorial also shows you how to create entertaining animated GIFs like the one on the right.

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SlideShare presentation — Social media marketing and videos

Peter Enns has been developing websites since 1996. He is a social media blogger and author of the free YouTube video-creation tutorial called 7 Day YouTube.