Editing Video Recordings-Advanced

Screenshot of Microsoft Photo Editor

We all make mistakes or at least would like to modify/revise something that we said or recorded. The Echo360 video editor allows you to add, subtract or even merge video, but it cannot overlay text info on an existing recordings (for example).

Do do that quickly and easily, you will want to use the Microsoft Photo Editor, a misnomer, as it does include a video editor.

Correcting / Adding new material into Echo360 recordings

If you want to go beyond the usual editing as offered by the Echo360 Video editor (see https://echo360.com/getting-started/#/page/60e7cfe7b386070d8b7c33b3), have you considered the Microsoft Photo Editor? Beside giving you the ability to edit phtos, it also has a video editor built in.

Download the recording from Echo
Once you log into Echo, locate the video you want to download by clicking on the title, then click on the download link.

A typical Echo recording consists of 2 sources; Source 1 is usually the computer screen while Source 2 is the camera recording. You can normally use only 1 of the 2 sources for this next level of editing, therefore choose Source 1.

There are two choices there (Full or Lower). This represents the resolution of the recording, so click on the Full icon to start the downloading to your computer.

Open/download the Microsoft Photo Editor-
You should have the Photo Editor program on your Windows-based computer 

Microsoft Photo Editor

Now you can find where you need to add some text (for example). Choose from several different font styles and enter the text up near the top right-hand side of the screen. You can move the slider to determine how long something appears on the screen. Click on Done to move to the next step.

Photo Editor screenshot

Click on Finish video to export what you made to your computer.

Next you need to upload the finished video back into Echo360. See this link (https://sites.uml.edu/its/resources-training/how-to/upload-your-own-recordings/) for steps on doing that.