Using Clipchamp to prepare the video of me rehearsing for a webinar for TESOL Simple Education in Vietnam

Layout of video

I did the webinar more than a month ago and on and off in the last month I've been trying to edit the video that I made using Zoom to prepare for it. The video had to be in two parts because my free Zoom account limited me to 45 minutes.

There were a number of problems that I had to solve:

• I must have coughed at least twenty times
• Some of the audio I played was too quiet
• I needed to add some text to suggest viewers pause the video to do the different tasks, or to explain things I hadn't remembered to explain.
• I wanted to add subtitles in English, Vietnamese, Kazakh and other languages

I'm still not sure whether to post just one long video or to break the video up into four or five linked videos. Maybe I''ll do both but for the moment it's just one with chapters

Coughs

I have always used Microsofts Clipchamp to edit videos and I discovered that there are two ways to remove the coughs: you mark with the scissors just before and after the cough. Then you can either turn off the sound in that very short segment of the video or delete it. Deleting it was my first choice as it shortened a very long video.

Too quiet audio

My first approach was to mark the segment where the audio was playing, turn off the sound and add an additional audio track in its place. I learnt through trial and error that another way to solve the problem is to mark the segment and then cick on 'Audio' on the right ansd pt the volume up much higher for that segment.

Adding a text box

I found that there was an area on the right of the screen under the next slide and my face, which was always empty and where it would be best to add a text box. I had to make my instructions or comments very brief.

Subtitles in Vietnamese and Kazakh

I exported the .srt file with the subtitles in English from Clipchamp and uploaded them to YouTube. I then asked YouTube to provide subtitles in these two languages as well as in the languages in which I could check that the translations were correct: Catalan, Spanish, French and Italian.

Here, finally is the 75-minute long video with the following chapters:

00:00 Intro + using Turboscribe.ai and ChatGPT to get feedback on speaking

08:45 Demonstration of the nine-step prompt to get feedback on speaking

28:54 Now you do it - a hands-on task as if a student wanting feedback on their speaking
58:41 Suggestions for communicative speaking tasks for students to do in and out of class

1:11:47 Outro + websites that help your pronunciation, Facebook groups on edtech