How to for creating and translating video
Setup a video project
A video project is composed of different files. So you should create a new directory where you save all your files.
Structure of a video project
A video project is composed by:
- A directory on your computer where to save all the files relative to the video project.
- The first step is to create a new directory where your file will reside.
- Put all file in project directory unless there is a real necessity to do otherwise.
- A Banana Video Project file (ac2).
You can create a new file by:- Menu File > New file > Tutorial Maker > Create empty file
Save the file to your directory - By copying an existing one to your directory.
- Menu File > New file > Tutorial Maker > Create empty file
- The image files with the screen capture.
When possible create images with size 1920x1080 pixels or else with the 16:9 format. - Other images files that are used for titles or slides.
Image size should be 1920x1080 pixels. - If you are creating a video you can also save in the directory the files that are the base for the video creation(accounting file, presentation file or else).
- Directory for language specific images.
- Assume you have created the clips images in English.
- Create a sub-directory "it" where you will save the captured images in italian.
If the software, when building the "it" video, will find an image with the same name in the directory it will use it instead of the one that is in the main directory.
Example video projects
You can try the following examples
- Demo
A very simple project (see on files on github.com) - A presentation of how the video creation tool works, that has been created used the video creation tool.
Add a speech to a video with subtitles
You can easily add a speech to an existing video.
- The speech is generated automatically by the computer.
- The speech and subtitles remain placed on the same time position.
- If the translated speech does not fit the original video segment, the specific segment will be automatically speed down to fit the speech.
Here we explain how to translate speech of an existing video.
- First you have to setup the environment.
- Create the project and directory.
Prerequisites
- A video file with subtitles in SRT format or with a Youtube transcript.
Add the speech to a Youtube video with subtitles
- Create a new Banana video file (ac2).
- Download the video from youtube.
- In the Table Clips column Clips enter the nave of the original video.
- Copy the the youtube transcript to the clipboard
- Menu Actions>Import subtitles from youtube transcript
- Menu Actions->Build video.
First Video Tutorial Project using Screen shots
Here we explain how to create a video tutorial
- First you have to setup the environment.
- Create the project and directory.
Example video projects
You can try the following examples
- Demo
A very simple project (see on files on github.com) - A presentation of how the video creation tool works, that has been created used the video creation tool.
Create a Tutorial Maker project
- Structure the video and write the text.
- Plan the video objective and content.
- With word processor start writing text part of the video.
Writing and improving the draft is easier with the word processor.- Chapters titles.
- Speech part.
- Setup files.
- Create a video project directory.
- Download and copy on your directory the the Empty Video Tutorial Template and give a new name.
- Enter the content
- Start Banana Accounting Dev-Channel version.
- Open the Educational video file you have just created.
- Menu Actions → Add language column of your desired language.
- Copy the text you have written on Word and paste it in the column language.
- In the column Chapter enter the chapter number.
- In the column Text Style enter the appropriate style.
- In the column Speech Style enter "None" for text that should only be displayed (no audio).
- Apply the color Yellow for chapter titles.
- Build the first video version.
- Actions → Build video and the video will be build with:
- a single still image
- titles
- the speech
- the subtitles
- You will be able to see how long it is the video based on the spoken text, and also listen the high quality audio voice.
- Actions → Build video and the video will be build with:
- You should now capture the images or the video clips with the tool you already use.
Better use size of 1920x1080 px or with 16:9 factor. - Or you can create the image capture in Banana.
- Create the Banana Accounting file with all the data you will need to explain.
- Capture the screen using the ctrl+3 functionalities.
- Set the size of Banana Accounting Windows to 1920x1080 or other size with 16:9 factor.
- Save the file in the project directory.
- Better complete the file name with a numeric sequence corresponding to the chapter number.
- When using number better use 01 instead of 1, so that you get the file listed in numeric order.
- Use fine sequence multiple of 3 or 5 to easily insert other images.
- Complete your project with images.
- In the appropriate row of the column Clip File enter the file name of the images you have saved.
- Add Effects to the images.
- Build again the video .
- Improve the texts, images, effects until you are finished.
Translate the speech and subtitles of a video
You can easily translate the video in another language.
- The speech is generated automatically by the computer.
- The speech and subtitles remain placed on the same time position.
- If the translated speech does not fit in the original video segment, the specific segment will be automatically speed down to fit the speech.
Here we explain how to translate speech of an existing video.
- First you have to setup the environment.
- Create the project and directory.
Prerequisites
- A video file with subtitles in SRT format or with a Youtube transcript.
Translating an existing video with SRT subtitles
- Save the original video in the project directory.
- Create a new Banana video file (ac2).
- In the Table Clips column Clips enter the file name of the original video.
- Menu Actions>Import subtitles.
Choose the subtitle type.
- Menu Action>Add language column.
Enter the 2 letter column - Translate the text to another language with an online translation tool like www.deepl.com/translator.
- Select and copy the text column.
- Past to a translation tools.
- Copy and paste the translated text to added language column.
- Menu Actions->Build video and choose the language.
Translate the text in another language
- Table Clips
Action->Add Language column.
Choose the language.- If the language does not exists in the list.
- Menu Data ->Manage Columns->Add Column.
- Enter the name "Text_"+Language code (2 letters).
"Text_fr"
- If the language does not exists in the list.
- Translate the text to other language.
- Position on the first line of the column with the text to be translated.
- Click on the header of the source language to select all the text.
- Copy the text in the translation service.
- https://translate.google.com/
- https://www.deepl.com/translator
- If the text it to long just copy fewer lines.
- Select the language to translate to.
- Copy the translated text.
- Position the cursor on the column destination.
- Paste the text.