Don’t You Just Love Technology
Using Zoom Clips
Zoom has a feature called Clips, which let’s you create short (I’ve created 13 minute ones, but mostly used for 1-4 minutes) videos and share the out. Many of the people I know use Loom for this, but since it’s a feature embedded in Zoom, that’s what I use.
I like using clips, but all software has its quirks.
Whereas in a Zoom meeting, you can move back and forth between presenter dominating the screen and presentation, in a clip, you need to make your choice before recording: presenter only, screen share only, or screen share with presenter in a box.
You also cannot move the video box of the presenter, it is in the lower left corner. Actually, that’s a lie. You can move the presenter video, but on the recording it will always be on the lower left.
Zoom also creates subtitles for your clip. You cannot control where they appear, and sometimes they show up as one line, sometimes two lines, and every once in a while, four lines appear on the screen.
I found this out by wasting 36 minutes.
I had a PowerPoint presentation, and by default, PowerPoint included subtitles. When I viewed the clip, all was well, but then Zoom created it’s own subtitles, and it was weird having two sets of subtitles on the screen.
I re-recorded the 12 minute clip after turning off PowerPoint subtitles. But when PowerPoint includes subtitles, it shrinks the slides so that there is room for them on the bottom. After I recorded, I noticed that without the subtitles, my video blocked a key portion of all of my slides. But, I saw that I could move my video.
I re-recorded the 12 minute clip again moving my video window to the right bottom. But, while the video clip seemed fine as I was making the clip, on the recording it is stuck on the lower left still blocking a key portion of the slide.
Now, I’ve adjusted my slides and I’ve re-recorded the clip again.
And In re-recording the slides, I found out that if you are sharing an application window, the video is always going to appear on the bottom left corner, but if you are sharing an entire screen, you can place the video wherever you want to.
And I know now to leave the lower left of any slides blank if I am going to use them in a Zoom clip. And so do you.
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Here is a link to the finished Zoom clip in case you are interested.
Setting a custom domain name
Many of us have set up websites where we want to use a web name that we own. In my case, I am creating a community called Mindshifting Educators which is for teachers and other educators who want to continue to develop their abilities to shift their own mindsets and those of their students. I own the URL MindshiftingEducators.org and wanted to use that as the address for the community.
The instructions are straightforward, and I’ve done this before.
That worked. Yay! But, many people are accustomed to typing www before a domain name.
Technically, www.domainname is a subdomain and so you need to do another procedure for that. What I thought was that you go into domain maintenance, and request the subdomain to go to that domain, and that’s what I did. But evidently whatever I did undoes whatever A record change I previously made.
I discovered this when a Mindshifting Educators member went to the community and landed on a page that offered to sell him the domain name. After some research, I determined I needed to start the whole process again.
If you want your www to go to (or “forward to” using the terms my?domain host uses) your domain, you need to
This did work, but I hope I saved you the angst, effort and time I went through.
Now, whether you type in www.mindshiftingeducators.org or you type in mindshiftingeducators.org you will end up on the landing page (if you’ve never been there) or the last page you visitedin the Mindshifting Educators community. ??