Video Shooting Tips
Video Length
If it's not specified by a hiring company, approximately 1 to 2 minutes are recommended.
Shooting Location
A bright room or quiet outdoor location may be appropriate.
Shooting Time
More natural light is available during daytime.
Record with smartphone camera or camcorder
  1. Plan a video and practice
  2. Shoot a video with smartphone (iPhone, Android, etc.) or camcorder
  3. Review the video and edit as necessary. To add a subtitle or animation to the video, you can use softwares such as Windows Movie Maker or iMovie
  4. Save the file on 3. and upload to Seed.Click here for email uploading
Create an Orignal Video Clip with PowerPoint
  1. Prepare image, text, and audio files for video

    Please check the copyright rules of image, text, audio files you use.

  2. Place text and image on PowerPoint slides

    Approximately 20 slides for 1 minute

  3. Select animation of text and image on [Animations] tab

    You can add animation such moving from bottom to up, fade-in/out, zoom, etc.

  4. Review animations on each slide by clicking [Preview] button
  5. Select [Record Slide Show] from [Slide Show] tab
  6. Click mouse or press UP or DOWN keys to move to next slide (or next animation)
  7. Select [Save as] from [File] menu
  8. Select [Windows Media Video (*.wmv)] from [Save as type:] pull down menu
  9. Edit [File name:] on [Save as] window as necessary
  10. Save by clicking [Save] on the lower right corner of the window
  11. Finish! Let's upload the video to Vivinavi
How to make a video size smaller
  • Shorten shooting time, lower recording quality, etc (You can change them on video recording settings).

  • Open a video file on Windows Movie Maker and select any of the following options from [Save Movie].

    • YouTube: Estimate File Size - 37.14MB per minute of video
    • DailyMotion: Estimate File Size - 29.98MB per minute of video
    • Facebook: Estimate File Size - 15.68MB per minute of video

    If you select YouTube version, the video will become larger than DailyMotion or Facebook version. In principle, a larger file has sharper and better image quality, but adjust the video size according to the recommended size.

  • If you created a video from PowerPoint, you can shrink the image files you used on slides, decrease the number of slides or animations, etc.
Video Production & Editing Tools

  • Free audio editing software with many sound effects such as fade-in/out, noise control, etc. Once you get used to the software, you can edit audio easily.

  • Free video editing software. You can add animation or subtitle, change video speed, combine and trim video, adjust colors, and so on.

  • Free video editing software for Mac. You can insert music from iTune or upload image from iPhone. Video templates are available for easy editing.