Top Social Media Tools

Achieving a fantastic online course is more or less equivalent to creating one or more great videos for your students. Luckily, nowadays video production is not just a privilege of the professionals. Impressive techniques that are popular amongst the experienced moviemakers have become available to beginners too. Affordable software and easy-to-use apps empower you as a course maker and unleash your creativity resulting in impressive instructional videos.

When it comes to video editing, you may be wondering what’s the best tool to use. The plethora of available software makes it even harder to choose. We did the hard work and the testing and curated the best software for you. So, let us guide you through the most popular and consumer-friendly video editing tools on the market.

Here are the top 21 tools we selected and tested for you. Let’s see what suits your needs... 

This short video was produced to show how quick and easy it is to produce a video from an existing blog post using the free Lumen 5 video tool. 

Lumen 5 is an AI-powered video creation platform that turns blog posts into engaging videos. Using the tool is easy, intuitive and surprisingly fast. After producing a few Lumen 5 videos, I expect you could create one in as little as 10 minutes from existing content like a blog post. You can see my original blog post here http://bit.ly/LaoTzu8 to compare it with the video produced so effortlessly.

The creative and marketing possibilities are very intriguing and so far Lumen 5 is free although it may offer more features for a price in the future. For now, it's an interesting tool to explore.

Businesses, bloggers, trainers, authors and really anyone can use it to produce social content to drive audience engagement online. Great thing is you can focus on your message, visuals and creativity without having to touch the technology. 

You can get more info and demos for the app at www.lumen5.com.

Due to the popularity of our recent iPad tips video, we decided that it was only fair to compile a second one covering the iPad's more illustrious illustrious relative, the iPhone. There may be five different generations of the model, but behind the usual messages, emails and apps are a range of shortcuts, additions and features that can be easily missed....

[So many new iPhone tips! Awesome. JD]

Gifs.com is the fastest way to create animated gifs from Youtube, Facebook, Vimeo and other video sites. Just upload your own video or paste in a URL and click create a gif.

Gif anything in seconds

A YouTube video, an NBA game, a Twitch stream — anything.

Supercharged effects at your fingertips 

Make your gif black and white. Maybe add a caption. Maybe two. Do literally whatever. Our editor has tons of effects. Count’m: tons.

ifs.com is the fastest way to create animated gifs from Youtube, Facebook, Vimeo and other video sites. Just upload your own video or paste in a URL and click create a gif....

Capture and share. I like the sound of that better than Point and Shoot. You probably own a video camera in the form of a smartphone, an iPad, or one of a hundred video cameras that do, gasp, only video.

This post is for the small business owner who has the creative tools, but wonders how to move that video from camera to the web....