Davidson-Davie Community College

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Overview
• Trim 
• Text Overlay
• Image or Slide Override
• Edit Captions
• Add a Virtual Background

With a Yuja account, you can edit and caption videos that you’ve created. Videos that you upload will automatically be captioned so that instructors and classmates can watch them even if they have trouble hearing.

Overview

1. Go to your Yuja account and locate the video you want to edit.

2. Hover your mouse over the video and click on “Edit” in the menu that appears.

3. The editing screen will open in a new window.

Trim 

You can cut out mistakes in your video or trim blank space at the beginning or end of your video using the cutting tool.

1. Drag the blue progress bar to the time where you’d like to start the cut.

2. Click on the cutting tool (scissors icon).

3. Place your mouse pointer where you want to cut. The area will become gray.

4. Click to set the area of the cut.

5. You can drag the gray area to change the area of the cut or resize the cut. 

Text Overlay

1. Drag the blue progress bar to the place on your timeline where you want the overlay.

2. Select the text overlay button which looks like a box with the letter “A” in two sizes.

3. In the dialog box that appears, type your text, set the font size, and set the duration.

4. Once you click “Apply”, you will see the text on the video and a box appears on your timeline to represent the overlay. 

5. You can double click on the box to reopen the dialog box and make changes to font size, duration, and wording.

6. You can click and drag the text on the video to move it to a different place on the screen.

Image or Slide Override

You can add an image or slide that will override your video content (but not the audio) for a selected amount of time.

1. Drag the blue progress bar to the place in the video where you would like to insert an image or slide.

2. Select the image overlay icon which looks like a projection screen with a chart on it. 

3. In the dialog box that opens, use “Select File” to open your files and choose the image or document you want to use.

4. Once you’ve selected a file, choose which video stream you want to overlay if you have multiple video streams and choose a duration.

5. Click Apply.

6. You will see a new box on your timeline with the name of your media. You can click on this box to change the settings for this edit.

7. Important: The image will not override the video until after you reprocess the video when you save your edits, so you won’t see it when you play the video on the editing screen.

Edit Captions

If you record a video in Yuja or upload one from your computer or phone, it will automatically be captioned, but the captions may have mistakes. To edit captions, click the CC icon. This will open your captions and you can edit them by clicking on the caption you want to change and typing a correction.

Add a Virtual Background

This is an advanced editing feature so you’ll need to toggle the Advanced Features to “Yes” which will allow you to access more editing options.

1. Select the Image Tools button which looks like a landscape.

2. Select “Add Virtual Background”.

3. Click “Select File” on the pop-up window to access your files.

4. Choose the image that you want to use as a background. 

5. In the next window, select which video stream you want to use with the background if you have multiple streams and click “Apply”.