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Hi there! My name is Saumirah McWoodson, and I’m the founder and CEO of Dance Daze, Inc. and Dance Daze in Schools, and I’m also a dance education researcher and business consultant at DanceEdStartup.com. And I’m the host of The Happy Dance Podcast where we talk about all things related to dance, education, and cultivating a life of happiness. So, let’s dance!

Hey everyone! Saumirah here. Welcome to Episode #6 of The Happy Dance Podcast. Now, today’s episode is the third part of a three-part mini-series on social media marketing tools for your developing dance business.

In the first part of this mini-series I talked about my favorite social media platforms and I told you why I’m using them and how I’m using them. And then last week, in part two, I talked about my favorite photo-editing apps and there were a lot of them and I actually created a freebie.

So if you go to DanceEdStartup.com/podcast5download, you can grab that freebie.

And then, in today’s episode, I’m going to tell you about my favorite video editing apps.

And I was just going through my phone because that’s where I use all of these apps is on my iPhone X, and I realized I actually don’t have that many apps that I use to edit videos. So these are my legit favorite apps because I only have three.

Okay, so I’m gonna dive into that in a few moments here, but first I wanted to say that today’s episode is sponsored by the Dance Daze, Inc. Amazon Store. So if you go to Amazon.com/Shop/DanceDazeInc, you’ll find the Dance Daze Amazon Store, and in it we have tools for dance teachers and we just added some recent things of interest for dancers as well. And so I was actually adding some stuff last week right after I finished the podcast. And so, I have a couple of things in a category for audio and visual equipment, and then I have healthy food for dancers that you can get from Amazon, and that goes along with the blog that I put out earlier this week. And so there’s some fun stuff in there. And then, of course, I have props for creative movement classes or for teaching dance classes in schools. So be sure to go over to the Dance Daze Amazon Shop, and check all that stuff out. And of course, if you just need to grab something from Amazon, and if you go and see if I have it in my shop first, that also helps me out, I’d appreciate it.

So again the link is just Amazon.com/Shop/DanceDazeInc.

Okay, so now I’m going to tell you why I am doing a happy dance this week. So I have a couple of things that I wanted to talk about, but I don’t want to drag this podcast out too long, so I don’t think I’m going to dive into all of them. But first, the first reason I’m doing a happy dance today is because my mom actually started her own podcast, and I listened to that for the first time. I listened to her first episode earlier today and so kudos to my mom for living her best life and getting her voice out there.

I think I’m going to wait a little while to give you more information about my mom’s podcast because I don’t quite know what direction she’s going to go in and she already knows this, I’m not sure she’s going to be super open because if she is I might not want to be affiliated or associated with that. But I’ll probably tell you more about her podcast as time goes on, but kudos to my mom for getting that started.

And then the second reason I’m doing a happy dance is–and I should preface this: I’m feeling kind of “deep”, but I wanna tone it down because my podcast isn’t going in that direction. But the second reason I’m doing a happy dance is because . . . I was thinking about how I want to say this, and here are the thoughts that came to my mind. When you go back and you think about the one or maybe there are two of the absolute hardest moments that you’ve had in your life and you realize that you overcame them, the feeling that that gives you can be so powerful and moving and it just serves as a reminder that when you’re going through hard times again that you can also get through those hard times.

And so maybe you don’t, I don’t know, I think everyone maybe has a moment that they feel like, “Oh this is the most challenging thing I’ve ever gone through my entire life.” And now it’s months or years later and things are better, or they’re bearable, or maybe you don’t think about this sadness every single day anymore.

And so that’s kind of the reason I’m doing a happy dance is because… Let’s see… Because I’m grateful that we are able to overcome hard times and because I’m resting in the audacity of hope for a better tomorrow. So those are the two reasons I’m doing a happy dance. Kudos to my mom for starting that podcast. And then again, just yeah, having the hope that the sun will come out tomorrow.

Okay, and that’s all I’m gonna say about those deep thoughts of mine.

So now let me tell you about my favorite video editing apps. And so, obviously, since there are only three that I have on my phone, these are the only things that I use, so I really use them a lot. So the first one that I absolutely love is Magisto. I actually prefer to pronounce it Mageeesto. But to be honest, I don’t really say it that often, ’cause I don’t go around talking about apps to people, no matter how much of a nerd I am. But I guess also it goes to show you how much of a nerd I am, because I don’t have that much social interaction.

Yay, here’s my podcast! Thanks for listening to me, friend!

Okay, so I love Magisto basically for these reasons. You can basically put in all of your photos, video clips, and if you have… I’ve been paying for it for a while now. I think the free version I think they still have a free version and it does this or the lowest cost version I believe is like $4.99 US dollars $4.99 per month. They order the videos and the video clips and photos for you, you can pick your sound track, you can pick your theme and it just comes out beautiful and everyone’s always like… “Oh, I like that so much.”

And so that’s why I love it. They have royalty-free music. You are able to, directly from the app, upload the videos that are created directly to YouTube. And I think a couple of other social media sites, but I usually just send them straight to YouTube and then I download them to my phone to upload them myself, so I like to upload the videos natively to the social media platforms that I want them on.

But with YouTube, I just do it directly from the app because I think that’s easiest, and because YouTube what… It’s like my third or fourth favorite platform so… But anyway, that’s why I really love it. And I think that the variety of… I think that your videos can only be three minutes or five minutes long, something like that, but I think you can have videos up to 10 or 20 minutes, maybe even, with the Professional version, that sort of thing. You get access to more layouts and things like that or templates. And so, yeah, that’s probably my absolute favorite video editing app. I’ve tried others but… And I actually didn’t write down the one that… there was another I meant to mention, and I forgot. Oh, I think it’s called InShot.

And I will confirm this. Caveat here. I realized as I was doing the editing my transcript for the last podcast, I was calling an app by the incorrect name so I want to not do that this week.

So I think in the transcripts, the app is still listed as what I called it, but I think I linked it to the correct website. So if anyone noticed that it’s not an error, it’s intentional because I wanted to give credit to the actual app that I was talking about. But anyway, okay, so I’ve tried other video editing apps to kind of, I think, just play around with different filters and that sort of thing. But, again, I don’t think you can be beat Magisto or “Mageeesto.” I think Magisto… if PicMonkey is my favorite photo editing app, then I would say Magisto is my absolute favorite video editing app that I would refer to everyone.

Okay, so I did not… I’ve only used InShot once and I liked it. It served its purpose, but I didn’t like it enough, to really talk about. So I’m gonna move on and tell you the second one that I actually wrote down to talk about and that app is Clipomatic. So I discovered that one recently because I was actually watching some Instastories and I noticed people had text at the bottom of their stories. I was like, “Oh that’s really cool.” And I was listening to some other podcast recently, a few months ago, and they were saying how awesome it is that people are now adding text to their videos for the reasons of just being aware of people who have different audio abilities, that sort of thing. But then also because if you are in a place where you’re not supposed to be making noise or it’s really early in the morning and you’re just waking up, and you’re being super unhealthy and watching Instastories first thing when you wake up in the morning, you can just read what the person is saying if someone’s doing a live video or something like that, or if they’re just talking to the camera.

And so that’s why I love Clipomatic. It’s also really easy to edit the text. It doesn’t necessarily space perfectly, but it’s good enough for just a quick live video. Or I guess, technically, they’re pre-recorded but if I record my face and then put it up within five minutes of me talking, that’s practically as good as going live in my opinion.

So, anyway, that’s the second video editing app that I use is Clipomatic. And then the final video-editing app that I use, and I think I started using this one before I discovered Magisto, is called Add Music. And I really like Add Music because, again, it’s simple to use. I love things that are just really easy and don’t take… I mean, okay. Don’t judge me. I know how to work hard for things in life too. But when it comes to apps and getting things ready to publish for digital and social media marketing, I, of course, like I think anyone would, like things that are really simple and don’t take a long time to figure out how to use them.

So with Add Music you just upload a video clip, and you can pick from their royalty-free music options. I believe they have a paid version of that app as well. And I don’t think I have the paid version or if I paid for it, it was like a one-time fee. But anyway, I was gonna say I don’t think they have that huge of a range or variety of their royalty-free music and that’s why I was saying I’m not sure if they have a better variety if you pay for a different or an upgraded version of the app or something like that, but… But anyway, that’s not… That’s never really been a problem for me. I actually like the selections that they offer, and so I will use the Add Music app if I have a clip of my dance classes and maybe I don’t necessarily feel like the music that was playing is the best representation of my program, my business. Maybe it’s spring time and I want to make a little video that kind of makes you feel springy and happy and connects you to the season of growth and blossoming and that sort of stuff. And yes, these are the things that I think about when I’m editing videos for my dance business.

But anyway, even though, again, the selection of music is not that big from what I remember–I haven’t used it in a couple of months–but I think that it works fine for my business because they’re just quick clips and I don’t use this app,every single day. I’d say at most, I use it like once a month for videos, maybe more than that, but just fairly infrequently. And so what I’m saying is if I am using the same songs ’cause I think I do use the same songs on that app, the same four or five songs, they’re getting rotated enough so that I think my audience for my dance business is not getting bored with the sound of the audio clips and using… Okay, so I’m gonna run through them one more time. There are only three this time, so super short. But again, Magisto, Clipomatic and Add Music. Those are my top three favorite video editing apps for my dance education business.

Okay guys, so I think that’s it for today. Thank you so much for listening to Episode 6 of The Happy Dance Podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, please go over to Apple Podcasts and give me a five-star reading and a review. I would love it so much and be so very grateful and appreciative.

I, of course, want to leave you with a few words on how you can continue to cultivate that life of happiness and keep doing a happy dance in your own life. And this is something that I am going to be applying for myself as well, as always. But I’m just gonna say the next time that you’re feeling down in the dumps, or overwhelmed with things that are going on in life, remember that you can always practice gratitude, even if it’s for the smallest things. For example, yesterday I lost my keys for over an hour. So today, I’m grateful that I have known where my keys are every moment of this day, but there have been days where maybe I didn’t feel like getting out of the house or something and then someone smiles and asks me how I’m doing, and so that’s something that you could practice gratitude for, or that would be something that I’ve practiced gratitude for in the past. So that is my little tip on how you can keep doing a happy dance in your own life.

Alright, I will catch you all next time.

Bye!