How To Upload A Video To Flipgrid

In Flipgrid, you tin cull to create a video equally role of the prompt for a Topic, as a starter discussion for a Topic, or equally a video annotate on some other discussion. Each of these options brings you to the same recorder interface, with the following potential options (some may have been limited or disabled from the Topic setup).

Master dashboard buttons

The main recording dashboard has four buttons, two of which open farther menus.

Screen capture of Fipgrid record dashboard

Record push button

Once yous are ready to record, this large red push button will start a three second countdown to begin recording your video.

Flip

If you take multiple cameras available to Flipgrid, the Flip button will bicycle through the options and let you alter your video input. This can exist done both before and during your recording session.

Options

Screen capture of Flipgrid Options menu

The Options push button opens upwards and boosted carte du jour above the chief menu with 5 options:

Upload prune - As an alternative to recording a video within Flipgrid, or as an addition to a recorded clip as a subsequent video, users tin can upload a pre-recorded video. Flipgrid allows videos in the post-obit formats: .mov, .mp4, .webm. Clicking on the button opens upwardly a window where you can drag and driblet a file, or click on the window to open a file dialog to choose the file from your computer or device.
Mic only - Flipgrid now supports recording voice only with this button. Selecting Mic only volition display a pulsing microphone icon on a blank screen and record audio but. (Currently non working on iOS - records screen anyway.)
Mirror video - If you need to flip the video so that right is left and vice-versa, this button will change the video (note, "normal" style shows text correctly, mirrored volition testify it backwards).
Mute - Allows users to record video only without sound.
Tape screen - On a calculator (not from mobile), you tin can record your screen with a voiceover. Afterwards clicking the Record screen push, you tin choose from Your Unabridged Screen, an Application Window, or a browser tab (Chrome, Safari, Edge, etc.).
- If Your Entire Screen is called, the small motion-picture show-in-motion picture window with the photographic camera video that appears on the screen volition be recorded. This window tin be turned off by clicking on it, or it can exist resized and repositioned anywhere on the screen earlier or after recording is initiated
- Annotation: If Application Window or browser tab are chosen, you may not capture everything you desire. Capturing a browser tab will record that tab only, and no bill of fare drop downs or controls from the browser itself, or any pop-up windows the tab creates.Choosing an Application Window will capture carte du jour choices or multiple tabs, simply any card or popular-upwards window or dialog box that appears or goes across the borders of the awarding window will be truncated and not shown.

Effects

Screen capture of Flipgrid Effects menu

The Effects menu besides appears in a higher place the master menu and provides a number of means to enhance the video. These effects tin can be turned on before or during recording and tin can also exist diasabled for students in the setup of the Topic.

Filters - Allows the user to choose from several camera filters including black and white, pixelated, rainbow, etc.
Frames - Overlays various frames onto the video for interest
Emojis - Provides the user a window to search for various emojis that tin be added to the screen and can exist moved, resized, copied and rotated.
Text - The text menu has 8 different font styles that users can apply to the screen. Later on typing in text, a user can resize, rotate, move and re-create it. It is as well possible to change the colors of the font text, outline and background.
Draw - The drawing tool provides a choice of colors and thickness. Afterwards drawing on the screen with the mouse or via touchscreen, clear, redo and disengage buttons appear on the left side of the screen.
Lath - The Lath icon opens up a carte with a choice of several backgrounds including, white, chalk, graphing, notebook, blackness,and gradient backgrounds. Underneath the background choices is a slider that allowsthe user to select the portion of the screen occupied by the video and lath, ranging from video but to board only.
Photograph - This push button provides a window for the user to drag and drop an image onto, or to click to choose a photo to place in the viewing area. Using the undo and redo buttons, the user can finer hide and unhide an image.

Additional main screen buttons

Screen capture of Flipgrid notes icons

Two more buttons in the upper left corner of the master screen can be used to aid the user when recording their video.

Topic job - The top button opens upwardly a pocket-sized window with the video prompt, to remind the user what the task for the Topic is.
Viscid annotation - The 2d button opens up a sticky note in which a user tin can type notes that are viewable but to them as they record - they are not added to the concluding video. Multiple sticky notes can exist opened by repeatedly clicking the icon. This option tin can be disabled in the Topic settings.

Recording the video

Screen capture of Flipgrid record buttons

Once all settings for the recording have been set, clicking on the ruby-red record push button initiates a three-second inaugural to the beginning of the recording. While recording, all of the chief screen buttons and menus are agile. The record push button changes to a pause button, and two boosted buttons announced:

Interruption - Recording can exist paused and restarted multiple times, and the resulting video will evidence every bit one continuous recording.
Redo - On the lower left of the screen, a red Redo button appears. Clicking this button volition end the recording, erase the video recorded up to that bespeak and render to the chief tape screen.
Next - On the lower correct of the screen, a dark-green Adjacent button appears. Clicking this button volition automatically stop whatever recording in progress and motion to the edit screen.

Editing the video

Screen capture of Flipgrid edit menu

When recording of a video clip is finished, the Next push button will accept the user to the editing screen, where the video will automatically be played on repeat for review. There are four options on this page:

Add together more than icon - On the left of the screen, a cherry photographic camera icon with the text Add together more will render to the user to the recording screen to capture an additional clip that volition be added to the end of the current one. A user tin as well choose to render to the main recording screen and upload/insert a pre-recorded video.
Next icon - On the right side of the screen, a dark-green arrow with the text Adjacent will take to the user to the terminal screen in the recording procedure.
Play/suspension - At the left side of the clip film strip is the command push button for the clip playback. The clip will automatically start upon landing on the edit screen. Clicking on the pause symbol will cease the video and change it to a play symbol. Clicking on play will do the reverse.
Edit the prune - Clicking on the motion picture strip of the clip itself will reveal blue bars at the offset and end of the clip. These bars tin can be slid up and down to prune the start and finish of the video. Additionally, a Delete Prune trash can icon will appear below allowing the user to discard the entire clip. Information technology is non possible to remove a section from the heart of a prune. Clicking Confirm will return the user to the master edit controls and play the clip.

Scree capture of Flipgrid editing menu

Finalizing the video

One time the video has been recorded and edited, you lot are presented with a final screen to tag and submit your video. Your default proper noun volition be shown for editing nether Display proper noun and ii additional fields let y'all to add an optional link and title to the video. There are as well iv options for providing a thumbnail for the video:

Screen capture of Flipgrid thumbnail creation menu

Select frame - This opens upward the video and allows you to cull a frame from the video equally the thumbnail.
Take selfie - The selfie button opens up the camera to take (and tag with effects, if allowed) a still as the thumbnail.
Upload photograph - You may also upload an image from your estimator or device equally the thumbnail display.
Add nametag - The nametag option opens up the text menu, allowing for a text style to exist practical to the text in the Brandish name field to serve as the thumbnail.

When students have submitted their video, they will be presented with the options (if allowed in the settings) to download their video, selfie or QR code, and are presented with the link to share the video. It is important for students to know that this is the one opportunity they will exist given to download the video, as they cannot download it from the viewing screen..