What can I do with my videos?

Once you've put a video on a lesson, it isn't just a file sitting there. Bernard reads it - the picture and the words - and that turns one recording into a handful of things you can actually use. This page is the map; each one has its own how-to.

What you can do with a lesson video

Get captions and a searchable transcript, automatically. A few minutes after a video is ready, Bernard writes the captions and a running transcript - learners can switch captions on, and the transcript scrolls along as they watch. See Captions and transcripts, written for me.

Find any moment by asking. "Where do I talk about kiln safety?" - Bernard searches inside your own videos and tells you the lesson and roughly the minute. Learners get the same search on every lesson. See Where do I say that? Search inside my own lessons.

Break a long lesson into chapters. Markers at each new topic, so a learner can jump straight to the part they need. Bernard can suggest them from the transcript, or you set your own titles and start points. See Break a long lesson into chapters.

Cut a short clip to share. Point Bernard at a moment and get a short clip - vertical for reels and stories, square, or widescreen - with captions burned in, ready to download and post yourself. See Turn a lesson into a shareable clip.

Give the course a free trailer. A short, watch-this taster for the course's public page, cut from your own lessons and ending on a call-to-action card. See Give my course a trailer.

Make a whole film. Bigger than a clip: your own moments opening and closing around a screen recording or a product video, with a voiceover over the middle and text along the bottom. See Make a film from footage I already have. Point the same machinery at your customers' questions and you get an interview instead - see Make a question-and-answer video from my lessons.

Getting a video in, in the first place

All of the above starts from a video on a lesson. You can upload one straight in (Put my own video file into a lesson), bring one over from an Instagram reel (Turn an Instagram Reel into a course lesson), or move one across from YouTube (Use the videos already on my YouTube or Vimeo). An AUDIO lesson - a podcast, a talk, a voice memo - gets the captions, transcript, search and chapters from this list too; only the clip and trailer both need pictures. See Add an audio lesson - a podcast, a talk, a voice memo.

Where it earns its keep

One recording becomes a searchable, captioned, chaptered lesson and the raw material for a week of social clips and a trailer that sells the course - without you opening an editor. Ask Bernard for what you want; you approve what goes out.