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Hey everyone, welcome to EdTechHustle. My name is Rich and today we're going to learn how to
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create a better slideshow using Canva's Beat Sync feature. So here's an example of a slideshow that
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I put together with a number of different images from students. Now what I want to do is to add
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music underneath. In this case, I'm going to, I uploaded an audio track and I'm just going to
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click on that audio track to put as the soundtrack to my slideshow. Now something you may also
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consider doing is clicking the audio tab inside Canva and selecting a number of different tracks
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that are made available for you as a creator. Just one thing that you may want to keep in mind is if
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you have a YouTube channel and you're looking to monetize that video, sometimes these don't
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make it through the checks. You won't get a copyright strike, but many times you'll receive
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a notification, which makes it impossible for you to monetize. The creator of the song is the one
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who is able to monetize from your video. So just something to keep in mind. So if I play this just
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a little bit, you will notice that each of the tracks play for about five seconds each. They
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don't really change based on the music. And if you're trying to create a really good engaging
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slideshow, you'll want your images and your media to change based on the different changes in the
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music or the different beats. Now you can do that by kind of listening and sort of adjusting each
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individual clip, or you can do what I'm going to show you now. And that is a new feature in Canva
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released last fall, and that is called Beat Sync. So I'm just going to select my audio track
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I'm going to navigate to the top of the page and I'm going to select Beat Sync
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and I'm going to turn on the feature that says Sync Now. You can see what it says. Your pages
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and elements will be automatically timed to the music. So here we go. Now it says everything is
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synced to the beat. Now five seconds was a pretty good length for each one of these individual pages
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It doesn't look like it changed by that much, about two tenths of a second or so. So I'm going
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to go ahead and play this. So it automatically timed those images to the song. If I chose a
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different song, it would probably adjust each one of those to a different length. Now, if I listen
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to that song again, and there's a certain part that I want to have each of the images changed to
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you'll notice at the bottom here, these are beat markers. These are the different beats
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of the song. So if I wanted to change my images at every, let's say every one of these third beats
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here, I can just kind of take my slide, manually adjust it, sort of like that. Do the same thing
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over here, change this right around here. And let's even take this one here. Okay. Let's go
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to the beginning. Here we go. Right here. So just a really quick feature that takes literally a
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second to turn that beat sync feature on. And I feel that this will make your slideshows more
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engaging and more fun for your audience to watch. Thank you so much for watching this video. If you
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have any questions, leave them in the comments section below
