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Find out how Loom's new AI tool can revolutionize your video editing experience! đ
Published September 4, 2023 · 1,039 views on YouTube
Key takeaways
- Loom AI automatically generates chapters and a summary for a recorded video, so you don't need to run a transcript through a separate tool to get a written summary.
- The tool can automatically remove filler words (like 'um' and 'ah') and stretches of silence to tighten a recording.
- You can add buttons with text and links at specific points in a video for calls to action.
- Editing is done by splitting the video timeline, deleting unwanted sections, inserting clips from your Loom library, and using undo/revert if you make a mistake.
- Loom AI also lets you add timestamped task suggestions inside a video, useful for instructional or hands-on tutorial content.
What does Loomâs new AI tool do?
Loom launched an AI feature (referred to in the video as âAI mode 2â) that is now available to everyone on the Creator plan for around five dollars. It adds automatic title and chapter transcription, a generated summary, filler-word and silence removal, in-video buttons, and simple clip-based editing, all built directly into the Loom platform.
How do Loom AI chapters and summaries work?
Loom AI automatically breaks a recording into chapters and generates a summary of the video. In the video, the chapters mark different stages of a recipe demonstration, and clicking a chapter jumps you to that section. Because the summary is generated inside Loom, thereâs no need to export a transcript and run it through a separate tool like ChatGPT to get a written summary.
How does Loom remove filler words and silence?
One of the features highlighted is the automatic removal of filler words, described in the video as roughly 25% of a recordingâs ums, ahs, and similar words, along with seconds of dead silence. This is meant to save editing time and tighten up a recording without manual trimming.
How do you edit and trim video inside Loom?
Editing inside Loom is done directly on the timeline:
- Split the video at a point you want to cut by moving the playhead and splitting.
- Split again at the end of the section you want removed, then delete (backspace) that segment.
- Insert additional clips from your Loom library into the timeline where needed.
- Use Ctrl+Z to undo a split or edit if you change your mind.
- Revert to the original video or cancel changes entirely if you want to back out of your edits.
The video also shows Loom AI adding task suggestions at specific timestamps, such as a prompt to âadd a blog post with more insightsâ at the 20-minute mark, which is useful for instructional videos or hands-on exercises where you want viewers to complete a step at a certain point.
How do you get started with Loom?
According to the video, you can go to janaeuniversity.com/loom to get started with a Loom account if you donât already have one, which the presenter says takes about a minute to set up. He also recommends installing Loomâs Chrome browser extension so you can record video anytime while browsing, in addition to using the Loom desktop app.
Full video transcript
Whatâs going on guys, Darby here from Gen AI University, and today weâre going to mess around and find out with Loomâs new AI tool, which you can see here in my screen. Loom just launched AI mode 2, now available for everyone, something like five bucks per creator on the plan, so extremely affordable and really cool. So Iâll show you how Iâve been using it to edit this video.
Their title transcription sort of thing is really on point. I mean, it just needs a little slight editing here and there. One thing I really like is the summary and the chapters as generated by Loom AI. So in the chapters, you can go and zoom into these different sections. Weâre finding a recipe, creating micro content animations, different stages of this recipe. Itâll jump you back and forth to them and show you, and of course you can start to generate the content from there.
Now, one other thing I think is really handy with this tool in particular is the 25% of the filler words being removed, and the seconds of silence, just to save everyone time and a lot of unnecessary ums and ahs and that sort of thing.
So some of the bigger features when it comes to the Loom AI, and I really do like the chapters and the summary, because it just makes it that much easier and you donât need to go and now run a transcript through, like, ChatGPT and ask it to write you a summary. Itâs just done right here with Loomâs AI built into it, so you donât even have to leave Loom for that editing side of things.
And then also, the ability inside of Loom which I like is one of the capabilities is being able to add buttons with buttons and text, so we could add calls to action or link specific links at specific parts of a video, which is always handy.
And so the trimming is really easy to edit videos. So letâs just say if I wanted to edit out a few minute portion where Iâm just running and giving an example, I see here, if I move my head, you can split the video. I can go back, split the video, and then just simply backspace and delete a certain section. You can also insert videos and add clips here. So if I have a clip in my Loom library and I say I want to add this clip over here, I would just add that clip in and then edit the video accordingly.
Well, right now, if I say I didnât want to add a video or I didnât want to edit that clip out, all I would do is I would just Ctrl+Z or simply undo that split, and itâs going to put everything back in its rightful place. Then I can also go back, revert to the original, or cancel things out if I made a mistake or just wanted to back out of the progress I had made. All in all, super easy, even easier now than it was before to film short quick instructional videos, demonstrations, you know, any kind of video really, inside of Loom, and then you can seamlessly add in additional clips and edit your videos there, as well as the chapters and the summary out of those videos, removing the filler words and the silence, super handy.
Then one other key thing here was the suggestions that I forgot to mention. You can add these tasks that Loom is automatically doing in here. As you can see, you see some comments, but I added a task in, and letâs just say at a 20 minute mark, âadd a blog post with more insights.â If someone were to be going through here and doing this as a work-along, I could add these tasks in to different sections of the video so that people knew that there was something, a specific process, so especially for like instructional videos and tutorials, we want to do hands-on exercises inside of a video, I think itâs really cool with Loom AI.
Now itâs all inside of the Loom platform, and it gives you a lot of powerful, simple to use tools at your disposal. So check it out, go to janaeuniversity.com/loom to get started with Loom if you donât have an account already. Itâs just a minute to get signed up and get ready, and Iâd recommend adding their Chrome extension browser on so you can just record video anytime youâre in your browser, have the desktop app as well that you can use, and start using it with Loom to create.
So hope you find that helpful, and go ahead and subscribe to Gen AI University on our YouTube channel for more videos like this. Until next time, keep calming AI on.