My top tools for creating wrap videos

It’s the end of the year and while I love to wrap my year, my favourite thing to wrap is actually a change! Wrap videos are one of my favourite things to do for a change. I'll often actually create a wrap video just for the project. It isn't designed to really go further, but sometimes it might. I really like celebrating, recognising and appreciating for the project, just the sheer amount of effort and work that's gone into it. And so doing a wrap video - taking bits and pieces elements that you created, your footage that you've gotten along the way of things that you've done, or workshops that were run or training that was delivered or launches that happened, piecing them all together into a video, and then adding music behind it. And you don't even need to have anybody speaking in the video. You can just have the footage and just have music, and just keep it a short, sharp, 2-3 minute video. It's a lovely way to play back the experience, especially for the people who are involved in the change. 

So here’s my top tools for creating wrap videos:

iMovie

If you have a Mac, iMovie is super simple. Really it's just drag and drop and you can just export it to an MP4 and you can choose the resolution that you want. iMovie does take up a lot of storage on your computer because the project of iMovie is storing all of the digital video files that you insert into it. Any music that you insert into it or photos or screenshots, it's saving them in the project. Even when you export the video! Say you've got a video that's five minutes long and in your final video that you actually export, you only used 30 seconds of it. The project of iMovie has kept that five minute file behind it. Just be mindful of it. Computers today often have more storage space, but it has tripped me up in the past because iMovie can very quickly eat up storage on your computer. 

Microsoft apps

Microsoft because they change their software all the time so look for the current video editing software. You can google “Microsoft video editing”, as they have something similar to iMovie i.e. Microsoft Video Editor, Microsoft Click, ClipChamp.

Canva

Canva is probably my favourite online tool and is cloud-based. That's a win, right? You can log into it from your work computer, you can log into it from your home computer. There's some free stock footage and music audio in Canva. If you've taken footage like photos and videos all the way through your change or maybe you're rolling out a new system and you've got screen capture, then you can upload that into Canva and use that in your video. Canva doesn’t provide as many editing features as iMovie so it’s not as easy to overlay text but there’s tons of other features and AI now. I pay for Canva Pro because I use it for my business. I really love it. 

WeVideo

I used WeVideo several years ago when I was working in Change Management, and I just paid for it myself. I often wouldn't go through the process of trying to get approval internally because I wanted to be able to have access to that thing ongoing afterwards. If it's a $50 a year license, I just pay for it myself. And then when I didn't need it anymore, I’d just cancel it and all my stuff is still there and I can still access it when I’m not using my work email address. Remember in Change in projects, you'll move on from projects and you'll move on from organisations potentially. I loved WeVideo because they had amazing motion graphics i.e. when a word will splash out at you. Whereas even iMovie doesn't really have motion graphics, but WeVideo had amazing motion graphics. You can do a bit with the free version, but there will usually be a little WeVideo icon on it. And so I just paid for it to get rid of that icon. WeVideo had amazing music already loaded into it, too. It was actually a great platform. The problem that I found with WeVideo was when you wanted to upload files, it would take forever getting it onto the cloud. I’m sure they've fixed this because it was several years ago that I used it.

Final Cut Pro

When I was studying at university, we used Final Cut Pro. That's the industry standard, Final Cut Pro is what television and film use to edit video. And that's what I learned on - the best of the best. But these other simpler video editing options are so handy. 

Google Vids

I’ve not used this yet but it’s a new feature so I’ll likely dabble in the AI and easy-edit features to see if it’s any good and let my LSC students know what I find!

How to edit videos

The way that all video software works or all video editing works is that you have a stream of video and then underneath it often you'll put the voiceover or the music and then over the top of it you'll put text. That's the general idea of all video, every video software, you've got this timeline down the bottom where you put your clips and then underneath that you'd put your music or your voiceover. In iMovie for example, you can add two audio tracks or more but Canva's a good place to just start to test it out and to practice and just learn. Because everything's built in and there's lots of free assets as well.

I share and show how to develop and edit your wrap video in my Leading Successful Change program, so if you’re wanting to create a wrap video for a change, join the program and learn how. But if you just want to wrap your year, as with Change Management, it’s so important to reflect on our own career, leadership and life journeys. That’s why I’ve pulled together my free 2025 Reflection Journal and it’s ready for you to download and complete as an awesome way to wrap up your year.

>> Download my free 2025 Reflection Journal here

Lata xx