How to Create a Video Tutorial for Your Customers
Often, creating a video product can be labor intensive. But in this chapter, we will look at way you can produce a video product fast in order to have it ready for the market almost immediately; it is known as a video tutorial.
A video tutorial can be created in a very short amount of time (it can take as little as an hour to do). It can also be done on any topic you want. Not only are they are easy to make, but they can be fun as well.
Below, we provide you with a number of steps that you should follow in order to make a video tutorial product.
What you should first do is decide on what your video tutorial is going to be about. Say, for example, you want to show people how to use Microsoft Word. This is likely to be a very long tutorial. So the first thing you should do before making the whole tutorial is break it up into smaller tasks. So if you happen to be producing a more comprehensive product for your customers, you can provide them with lessons that then build on one another, until the whole topic has been covered.
You may decide that the first tutorial will be on the “Basic terminology of Word”, then you might do one on “How to Format a Paragraph” and a third one can be on “Insertion of Tables”.
So what you need to do next is outline each step, in detail, that you are going to work on through out each tutorial. But what you must remember is that the key to an effective tutorial is the detail contained within. So it’s important that you create your video tutorial with every little step in place, and never assume that your students (customers) know anything. By creating a clear step by step outline, this will keep you on track and will also help you avoid those steps which might be unclear.
Now you need to download a good software program that you can use for recording. One such program is Camtasia.
This allows you to create a film with audio and video of a section on your computer. This then allows you to make the video in to either a Flash video, mpeg or streaming video available from your website.
What you need to do now is turn off the phone (unplug it if you have to), go into a quiet room, or if not, tell everyone that you need quiet and need to be left alone. Then all you need to do is follow the instructions provided by your video recording software program (Camtasia) on your computer. Then all you need to do is record your video product and save it.
This unfortunately is an important part of any video product and is often overlooked. By having good quality written material to support your video product will change it from being a mediocre one to a great one instead.
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