Video week day 2; video tutorials

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This video answers the most popular question (by far) that I get about my videos, how I do my video guided tutorials. You may laugh when you see how easy it is with my pieced-together, DIY solution. But hey, it works.

This has a number of other implementations that you may find useful for your business including, but not limited to:

• Distance learning
  
• Guided software tutorials
  
• Archived presentations
  
• Recorded FAQ responses
  

Previous topics:

• Monday: equipment and software
  

Upcoming topics include:

• Wednesday: How I edit and produce the final product
  
• Thursday: How and where I distribute the videos
  
• Friday: Reader questions
  

And remember, on Friday I will answer any questions that you have. To stay in the theme of the week it would be excellent if you provided your questions in video (either on Facebook or on YouTube) and I will edit them in. I will, as always, accept any questions you have by email or by commenting on this post.

So start thinking and let me know what's on your mind. I can't wait to hear from you!

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Comments

[Mario Vellandi]

Hi Matt,
Interesting workaround you're using. I never thought of using HD for output - but your use made me think that I could encode with a decent bitrate in flash, then when resizing down in the browser for embedding, there's more fidelity than standard def...even though pixels are lost either way.

Oh, and it's Captivate by Adobe, Camtasia by TechSmith.
Keep up the great work

[Matt Dickman]

Thanks Mario. I personally like the 16:9 aspect ratio.

[Travis]

This was a well done series. I started out with #4 and then worked back to this one.

The picture in picture tips are useful for creating some of the stuff in this legendary "The Web Site is Down" You Tube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcQ7RkyBoBc). When I first saw this thing, I silently pledged to one day make a marketing-related video that's half as funny as this one. Some of the techniques you've described answered some of the questions I had. Thanks.

[Travis]

Apologies ... here's the correct link to the referenced video, which I would highly recommend as creative inspiration to any marketing person tasked with making a compelling video for web (or just kicking back and laughing for a few): http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/