Create a Video Tutorial

Creating a good video tutorial requires a bit more than plugging in your microphone and recording everything that is happening on your computer screen. It is not an overly complicated process though and requires you to follow only a few basic steps:




Write a script for the video tutorial: you need to know in advance what your tutorial is going to cover and the features and steps that you are going to explain. Take the time to put this in writing, read your script a few times, print it out, and keep it on your desktop while recording the video tutorial.

Unless your video tutorial is very basic and short, you are going to need an audio as well: you can record a voiceover for your video tutorial while recording the video itself or you can record the audio separately and later on merge it with the video. In either case, you need a good quality microphone and quiet environment. When recording your own voice, make sure to speak in clear and intelligible manner and do not worry if you make a few mistakes - with the help of audio editing software, you can easily cut off some parts and edit your audio file.

Recording the actual video tutorial: you can record anything that happens on your computer screen with the help of a camcorder or digital camera, DVD recorder or VCR, or screen recording software. The last option is the one that is likely to give you the best result as the screen recording programs not only produce clear video, but often come with basic edition functions and would allow you to polish your video tutorial, make a few minor changes, and even add annotations. Commonly used screen-recording software such as AviScreen, Copernicus, CamStudio, and Camtasia could be used for creating a high quality video tutorial and all these applications are either free or offer free trials.

Finalizing the video tutorial - this is the stage, where you put it all together. Merge the audio and the video, edit the parts that did not come out as expected, add a short intro if you have to, and save the result in a video file format that is suitable for online use. Even though the FLV is the format that most users choose, MP4 and F4V are two other high quality, compressed file formats that are perfect for the web.

Publish your tutorial - you can either host the video tutorial on your own server or upload it to one of the large video sharing websites and then embed the video in your own sites, forums, and blogs. Each option has its pros and cons and while the former gives you greater flexibility, the latter will inevitably save you the bandwidth costs.

Video tutorials are slowly, but surely replacing the printed tutorials as more and more users are much more inclined to watch and listen to a few minutes long tutorial rather than read a ten-page e-book.


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