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“It’s Like Writing a Play:” Make Screencasts Painless with Storyboards, Scripts

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Screencasting is daunting—it’s no secret. The time and energy it takes to record, edit and publish high-quality videos is often much longer than the end product. This tends to lead to hours of frustration, eventually pushing us away from our video project and toward cat videos on YouTube. It’s a lot like writing a play.”.

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7 Mistakes Video Creators Should Avoid

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If your videos aren’t meeting your expectations, or you’re struggling with the video production process, you may be making one (or more) of these common mistakes made by video creators. There are seven common mistakes or traps that video creators often fall into. Not getting to know your video recording equipment.

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Making Engaging Video

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Is there a silver bullet for making engaging video? Think about a video that’s really captivated you before. What was it about the video that made you not want to look away? There are many techniques video creators use to make their videos engaging. Making engaging video relevant and interesting.

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How to Create an Employee Training Video: A Beginner’s Guide

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Professional trainers likely know all about making employee training videos, but what if you’re not a training pro? While you may not consider yourself a trainer, knowing how to create instructional videos can help you teach, train, and explain whatever you need to share easily and efficiently. Employee training videos work better.

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Voice-over videos for eLearning: A step-by-step guide

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What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the phrase “ voice-over video? ”. Voice-over is an extremely versatile type of video and can be used on anything from movie trailers to college lectures to, of course, corporate training. Using video for learning is very popular nowadays. Inspirational/introductory videos.

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Crafting a Good Story for Your Product Video (free ebook)

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Guest post by German video producer and author Andreas Zeitler. I started with a long history of screencasting. I discovered over the years, that in education as well as in advertisements, screencasts are just not good enough on their own. I recommend using mind maps to write down all ideas belonging to a project.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Creating Instructional Videos with Jonathan Halls

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So, you want to start creating instructional videos…but where exactly do you start? Instructional videos come in many different forms, meaning there’s a style that suits almost every creator (and learner!). For video creators, this is great news. His tip is to set an objective at the very beginning of the video.