Tuesday, June 11, 2013

The challenge of making tutorial videos

I have finally, after a couple months of fiddling, made my first tutorial video.  It's a starting point for a series I have planned for a veteran point of view on how to play Dominions 3.  I started with some less than cooperative software and the foolish idea of doing my voice and the screen capture at the same time.  That is ineffective.  Instead what I found worked was talking while making the screen capture.  Then going back and recording my commentary.  I used the program EZVid which worked very well.  It's not full of features but it's quick and tidy.  I'm no expert so why work with stuff with more than I require.  Pretender Design Spectacle

I may also do some video of the operation of the digger.  I won't do the construction since my shop is still a nightmare and not a quality background.  When it's clean I'll do videos.  That noted, the first digger is built.  It works very well but there are definitely some adjustments to be made in the design.