HOWTO Screencast
1. Think about what you want to do.
2. Write it down.
3. Practice many times.
4. Revise so that it makes sense.
5. Take the dog for a long, long walk. Or drive into town and buy a rib roast.
6. Try a final take.
7. Find a mistake.
8. Go to step 5. Or better yet, go to step 4.
Do not, I repeat DO NOT try to do a final take right after finding a mistake in one you just did. It will not work. Trust me.
Oh - almost forgot: you might want to have a glass of wine before 6. - but then don't drive into town for the rib roast.
2. Write it down.
3. Practice many times.
4. Revise so that it makes sense.
5. Take the dog for a long, long walk. Or drive into town and buy a rib roast.
6. Try a final take.
7. Find a mistake.
8. Go to step 5. Or better yet, go to step 4.
Do not, I repeat DO NOT try to do a final take right after finding a mistake in one you just did. It will not work. Trust me.
Oh - almost forgot: you might want to have a glass of wine before 6. - but then don't drive into town for the rib roast.
posted by Chris Ritke @ 8:16 PM
1 Comments:
At Tuesday, August 22, 2006 12:38:00 PM,
Markus Sandy said…
Great post chris! Screencasting can be challanging and it helps to plan ahead.
Dave and I once had the pleasure of an iChat with Michael Verdi about screencasting. Man, I wish I had captured that! It was like a great talk show with a pro. I would pay for content like that!
Here are some more tips ...
* keep hand off the mouse so it won't jiggle if tracking pan is on (tip from michael verdi)
* always screencast something you are actually doing. for example, if you want to screencast a mashup or collaboration, than actually create a mashup or start a collaboration (tip from michael verdi)
* have a separate account with clean desktop setup for screencasting and use quick user switching to go between editing work and screen capture (ryanne hodson tip)
* don't smoke anything while recording audio (tip from charles hogan)
* check out the screencasts online site. he has an episode where he shows a "behind the scenes" view of how he makes his screencasts.
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