On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 6/15/12 3:09 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> My first attempt making a video with Camtasia. Hopefully this will be >> useful to someone starting to use the CMS for the first time: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcDZN3Lu6HA >> > > well done, I love short video tutorials ;-) with a good fresh coffee at > hand. > > Maybe you can share some more experience how you create it, what steps > are necessary to trim the video etc. >
This was done with a 30-day trial version of Camtasia Studio: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html It works like a screen capture tool: You define what area of the screen you want to record, what audio device to capture, etc. After recording it has a simple editor to insert titles, transitions, remove unnecessary pauses, etc. Finally, it takes the project, encodes it as WMV and automatically uploads it to YouTube. There is a lot more depth to the Camtasia features -- I only scratched the surface -- but you can get a lot done with just the basic features. Other than that, the idea is the same as any tutorial, whether given live, printed, video, podcast, whatever. Have a clear idea of what you want the user to take away, and break it down into clear steps. > I can think of many more such short video tutorials describing features > in the office. > > For example many users don't know the concept of styles. So how about a > short video explaining style and to create and use one. Or edit/change > an existing one... > Another idea would be a set of short videos examining each of the new features in AOO 3.4. > Many many short videos of the same "style", means common intro page > pointing to our project + content video + common finish with further > info regarding the project or something like that. > Maybe also a common place on Youtube for these. Right now the videos are just in my personal account. But it would be better, think, if we had an AOO-branded account where such things could live. This would make it easier for the users to find. Or maybe the way to do this is via common tagging? > It's perfect promotion for our project in several ways. We provide > useful tutorials that help our users, we show how easy it can be to join > the project and do something useful, we do some good marketing for our > project in general... > > > Juergen > >
