Screen videos are used for tutorials or sharing any type of information. Come practice skills that everyone should use before creating a screen recording. Discussion will include concepts of how to create great videos through the editing process and how to choose the file format right for you.

1. Screen Video: Best Practices
Regardless of the tool
Matt Pierce
@piercemr

2. The rise of video
Graph taken from http://www.reelseo.com/video-good-news-ooyala-2012/

3. PRE-VIDEO PRODUCTION

4. What to record?

5. Remember these?

6. What’s the story(board)?

7. To Script or Not to Script…

8. How loooooooonnnng?

9. How it really looks

10. The Key to Good Audio

11. Noise pollution

12. I hate the sound of my voice

13. One reason for boring video
• The reason a lot of people are bored in presentations, but also in video, is that slides
like this exist. You might think to yourself that there is a lot of information that needs to
be conveyed and it’s important information so why not add it to a slide so nothing gets
missed. Well, if you have a slide that looks like this you’re going to have a bad time. No
seriously. No one wants to hear me read this slide and also look at it on the screen.
• I’m putting another bullet point to give you the second idea for boring video, which is
information that isn’t concise. Think about it for a second, if I can show and tell you
what you need, do you really need this text. This is probably not, nor should it be, a
legal document that binds me to some strict obligations. You don’t want your video to
be like the pharmaceutical ads where they get to the potential side effects and they
have sped up the reading. Although if you want that effect, it’s pretty easy to do.
• Isn’t this great. We should hang out more often. I’m really hoping you like my
presentation. Don’t forget to fill out your evaluation forms at the end of the session. I’m
not above petty bribery for good marks. Oh, and while we’re at it, you might as well
follow me on twitter: @piercemr I’d love to have more dialogue and discuss in short
phrases ideas for better visuals and graphics. If you’ve gotten this far, wow. You should
teach a speed reading course. Or you skipped all the middle stuff.

15. Before You Record

16. RECORDING & EDITING

18. What are you showing?

19. Better?

20. Editing

21. Don’t Text, Talk and Show

22. Music or not?

23. Cursors
Click Here

24. Transitions

25. B-roll

27. Questions & contact info
Matt Pierce
m.pierce@techsmith.com
TW: @piercemr