Comments on: How I Create Video Tutorials

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:28:27 +0000

It depends where you embedding the videos. If you’re uploading to youtube, choose an mp4 output and record in 1280×720 dimensions. If you’re embedding on a web page, either mp4 or swf will work. My preference is the Express Show MP4 format because it looks cool. Stay away from AVI and WMV formats. Those formats don’t progressively download.

By: Juergen

Juergen — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:45:22 +0000

Hi Tom,

thank you for this interesstring introduction.

I have just a question about the codec: I don’t know whats the best output format for tutorial-videos is? Is it better to export tutorials in quicktime format, avi or swf? Any other suggestions?

Greetings!

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By: Sameul Dass

Sameul Dass — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:51:21 +0000

Here is how I did it. It is very similar to what author has described.

http://blog.officeclip.com/post/2009/08/05/Creating-effective-presentation-using-Camtasia.aspx

By: nexus

nexus — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:54:31 +0000

Yeah your way of making the presentation is so perfect but which is not upto what we expect…….. we expect more from you.

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:58:59 +0000

Daniel, I would read through Camtasia’s help for creating a CD or DVD with the software. I believe that when you produce a video, there’s an option to package it on a CD, but I’m not sure. Techsmith’s support forums are really useful, if you don’t find an answer elsewhere.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:07:29 +0000

I read through your post and I am really impressed with the content and one thing what if I want to make the topics in the tutorial have links to each other and finally get it ripped/burn to a conpact disc or dvd can camtasia studio do it o is their anyother software you can suggest.

Thanks

Regards

By: mito

mito — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:31:39 +0000

hi!
i want to know how do you RESIZE the capture window dynamicaly, during the presentation itself, without pausing or external editing later
sometimes on video tutiorials you see how they zoom in a specific region
how do you do this?
it is possible using snagt it by techsmith or do i need Camtasia

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:05:00 +0000

Can you explain how to record these three at the same time:

1.) Your voice
2.) The computer screen
3.) Your computer’s sound output

For instance, this guy recorded him doing some stuff in a sound program called Ableton Live. He’s able to talk into the mic, make Ableton Live produce sounds and his recording setup captures it all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gbl8bY7CDM

I know how to make regular screen recordings with things like Camtasia which records 1 and 2. However I can’t find a program that will record Reason or Live’s sound output along with the microphone input. Do you know how to do that?

Thanks!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:28:32 +0000

@ Rick, Thanks for the tip and the comparison to Hollywood movies. It always amazes me how they’re able to record the movie and later sync up the audio like that. Since writing this post, I have been experimenting more with methods more similar to this. Thanks again for commenting.