Professor’s Video Instructions

To make a great recording without wasting time, you should follow these steps to create each video:

Develop a well-thought-out script, review it many times, and then rehearse it until you are satisfied with the outcome.

Record your audio first by simply reading out loud your script. If you make a mistake during your reading, don't stop the recording, just pause and start from the beginning of the paragraph/sentence. You can cut the extra parts later when editing your audio. Also, make sure to use a good microphone. The built-in microphones are usually not good. Test the quality of your recorded audio before reading your whole script. Make sure that the volume is not too low and there is not much noise.

Export the recorded audio as an MPEG file so that later you can play the audio outside screen capturing software while capturing the screen.Clean up your desktop and practice how to show the different pieces that you want to show. Make sure that they all fit in the space provided by your software.

Start recording the screen without audio this time while playing the recorded audio in your mpeg file (using another player, of course). When you listen to your recorded audio, you must try to catch up by showing screens that are being mentioned in your recorded audio. If things get out of sync, stop the audio player, and continue capturing the screen to catch up with the audio. You can later use the edit facilities provided in your software to fix this.

Now put the audio and video together in your software and start editing it from the beginning. You may need to cut some audio/video, add extra space for audio/video to get sync again, etc.

Use Zoom, Annotate, Highlight Cursors & Clicks, Transit, and other effects at your disposal as may be necessary to improve the quality of your video, but avoid overdoing this and making it a distraction.