Their essential workflow is counterintuitive: Record the audio first, then record video using the audio track as a voiceover, then merge the two and add post-production features. They use their products to make a lot of high-quality tutorial videos for those products, and they taught their own creation process to us participants. I learned the basic core of this workflow in 2012, at an unconference held at the Okemos, Michigan headquarters of Techsmith, the developers of Camtasia and SnagIt. Since summer is a great time to build video content for Fall, I'd thought I'd share it here. After 10+ years, I think I have a system that produces a good end product without taking tons of time. I've recently started making video content again and it's given me the chance to revisit and tweak my own workflow. Doing it well requires time, planning and attention to detail, and - most importantly - a firm grasp of your tools and an optimized workflow for using them. You don't just press "record" and lecture to a PowerPoint deck. So I've logged many, many hours making videos, and I've learned what many faculty discovered during the pandemic when we all realized the importance of video in teaching: Making a decent video is hard work. Then in 2012, I went big and created a playlist of 107 videos for our introduction to proofs course, then a year later collaborated to make a playlist of 92 videos for Calculus. Students liked these, so I branched out and made videos for calculus and linear algebra too. My first were for the scientific computing course that was also my first attempt at flipped learning. I've been making screencasts for over a decade.
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