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What's the Most Efficient Way to Make How-To Videos?
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Article Overview: How great would it be if you could make a video of yourself actually doing a task you want to describe to someone? And better yet, wouldn’t it be even more awesome if you could record your voice at the same time, explaining exactly what you’re doing step by step? Discover the two best programs to use if your small business needs to make short how-to videos.
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What's the Most Efficient Way to Make How-To Videos?
Quick! Your client has just asked you to whip together some instructions that they can share with their co-workers describing how to do an online task, and you know for a fact that some of them are not very tech-savvy. Oh yeah, and they need it by the end of the day. Yikes! It could take hours to make up a document that is detailed enough to make sense to everyone and includes stuff like screen shots and links.
If you’ve ever needed to explain computer instructions to someone over the phone, via email, or in a written document you’ll know how valuable how-to videos can be. Especially if you find you have to explain the same thing to different people over and over again!
How great would it be if you could simply make a video of yourself actually doing the task you want to describe? And better yet, wouldn’t it be even more awesome if you could record your voice at the same time, explaining exactly what you’re doing step by step?
Your wish has been granted - Jing and Screencast to the rescue!
First let’s look at Jing - Jing is the program that actually does the recording of both the video and the simultaneous audio (it can also take still screenshots). Although the videos have to be less than five minutes long (unless you want to upgrade to a paid account) I find that this has not been an issue for me at all, and in fact it's an incentive to make me plan ahead and keep myself concise. Jing works on both PCs and Macs, and best of all it’s free! Free is always good. Just download it to your computer and you’re ready to roll.
Next let’s look at Screencast - Once you’ve recorded your videos Screencast is the place where you can store and organize them all, and where you can share them from. Screencast is completely online, no need to download anything, and it’s also free (yay again!) It works together with Jing in such a way that as soon as you’re done recording you can click a button and voila! It gets uploaded to your Screencast account. Once the videos are uploaded you can organize them into folders and then share individual videos and/or entire folders.
Jing and Screencast together are powerful tools for you to quickly and easily create how-to videos for your clients, and I highly recommend them both to anyone as a way to increase your business efficiency.
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