Course Description

Available  for “In Person” training in the Metro Atlanta area OR “Live Webinar Training”  ANYWHERE via your desktop and screensharing software.

We develop YOUR video while you learn to use the features in Camtasia Studio. This training option is best suited for participants who want to learn through hands-on-training.

This is the most efficient way to develop your own tutorials and e-learning while learning the necessary skills to create professional quality training videos. We work through the course using your content or deliverable as part of the exercise. That way, after the course, you’ll already have some or all of your project complete.

If you do not have a particular project in mind, I will teach you how to create the following types of videos:

Full Course with Table of Contents

E-learning course with Table of Contents

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Marketing Video

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Software Demo a.k.a. Video Tutorial

 

 

Camtasia Training–$395

We’ll cover all these topics plus much more!

• Selecting your Recording preferences before you Record
• Microphone placement
• Microphone technique
• Understanding Screen and file sizes
• Purchasing a headset and/or microphone Webcam or mini video camera if needed
• Display settings
• Setting up your folder structure
• Recording an application or website
• Your Working Environment
• Understanding the Recorder Interface
• Editing and Enhancing Voiceover Recordings -Noise reduction,sound removal
  In Camtasia or Audacity- Audio Editor
• Understanding the Audio Editor Interface
• Setting up hotkeys
• Adding music from the Camtasia Library and fading it in and out
• Recording PowerPoint
• Preparation for recording
• Preparing your room, screen and browser for recording
• Screen Resolution
• How to record windows, applications or regions of your screen
• Insert captions (subtitles) to help your viewers who may be deaf or hard of hearing
• Use the speech to text feature new in Camtasia 7.1
• Learn to measure how effective your videos really are by using the Quiz and Survey feature
• Receive Quiz feedback by email or to your Learning Management System
• Add Title slides to signpost your video and help improve navigation
• Zoom & Pan to help your viewers get close to the detail
• Trim and cut unwanted video and audio
• Insert callouts to reinforce key learning points
• Hotspots to jump to external documents or to websites with additional information
• Outlines are treated as guides to help steer the session. We may change or alter course topics to best suit your needs.
• minimize file sizes for your website movies
• Creating and Using Recorder Preset Profiles
• Ensuring consistency of screen capture and other media
• Best capture settings for your projects
• Easily Record and Modify Picture in Picture webcam video
• synchronizing audio and video
• Importing Media Content
• Adding and editing AVI files
• Adding and editing music
• Adding Images
• Where to find royalty free images and stock photos
• Producing your Movie – Describing  Editing Tools
  - Adjusting Video
  - Adjusting Audio
  - Using Transitions
  - Adding Callouts
  - Flash HotSpots
  - Zoom-n-Pan
• Producing your video
• Knowing the best file settings for your internet or cd/dvd projects
• Creating presets- Understanding the benefits of Various Outputs
• Producing Content
  - AVI video file
  - Flash (SWF) movie file
  - Flash Video (FLV) file
  - QuickTime (MOV) movie file
  - Windows Media (WMV) streaming media file
  - RealMedia (RM) streaming media file
  - Camtasia for RealPlayer (CAMV) streaming media file
  - Gif animation file
• IPAD/IPod production
• Producing for YouTube
  - Custom Production Profile
• Creating a Table of Contents – Camtasia Theater
  – Understanding the Theater Interface
  - Creating a Menu with Markers for navigation
• Customize your table of contents and movie player controls
• Adding a watermark to brand your intellectual copyright
• Creating and duplicating your own auto-run CD
• Uploading to the Web or your server-linking to the course from a Web page
• Batch processing your project files while you sleep
• How to FTP or transfer your movies to your website

After Training Support

You get six months of support at no extra cost. We will communicate by telephone and  email, and receive immediate support through my remote desktop training tool.

Advanced-Course Design and PowerPoint for Video Production $395

Analyzing your Audience
- Bandwidth Considerations
- Analyzing your Resources
- Analyzing your Constraints
- Screen Resolution
- Instructional Design
- Linear or Interactive flow

Defining your Objectives
- Overall Training Objectives
- Activity Objectives
- Task Objectives

Creating a Content Outline
- Instructional Design for your Project
- Defining Modules
- Chunking Content
- Understanding Linear and Interactive Paths
- Interactive Module Access Points

Defining Interactivity
- Creating an Interactive Flowchart
- Planning to Create Multiple Paths – Branching

Writing a Script/storyboard

- Narration and Visualization
- Conversation Writing
- Writing Visually

Example Scripts
- Script Templates

-Narration-Professional verses in house

PowerPoint 2007 and 2010

Create animation and stunning effects

• Advanced PowerPoint tips and tricks
• Custom animations revisited
• Working with graphics in PowerPoint
• Using motion paths
• Creating templates
• Using multiple slide masters to create PowerPoint backgrounds

You will also learn how to

• Create a development process that is specific to YOUR  product and resources
• Define the recording and publishing specifications for your specific corporate requirement
• Create reusable templates for your scripts, storyboards and other planning documents
• Create professional-quality tutorials that you can use immediately
• Create a library of training videos with professional standards and corporate brand
• Create a template or example model for future tutorial development