Ask HN: How do you create high quality how-to videos?

Re:Ask HN: How do you create high quality how-to videos? by lutusp on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @06:24PM (#6253700)

> What's the fastest and cheapest way to go about creating high quality how-to videos?

Very simple:

* Watch a lot of highly-rated how-to videos.

* Take copious notes about structure and content.

* Imitate them.

Remember that video production is an art, not a science. There are some common-sense guidelines, but a good video is usually good for intangible reasons, reasons that cannot be scheduled or controlled, reasons that require experience and expertise.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you create high quality how-to videos? by WestCoastJustin on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @06:37PM (#6253764)

This is exactly it. I run http://sysadmincasts.com/ and this is the system that I have used. Also, expect that high quality audio/video takes time, each minute of video takes me about 1-2 hours (research, planning storyboard/transcript, recording, editing, transcoding, review, etc) to produce.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you create high quality how-to videos? by rk0567 on Thursday August 22, 2013 @02:27AM (#6255478)

I like it. I think, you using ubuntu. Would you care to share what screencasting softwares/tools you use in Ubuntu ?

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