How to Create Professional High-Quality Video Tutorials

Best practices for creating software training videos

In this Insight, I’ll take you through my process as a professional trainer for creating a video tutorial from scratch.

I’ll cover everything from:

• Developing the idea
• Outlining and scripting
• Sourcing demo materials
• Recording
• Editing
• Publication

These workflow tips will help you produce your content efficiently and ensure that you actually deliver a final tutorial.

Trust me, I’ve been there…

I’ve written, recorded, and edited tutorials for almost a decade.

I started with my YouTube channel (formerly Goat’s Eye View, now called DaVinci Master Key), which has over 100+ tutorials. I followed this with nearly a decade of developing training materials for Blackmagic Design and contributing to their yearly ‘What’s new’ videos.

I’m currently developing a training series for Time in Pixels’ software Omniscope and even more Mixing Light Insights.

In this Insight, I’ll share my best advice on developing, organizing, and delivering essential training through concise yet informative videos.

Why should you create training videos?

For fun and profit, of course!

Maybe you’ve discovered a great workflow hack, helpful tip, or interesting solution to a common problem and want to share it with the world. YouTube (or Mixing Light) is waiting.

Maybe you need to get a new assistant up to speed, upskill colleagues, have something to share with students of your craft, or want to share with a virtual community – as we do here on Mixing Light. Someone else may even want to pay to create video training for their organization – custom to their needs.

Whatever the reason, creating effective training material is harder than it looks, but if you want someone to learn what you have to teach, you need to learn how to share that effectively.

Key takeaways from this Insight

By the end of this Insight, you should understand how to:

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Questions or Comments?

Have you ever recorded your own training? How did it go? Let us know! Mixing Light is all about community discussions, so if you have something to add or have more questions you need answered, hit the comments.

– Daria