Course Essentials
Mode: Offline, in-person, classroom training
Duration: 2 days
Certification: Based on attendance and performance
Mastering the Art of Creating Engaging Videos
Learn to plan, capture, edit, and publish help video documentation that engages audiences and stays relevant in the modern documentation landscape.
- Plan, capture, edit, and publish help video documentation
- Showcase a video created during the session
Audiences are moving from searching for written documentation to watching YouTube videos to see how things are done. In order to stay relevant, technical communicators will have to expand their skills to include video creation skills.
The course covers the process and techniques of how to go about creating video help content. This includes the following fundamentals:
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Understanding the medium of video to make the best use of it.
- Resolution
- File formats
- Aspect ratio
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Planning and conceptualizing video content
- Defining the use case
- Deciding on the structure and information type of the video
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Writing scripts
- Purpose of a script
- Structure of a script
- Writing style for a script
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Capturing the video
- Capture settings
- Best practices
- Creating narration
- Narration with human voices
- Narration with AI voices and options
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Video capture and editing tools
- Types of video editors
- Introduction to Camtasia
- Working on videos in Camtasia
- Overview of video editing and publishing
Training: No prior experience required
Work experience: No prior experience required
Hardware and software
Participants need a laptop that allows installation of video editing software such as Camtasia
How you are evaluated
- Participants will make a short engaging video no longer than 40 seconds which will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
- Clear introduction
- Usefulness of core content
- Engagement
- Conclusion and call to action
Participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from STC India based on the following criteria
- 100% attendance
- 70% score in the objective test conducted at the end of the course
- Completing the video assignment, peer review, and updates based on the review