The Trials and Tribulations of Creating a Training Video

by1Rudy1

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3 years ago

The other day, ok, it's been probably a week or so now, grin, that I started to create a training video for adding text onto an image. Man, what a workout...

I use the free version of Screencast-o-Matic, an online site that offers free screenshots and videos. The free version is scant on options, yet, I can record up to 15 minutes. Much better than the ol' Jing recorder that had a 5-minute max time.

The reason I like the screencast version for video recording is that it is

• SIMPLE!!!
  
• Easy to Use!
• FREE!

However, in the past year, I have saved the recorded videos to file, and it gets lost, kind of like the missing sock you lose in the dryer....gremlins, or whatever causes that to happen.

It has been my experience to need alternative methods to bypass certain things online, mainly because I like to circumvent the usual and find a different path.

For example, when I log into my screencast account, Here is the welcome screen:

I click on make a recording. A record button appears and off I go. This is one way to start a video record.

The other method is to click on the recorder button in the header.

However, once I started to record, it seems that I can only pause one time because after pausing the 2nd time, the pause button disappears behind the taskbar. Now, there is a tab to show the presence of the video, yet, when I click on it, nothing happens.

When I hover over the tab, a second tab appears with only an x box and no text. When I click on that, it ends the recording, without any record of the, uh, recording.

This is not a review, per se, just a mild rant while I await a reply from WA Site Support.

See, because I had to re-record the video so many times, I self-edited out the errors, lol, and only had to trim a few seconds and add some title cards.

And this video is something I had told a friend that I would add to my training here at WA. So, today, I finished the video (officially numbered video #9) and began the process of making another training here at WA.

However, for some reason, the file is not uploading properly, hence my ticket to site support to find out why the video was not uploading.

When the video posts, I will send out a short post to let you all know that it is available.

Some folks here have wondered how to add text (hot ticket question on Quora...) so I recorded a video on how to add text to your image using the free MS Paint program that is still included with Windows and Mac computers.

I know...some of you will shake your heads cuz this is so 'old school',. I love learning new things, however, when I can find the simpler way and provide the same results, I will do so.

I have used the MS Paint program since Windows98XP ruled. I first started out with the Yahoo chat messenger that had a paint program within messenger with a screen you could digitally create images: (see below)

The Windows 7 version was a learning curve with so many brush-style options.

So I learned how to make stuff before photoshop. Within the scope of what the MS Paint program can do....

I will add a second video once I learn why my videos are not being uploaded here.

That video will walk you through step-by-step on how to remove the background from any image for FREE! Watch for that one, too.

As always, if you have any questions about images, look them up here at the top of the page when you click on the magnifying glass when searching for answers, or add a reply to this post. I will be more than happy to help you.

Rudy