Confession time. I can easily spend between 1 and 2 weeks creating a 5 minute long video. 3 weeks if I’m being a perfectionist. Of course, those videos are awesome, and are highly tailored to a specific audience. They say what I want to say. In this blog I’m always looking into efficiency and productivity…
Read MoreIn this series I’ve given you lots of advice on making your own tutorial-style IT videos for YouTube as a single DIY “maker”: writer, lighting, director, cameraman, editor, audio specialist, etc. But these posts weren’t written in the order of my “workflow”, i.e. the sequence I actually go through when making a new video. So…
Read MorePerhaps your first question is, “What is B-Roll”? Great question. After reading the next paragraph, feel free to throw around the term at your next cocktail party. No need to cite me. The easy definition is that it’s any video, animation, or dynamic graphic that doesn’t count as A-Roll. Yes, I love these kinds of…
Read MoreYou’ve probably watched a number of YouTube tutorials over the last 10 years, whether to help you with a specific task at work, to keep your IT skills refreshed, or even just to learn something new about one of your personal hobbies (no, we don’t want to hear about your favorite cat videos). So I’m…
Read MoreAfter my last post on the advantages and disadvantages of the animation style of video, I hope you did your homework! I certainly did, and you can see the results of my first animated video that conveys some basic information on the need for cybersecurity both in English and in Italian. Probably like you, I…
Read MoreWelcome to the next installment in my series on creating video tutorials on technical topics that you can upload to YouTube, and in particular in this article, on continuously improving the quality as you create more and more tutorials over time. There’s a method in the art/design community called iteration, where creative groups improve on…
Read MoreCongratulations on finishing your first tutorial video! So now you can put it on your corporate web site, and maybe email or tweet out a link to it. But what about visibility? If your business is large enough to have a marketing department, you (or they) will likely want your tutorial videos to be part…
Read MoreAnd finally we did it…. at the end also the latest presentations of the Nagios World Conference are available in video format 😉 Unfortunately the quality of some files is not as good as expected… next time we engage a fully Web- and not TV expert for the fixed cam. However, you can see it by clicking here. Enjoy…
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