I started watching some of the videos I made for my thesis clients. Man, what gibberish I made. Indefensible stuff. I had to scrap it all…because I honestly wanted to do a good job. I was meandering, and that came from a lack of pre-planning. I do a lot of tech coahing and that stuff can be done 1-on-1….because it’s being done specifically towards someone. This sorta thing has to have some polish on it, and my first efforts were merely a learning experience. Chalk it up to part of my 10,000 hours that Malcom Gladwell says we gotta put forth.
A training video can’t be haphazzard. It has to be carefully wrought, specific, and it has to have some VALUE. Nobody wants to hear a stammering ninny. So I’ve gotta start again. Which is fine.
The upside is with a decent outline–which I now have–I can run through this stuff really quickly with a lot of polish. I get rid of my hems and haws on the timeline in ScreenFlow (an awesome tool), and I can get this done in a few days.
Here’s what I know. Most of it is geared for the basic-to-intermediate crowd…and it starts after the fold to keep my pages lookin’ pretty.


