Take Your Tutorial Videos from Good to Great

How to improve your tutorial and how-to videos.
I have been creating Screencasts for over 30 years.
In this video, I share some of my best tips for improving the quality of your videos.

00:00 Introduction
01:44 Simple Screencasting (Good)
04:08 Using Camtasia
06:28 Screen Zooms
08:07 Cursor Effects
09:26 Annotations
17:18 Assets and Templates
19:30 Dynamic Assets

🎥 This video was created using Camtasia 🎥
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[thomasp]

Been watching this guy since he had short tv segments x years ago when I was a complete computer newbie. Can't tell you how much grief he saved me, and how many new ideas I got. He knows what he's at, computers and presentations both. Thank you Steve!

[jellenp]

I like your style, your confidence, your level of expertise, your imperturbability and your enthusiasm ... a great mix of assets for a presenter, particularly for a presenter who is training presenters. Your abilities transfer to your viewers as we watch, absorb and put your instruction to use. Thank you.

[highmounter]

You are a legend! You are surely empowering people to move to the next level. 👍

[avrumgolub]

Like fine wine 🍷, your value has increased with time. Excellent overview!

[SeniorFellowsAndFriends]

Love your emphasis on respect, engagement, and comprehension. Although I'm not using Camtasia at the moment, there are numerous editing takeaways that seem tool-agnostic.

[MoneyRules]

I must admit that paying for updates to both Screenflow and Camtasia gets to be more than necessary, and Camtasia seems to have lifted their game a lot over the last couple of years. So it looks like I will also be switching back. Your videos are always interesting and I thought you had the effects made. It just made sense when you showed the templates! Thanks for your valued contact as always Steve.

[stro]

Only recently discovered your channel, great informative videos especially this one, a video I've been waiting for, for a long time. Thank you Steve great work👍

[MarikaRealtor]

perfect, perfect! Lik you knew that I need it right now! Thank. you🙏

[learningspothps]

Great video and recommendations! Thank you for helping our K-12 education environment getting better every day!

[David_Mbugua]

Excellent presentation. To zoom out to the original zoom of the video, I'd recommend you use the Restore animation. It takes the video back to before using the custom animation.

[fremandg]

Wow! Fantastic, that was not only enjoyable, but as you say, it enhanced and made the video interesting by leading the viewer at a pace and showing them what, where and when these things happened, terrific! DG U.K.

[JaimeHuffman]

Thank you for another excellent video. Hope you will do a deep dive into the more advanced features of creating assets and templates in Camtasia. It is a great product, most people have no idea what all can be done in it. Have a beautiful day!

[rafpeeters]

Damn this was good!
I have been using Camtasia as loom. Good but ´not great thus. You showed me a few simple big wins. Going to revamp a few old tutorials dottostyle now. You rock!🤟

[ogbeivorisrael]

Great enlightenment. Very interesting information.

[PatThompsonNL]

Hi Steve, Quick question - do you recreate the computer screen track after you've done the first take? I am always wondering if it made sense to do this as it must be difficult in working the screen smoothly while focusing on your words. I'd love to know. Pat

[robertdaubigny]

Trying to figure out IT technicalities steals your life! I would love to be able to do it but there’s always one little thing that you end up trying to figure out and that’s the point at which I start fantasising about poking my eyes out with a burnt stick!