Follow These 7 Steps to Make a Great Tutorial Video

You can make your first tutorial video by following Andy through the entire process from start to finish.

Download the free trials of TechSmith Camtasia & TechSmith Audiate as well as our fill-in-the-blank script template and a Camtasia Template that are yours to have for FREE.

(Find our FREE TRIALS and FREE TEMPLATES at the bottom of the description!
As well as more complimentary resources that go with this video!)

In this video Andy walks you through how to ask the right questions when planning your video, and how to use our free script template. He shows you best practices for recording, editing, and producing your video, and walks you through the entirety of the free Camtasia template that we're making available to you so that you can make your tutorial video right now.

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00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - Step 1 - Planning your tutorial
00:48 - Question 1 - Who is your audience?
01:04 - Question 2 - What specific problem will your tutorial solve?
01:36 - Question 3 - What will the audience be able to do after watching?
02:00 - Step 2 - Scripting
02:16 - How to use our FREE fill-in-the blank script template (download below!)
03:59 - Step 3 - Recording your narration first
04:14 - TechSmith Audiate makes editing audio as easy as editing text
04:31 - Export audio into Camtasia
04:37 - Consider buying a USB microphone (links below)
05:22 - Step 4 - Recording your screen
05:55 - Open the Camtasia recorder
06:20 - Step 5 - Use our pre-built Camtasia template to edit your tutorial
06:51 - Everything is customizable in this template!
07:11 - Adding your footage into the tutorial template
07:22 - Easily change the colors in the template to match your branding
07:43 - Create chapter markers (like these) IN Camtasia before you export!
08:00 - Step 6 - Edit your video
08:29 - Removing mistakes from your recording
09:07 - Syncing your audio and video from your recordings
09:30 - Use extend frame to freeze or pause your video
09:45 - Use clip speed to make clips faster or slower
09:55 - Focus your viewers attention w/animations & callouts
10:40 - Save your brand colors as a Theme and easily customize the graphics
11:38 - We have free tutorials to help you level up your editing
11:51 - Step 7 - Save your video! Share it or save it locally.
12:06 - Bonus Step 8 - Save your Camtasia project so you can come back later!

Download our FREE Script Template:

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Download our FREE Camtasia Tutorial Template:

Microphones that Andy mentioned:

Want a more in-depth scripting resource? Check out our blog on that here:

FREE Guide: The Ultimate Guide to Easily Make Instructional Videos

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[leroooyjenkins]

A tutorial about how to record a tutorial…awesome 😮

[maiari]

I never thought of recording my narration first. I'm definitely do this. Thank you so much

[Dennisthemenaceless]

This tutorial was EXTREMELY helpful for me on my YOUTUBER journey this week. Thank you so much for the templates and great advice!

[aspeed]

Thank you for showing us how to create a simple tutorial video step by step it was very helpful and really easy to follow. And thank you again for the video scripted template it really helped me outline my videos.

[mahdirezaie]

Thanks for sharing such a helpful video. Keep this great job up!

[angelitolv]

I love your video! Right to the point, saving me a lot time

[eneacreativedesign]

Very helpful advice, thanks. I will try to implement some of the tips, like to be specific on which is the problem that the tutorial is trying to solve.

[jean-paulgmuer]

Excellent presentation. Fun and clear.

[rwbyqkd]

I'm about to start my tutorial videos. Hope it go well. Thanks 👍

[naiyalexic]

It's tutorial videos like this, that make me feel good about purchasing the software. Win-win. Thank you, Andy from TechSmith. :)

[detlevsetiawan]

Thank you....a lot. Clean n clear explanations.

[wdlzuyo]

Another great Andy video :) My mic might not be as good at those Andy shared but I use the Blue Mic Snowball.

[edustepacademy]

This is my fifth times of watching this looked-simple-video, but it is not as simple as we look or watch. If we watch this video with high attention and respect, we will gain knowledge and skill tremendously. I really thank to Andy and TechSmith for creating this special video - especially the speech template. At first, I did my video for my students without any clear clue of doing clear template like Andy DID, and I observed that my class was simple after speaking and making the project videos. Then I told myself to go to watch Andy again and use his SPECIAL TEMPLATE. After that it worked well for me then I introduced the template by Andy to my students for them to do their template's speech to speak in front of the camera. Believe or not that template has turned my students from simple to confident with the steps of speech.

"BOOM!" "WOOW! Teacher! Good Template!

My students said to me that I was a creative teacher and made something easy for them to learn from. I told them not me. I used Andy's Template! This video, "How to Make A Tutorial Video in 2022 (FREE Template!), " is not only given knowledge, but is also confident in speaking skills for not only my students but to the world. If they have chance to watch it, their template arrangement will be fruitful like mine. Again, from the bottom of my heart, thanks to Andy and TechSmith - for this SPECIAL VIDEO. Cheers from to the team! I wish you all success.


Please mind my English because I am an ESL teacher and English is not my mother tongue. As I said I watched this video for five times already.

[evolution]

Regarding microphone choice, if you don't need to be seen in the video, I prefer gaming headsets, such as from Corsair and Logitech. I find that the vocal pickup is just as good AND you get the bonus of the mic always remaining a fixed distance from your mouth. I'm an animated talker and my head tends to move around a lot. Or maybe I'm simply looking across different monitors or at a script. Either way, the mic is always fixed in relation to where my mouth is. I don't have to worry about where a stationary mic is and "Did I just move too far away from it?" That being said, most stationary mics are pretty good at negating that. But why even have it as a concern?
A headset also allows me to keep my editing session private to me as opposed to other people in the area possibly having to listen to me playing back various audio and narration clips.
Lastly, a good gaming headset will save you a few bucks. (Don't let "gaming" cause you to think it's not quality. Serious gamers want excellent audio both in their ears and when they speak to others online.) Just my 2¢... ✌

[edustepacademy]

Last night, I learned a lot from this video and tonight I decided to watch again and I have learned more. Thanks Andy!

[evolution]

I'm assuming your animated arrows @0:29 were an video overlay, perhaps from the asset library? If you created those from scratch in Camtasia...I'd love to see a video how to create arrows with the bezier curves (like in Snagit)

[medlemine]

How to add a pdf in which each writing paragraph appear over time(not at the same time)? Do i need to convert pdf to ppt? And how to do the whole process

[denoxseriesarchives]

I use my Red Yeti to record a lot of my videos! :)

[ConciergeCPA]

How do you add words and graphics as you speak in a tutorial video? I am looking for options to make a tutorial without having to add custom graphics manually in a PowerPoint, to teach very technical topics like accounting, finance, math, excel etc

[HeatherMajors]

Hi, the only template that I could find is not the one shown in this video. I had to drill down several links to find that one. Can you please add a link to this video for the one you showed on screen. It looks like it would be helpful. Thanks.