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How to make a flash video tutorial of your website and product in minutes

By Sabrina F | Published 01/5/2008 | Third Party | Rating:
Sabrina F
Interested in eLearning tools with computer background. 

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How to make a flash video tutorial of your website and product in minutes

Christmas is coming. "Please show me how, do not tell me how" becomes more and more popular. Do you want to show your website or product in a fashion way at this golden season? This article describes how to make a flash video tutorial of your website or product in minutes.

"A video is more than thousands of words!" How to make a video tutorial of your website? Use a camera to record their menus? Maybe it's not a so bad choice! But a camera face to your computer is not the best way to show your website with the following 3 reasons.
1. The camera can not record the screen clearly.
2. You can not edit the video by adding some instructions or narrations easily.
3. The video file is too big for web sharing and transmission.

Maybe you need an application to record your screen, not a camera! Screen recording software helps you to record the screen to mirror all of your operations by recording mouse movements and keystrokes with the screenshots. Even you can add some tips to highlight the important functions. Furthermore, you can add narration from microphone easily to enhance the tutorial. At last you can publish the flash movie and transmit to the technical guys. As you know, the flash format has smaller size and better for network transmission.

The following is a step-by-step guide of how to create a video tutorial of MS Outlook by recording the computer screen in minutes. The sample as follows, the flash may take serveral minutes to load, your patience would be appreciated. 

1. Setting the capture mode and record
There are 3 capture modes to be selected: Application region, Custom region and Full screen. Now we select application region to record the Microsoft Outlook, guide others how to create an account in Microsoft Outlook. Click "Record" button to start recording.
Application Region: Capture the window of the specific application that is running.
Custom Region: Capture a customized rectangular shape on your desktop.
Full Screen: Capture the entire screen.

2. Edit and Enhance the tutorial
Once the recording is finished. DemoCreator will import the slides automatically. You can easily to add some interactive elements to the tutorial by slide. Insert new slide or delete unwanted slide. Or add some callouts, notes, animations to the tutorial to make the tutorial more interactive and animated.
 

3. Add sound to the tutorial
Click "Audio" button and login the Audio Timeline Editor. You can edit the audio easily by cutting, inserting and deleting. And also you can view the slide at the same time when editing the audio. Furthermore, you can record the sound when recording the screen.
 

4. Publish the flash movie
Click "Publish" button and login the publish menu. Select publish to SWF, LMS, auto-run CD, standalone EXE, or Email. As you know, flash file has the smaller size and safer in network transmission.

Learn more from: http://www.sameshow.com/demo-creator.html

View the created outlook tutorial from: http://www.sameshow.com/democreator/create-software-demo-samples.html


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