Video tutorials on demand
[Visit the  DUTCH page here.]Video-tutorials are a great way to explain your software to your clients, or to give a product or company presentation. In addition to our own opensource video-tutorials, we also make video-tutorials on demand. Read more about the Process, Specifications, Costs and Contact below, or view a demo movie first. The process Intake In this meeting, your software expert gives us an overview of your application. Together we decide which topics and tasks will be video-tutorialized. Write scenario's For each movie we write a scenario: a brief description of the action happening in the movie, and the full voice-over texts. Script Corrections The client reads the scenario's, and corrects them. After that, we finalize the scenario's. Voice-over recording In our audio studio, we record the voice-over texts. For English texts, we usually work with Jeremiah The Voice, a professional voice-over from the USA, who lives near Amsterdam.  See the sample images on the right. Movie Recording Once we have the edited audio tracks (MP3), we create the screen-capture movies, according to the scenario. Movie Editing The rough movies are then edited. We sync actions on the screen with the voice-over, add zoom-ins where nescessary, and fine-tune the whole thing to a smooth movie. Movie Corrections The movies are then viewed by the client, who gives comments and feedback. We edit some more, and after that, we finalize the movies. Subtitling When the movies are final in the original language, we add subtitles in the agreed languages. We provide the English or Dutch translations; for all other languages we always work with Da Vinci Vertalingen. Delivery When all is done, we publish the final versions and deliver them to the client, online as streaming or downloadable movies on our website, or as files via FTP or on a CD-rom. Specifications Movie format We prefer to deliver the movies in MPEG-4 format, as that gives the best quality vs. filesize. Best alternative is SWF, but that filesize is much larger. Movie resolution We usually create movies on a 640x480 pixels resolution. Other resolutions are possible, too. Languages Voice-over is usually in 1 language. Additional languages are provided as subtitles to the original movie. Sample: a movie with English voice-over and Dutch subtitles. 'Zapping' in movies A great feature are the clickable sub-topics in a movie. See the sample image on the right. Startscreen For a professional look, movies usually have a branded startscreen. The client can provide that, or we can create one. See the sample image on the right. Hosting We can host the streaming movies on our website the client can host them, or the movies can be hosted on a 'neutral' provider like screencast.com. Costs Quotation The costs of video-tutorials are different for every project, but always based on the amount of movies, average movie duration and the complexity of the project. After a good briefing, we will gladly make a quotation for you. Updates If you plan to update your software in the future, you may also want to update the video-tutorials. We can make a provision in our quotation for that. Contact Click here to go to the contact page. |
Sample video-tutorial. Click to play.
This is a 'regular' screencapture movie.
Video format: MPEG3. Language: English. Subtitles: English. Duration: 13:53 minutes. Size: 18.3 MB.  Jeremiah The Voice in action.
 Marten the audio engineer in action.
 Sample of a movie with clickable sub-topics.
 Sample of a movie startscreen.
Sample video-tutorial. Click to play. This is the other kind we do. A more 'conceptual' movie, created in Powerpoint and then captured. Video format: MPEG3. Language: English. Subtitles: English. Duration: 02:53 minutes. Size: 2.1 MB. |
