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I recently made a video course "Elixir for Beginners" on Udemy https://www.udemy.com/elixir-for-beginners https://www.udemy.com/elixir-for-beginners It was a re
by emson 10y ago
I recently made a video course "Elixir for Beginners" on Udemy https://www.udemy.com/elixir-for-beginners https://www.udemy.com/elixir-for-beginners
It was a real learning processes and I can identify with the author of this post... you really get the imposter syndrome.
The process I finally settled on was:
1. read various books, and make notes on the topic for a particular video.
2. break the notes down into bullet points, I used the TaskPaper app, for this and highly recommend it.
3. make an intro slide and do a head shot video talking about the points in this video. I found doing this unscripted gave a more natural feel.
4. then record the content of the lecture, this in my case was a screen video of me writing code. I found that if I was talking at the sametime I made too many mistakes.
5. I then edit this content and remove the typos and errors.
6. record the voice over for the video.
- this was quite slow I would use the bullet points to talk about what was happening on the screen.
- I found I would record a 5/10 seconds of voice over and then position it within the video so that it would make sense.
- there was a lot of editing to get the video and voice to match up nicely.
My course style evolved over a few months but I'm happy with the approach, although some of the earlier videos make me cringe a bit.
As for equipment, I bought a studio kit from amazon on black friday, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Excelvan-Photography-Continuous-Backdrops-Umbrellas/dp/B0111LHWOS/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1460553662&sr=8-6&keywords=Photography+Lighting+Kit http://www.amazon.co.uk/Excelvan-Photography-Continuous-Back...
I also bought a logitech C920 usb camera... not that happy with it as using a mac I also needed to change the webcam settings with another app.
Finally I used a Samson CO1U condenser mic, which was excellent: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samson-CO1U-Pro-Microphone-Headphone/dp/B00HXE4BYW/ref=pd_sim_sbs_23_4?ie=UTF8&dpID=41gHRwqvwgL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=0HA791SR5CS883693FBQ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samson-CO1U-Pro-Microphone-Headphone...
I haven't made much money out of the videos, even though I have around 1680 students. The nature of online courses is that it is very "coupon" based and you need to constantly push and repackage it.
Would I do it again... yep... am building a new course as we speak.
Good luck
- ifdattic 10y agoThanks for sharing, might come in handy. Doing it for the money is the losing battle. At least you're self publishing it and have full control over it, and do well with marketing. Otherwise it's better spending that time working on client projects. But personally did it for the experience. It was a really nice challenge and the best way to learn something is by teaching :)