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You're absolutely right, it's something I need to fix, and I'm definitely losing a lot of potential engagement and clarity by not having a voice over. I used Y

You're absolutely right, it's something I need to fix, and I'm definitely losing a lot of potential engagement and clarity by not having a voice over. I used YouTube annotations, since I have no experience at editing videos. With YouTube annotations, the sound would pause as well... so I opted to just have no sound at all. It sucks, I know.

city41 16y ago
I'm new to making promotional videos too. If you have a Mac, give iMovie a shot, it's fantastic. For Windows, I've had good success with CamStudio for doing screencasts with voice. Even better CamStudio is open source and free. The major difference is iMovie is a nice movie editing platform, where CamStudio is just about recording, so if you only have CamStudio, you have to get it all correct in one take.
- photon_off 16y ago
  I used Camtasia to do the screen recording, and I think it worked great. The zoom and pan features are really cool. If you watch the video without the annotations, it's a pretty neat demo. I was fearful it would be too confusing without explaining what was going on though, so I added those annotations. I'll definitely be making a better version of the video. One very difficult part of doing the take was scripting it. There are quite a few awesome features of the toolbar that I wanted to show off, but jumping right into them could be confusing.
  - city41 16y ago
    It's amazing how seemingly little things can be so difficult. I'm currently working on a landing page for a product idea I have. The product itself is actually really simple and trivial to get if you see it in the flesh, but explaining in the confines of a landing page has proven extremely difficult.
    - photon_off 16y ago
      Like they say: "The little things... there's nothing bigger." It's really difficult deciding on things when every single word matters. I spend a lot of time and energy either being stuck in analysis paralysis, or trying to avoid it.

city41 16y ago

I'm new to making promotional videos too. If you have a Mac, give iMovie a shot, it's fantastic. For Windows, I've had good success with CamStudio for doing screencasts with voice. Even better CamStudio is open source and free. The major difference is iMovie is a nice movie editing platform, where CamStudio is just about recording, so if you only have CamStudio, you have to get it all correct in one take.

photon_off 16y ago
I used Camtasia to do the screen recording, and I think it worked great. The zoom and pan features are really cool. If you watch the video without the annotations, it's a pretty neat demo. I was fearful it would be too confusing without explaining what was going on though, so I added those annotations. I'll definitely be making a better version of the video. One very difficult part of doing the take was scripting it. There are quite a few awesome features of the toolbar that I wanted to show off, but jumping right into them could be confusing.
- city41 16y ago
  It's amazing how seemingly little things can be so difficult. I'm currently working on a landing page for a product idea I have. The product itself is actually really simple and trivial to get if you see it in the flesh, but explaining in the confines of a landing page has proven extremely difficult.
  - photon_off 16y ago
    Like they say: "The little things... there's nothing bigger." It's really difficult deciding on things when every single word matters. I spend a lot of time and energy either being stuck in analysis paralysis, or trying to avoid it.