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All you video junkies...

by Dwight Anthony
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Let me help save you some dough. I see everyday people that rely on video for their sales of products and even training courses in video. these same people tend to spend a small ransom in transcription costs.

I want to say this, plan out your vids a bit better, script it out in Word or open office writer e.t.c., then do a dry run of what you will be teaching via vid. You will have less jumping around and a lot less uhms and ahhs. Then, simply take your script and convert it to pdf with a free converter. Now, you have your vids and they also have transcriptions to go with them.

For those that have not being doing this, I have just made your life much easier and may save you a bundle and time. Hope this helps ya.
#junkies #video
  • Profile picture of the author Gary Rambo
    I just tried this yesterday and it works very well for me and saves a ton of time if you know your subject matter cold, but I realize it may not be a solution for everyone.

    If you have Dragon Naturally Speaking and 2 computers you can use the DHS headset to record your transcripts on the first computer and use a second computer to record the video presentation with a stand alone microphone.

    I just talk straight through without the punctuation on DNS and clean up the transcripts afterward.

    It's definitely a great idea have an outline at the very least, but if you really know your subject matter it's a great time and money saver.
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  • Profile picture of the author tandren544
    Good advice danthony... I think people don't know that much about public speaking, so when they make a video all of their idiosyncrasies are amplified. But I would go even further than that.

    I would recommend at least 3 or 4 dry runs. Each time, record your videos, save them, PUT THEM AWAY AND SLEEP ON IT, then come back and watch them/edit your script.

    It's so important to put time between the creation and editing process. You want to look at your video from as many different states of mind as possible.

    Thanks, hope this helps too.
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  • Profile picture of the author julesw
    when I make tv shows we always park it over the weekend and watch it fresh on monday, it makes you step back, also it to the other half is useful too as they have fresh eyes
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  • Profile picture of the author julesw
    show it to .. i meant!
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  • Profile picture of the author defaultuser
    This works amazingly well, and I couldn't have said it better myself. Always practice before hand!
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  • Profile picture of the author scrofford
    Originally Posted by Factum View Post

    I disagree.

    I acknowledge that stumbling around and improvising is not professional, but neither is shifting your eyes to the transcript and reading a text, which just makes you seem very try-hard and arrogant.

    If you are doing video-marketing, you have to know your stuff. You are allowed to say "..uhm", etc a couple times, you just have to bring it through very confidently. If you bring in strong & confident body-language, you will see how powerful video-marketing really is.
    How would reading a text make you seem very try-hard and arrogant? That makes absolutely NO sense at all!

    Although I think it's important to know what you are talking about, using a script is just fine.

    Just because someone reads from a script doesn't mean they don't know their stuff. Some people need a script because they are nervous in front of a camera.
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