In this post I’ll give you some tips to think about if you want to make a tutorial video yourself, or what to look out for if you’re buying the rights to use someone else’s videos or you’ve hired someone to make videos for you.
It might help to give you a bit of background first, though. I was a face-to-face trainer – mainly a software trainer – for many years. Then, nine years ago I had a job where part of the team was in Mumbai. I went out to train them once, but obviously I couldn’t do that for every small software update so I started running webinars. Then some team members wanted a recording of the webinar and eventually it made sense to offer some training in video format, too. I loved the way people could access video training any time of night or day to suit themselves, so when I wanted to create my own courses for my own sites, video is what I did. Last year I launched four of my own courses at Udemy, too.
It was at Udemy that I learned a lot about making video courses. This was partly because their strict audio/video quality rules meant I had to up my game. But in watching some other people’s courses as a student, I learned about what worked well and what became tedious very quickly. And yes, I had done some of the tedious things in my own courses in the past, but I stopped immediately after that!
So here are my 6 tips on what to look for if you want to make a tutorial video:
