In this video, we introduce the topics that we’ll be covering within this course.

In this lesson, we discuss the equipment necessary to produce talking head and portrait-style videos and we take a look at options for a range of budgets. We also briefly cover how to stage your equipment within a room.

In this video, we discuss options for equipment to record audio for your course which will help produce high-quality recordings for screencasts, portrait-style videos, talking head videos, and even podcasts and interviews which may become part of your promotional strategy later on.

Our video editing software is crucial for a couple of reasons. First, it’s going to be the tool we use to create and publish our final product which will be presented to our customer, our instructional content. Also, no matter what video and audio recording equipment suits your budget and skill level, your video and audio editing software can almost always turn a bad recording into an acceptable finished product. In this video, we’re going to take a look at four separate options for video software that you can consider using.

In these lessons, we dive head first into creating screencasts for course content. We discuss how to create video recordings of our computer screen or external monitor, mobile devices which may be connected to our computer via USB port, video from a built-in camera on our computer or an external webcam, audio from a built-in computer microphone or external microphone, and even our computer’s system audio to capture sounds we’re playing on it.

In this series of lessons, we illustrate how to perform various video and audio editing tasks which will be essential for creating your course lessons. We'll cover how to work with video clips and timelines, how to clean up your audio files, how to add annotations or text to your video, how to export video content, and much more.

Intro and outro videos are simple videos of a few seconds which can be used to soften the beginning and end of your instructional videos. They bring added professionalism and consistency to your course lessons and give your viewers a few moments of transition instead of abruptly starting and stopping lessons.

In these lessons, we’ll begin to take a look at how to set up, shoot, and edit a portrait-style video. Portrait-style videos offer a great way to add some variety to the type of video you deliver throughout your course and they can be a great way to bring a personal touch as well.

In these lessons, we discuss the equipment, setup, and editing for talking head videos which can be used in conjunction with screencasts or added to presentation slides.

If you’re planning to host your own course to maximize control over your course content and your profits from it, you will need to find suitable hosting for your course videos and in these lesson we spend the majority of our time discussing our top three recommended video hosting solutions and then how to get those videos into your course lessons.

This lesson is jam-packed with some of the best advice we could come up with to help ensure that you're producing high-quality course video as efficiently as possible. We cover a range of topics and tips that we wish we'd have known when we created our first video course in 2010.

In this video, we discuss outsourcing certain aspects of your course video creation to help speed up the production of your course, include a bit of a professional touch to your content, simply take over some of the work you’d rather not spend your time on, or perhaps all three.

As you begin creating video, we have a few things we want you to keep in mind and we discuss those in the final lesson of this course.