From the course: Producing Screencast Videos on a Mac

What you can learn in this course

From the course: Producing Screencast Videos on a Mac

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What you can learn in this course

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- Hi, my name's Rich Harrington, and welcome to this course where we'll explore screencasting on your Mac. We're going to walk you through all the things you need to know about screencasting. Screencasting is the recording of your screen's content and sharing it with others, and unlike a webinar or a Zoom meeting, for example, you're doing it at a higher quality format because you want to edit it down and repurpose it. It might be for internal training or maybe a tutorial that you share in a video podcast, or perhaps you need to do a product demonstration, or walk somebody through something on a website. There's lots of reasons. Now in this course, we're going to walk you through all the key information you need to successfully start screencasting as well as do it at a professional level. We'll start by making sure you have all the right equipment and I'll show you things at a few different budget points. We'll talk about connecting a standard web camera as well as using other options such as a DSLR or a mirrorless camera to dramatically improve quality. We'll also talk about backdrops lights and microphones, so you look good and sound good. I'll then walk you through some of the necessary settings that you should change on your Mac, getting the right resolution, changing the backdrop, adjusting audio levels. There's lots of little things that you need to know how to change, including some useful utilities that can make things a lot easier. We'll then explore several different ways to record your screen, looking at simple tools that might be built into your computer, as well as the ability to record with specialized software that adds additional functionality, and we'll give you some essential advice on editing this content, making sure you understand standard delivery aspect ratios, resolutions, and frame rates so the content is ready to export and share to a broader audience. My name's Rich Harrington and I've been producing screencast tutorials and content both for myself and clients for more than 20 years I've seen the industry change dramatically and this used to take highly specialized equipment and really expensive materials to pull off to things that you can do right on your smartphone or computer with no extra additions. But what hasn't changed is the need to have a good plan and to be technically proficient, making sure you take the time to get things right so you record the quality that you need. With this in mind, let's get started.

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