Making Video Tutorials

There are lots of great free tools for recording your screen. Here are my personal favorites on your operating system:

I've included three key video editing tools below. Which option you choose depends largely on how complicated a video you want to make and how comfortable you are with video editing. For most folks, I recommend using Adobe Spark. This tool is very simple and easy to use. It also runs in a browser, so you can use it with any operating system. Just log in with your Pratt OneKey and you're good to go!

You can use Google Meet or Zoom in conjunction with a presentation tool like Google Slides or Powerpoint to record a one-shot tutorial with your screen and webcam. This approach is very simple, but there are many challenges if you choose to go this route. 

• doing the tutorial in one shot leaves a lot of possibility to make mistakes, forget something, or say the wrong thing.
• If your webcam is on, your recorded screen will be smaller in the final video and this can be hard for folks to see.

At Pratt, we can install the Adobe Creative Suite on our personal computers. This is an invaluable resource as a number of the tools can be used to produce video tutorials. In particular, Illustrator or Photoshop is useful for creating graphics that can be integrated in video content and Premiere can be used for editing & rendering your video.

You might also want to check out these options:

• Camtasia (free trial)
• Kaltura Personal Capture (Pratt has a brief guide on recording lectures)