I was in the middle of a video when my throat got dry and I didn’t have any water handy, so I couldn’t just say “sorry I need a little water”. Drink some water beforehand, and keep some handy just in case. I’ll just use command-tab to switch through the programs, it looks a bit more professional, I think.Ĩ. I don’t really want to navigate between programs that way during the screencast so I’ll turn it off. They may not pop-up in front, but the audio notifications may be distracting and/or embarrassing. Turn off Growl and turn off everything you don’t absolutely need running when it’s time for a screencast.įor all you serial messengers, that means turn off AIM and Yahoo Messenger or whatever else you’ve got running. Beware of pop-ups! I mean notifications like Growl and other applications that might steal focus if something happens. Seriously, with the dominance of YouTube, there should really be built-in 10 minute warning features in these programs so you can know to start wrapping it up or at least set up the vocals so you have a nice place to break.Ħ. I’ve already run on and on, then looked down at my timer to make sure I had room left, and I hadn’t even started the damn thing. Of course, you also have to remember to START the timer. Again, I had to re-do too many videos so far because they were 10:30 long. If you’re going to be uploading to YouTube (and who isn’t?), you need to have some sort of timer nearby and easily visible. This has saved me a couple of times already.ĥ. I now make a short 10-second test video before I’m going to record, just to make sure there’s no surprises. This was another time when I was yakking away for ten minutes and when I went to review the video there was no audio. If you have multiple setups or use multiple headphones you may switch them out in between recording, possibly resetting the input/outputs. Make sure the audio input/output is set correctly. You don’t want to be fumbling around switching back to iShowU and then have to trim off the edge of the video.ģ. If you don’t like the ones iShowU has in there, you can set your own. With that said, learn the keyboard shortcuts to start/stop/pause/resume recording. I ended up talking and blathering on for about 10 minutes, then I try to hit the key command to stop recording, and it doesn’t work…because it was never recording. iShowU gives you a countdown timer before you start recording, but if your mind is a bit distracted then you might not realize you never got the countdown. It seems obvious, but make sure the darn thing is actually recording. Here’s a list of things to watch out for, in no particular order:ġ. People, I just bought iShowU HD so I could start doing some tutorial videos, and boy have I made about every mistake possible within just a few days.
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