So this has been a trip. I was all excited to try out another app from my newly minted Adobe Creative Cloud account. I chose to create a short training video that would kill two birds with one stone. Our assignment was to create a 4 to 6 minute screencast that demonstrated doing some task in a piece of software. It had to have some music, an introduction and sign off segments, step by step instructions and a diagram. The topic for me was how to enter assign a task while entering a safety assessment in Metricsoft, which is the safety tracking software AAM uses. A piece of cake I thought! First challenge was I did the initial screencast recording in Articulate, and exported an MPEG4 file. Turns out that apparently Premier doesn’t speak that codec so I downloaded and signed up for a year subscription to Screencast-O-Matic.com which allowed me to rerecord and export as an AVI. I then imported that into Premier Pro CC and did the needed editing. I added music, some titling, and some stills. All told it took me about eight hours of watching how tos, editting, and rendering. The only thing I couldn’t figure out how to do was speed up the playback a bit without making myself sound like donald duck. So the video does sound a little slow. But that’s my natural speaking…… but then again, that’s why I usually script my recording and practice.. One cool learning was how to edit audio tracks in Audition via Premier.
Here are a couple of resources on Metricsoft that I found:
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