Windows 10: Windows 10 instructional videos by Ten Forums members

New video for those needing help in Crash & BSOD issues: How to use the DM Log Collector tool to get your crash dumps analyzed

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I am not happy with the length of the video, I might redo this trying to keep it under four minutes. Anyway, this is what I managed to do this time.

 

Another: How to do the System restore from boot when Windows 10 fails to start normally.

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I am extremely unsatisfied with the quality of narration, my hard Scandinavian accent can be heard really clearly in this video. Apparently some brandy is not a good tool when doing videos *Wink.

Video will be remade later, posting it here now as it is in case it could help some users already as it is. There's one mistake in narration: in 3:31 I am telling to click two times next. It's wrong, it should be "Click Next, then click Finish".

 

Thanks for the hard work, and for the time it took you to create the video. . .*Thumbs

 

You are welcome Lee *Smile.

 

Geeks & geekettes, I have not forgotten I promised to do a video or tut about video making this weekend. It just takes a day or two longer than I expected.

I started to make the video about it today and surprise surprise, seems that a video about video making is quite hard to make. I am not happy with the raw video I managed to capture today, I will continue tomorrow *Smile.

 

Fellow geeks, I have an idea and would like to have your feedback.

Last few days I have been trying to compose an instructional video about Windows video making. I am not happy with the outcome, I will continue and try my best.

In the mean time, I have just tested the system and found a nice, easy and working way to organize an online live event. If you show any interest, we could have a live session "Ten Forums Live! Make your own Windows videos - The Basics" this weekend. I would present the free tools available, show how to start and we would make a short video together. The live session would last anything between 30 and 60 minutes, and it would allow you to interactively participate with your questions and comments (chat enabled, text and / or audio as you wish). I would also record the online meeting and post it then later here.

If you are interested, please let me know by posting in this thread. To find the best possible time (we are from around the globe and different timezones!), let me also know if you could only participate in the morning, afternoon or evening, and we could try to find a time spot suitable to as many members as possible. I'm an insomniac, I'm ready for this 24/7 so you don't have to think my timezone.

Please let me know, also if you think this is a bad idea *Smile.

 

Sounds interesting. I'm 7 hours behind you, but will be available whenever you decide.

 

I was thinking about Saturday at 6 or 7 PM my time (CEST), it would be 11 AM or noon for you, 9 or 10 AM for the West Coast, late evening for Asia and Australia.

Let's see if there are people interested in this, posted today so that TF geeks would have a few days to think.

 

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Computer Name - Change in Windows 10

 

I would be interested, Kari. I'm US Central Time (US & Canada). As long as it's not midnight my time, I'm game. *Smile

My coach turns into a pumpkin and my horses turn into mice at midnight. *Smile

 

I will add your video to the list, it shows now the process correctly. You could try using some other way to tell what you are doing, the WordPad solution is for the first quite lame and looking boring and for the second not very informative. Try PowerPoint, you don't have to buy Microsoft Office to get it, you can use PowerPoint Online or PowerPoint Windows App, both are free, to make nice looking slides. Make screenshots of the slides and insert them to correct places in the video.

Another observation: if you will continue without narration in your videos, you need at least show the text instructions more often, covering only the next step or two instead of that you write in your Wordpad in the beginning of the video everything you will do and the rest of the video has no explanations.

It looks better and is more informative if you tell the next step or two, show how it's done, then tell the next step before showing it, and so on.

PowerPoint Online can be found here: Microsoft PowerPoint Online - Work together on PowerPoint presentations

About installing Office Apps including PowerPoint: Office Apps - Install and Use in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

@Wynona, @Dude

OK, not very much interest but as this is a new concept, I am really willing to test even if there only was one or two attendees. I will stay online at least an hour even if no one shows up. My suggestion is today (it's Saturday, April 25th already here) at 17:30 (5:30 PM) UTC. This page shows the time in your local time: Event Time Announcer - Make your own Windows videos - The Basics

I would appreciate if anyone going to participate would tell it here beforehand (just to make sure I bring enough refreshments *Smile).

To prepare, this is the software we will use in case you want to install them before we start:

• Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 SP2:
  • Download Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) from Official Microsoft Download Center. Notice that this software is today free to use. Installation asks for a product key, simply skip it.
• Windows Essentials Movie Maker:
  • Get Movie Maker - Microsoft Windows (select Windows Movie Maker for Windows 8)
    
• PowerPoint:
  • In case you don't have PowerPoint desktop app, see install instructions for free PowerPoint Windows App: Office Apps - Install and Use in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums
    
• Screenpresso:
  • To make screenshots of the PowerPoint slides to be used as inserted text slides in video, I prefer Screenpresso but any app for screenshots will do, including the Windows own built-in native Snipping Tool. Screenpresso download: Screenpresso: The Ultimate Screen Capture Tool for Windows

 

Okay, sounds good @Kari

 

Kari
Trying to clear my schedule to be able to join your event. So far looks good for my time zone. One question, is this the gathering site?

 

Kind of *Smile.

I will post here a link to meeting here about half an hour before we start. Until that moment I am not able to tell if it will be a live YouTube event happening in an embedded YouTube in the post, or if it will be an open to all Lync online meeting. I am testing the YouTube option which I would rather use, but I have some extreme delay issues at the moment. If I can't fix these issues, we will go with Lync meeting which works extremely well.

In any case I post about two hours before the meeting the instructions how to join.

BTW, I hope that when you join the meeting and when you are asked to tell your name you would use the Ten Forums usernames.

I will in any case record the meeting and post it here as an embedded video later tonight.