Windows 10: Windows 10 instructional videos by Ten Forums members

Kari,
Thanks for putting the recording of the live session up online. I missed some things that I am now catching up on. Se oli hyvä *Smile

 

Thanks Charlie. Your Finnish is perfect *Smile.

BTW, here's an example of the time needed as we talked about it on Saturday. A 40 minute screen capture raw video with HD resolution, file size 268.5 MB. I started the encoding in best quality about half an hour ago, it still has 3 hours to go:




In my case now there was nothing I could cut out from the raw video, I need it all. Usually you would cut unnecessary and irrelevant segments out already here in the Encoder before encoding, in order to get smaller raw video file size and reduce the time needed for encoding.

 

@Wynona, @Dude, @Charlie & @essenbe, have you had the possibility to test your new skills yet? Any videos made?

I have a list of some pretty simple and basic Windows 10 features, about how to do something in Windows 10 and was wondering if you would be up to an unofficial "exam" *Smile?

If interested I will give you a task, a basic Windows 10 feature, telling my opinion about what the video should show, and you could then make a minute or two video about it. This way we could be sure we are not all making the same videos at the same time.

If interested, please let me know. If you want to we could also have another online session together where I could grant you the presenter rights so that you could show your progress from your desktop and we could then look more into your possible issues.

No stress, this is just an idea...

*Wink

 

@Kari This went from fun to a test *Eek Just kidding. I will prepare a video for the next online session and present it

 

Nice!

I have been thinking to redo the online session on Saturday in week and a half, 11th of May. This time difference makes it quite difficult to do it on any other day and time than Saturday evening Central European, around noon US time, and I was thinking this Saturday would be too soon.

 

Kari, what program did you use to make stuff like your Desktop background and some of your other additions? I am not very graphics talented but would like to make it look nice. I could always ask Arc, but I'd really like to learn how to do it myself. Your coffee cup is excellent.

 

I have made the desktop background I use in the videos from a video file. To save you the work, here are both the dark and light ones I use:

 

About how I do these, first the backgrounds:

I usually get the background images from existing videos. I watch the video in full screen, stop it at the point I want to capture and make a screenshot, saving it as 1920*1080 PNG image.

If it needs editing I do it in the Windows Paint. In the case of the image in my previous post, I used PhotoShop to create the lighter one from the darker original.

For text slides inserted in videos, I use PowerPoint. You don't have to use the paid for version, the free PowerPoint Online and / or PowerPoint Windows App available from Store (Beta) are enough.

I use these Ten Forums themed backgrounds as the slide background in PowerPoint, usually the darker one in the title slide where's less text, and then later the lighter one with the explaining slides with more text so that the text is better visible.

When I am done with the PowerPoint presentation, when I have created all the slides I need, I start a slideshow in full screen. Now I create a full screen screenshot of the slide 1, then move to slide 2 and do the same, and so on. This results a bunch of image files, each showing one slide intended to be inserted to the video, which I can then import to Movie Maker and place where I want them.

That's something to start with *Smile.

 

OK, thanks. I have most of that already, with the exception of Photoshop, but I have the free version from the Windows Store.

 

Nice Dude!

Some points, please remember this is just my personal very subjective opinion:

• How about instead of showing all instructions at once at start, show them in two or three slides? Like 1.) Open the Settings and go to blah blah, then to show that to viewers, then second slide for instance 2.) Browse to your Slideshow folder and select it blah blah and so on, then showing it, you get my point
• Do you cover all options? What about how often the background will be changed?

 

Thanks Kari, good points. That was more of a run to make sure I can make a video. I will refine it and cover some more details. It's my prep vid to prepare for the next session *Wink

I did it with all the free tools, my full office suite is on my Win 8.1 OS. I used the online office, and created a new google account. I'm ready to practice more now

 

You got the slide nicely inserted. Maybe add a title slide at the beginning?