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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Recording Screencasts - Hardware, Software, Dos and Don'ts

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.9 β€’ 1.1K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Scott and Wes everything about their recording β€” from gear to software to tips and tricks for creating a good screencast.

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Show Notes

2:00

4:00

14:30

  • What are the essentials for hardware?
  • Put a t-shirt under your keyboard

16:00

32:00

  • Making Mistakes
  • Leaving in goof ups and debugging

40:00

  • Bad screen recordings
  • What is boring? What is annoying?
  • Recording pet peves
  • Tips for sizing your editor
  • Gross sounds
  • Too many files

50:00

  • What makes a good recording?
  • Good contrast on colour scheme
  • Keeping the code open
  • Short recordings

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:06.0

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.0

Here is Scott Tolinsky and West Boss.

0:10.5

Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of syntax today we're going to be talking all about

0:15.8

recording our own recording workflows what makes a good screencast what makes a bad screencasts

0:21.2

what hardware we use what microphone I get a lot of questions

0:24.0

I'm sure Scott does as well about this stuff so this is going to be

0:29.0

hopefully the the podcast that I point people to when they ask me

0:32.0

questions about the nitty gritty details of recording.

0:35.5

And I think it's kind of a nice topic because even if you're not running a full-time business

0:41.2

making screen recordings like Scott and I are, it's helpful just to have a good

0:45.9

setup if you want to make internal documentation, you want to throw a couple of YouTube videos up,

0:51.6

the right setup will go a long way. So with me today is Scott Tolinsky.

0:58.0

Hey, welcome. How you doing today? I'm doing good, doing good, a beautiful day, hanging out, ready to get the week going and, yeah, you know,

1:07.0

working on another new series as I do. I got a new monthly series every single month, so I got to get on that grind and as this topic is

1:15.8

recording I'm going to be doing a lot of recording and editing over the next few

1:20.9

days as always I suppose how you doing how are you doing today I'm good I'm doing well I'm going off to Manchester and a couple days so I'm just getting

1:31.7

wrapping up my work and I have a conference that I'm doing a

1:35.4

talk out over there so I'm looking forward to that's called up front comf. I know I'm going to be meeting a lot of syntax

1:40.9

listeners there so shout out to you. Nice super cool. Yeah this

1:45.6

episode is sponsored by Fresh Books and Netlify. We'll talk a little bit more

1:49.8

about both of those companies part way through the show. So why don't we kick it off and let's start off and just

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