Planning the development of your first series of training videos can be a challenging experience for new training video developers. Pentext simplifies this experience by working with you and/or your group to create your first development plan and series of training videos with you.

We work with you to define your development plan, which includes your audience requirements, screen recording requirements and resolutions, content outlines, storyboard, script, style guide, and publishing settings. We will then help you to build our first tutorial with audio recording from the planning document, which will help you to learn how to implement the planning specifications.

What you get
At the end of this course you will have a complete development plan, which specifies every stage of development, recording details, publishing details specific to your project, and one fully complete training video (with audio narration) to start your training video series. You can request additional videos.

Six months of after-training support
All pentext courses are accompanied by our six months of complete support services. You can communicate with your instructor by email, telephone, and schedule additional training time.

All courses are specific to your corporate group
That means that one of our instructors will work with you (or your team) specifically; you will never be in a training group with participants from any other company.

Four Day Training
Online Training: $2800.00 (per participant)
Classroom: $2800.00 (per participant)

*Please contact us group rates, or sessions with extended or less days.
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Custom Development Addons
Add a "Developing for Handheld Devices" module for the iPhone, Blackberry, or Google Android (free with this course)
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Planning the development of your first training video

We work with you to define your development plan, which includes your audience requirements, screen recording requirements and resolutions, content outlines, storyboard, script, style guide, and publishing settings. We will then help you to build our first tutorial with audio recording from the planning document, which will help you to learn how to implement the planning specifications.

After Training Support
Six months of support is provided to all participants at no extra cost. Participants can communicate with their instructors by telephone, email, and receive immediate impromptu support through our remote desktop training tool.

Course Outline

Unit 1: Developing a Content Development Plan
This sections teaches you the basics required to plan your training development project. At the end of this session you will have a complete development plan that you can use for your projects.

Defining your Audience's Viewing Requirements
- Bandwidth Considerations
- Analyzing your Resources
- Analyzing your Constraints
- Screen Resolution
- Instructional Design
- Defining your Audience's Viewing Requirements

Defining your Objectives
- Overall Training Objectives
- Activity Objectives
- Task Objectives
- Defining your Custom Objectives

Creating a Content Outline
- Instructional Design for your Project
- Defining Modules
- Chunking Content
- Understanding Linear and Interactive Paths
- Interactive Module Access Points
- Creating Audio Content for your customized tutorial

Writing a Two-column Script
- Understanding the communication column and the Actions Column
- Writing to be Heard
- Associating Narrative and Screen Actions
- Writing for Team Development
- Defining your audio file name in your script
- Creating a Storyboardriting a script for your customized tutorial

Creating a Storyboard
- Developing a Key Frame Storyboard
- Identifying Major Transitions
- Communicating Transitions and Actions
- Creating a Storyboard for your customized tutorial

Defining Interactivity
- Creating an Interactive Flowchart
- Understanding Linear and Interactive Content
- Maintaining a Users Attention
- Planning to Create Multiple Paths - Branching
- Structuring your Captivate Movies

Setting up your recording environment
- Configuring your microphone (new microphone provided)
- Using Adobe Soundbooth to record audio
- Editing your audio recording
- Rendering your audio for content import

Recording A Software Demonstration
- Preparing to Record an Application
- Record your project
- Edit the content
- Publish and deliver
- Recording a New Movie

Adding Objects and Effects
- Describing Text Captions
- Describing the Auto-Generated Text Captions
- Editing Text Captions
- Inserting New Text Captions
- Resizing Text Captions
- Inserting and Stacking New Text Captions

Recording and Playing Audio Files
- Setting up your audio recording
- Audio recording software settings
- Microphone placement
- Microphone technique
- Audio editing
- importing audio files into your project

Editing and Synchronizing Audio and Screen Recordings
- Describing the Timeline
- Changing Caption Timing
- Changing Object Timing
- Changing Slide Timing
- Describing Major Components of the Timeline
- Using the Playhead to Preview the Timeline
- Scrubbing the Timeline
- Walkthrough 4-1: Working with the Timeline
- Changing the Order of Object Layers
- Example of Stacking Three Text Captions

Working With Images And Objects
- Inserting Images
- Using Images as Logos, Splash Screens, Pointers and More
- Importing Many Graphic Formats
- Describing the New Image Dialog Box
- Resizing Images

Setting Image Properties
- Stacking Images/Objects
- Bring to Front/Send to Back/Bring Forward/Send Backward
- Sending Image to the Background
- Merging Images/Objects

Finishing Touches and Publishing Your Project
- Inserting Text Animation
- Changing Text Animation Effects
- Changing Font Attributes
- Describing the New Text Animation Dialog Box
- Inserting Animation
- Adding Animation Files
- Describing the New Animation Dialog Box

Publishing your Project for online or Handheld Devices
- Publishing Projects
- Creating Publishing Templates
- Flash files (SWF)
- Publishing Project to a Flash (SWF) File