At the DevLearn conference last week, I attended one of the breakout sessions titled, Adding Screencasting to Your eLearning Tookit. Speaker Mike Baron, Chief Storyteller at ProjectStory.com, delivered a great session with a wealth of actionable tips ranging from software equipment and budget considerations to techniques for working with subject matter experts (SMEs) and rapid content authoring sourced from SMEs.
Mike recognized me and was kind enough to give a shout-out for the blog while also kindly allowing me to chime in with my two cents during the Q&A. (Mike’s pretty cool. ‘Hope you get a chance to meet him one day.)
Q&A – How to replace audio narration with new voiceover.
One of the questions we fielded related to replacing audio narration with a new voiceover — but to also be able to do so without losing the synchronization between the new voiceover and the original video.
The answer (the subject of the video above) was right up my alley since it comes up quite frequently on projects where I repurpose product demos or recorded SME meetings for quick turnarounds as video “how to” tutorials or marketing demos.
As I was giving my verbal answer in the session’s Q&A, I described my technique of using the caption feature in ScreenFlow and Camtasia as a transcript. Doing it this way helps a lot in guaranteeing that the spoken word for the new voiceover will stay in sync with the video timing of the original narration.
Check out the video above. If you have any questions or suggestions, I hope you’ll share ‘em in the comment box below.
