Video

DaVinci Resolve 16 is a truly fabulous and FREE professional video editor. Its color grading features have been used in Hollywood films for years as the industry standard. Resolve’s editing features have come on very strong in recent years to start to compete with Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro. With the addition of the “Cuts” tab view, many are saying it has caught up to, or eclipsed, the competition. Today, I want to show you how you can pull a green screen key in Resolve for converting classroom lectures to on demand videos for your blended curriculum. It’s admittedly not as “one click intuitive” as other video editors, but the rewards for getting to know Resolve run deep.

Many design and development training teams are Mac users, much like their counterparts in Marketing, so in this post I demonstrate how to use Final Cut Pro’s super easy green screen effect to convert classroom learning and presentations into microlearning for your blended training curriculums. I believe Final Cut offers the best combination of one click speed and quality of all of the major video editors. Premiere Pro and Resolve 16 both have deep features for tweaking your key, but take some artful trial and error to for the best results. Camtasia does a super job for beginners to the green screen game, and continues with each release to compete a little more with the full featured editors as video becomes more synonymous with training.

Many organizations with a learning design and development team use Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite of products. My sense is that many of these Instructional Designers use Photoshop, Illustrator and possibly InDesign for job aids to a large extent, but may not realize how easy it is to use Premiere Pro’s green screen effect to turn classroom training into eLearning in a snap. If you are used to Photoshop and the basic Adobe tool palettes and layouts, even though you may not be a video editor, you will quickly pick up how to work with Adobe Premiere. I hope you make good use of this great learning feature!

In 2020, video is without question the most popular and widely used medium for microlearning on demand. Every day, across organizations, there are still great lectures and classroom events happening in a world of learning that is more and more dominated by phones and iPads. If your organization has Camtasia, you can use its green screen feature to record these one time events and turn their gold into on demand training that you can distribute and use anytime, anywhere, and on any platform. Let me show you how easy it is to pair your presenter’s video with their content.

When creating Micro Learning, it’s important that your learner’s experience be in the context of their actual job. In this reenactment, we showcase how a Case Manager would assist a member on a live customer service call using visual callouts and tips throughout the video.

In this video I show you an example of how to integrate a micro learning systems piece into a larger Articulate module using Camtasia. My goal for you is not to demonstrate how to perform actions in Camtasia, but the why and when to integrate video to enhance learner retention.

Micro Learning is one of the most trendy terms in learning today. However, I have found it is also one of the most misunderstood ones as well. If you are going to have a chance to successfully implement micro learning in your company or marketing program, it helps to know some key things around it. You truly need to have a well-defined knowledge of “who” the learning is for so that you can create a customizable delivery platform.