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The Best Reasons to Record your Training Course Using GotoWebinar Rather than Camtasia Studio

Many of the courses on the Learn Camtasia site (and the tutorials we put on YouTube) were created via GotoWebinar recordings which were then edited and produced with Camtasia Studio. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been getting more inquiries about when it makes sense to deliver and record a training course live online with GoToWebinar versus recording it privately off-line with Camtasia Studio.

Webinar Assistant

Lon and I have a very detailed Camtasia Studio course which shows you how to create training courses and other types of video using that tool. But, last week I spoke to Gena who has been searching for a Virtual Assistant for Webinars who could train her on how to use GotoWebinar to record her training course then just use Camtsia to edit it. As I have lots of experience doing courses this way we were able to discuss the pros and cons.  After a while she decided that she was most comfortable with the following process: She would present her training to me privately in three separate sessions in GotoWebinar, then, using Camtasia, I would edit out her mistakes and produce the videos as three training Modules that could be hosted on her server .

Here’s why she decided to do it in GotoWebinar from the start, rather than recording with Camtasia.

  1. It takes a while to learn how to create a multi level course using Camtasia Studio whereas it is easy just showing up and delivering a course to one person in GotoWebinar.
  2. Generally, courses created in Camtasia Studio are scripted and take longer to do the preliminary design work.
  3. Because of no. 1 and 2 there is a lower likelihood that the course will ever get created at all.

Therefore, sometimes it makes sense for time and motivation to deliver the course in GotoMeeting(GTM)or GotoWebinar (GTW) and edit it later in Camtasia.

You may also wonder– if you do decide to record it via GTW or GTM should you deliver it live to an audience or just to one person -such as a Webinar Assistant– (yes, purposefully sneaking this link in one more time).

The benefits to delivering it live to an audience are

  1. Once you have told them the date, there’s no backing out so you’re sure to really get it completed.
  2. It’s nice to have the Q and A with the audience as it makes the course more interesting and adds a lot of good content.
  3. If you invite all your subscribers and no one registers- well- maybe the subject isn’t interesting enough to people to even waste your time doing the course at all. But if lots of people attend you’ll make money right away without waiting to see if it sells later.

The benefits of delivering the webinar one to one with only your Webinar Assistant on the line are

  1. No pressure. Easy to redo a slide or correct a mistake “on the fly” without being embarrassed.
  2. Flexible day/time. When you’re presentation is ready just plan to record the next day.
  3. No worries about technical issues. With just two people on it is so laid back that technical issues really aren’t an issue.

So, when the time comes to create a video training course you may want to reread this blogpost and give it a little thought to decide which process will work best for you.  For those of you who have created courses live via GotoWebinar vs solely in Camtasia Studio, which do you prefer?

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Sheila Reply

I don’t get it – why not just do it all in Camtasia? Have I missed something?

Ron Hogue Reply

I love Camtasia Studio for making video training courses. But when it comes to speed, live webinar courses are SEVERAL times faster to create, edit, and produce. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that I could probably create 5-10 courses via webinar in the time I could create 1 “studio” course.
As a tip, I’ll record with both the Camtasia Studio recorder and the webinar recorder (WebEx in my case) for a backup. This has saved me more than once.

Michelle Schoen Reply

Hi Shelia,

I can understand you being confused as many people are when it comes to the actual recording process. If you already own Camtasia and understand how to use it to edit and produce a training course than you CAN do it all in Camtasia. The problem is that not everyone has Camtasia or knows how to use it and even if they do they have trouble motivating themselves to sit alone and create their videos.

So, an alternative is to make yourself accountable to either an audience or to a Webinar Assistant to actually show up and deliver a presentation via a webinar. When you do it this way you get your videos done quickly. Make sense?

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