Tips for making and promoting your tutorials.

[Jelmer]

Alright, so you want to make a (video) tutorial, or you've already made one, but want to know how to get people to watch it, then keep on reading!

Tips for recording video tutorials

There are a few applications useful for recording video tutorials, the most professional, but also most expensive option is camtasia studio.
Some of it's useful features:

• Many output formats and settings, including .avi, .wmv, .move and flash.
• Has it's own, efficient codec developed for video tuts.

Another, open source application which is completely free and easy to use too is camstudio, although there are fewer options it's still very good for capturing video tutorials.

Also, don't forget about audio, besides showing what you do, explaining it at the same time can be much more valuable! So if you have a microphone, don't hesitate and add some sound.

Of course, it's also fine to add text tutorials, just create a new thread in the appropriate forum and add some images to help out.

Tips for promoting your tutorials

Besides making your tutorial, you can also promote it to attract more visitors/viewers, if you have a portfolio it's definitely useful to add a link, more visitors means more visits to your portfolio, so an increased chance of landing a job.

You can submit your tutorials on any of these tutorial websites, I've ordered them by popularity and ease of use.

• Tutorialized.com
• Cgtutorials.com
• pixel2life.com
• sharecg.com
  
• if you have any suggestions, post below please.

Another option is contacting other cg communities, some sites that are probably willing to post about your tutorial:

• 3dm3.com
• Cgarena.com
• if you have any suggestions, post below please.

Uploading/submitting tutorials

If your tutorials is under 40 mb you can contact an admin or staff member to increase your attachment limit, if it's large we can arrange uploading via FTP, please do not upload on free sites such as rapidshare, because they're usually quite limited, instead contact us for an ftp account to upload your tutorial.

Thanks for reading, I hope this is useful for (potential) tutorial-makers, if you have any questions feel free to ask.

[NinjaHanzo]

dont forget about www.3dtutorials.sk
THE WORLD'S BIGGEST 3D TUTORIALS SITE!! .... or so it claims lol :P

[CU441ES]

love that website!!

Good tips Jelmer!

[CU441ES]

I found this and i just had to laugh!!

What NOT to do, video your screen with a camera

[section1]

Yeah it's silly isn't it

[geldslaw]

brillaint, really helpful, thanks

[TE_]

Originally Posted by CU441ES

I found this and i just had to laugh!!

What NOT to do, video your screen with a camera

hahaha,, yeah this guy know how to improvise

[MrTom]

Superb!

One phrase springs to mind immediately...........

"Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach."

Perfect example methinks?

Regards.

[Drag00nSlayer]

For professional tutorial's I use SimplyMax.com there free tutorials are in a class of there own ( Since allot of them you use to have to buy )

And there W.I.P. Board may get you more noticed
But there are ton's of good people there so you may have to improve

But for random stuff I use tutorialized.com as well great site even though a bit random

[Fox]

Camtasia 3.1.3 for free.

100% legal too.

Download the file from here:
Techsmith offers free Camtasia Studio download - Download Squad

There go here (Offical Techsmith site) and request Serial Key:
Register for your Camtasia Studio 2 Software Key

No excuses now for no tutorials!