How do you all make your how-to videos?

mistercharlie

I’m planning to make some tutorial videos, with hardware hooked up to computers. EG a video on connecting a Digitakt to a Mac for recording. I will screen-record the Mac, and use an iPhone to film the Digitakt, but how will I combine everything, in sync, and with my own voiceover?

Any tips? I feel it should be fairly straightforward, but I also know there’s always one thing that sabotages the rest of it.

branis

If you have the same audio recorded on both footage you can use that to sync. Some software, e.g. Da Vinci Resolve can auto sync based on the audio.

mistercharlie

So I could use the iPhone’s internal mic to record the room, and hook my mic up to the mac and record that on a channel in the Live/Logic project where all the music is going. Then, use my voice tracks to sync.

I wonder about syncing the Mac screen cap though.

EDIT: maybe I could just feed the iPhone camera to the Mac via QuickTime, and place the window over the Ableton window… no video comping required.

rs2000

There is software that can combine both the Mac screen e.g. as the main picture and the iPhone video as a smaller overlay that can be freely positioned.
I would always prefer a recording method that already produces a recording with everything in place, including a great audio mix.
Editing can take so much time, especially when you have to cut or insert sequences with the source material split over multiple audio and video tracks.

Gavinski

What is the way to add a pointer to the screen if you are not using a mouse, just using your ipad and screen record? I followed up something about this online, but it didn’t work as I was hoping.

mistercharlie

@rs2000 said:
There is software that can combine both the Mac screen e.g. as the main picture and the iPhone video as a smaller overlay that can be freely positioned.

That sounds perfect. Do you know the names of any of them?

I would always prefer a recording method that already produces a recording with everything in place, including a great audio mix.
Editing can take so much time, especially when you have to cut or insert sequences with the source material split over multiple audio and video tracks.

Agreed. I’m trying to avoid that. The more time I spend futzing with the edit and setup, the less time I’ll have for making the videos concise and entertaining.

rs2000

@mistercharlie said:

@rs2000 said:
There is software that can combine both the Mac screen e.g. as the main picture and the iPhone video as a smaller overlay that can be freely positioned.

That sounds perfect. Do you know the names of any of them?

It's been a while but I'd try EpocCam (free) or Webcam+ (and the related Mac drivers) on the iPhone first. The MacOS driver will let you stream the iPhone live video over WiFi to your Mac desktop, then record the Mac sceen using QuickTime Player > New Screen Recording.
Position the Webcam viewer window where you want it (Webcam+ worked better for me, EpocCam had large black bars in the image) and drag a frame around the area you want to capture on screen.
I bet there are better iOS webcam apps but that's what I did.

rs2000

@Gavinski said:
What is the way to add a pointer to the screen if you are not using a mouse, just using your ipad and screen record? I followed up something about this online, but it didn’t work as I was hoping.

I guess you'll have to use a mouse and iPadOS.

Other than that, if single taps (no tap-dragging) are sufficient, you can add a "tap gesture" in accessibility and configure a single tap, shown on-screen by that circle with a white dot in the middle.

mistercharlie

@rs2000 Nice. I’ll check those out. It’s also possible to record an iPhone direct into QuickTime without any drivers. I’ve done that before.

rs2000

@mistercharlie said:
@rs2000 Nice. I’ll check those out. It’s also possible to record an iPhone direct into QuickTime without any drivers. I’ve done that before.

Cool!

Jocphone

Wasn’t there a Roland app, announced as free a few days ago, that could record and/or stream 4 video feeds at once?

Edit: Ah no, sorry. The roland app is more like a multitrack, add one video after another, split screen affair.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/4xcamera/id1244631319

u0421793

I used to use several cameras and various input converters for computer / iPad2 into a BlackMagic ATEM Television studio, with a choice of a BlackMagic H264 Converter or BlackMagic Intensity Shuttle or BlackMagic Mini Recorder, and do it all in one take (effectively live) so I didn’t have to post-produce anything. I don’t have that gear any more, but it was a nice workflow.

mistercharlie

@u0421793 That sounds like a sweet setup. My goal is to do as little post production as possible. I see that iMovie does PiP, so it may not be too bad to shoot the hardware part with the iPhone, and sync it all up with a handclap.

MarkH

This is my current solution.

Tarekith

I use Screenflow to edit my videos together, so I can combine audio from Live, video/audio from my iPhone or iPad, and any screen recordings I take as well. Very easy to use, in fact I use it for all my video editing now.

I was using iMovie before that, same concept but for me at least not quite as powerful and a little more clunky.

Daveypoo

I have an incredibly low-budget setup - face cam is my Android phone, use screen record for iPad video, my Zoom H4n recorder's built in mics capture my voice and the H4n's inputs take the headphone out of my Behringer UMC404HD interface.

I sync everything manually in Lumafusion, then edit, annotate, etc.

No rocket science here, though it most likely shows in my lack of production quality...

mistercharlie

I like your videos. Thanks for sharing the setup. Right now I’m stuck on simultaneously recording the iPhone’s camera along with the screen capture. I think I’m going to have to manually sync it

Otherwise I’m all set.

How’s Lumafusion? Does it do picture in picture?