Thanks to the generous donations of iCodeBlog users, I am pleased to announce that I will start doing some video tutorials starting early next week (or later this week if I have time). I have purchased iShowU HD Pro ScreenFlow and this will allow me to do screen casts of me writing the programs. From there, I will be able to overdub my voice, giving instruction every step of the way.
What is so good about this?
- Tutorials will be more frequent. This is a much more efficient way to create tutorials and will require less hours on my part.
- Better explanations. There are some things that are just too hard (or long) to explain with just text alone. I will be able to better explain some of the design patterns that I choose as well as explain in more detail Objective-C.
- Added level of clarity. Rather than me trying to show you what I am doing via screenshots, you will actually be able to view every single keystroke I make while I explain what I am doing.
- People can’t cry in the comments saying “It doesn’t compile…” as YOU JUST SAW IT WORK on my screen.
I hope to have the first video tutorial out by early next week…What will it be on you ask? UITableViews…just kidding. Probably something simple at first such as UITabView to get used to the whole screen casting thing. I’m excited and I know you are!
Happy iCoding!
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**Update** I have decided to use ScreenCast over iShowU as it is a little more feature-rich.
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Anything that makes is easier for you to create these fantastic posts has got to be good.
Excellent news! As a newbie to ObjC and Cocoa, I’ve followed each of your previous tutorials, finding every one of them highly informative and educational. I’m really looking forward to what’s in store!
I can’t wait for the the screencasts. All the other tutorials have been really good. Some of the better one’s I’ve encountered.
Hi Brandon,
Great news, congrats.
Be aware however that #1 on your list (“…will require less hours on my part”) might not be true. At least not the first few weeks
.
I’ve done a lot of writing and video tutorials myself and also believed that a video would be less time consuming. In the end however, I always find myself cutting and pasting in the video reel, reshooting parts of the video as I had some unwanted ‘eeehhh’s and ‘hmmms’ in the voice-over.
Or sometimes I had to do it all over because I made a typo earlier in the video that I didn’t notice. And the code wouldn’t compile, haha.
When you do a seperate voice-over you’ll have to go to the material at least twice, but most of the time three or four times. All in real-time. And then there are annotations, titles, etc.
As an indication: It takes me about an hour and a half to write a good tutorial – depending on the subject of course, no of screen shots included, etc. It takes about that same amount of time to produce a good quality video of about 7-10 minutes.
Your mileage may vary, I’m anxious to see the results.
Good luck, keep it up!
Peter.
Hi,
I’m an italian user and I just found your great blog!
Please, speak slow in your video tutorials
Pad
@peter
Thanks for the heads up. I have anticipated a bit of a curve of getting used to video tutorials. I’m sure at first I will spend a lot more time in the editing process. This is why the dirt few tutorials probably won’t be too long. just curious, what screen cast software do you use?
Hi Brandon,
Being a native .NET developer I’m a Windows Camtasia Studio veteran I’m afraid (since 1999 or so). I’ve only recently picked up ObjC programming and have not much experience on Mac OS X yet.
For screen recording I use Camtasia exclusively, for live recording I use Adobe Premiere Pro.
I have however recorded some small tuts for my own blog using Techsmith Jing for Mac. This is far from ideal however and only suitable if you have A) not a lot to say and B) are satisfied with tutorials the size of a postcard… (measured both in dimensions and in time). Furthermore: you have to do it right the first time, because you can’t edit your footage afterwards!
You can see some examples on my blog (sorry, Dutch only
.
So I’m looking forward to see what you can do with iShowU.
thanks,
Peter.
PS: Pad actually made a very good point.
I speak Dutch in my tutorials and yet have gotten some complaints (from fellow Dutchmen!) for speaking to fast in relation to the technique shown…
ah, well. I guess they just have to speed up their understanding a bit
Peter.
amazing tutorials
my only tidbit on the video tutorials, as i’ve watched a few others re: iphone coding, as others have said, it is good to speak slow, but also when coding, i usually can’t see the code/screen unless the video tutorial zooms in on it, but as long as you provide the source code, then we can follow along
Thank you guys for all of the suggestions. I will be sure to speak slowly as well as zoom in on the code while I type. Screenflow is a very robust application that allows for quite a bit of video editing. So, this should not be a problem.
I’m very excited about this and can’t wait to get the first video tutorial up…
Would be cool to see a demonstration of how to use the location API
I am pretty impressed with how your building the site up Brandon, keep up the awesome work
Hey Brandon,
First, thanks for the GREAT site. I’ve spent hours in Apple Docs, Obj-C books, and the other sites with videos – yours is the best by far!
I think the video is a good concept, but what really drew me here is the great, well written articles. You have a great talent for writing well, and making this easy to grok.
I really hope you don’t do away with the articles/posts once you start video. Please consider augmenting the articles with video, not replacing them with video.
Thanks for listening
-Ed
Congrats! cant wait!
It’s a good news!!
I love your tutorial. You have much heart and put many efforts on it.
Look forward of your video version of tutorial.
Support you.
Oh! Will you please make a video tutorial for the SQLite text tutorials you just published! That would be great!
Thanks,
and Congratulations!
@Ross W.
Sorry man, I simply don’t have time to re-do those tutorials. I would love to, but I want to make sure and have fresh new tutorials every week. The majority of my blog’s subscribers would not like this…
I would be happy to answer your questions on this post.
Looking forward to the video tutorials, mainly because I’m idle and would much sooner watch someone show me, rather than reading text
oh, and there are so many people making video tutorials that teach you nothing. After googling so much to learn this stuff, I always seem to end up here on this blog to find out how to do things….keep up the good work, its much apprisiated, so far Apple have been no help to me whatsoever
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