Course Outline and Task Breakdown: Kicked off by creating the Snagit demo video, highlighting its screen capture and recording capabilities. Planned upcoming demos for Lipsurf, Gmelius, Zapier, Make, and GPT for Sheets. Recorded the "Gmail: Priority Star Method" lesson.
Template Creation and Custom GPT Setup: Developed the Gmail: Priority Star Method lesson for effective email management. Created the Lipsurf demo, a browser extension for speech-to-text capabilities. Faced some integration issues with Lipsurf in Google Docs.
Initial Filming and Scripting: Set up and recorded lessons for Chatsonic and Gmelius using Camtasia. Overcame Writesonic’s billing changes by utilizing demo videos from their website.
Research and Process Improvement: Generated B-roll clips for software demonstrations, solved the challenge of smooth scrolling in screen captures using a Chrome plugin and 60 fps recording settings.
Scripting Completion: Completed ChatGPT and Gemini lessons. Demonstrated creating audiobook summaries and performing competitive analysis, rounding off the week's tasks and setting up for final edits and further lesson development next week.
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Step 1 - Install Chrome plugin called Simple Autoscroll
This extension allows you to automatically scroll any webpage. I use it for scrolling my scripts as well, so it acts a bit like an old-school teleprompter. Then I use these settings for that oh so buttery smooth scrolling action:
Step 2 - Screen record at 60 fps
Camtasia and Snagit allows you to increase the recording frame rate to 60fps. The workflow was I started the automatic scroll, paused it (Alt+J) then back to top of the page, Ctrl+M to drop a marker in the timeline (to show the beginning of a new website clip) then start recording, then resume the auto scroll - and repeat for all websites needed.
Step 3 - Editing
Create a new project after the screen recording and following these steps:
Video Render Settings
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ChatGPT Demo Lesson Content
Gemini
In the lesson I show learners how to create their own Audiobook summaries of their favourite productivity books.
The goal of this prompt is to create an audiobook style summary of the most popular productivity and business books to listen to on an audio device or smartphone.
Step 1 -The ChatGPT Prompt
Provide a chapter-by-chapter summary of the following book title.
[INSERT THE BOOK TITLE]
The format and tone should be that of an audiobook. The summaries will be converted to audio files via a text to speech tool, so consider this and try to make it flow and make the summaries sound like an engaging audiobook.
Chapter Summaries
- Make sure to include key points, strategies, concepts, quotes, insightful tips and other relevant information.
- Each summary should be around 200-500 words.
- The summaries should contain the most important aspects of the chapter.
- Include a bullet list of the key takeaways from the chapter
- Using the 80/20 rule extract the 20% of the key learnings for the bullet list aboveStep 2 - Use Speechify to Create the audio file
Using Speechify or any other TTS software you're able to take the summary and convert it into an audio file that can be played on your smartphone or audio device.
That’s it for this week.
If there is anything you'd like to see more of, or you have your own ideas comments or tips, I'd love to hear your thoughts! Use the comment section below to drop me a message.
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