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Recording of WTD presentation on Video Documentation, by Alicia Avrach

by Tom Johnson on Apr 24, 2016
categories: podcasts

Alicia Avrach, a content strategist at ThoughtSpot, gave a presentation about video documentation at a recent Write the Docs San Francisco meetup. In this presentation, Alicia covers all the aspects of video production, from scripting to recording, post-processing, publishing, and more.

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Curious about video documentation?

What is it really? What are some best practices?

We are pleased to have Alicia Avarch, who will discuss video documentation, including:

• What it takes to produce animation, screencam, and talking head videos.

• Building a great user experience when you have both video and text docs.

• Bootstrapping video production without a big team or a ton of money.

• Measuring the effectiveness of video.

For more details, see the Write the Docs meetup announcement.

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