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*Plan your screencast and show only what is needed. Screencasts should follow a few rules | *Plan your screencast and show only what is needed. Screencasts should follow a few rules | ||
**Be short - nobody wants to listen to hours of talk. If you can keep it under 3 minutes - win. You can also cut up longer topics into several screencasts | **Be short - nobody wants to listen to hours of talk. If you can keep it under 3 minutes - win. You can also cut up longer topics into several screencasts | ||
**Be indexed - you should offer time stamps for people to | **Be indexed - you should offer time stamps for people to jump to when covering a few topics so that more advanced viewers can, for example, skip basics | ||
**Be easy to watch - remember that not everybody will see the screencast fullscreen, but embedded. Thus use a larger font size in your editor and make examples that don't rely on low contrast or pixel-precision. Especially video conversion will blur a lot | **Be easy to watch - remember that not everybody will see the screencast fullscreen, but embedded. Thus use a larger font size in your editor and make examples that don't rely on low contrast or pixel-precision. Especially video conversion will blur a lot | ||
**Be relevant - show what can be done, not what people need to set up to get there - this could be accompanying text info. | **Be relevant - show what can be done, not what people need to set up to get there - this could be accompanying text info. | ||