The Pain and Joy of Creating Courses

Creating courses can be a pain...

take a topic you know very well, or think you know very well. Put all your thoughts and ideas on a piece of paper. It turns out that knowledge of a topic does not mean that you can teach it. I found that out the hard way.

Creating courses takes a lot of time and some money. I have nailed down a process, but what works for me may not work for anyone else. For me, it is all about maximizing the output for any given input. In the case of video courses, the process that works for me means that for every 10 minutes of video takes about 4 hours to produce. That is; write the material, record the video, edit and clean up the audio, then combine the two again in editing, enhance the video and finally exporting it. 

My process may take a little longer, but I spend a lot of time on the audio. I edit out all breathing and other little annoying noise that may distract from the content. That means that I record the audio and video separately. This opens up the editing options but comes at some added overhead when stitching the pieces together into a project. 

...and I do all of this without even knowing if the course will sell.

If you would like to know more about my process, the software I use etc, let me know and I will create more posts on that.