Ask HN: How does Google create their Google Developers tutorials on YouTube?

2 points by jasonbarone 10y ago ↗ HN

I'm launching an education app and my screencast tutorials are kind of baseline. Google is doing an outstanding job on theirs.

Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FRBDXBs30Y

Does anyone know how Google creates these engaging and well-developed tutorials? I'd love to find out the software and tools behind theses. My screencast productions look like amateur-hour compared to these masterpieces. If you don't know, do you have any tips for how to incorporate the on-screen drawing like they do?

Thanks!

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wmat 10y ago ↗

Don't know the details of Google's setup, but they're creating a screencast with a tablet. There are several ways to do that depending on your hardware, but if you search for 'creating screencast with tablet' you'll find several examples.

jasonbarone 10y ago ↗

Thanks, but I've been through that without a solid answer. It appears they're doing a standard desktop screencast then running it through a stylus-based app to write on top of the video.

Would have been nice to hear from anyone who's familiar with this.

wmat 10y ago ↗

Yeah, I agree, I'd love to know the details as well.