In reply to Heidi’s question, the time involved each week probably varies per person. I knocked out the week one videos in one evening, but they were mostly a course overview. You can take the entire course without buying software (30-day trials are available) but I’d say if you were to buy at least the lower end software, maybe put together some lighting equipment (as the course shows you) from the local hardware, and investing in some decent microphones you are probably looking at $300 to $500 on the low end. But this can be spread out over time and you have a lot of options.

Hope that helps…

The man is organized.

Each week you get a whole series of videos. Each subject is on a separate video. David is a great teach and a great organizer. This is professional level training materials.

As Darren said, he may come over as a little dry. You will hear his voice a lot. But he speaks slowly, clearly for anyone to understand (I pay attention to how non-native English speakers would be able to follow – that’s part of my business). His explanations are clear. He tells you what you are going to learn and when before he teaches you and then he re-caps at the end of each session, and tells you what’s next and why.

It was exactly what I needed. I have finished watching all of the 4 weeks of videos. But I didn’t have the time to make any of my own videos while watching the course. That is on for this month.

My partner is out getting the pieces of wood to make the teleprompter.

David Kaminski did a GREAT job. He explained things very well, everything is very clear. He made it all easy to understand. I doubt there is anything he left out – there is tons of information in there.

I appreciated the fact that he is a copywriter, and he shows you how to make very professional looking marketing videos.

The process is longer than I thought. The video editing software is another thing to learn – and I’m super glad to have David’s videos for a year to go back to a couple of times. He explained the software extremely well. With lots of little tricks.

I wish I had a video up online now to show you, but the course material really took a lot of time – hopefully by the end of June.

This video has some good information. Some of the stuff like what’s a good video length is something I was gradually figuring out by trial and error, so what he said sort of verified what I was thinking. I tend to watch the editing part while doing something else, because I already know how to edit in Adobe Premiere Pro. What I focused on was how to do good lighting, how to get good audio, and how to do video compression. Though I haven’t finished, I think it’s a worthwhile course. Knowing what the course is, and what you want to get out of it (and be realistic about which parts might be useless to you) would be helpful.

I’m not sure why a hands-off webinar series must be limited to an unknown number of students (unless I missed seeing the limit in the sales page?) but I’ll have to find out if he allows registration after the start date of 6/2 if he’s not ‘full up.’ Or wait for the next session.

Loving your readers/co-students reviews as well — thanks!

I wondering, is there any printed reference material that accompany this course for future reference.

I find videos are not that ideal as reference materials to due the inconvenience of having to find the right video and the right section of the video that contains the relevant information you are looking for.

Just a thought….

As one of your readers doing the course, I thought I would toss in my two cents. Bottom line, I’m really enjoying Dave’s course. In the first week, I immediately saw 3 things I needed to change if I were going to do videos: lighting, background and length of the videos. So, I ordered soft boxes, a black background and thought of ways to make the videos more to the point UNLESS I’m specifically teaching something.

I’ve yet to do much with the rest of the material because I’m not editing anything yet. However, the videos I’ve looked at for editing were great.

I found the last weeks materials invaluable, too. Using s3 at Amazon.com is a fantastic idea. I had wondered how I was going to afford bandwidth and storage if I didn’t use YouTube. Also, the details on converting to Flash were good.

And then there is Dave: he has responded in 24 hours to 3 emails of mine asking questions. He steered me away from green screens unless I had pro video equipment and gave me some great suggestions on using FCE. Further, he told me he is recording new videos on using FCE and Macs just as you reported. He’s a really good guy.

I’m going to shoot some videos this weekend, 2 or 3 short ones using my new equipment. I’ll let you know how it goes.

My goal was to watch them through without taking notes, etc. Now I plan to go through and write my own notes.

I’ve learned a lot and while I’ve yet to put any of his tips into an actual video I am definitely more confident. I’ve also been able to buy a better camera and get my teleprompter built and light situation improved.

As Darren mentioned, Dave is great at answering questions. I’ve asked him several questions and he has replied with excellent responses quickly.

I do wish we could download the videos to our hard drives for offline viewing (I travel a lot) but other than that I’m very impressed with the course and would recommend it to anyone interested in making web videos.