Create Recording

A good Instruction starts with a good recording. A few best practices to create a good recording:

Common resolutions

Use a common resolution like 1920x1080, 1536x864, 1440x900 or 1366x768. A smaller, larger or other resolution might result in images with:

• low quality image, making an image unreadable
• large image size causing slower loading times
• unreadable images due to resizing while showing the image to the reader

Have a plan

Prepare a recording script, this saves time and effort. Some things to think about

• What actions need to be taken from start to end
• Data used in input fields
• Usage of dummy accounts or data
• Which screen is used to start

Primary display

Only the primary screen is recorded, make sure the application is shown on the primary screen and all actions needed for the recording are preformed on the primary screen

Language settings

Make sure the application being recorded is shown in the same language the Instruction will is written in. For a user it's confusing when the language in the images is different from the language in titles, annotations, etc.

Clean desktop

If the desktop will be recorded, make sure it's clean from personal files and the background is not a personal picture or any other high quality picture. This decreases the risk of sharing personal information and also keeps the image size low

Close unused applications

Any active information might show a pop-up while making a recording. In most cases, this does interfere the recording because the pop-up overlays the recorded application and mostly contains information unrelated to the Instruction being made.