MacMost.com is looking for students to produce short tutorial videos. You can check out MacMost.com to see examples of these videos. We publish 3 videos per week, each about 3-6 minutes long on a variety of beginner and intermediate Mac computer topics. We would like students that could produce many videos over a continuing period of time. Payment would be on a per-video basis.
Requirements
To produce video tutorials for MacMost, you would need:
Production
Before creating a video, a topic and title needs to be approved by MacMost. Topics must be useful to a wide variety of Mac users. A topic must be something not recently covered by another video at MacMost or something already scheduled to be published. Tutorial creators would be expected to submit lists of ideas for feedback and approval.
To prep for the video, you need to sign out of your user account and sign into a user named “MacMost” (or use fast user switching). This MacMost account on your Mac should be a standard admin account with default for pretty much everything — desktop background, keyboard shortcuts, etc.
Each video tutorial is done using screen recording in QuickTime Player, or another screen capture tool. The desktop must be clean and all other windows should be out of the way except for the app you are showing.
Each video starts with a short 5-15 second introduction that includes:
Example: “Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Let me show you how to edit audio in iMovie version 10.”
The screen captures can be done in one long shot, or a series of short ones. I prefer to record segments of about 30 seconds in length and then string them together. This way, if I trip over my words or something goes wrong on the screen, I only have to redo that one segment and then move on to the next. You can use iMovie to string the clips together using basic crossfade transitions and then export as 720p. I will provide a short intro and exit to put on either end of the video. Add those in before your first segment and after your last.
Delivery
When a tutorial is complete, it can be send to MacMost via a shared DropBox folder. A typical 5 minute video tutorial exported from iMovie at 720p can be as much as 100MB, so access to decent bandwidth is required.
Videos would then need to be approved and accepted. It is our hope that after getting started most videos will be accepted with the first submission. But if a video isn’t accepted for some reason it would have to be redone or scrapped.
How to Apply
Use the contact link (choose ‘other’) at the left side of this page to apply. Tell us about yourself and why you would be good at making video tutorials. You can also find out the price per tutorial. You may then be asked to create one sample tutorial, which you will be paid for if it is used on the site. This sample will show us the quality of your work, and also give you an idea of how much effort is needed to make these tutorials.
