# Creating video training
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-video-training/976676
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 16, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-video-training/976676 "2022-12-16T22:36:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-video-training/976676/1 "2022-12-16T22:36:47Z")
I’ll be retiring in about 3 or so years. Scares the shit out of my co-workers. I’m going to start to try to make training videos. (this is IS stuff, that I wrote). I’ll make a library of it. That is my plan.
I want to do that. I suggested it. I care about these people and the systems I/we have created. And I care about the people that these systems that help thousands.
I’m not going to name names, but the video platform that we are moving to sucks for creating training videos.
I.
Want.
To.
Help.
I’ve been getting a bit of push back. It’s $150 a YEAR to use what works better. I responded that I will buy it, I don’t care. I do care about my co-workers though. They very much want to know what knowledge I have.
This is not in anyway a poor company, nor am I. They are trying to push something that will not work though. Not for creating training videos.
Perhaps I’m absolved, but I don’t want to leave co-workers with something they don’t understand.
They also don’t want to know what my consulting fees will be when I retire.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-video-training/976676/2 "2022-12-16T22:44:45Z")
Which forum did you want this in?
It doesn’t seem like a pit thread.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2022, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-video-training/976676/3 "2022-12-16T22:57:51Z")
I’m complaining. So I thought the Pit is best.
Not looking for recommendations. Had to get it off my chest.
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### Author:  [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2022, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-video-training/976676/4 "2022-12-16T23:09:53Z")
> [@enipla](#):
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> They are trying to push something that will not work though.
I wonder who’s spouse, sibling, or child works for the platform your company is pushing?
What software do you want to use? asks this former training tech writer/instructional designer.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-video-training/976676/5 "2022-12-16T23:15:16Z")
I’m not pushing anything. We are talking small.
Former training tech? You’re being sarcastic I assume.
IS/GIS of 16 people.
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### Author:  [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-video-training/976676/6 "2022-12-16T23:25:06Z")
Is there some reason you cannot make the videos you want yourself and put them on the platform you want and then, when you retire (or near enough) point your company/co-workers to that resource?
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-video-training/976676/7 "2022-12-16T23:26:23Z")
YES, what **Whack-a-Mole** said.
We had a teacher do that when they left (not videos, but powerpoints). Maybe a third of the teachers left behind even looked at them. If you’re ok with that, go for it! On your terms!
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2022, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-video-training/976676/8 "2022-12-16T23:27:00Z")
None at all. I’ll just buy it an create MP4’s. Or whatever the best format will be.
But I don’t like the little bit here, the little bit there. It’s a very bad approach to managing things.
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### Author:  [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2022, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-video-training/976676/9 "2022-12-16T23:32:45Z")
> [@enipla](#):
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> Former training tech?
No, you didn’t read it fully: former training technical writer. Writing materials for training purposes which often included putting it into training video software. Really.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-video-training/976676/10 "2022-12-17T14:12:22Z")
They are now saying that they will probably keep one license of the one that works best. Stupid but its a start.
I foresee this as maybe a new trend in our company with different departments going this way. We do have an in house wiki, But it gets cluttered. And different people learn in different ways. If you can actually see a video recording of how to do something, I see that as a good route. Of course there are trainers, that would be better just writing it out and NOT make a video. So it works both ways.
I made a video explaining this to TPTB. Heh.
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-video-training/976676/11 "2022-12-17T14:31:25Z")
Next, a video explaining how to access the video explaining the videos…
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-video-training/976676/12 "2022-12-17T14:57:56Z")
I’m on it digs.
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### Author:  [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-video-training/976676/13 "2022-12-17T23:14:30Z")
That’s the way to do it. I’ve been a contractor for most of my career. That means that once I’ve left a gig, it’s up to the company to maintain the training material when a software update comes along. Usually, they bin it and start over because the software they use to build the training has also updated. But it is hard to make department managers see the light on being consistent with training materials. Good luck to you.