I must say that we (the developers) have invested a good amount of time programming tools for easing as much as possible the creation of video tutorials.
In the zynthian-ui admin menu there is an entry called “capture workflow” that allows to “record” a sequence of steps (workflow), including:
- screen capture
- audio output
- UI events (rotating of knobs, pushing buttons, etc.)
The result can be re-played in the webconf tool and you can easily capture the window (with OSB, for instance) to generate a self-contained video.
I will show an example here:
I simply captured my workflow while speaking to the mic from my zynthian V5 (as explained before: admin->capture workflow). Chain 1 is the audio chain used for recording my voice. Then re-played from webconf while capturing the browser’s window with OSB. It’s a very agile process (2 steps) with 0 post-production work. Note that you can add subtitles to the capture from the webconf tool.
At the end of the user’s guide you can see some examples with subtitles (but no audio) :
https://wiki.zynthian.org/index.php/Zynthian_UI_User's_Guide_-_Oram#Learning_Pills
I doubt any commercial device has a workflow capture tool like this!! So please, there is no excuse to generate these valuable video tutorials our beloved zynthian project needs so much. If you are not a programmer but you want to contribute, there is no better way!!
Enjoy!