Filming & Editing Training Videos Certificate

RVT is a practical method for quickly creating professional-quality training videos using minimal equipment, often just a smartphone and basic video editing software. It emphasizes a streamlined, repeatable production process so learning professionals can efficiently film, edit, and deliver engaging instructional videos without the need for expensive tools or outsourcing. RVT enables instructional designers, trainers, and others to efficiently add professional looking training videos to their mix of training materials.

The answer is yes, and this program will help you figure out how to do it. With a good learning strategy and a solid production plan in place, you will be able to film high-quality video footage using just your smartphone. The program also teaches you editing techniques so that you can turn your footage into a polished video.

• Explore the video modality as a tool to support workplace learning.

• Explain the value of a methodical production process.

• Manage the production process following the Rapid Video Technique (RVT).

• Film professional-quality footage on a smartphone for training videos that is edit-ready.

• Edit professional-quality video sequences for training videos.

• Conduct a basic-quality review of a video product using an ATD-exclusive rubric.

• Discuss RVT and its application to other video formats.

• Create professional-quality video content to support your training and workplace learning initiatives.

• Gain practical video production skills that can be immediately applied to your own projects.

• Use proven techniques and efficient step-by-step instructions to film, review, and edit video footage.

• Save budget and time by eliminating the need to outsource the production of employee training videos.

• Earn an industry-recognized certificate in creating training videos and a digital badge to share with your networks.

This program includes a participant workbook and a digital copy of the book, Creating Training Videos, written by award-winning author Jonathan Halls, a former learning executive with the BBC.

This program is for talent development professionals—or anyone who must create training assets and film and edit their own professional-quality training videos. It is intended for those responsible for the production of interactive training videos, including trainers, instructional designers, learning experience designers, project managers, and anyone responsible for educating others in the workplace.

Contact ATD’s Enterprise Solutions team for information about bringing this course and the Designing Training Videos Certificate program to your organization, either in person or virtually. An ATD representative can assist with scheduling, advise on which training video course aligns with your requirements and discuss possibilities for customizing the content to address the types of training videos your team needs to create.

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• Show Don’t Tell

• Making Effective Training Videos

• The Production Process

• Editing Administration

• Working With Footage and the Timeline

• Performing Smooth Cuts

• Setting Up Shots With Intention

• The 5-Shot Formula

• Cutting on the Action

• Editing With Additional Elements

• Screen Captures

• Animated Video

• Produce a Training Video

• Video Production Quality