How to Get the Most Out of AI
With Prompt Engineering

Use Camtasia to create a how-to video with a screen recording, featuring the application of my choice. The video must clearly explain and demonstrate how to complete a specific task, process, or workflow within the application.

For this challenge, I chose to demonstrate how to get the most out of AI by using a prompt engineering framework to structure effective prompts that include a role, task, and context to guide the AI towards high quality results.

AI users who want to improve their prompts for better AI outputs.

To deliver effective messaging, structure and clarity are non-negotiable for success. Writing a script ensures that the message follows a logical pattern that enables the viewer to clearly follow along and get the point.

No style guides were provided for this challenge, so I created one.

To visually communicate an AI setting, I chose the OCR A typeface to convey a sense of machine processing, paired with Lato, a san serif font, to convey a modern human in the loop. 

I chose an "AI amorphous" background image that is visually fluid and abstract with smooth color gradients typically generated by AI.

To add a little personality to otherwise plain imagery, I decided to incorporate a set of humanoid robot characters.

For on screen text I used high contrast colors, black-on-white and black-on-yellow, for sufficient contrast between foreground and background colors. These colors pass the WCAG AAA color contrast test for readability.

I used Audiate to create AI generated text-to-speech voiceover. It conveniently synchs with Camtasia. I can easily edit the script in Audiate and it automatically updates the audio track in Camtasia.

If your project requires professional voiceover rather than an AI voice, this feature is useful for determining the duration of your final video based on the length of the script. This helps with pricing out a voiceover professional.

To help viewers easily follow along and understand exactly what to do, I incorporated Camtasia elements like:

• A simple title screen to introduce topics and concepts

• On-screen annotations like text callouts and shapes

• Highlights to draw attention to important steps

• Zoom and pan animations to focus the viewer's attention 

To bring the story to life, I added b-roll video clips, entrance and exit animations, motion paths, slide transitions, zoom regions, and animated the robot characters.