 In this video, I want to spend a few minutes talking about what you need to know about recording with RapidMook before you come to the workshop. Now, I have made a lot of videos that are available on the RapidMook page about how to use RapidMook, how to use the unit itself, how to prepare the videos, the different styles of videos you can make. So you can go watch those, but here I just want to give you a quick overview before joining the workshop. So first, how does RapidMook work? Well, RapidMook is an all-in-one unit that requires just this one unit, as you can see here, and then a green screen behind me, and then lights, and that's all it is. And then what you have here is that you replace what the green screen gets replaced in the video with me and my PowerPoint in the background. So as you can see, initially, I just saw the green screen in the video, but actually as I'm recording, once I start recording, I can see myself and I can get a feedback of what is actually going on in the video. Now, the process of recording is very simple. It's simply you bring a laptop with a presentation, you connect it to RapidMook, then you press the start button, the start recording starts speaking, and then at the end you copy the finished recording to a USB key and you walk away with that, and that's all you need. And then you just upload that into YouTube or somewhere else where you want to share videos. You also need some other things. There are some accessories that you need to know about those microphones, there's some remote that you can use as a keyboard to control the unit, and so on and so forth, but all those things are very easy to use, and I can explain that to you in a few minutes, and there are other videos, and there's an instruction manual that you can look at to get all that information. Now, perhaps one thing that you should be aware of is that how does the green screen work, and the two important things is why is it a green screen, and then what is the importance of lights, because people may not realize that. So green screen works on a principle called chroma key, and basically just means when people talk about that, it means that they key out, they take the key value of the color, and then they remove it from the video or replace it with something else. And the reason green is used is because green is not part of natural complexion, so if you want to have people, then green is not in their face, so there's no contrast there. People sometimes also in the past use blue screen, and so on. Now you also need lights, and that's important when you use green screen, and you need to have separate lights on the subject, so you can see there's lights lighting me, and then there's also lights that are lighting the green screen, and they need to be separate, so you need to stand between those two lights, they'll be quite well lit, and then have, so there's a lot of lighting involved, so you have to be prepared for that. Now, there's some consequences of using this, and that you have to sort of be a bit careful about what you wear, and so wearing something like, pay a blue or white or something like that, that's all fine, but do not wear anything green, but also make something very black or dark blue, as you can see for example here, it starts giving little halos and things like that. Very fine stripes and checks are also not that great because there's a bit of reflection. Now, the other thing to remember when choosing what to wear, it's important to wear something, a collar or a pocket that you can pin your microphone to on a shirt, so that's quite important, or maybe some pendant or something, so when you want to think about what to wear, those are the things to take into consideration. Now, what kinds of videos can you make with RapidMook? Well, so here's basically the basic style of video is simply a presentation with a PowerPoint in the background, so you can see this is the video that I'm making right now, but you can also connect, not just a laptop, you can connect an iPad, so you can see here is me recording a video about using an iPad, and I'm using the iPad at the same time, and I'm going to show you how to do that, so you can watch, go watch that video. I have some other options, I don't even have to present, I have a presentation, I can simply connect a computer and show what's on the screen, and that's going to be my background, so this is me explaining how to use a PowerPoint. And finally, if I connect a computer that has a touch and a pen, then I can start writing here with a pen, so as you can see, I am here, have my touch screen, and I start writing down, and then I'm basically recording what's on the whiteboard on the video, so that's also an option of a type of video that I can make with RapidMode. Now, what do you need to learn to do when you want to start using RapidMode, and that's what will you learn in the workshop? So, well, you'll learn how to set up the recording, how to set up the right zoom level, the angle of the camera, that's very easy to do, how to set up your countdown for recording, how to choose the right background, and so on. You also learn about recording modes, the different combinations of background and foreground, one of the different things that can be on the background, how you can use sort of over the air versus connecting a cable and things like that. Now, during the workshop, hopefully, you also have a chance to practice a few of these things, so you'll have a chance to practice things like how to start and end, how to use the remote control, how to position the microphone, how to interact with the screen and things like that, and also, basically, you'll have a chance to try some of the speaking tips as you're creating the videos live, so at the end of it, you have more confidence. All these things are very easy to do, and everybody that I've worked with has been able to very easily take to this and record a video without much effort, but I find it's more important, it's very important to give it a go first and see how easy it is and become comfortable. That's the end of these pre-workshop videos, and thank you very much for watching and see you at the workshop.