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In part 1 of our adventure, we embarked on a unique journey. I shared how the maiden voyage of my Build With AI cohort was a fetching awesome, yet intense experience, involving the creation of two courses loaded with live trainings.

Central to my pursuit was "Become a Power Prompter" (formerly "The Prompt Fisher"), crafted swiftly with the help of ChatGPT. I needed ChatGPT to turn all of my stories into compelling narratives. To do this, it had to become my personal ghostwriter, something I had never attempted before.

In a rapid two-day sprint, the book neared completion, setting the stage for the video recording of each section. The piece of "Become a Power Prompter" that I love the most is that many of the sections link to AI assistants that can help you:

1. Learn the concept conversationally,

2. Execute it in real time, or

3. Learn and execute.

This gives my readers a unique way to learn and apply the frameworks taught in the book using generative AI.

My book was ready, my assistants were in place, and I had designed my book to be transformed into a video course. This meant that the chapters in my book were course modules, and the subpoints in each chapter were course lessons.

I was ready.

My next step was using an AI tool I was familiar with called Descript to record and edit my videos at a lightning pace.

Behold, a Step-by-Step Guide to Recording Your Videos with Descript

When I recorded my course, I used Descript’s Quick Recording feature, that let me record new videos one after the other without much of a break.

In hindsight, I should have used Descript’s recording functionality that takes your camera and screen recordings as separate inputs so you can play with both of them in the editor! This would have let me do multiple things I wanted to do, like show my face, then transition to my screen with my face in the corner. Now I know.

Anyways, here’s how you do it!

1. Download Descript if you haven’t already done so. There is a free tier that should suit your purposes (depending on how much you plan on recording and transcribing). It costs some money to get access to higher level features, but if you plan on recording a lot of videos for courses (and you’re not a video editor like myself), Descript is fetching awesome. You’ll see why in a moment.

2. Follow these instructions to setup and record a video! Be sure to turn on automatic transcription.

3. Now that you have a recording of yourself you can:

   1. Edit the video using the transcript. If you haven’t experienced this before it’s going to be awesome. Just select the text on the left side of the screen, and delete it, and that portion of the video will be removed. This is so fetching awesome, right?!

   2. Move tracks separately. Your video should have a recording of you, and of your screen. You can move these around separately as you wish, and play with transitions between them. Learn more about Descript transitions here.

   3. Add AI Magics. Leverage Descript's AI features like auto transcription, filler word removal, and Studio Sound enhancement. These tools significantly elevate the quality of your video, making it more professional and engaging.

Once you have recored a video once you’ve got everything in order.

Now you record a video for each subpoint in your book. My recommendation: do it all in one take. If you mess up, just stop, and keep going. Descript makes it insanely easy to remove your faults. Just find the text in the transcription and delete it.

Honestly I don’t know of a better way to edit videos. It can also remove all of your “uh”, “um”, etc. filler words with a click. Super nice feature.

Once you get into the flow, you should be able to record new videos quickly. Another suggestion here for the flow:

1. Get your book in front of you, with the chapter and subpoint you’ll be instructing on

2. Record a video, using your chapter as a reference, add stories, be humorous and extemporaneous (in the moment)!

3. Immediately edit the video

   1. Chop out beginning and ending blank space

   2. Remove all your bloopers before you forget about them

4. Save the video

5. Move on to the next video

6. Repeat steps 1-5 for each subpoint in a chapter

It won’t be perfect, but it will be awesome. Jump in. Disregard the fear. It’s not serving you.

Once you have recorded all of the videos for a chapter (module), I recommend you either:

1. Publish them (which is fast, but requires that you purchased access to Descript), or

2. Export them (which will take more time, depending on how fast your computer is)

Then you repeat the steps above for each chapter/module. Do that and you’ll be done!

Sometimes the work just needs doing!

Once you have all of your videos, there are dozens of softwares you can use to put them into a course. The simplest I have found is called Skool. It’s $99/mo and totally worth it. Most straightforward setup I’ve ever found.

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Your friend and AI coach,
Sterling Long!

P.S. I am making my own Skool community paid from here on out. I am looking for people who truly want to Build With AI. Luckily for you, you can get access to it by referring people to this newsletter!