# How I make my Tableau video tutorials

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2021-03-12
- **Format:** Video · 61 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Productivity, Community
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/how-i-make-my-tableau-video-tutorials
- **Watch:** https://youtu.be/s_vC78SMQkk

I finally tackle the question I get asked all the time: how I make the Tableau tutorials on my channel. I walk through my whole process, from researching video ideas on Google and planning in Notion, to recording gear and settings, desktop automation with a Stream Deck, and editing in Premiere Pro, while showing that you can get started with just a laptop and a phone.

## Key takeaways

- Use Google's 'people also ask' suggestions to validate whether a tutorial topic is worth making and to discover what specific questions people actually search for.
- Plan every video before hitting record, even if it's just pen and paper; I use a Notion tracker and template adapted from Thomas Frank to hold research, scripts and a published-video log.
- For screen content, record at 4K 60fps so YouTube can scale it to any display and so cursor movement stays smooth and free of motion blur.
- You can start with no gear at all: QuickTime or the Windows Game Bar for free screen recording, your laptop webcam and mic, or a roughly 30-pound lavalier mic for cleaner audio.
- DaVinci Resolve is a genuinely free editing tool that covers about 90% of what most creators need, so you don't have to pay for editing software to get good results.

## Chapters

- 0:49 Why versus how
- 2:43 Planning and researching ideas
- 7:39 Planning with Notion
- 13:17 Recording: the simple setup
- 13:28 Screen recording tools
- 17:49 Recording settings: 4K, frame rate and mics
- 25:03 Stream Deck desktop automation
- 29:04 Laptop and phone camera setups
- 32:17 The editing process
- 33:52 Choosing editing software
- 36:25 Premiere Pro template workflow

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/how-i-make-my-tableau-video-tutorials

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