161Lesson video scenes

The frame

Fixed before the first take and never touched again. Of the six zones, exactly one — the stage — changes between scenes; the kicker, the lesson index and the mark stay on the same pixels for the whole lesson, which is what lets someone who joins at minute nine know what they are watching.

Lesson Video — The Frame

One 16:9 canvas, six zones, both themes — and the live furniture that is deliberately absent

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Pick the scene by what you are doing

Not by what you feel like cutting to. Every row below is a thing a teacher is actually doing at a moment in a lesson, and the scene that serves it. If your situation is not in this table, the answer is almost always scene 02 or scene 07.

01	Clicking through the org, running a query, watching a deploy — your hands matter, your face does not	Screen, full frame
02	Screen-share teaching where reactions carry meaning — the default for most lessons	Screen + camera, corner
03	The shared window is narrow (a form, a record) and you are explaining rather than demonstrating	Screen + camera, column
04	A procedure with more than three steps	Screen + step rail
05	One error, one field, one line of a debug log	Screen detail, zoomed
06	The first fifteen seconds — hook, promise, who you are	The open
07	The why, the caveat, the common mistake — argument, not demonstration	Camera, full frame
08	The one sentence you want them to remember	Camera + point card
09	Walking a diagram while gesturing at it	Camera + slide, two-up
10	Structure, definitions, a list — anything you cannot demonstrate	Slide, full frame
11	The same slide, but the explanation runs long	Slide + camera, corner
12	Reading a prepared snippet line by line	Code, full frame
13	Showing a mistake and the error it produces	Code + result
14	Two seconds after the hook	Title card
15	Crossing from one section to the next	Chapter card
16	The last minute — what they can now do	Recap card
17	The last ten seconds — the only CTA in the lesson	End card

Sharing your screen

The five scenes that carry most of a technical lesson. All of them assume the shared source is already 16:9 at native 1080p — a stretched or letterboxed screen is the fastest way to make good teaching look cheap, and the rules for getting that right are on the Live stream page, where they apply identically.

Lesson Video — Sharing Your Screen

Five screen-share scenes, each in both themes: screen alone, with a camera, with a rail, and zoomed

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On camera

Four scenes for the parts of a lesson that are an argument rather than a demonstration. Eyes on the upper-third line, a hand's width of headroom, the same crop the course thumbnails use — and the camera keeps one size and one corner for the entire lesson.

Lesson Video — On Camera

Four camera scenes in both themes: the open, straight-to-camera, with a point card, and two-up with a slide

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Slides and code

A deck built at 1920×1080 needs no scaling at all, which is the sharpest possible path to the viewer — and it inherits the system's kicker, heading and mono-index voice, so a slide is recognizably the same brand as the course page it sits inside.

Lesson Video — Slides & Code

Four scenes in both themes: a slide alone, a slide with camera, full-frame code, and code beside its result

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The cards between the teaching

Four full-frame cards with no camera and no screen. They are the lesson's punctuation: they give the viewer somewhere to breathe, they give the platform its chapter marks, and they are geometrically the same assets as the thumbnails, so a course reads as one thing from the grid all the way into the video.

Lesson Video — The Cards Between

Four full-frame cards in both themes: title, chapter, recap and end — no camera, no screen

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Light or dark?

Both ship. The rule is that one lesson picks one and holds it — never switch themes mid-lesson, and never mix a dark card with a light stage. Within a course, a whole module may differ from another; a single lesson may not.

Whichever you pick, the geometry is identical: every scene above is one layout with a swapped palette, driven by the same seven variables. If the light version needs a different arrangement, the arrangement was wrong.

Cutting rhythm

2s	Title card · chapter card	Hard cut in, hard cut out. Long enough to read, short enough not to be skipped.
6–8s	Lesson title and name plate on the open	They leave together, once, and never return.
10–40s	Camera, full frame	A punctuation mark. Past about 40 seconds it stops reading as emphasis and starts reading as a webcam recording.
as long as it takes	Screen scenes	The stage may hold for minutes — as long as something on it is changing. A still screen with narration over it is a slide, so cut to one.
320ms	Every transition	The brand-bar wipe, or a hard cut. No crossfades, no zooms, no stingers with sound effects.
10s	End card	Held in silence. Do not talk over it and do not cut it short — the platform's own end-screen elements need the room.

Recording settings

The failure modes