# Your first video

> One worked example, with the decisions explained as you go.

# Your first video

The [quickstart](/docs/get-started/quickstart) gets you through the mechanics. This page walks the
same path again and explains why you'd choose one option over another — useful the first time you
make something you intend to publish.

## Before you record

Decide what the video is for, because it changes the recording. A support answer wants one flow and
no preamble. An onboarding walkthrough wants the whole path, including the parts that seem obvious.
A release note wants the before and the after.

Two things much easier to get right in the recording than to fix afterwards:

- **Go slowly between actions.** Decodx cuts on your clicks; a pause gives each scene a clean edge.
- **Keep real customer data off screen.** Blurring works, but not recording it is safer.

## Recording

Record the flow start to finish in one take. Don't narrate while recording — narration is written
and voiced separately, which is what lets you change it later without re-recording.

## Reviewing the scenes

Decodx proposes a scene per meaningful step and drafts a narration line for each. Read the whole
script top to bottom before doing anything else.

Common first-pass fixes:

- Merge two scenes that are really one action.
- Cut a scene that only exists because you fumbled a click.
- Rewrite a narration line that describes the UI instead of the intent.

## Voice and pacing

Pick a voice, then listen to one generated scene before generating them all. Words the voice
mispronounces — product names, acronyms — belong in the pronunciation list rather than being spelled
phonetically in the script.

## Rendering

Check the estimate. Approve. The job runs in the background; you don't need to watch it.

## Publishing

You now have a video, a written guide and a share link. Decide who the link is for before you set
its permissions — most first videos get shared more widely than intended.

## Then change something

Go back, edit one narration line, and re-render. It will take seconds, because only that scene is
re-made. That behaviour is the reason to use Decodx at all — see
[How it works](/docs/how-it-works).