scripted, filmed, cut & packaged — one course at a time
~/about.md · the crew on Undercliff Ave
We’re a small crew at the foot of the Palisades, and our whole job is getting the course you keep meaning to make out of your head and into a working SCORM file. Same producer on your first call, your filming day and the final zip. That’s kind of the point of us.
30 free minutes. you leave with a rough scope either way.
rather talk now? (360) 931-6159
~/git log --oneline
Short version: we kept fixing the same four problems for people, so eventually we just built a place that fixes them on purpose.
a3c19f2init: the folder called course_FINAL_v3
Before Abacadence, we kept bumping into the same person over and over: a genuinely brilliant nurse educator, trainer or coach whose course existed as forty slides, a stack of voice memos and half a book. Nobody lacked expertise. They lacked a week with nothing else to do, and someone to tell them what goes in lesson one.
7e04b5dfix: the handoff problem
A writer here, a videographer there, an editor who’d never read the script, then “the LMS person.” Every handoff lost a little of what you meant, which is why so many courses feel stitched together. So we made one rule that runs everything: a single producer carries your project from the scoping call to the final zip.
c82d6a1feat: film from your spare room
Hot lights, a stranger with a clipboard, a parking garage. Turns out people teach better at home. So we started shipping a kit — light, lav mic, tablet prompter — and directing live over video. Calmer for you, and nobody’s paying for a soundstage.
f1e9037test: inside your actual lms
We learned this one the annoying way. Now every package gets a test upload into the real LMS your learners will use, with your pass marks and completion settings, before we call anything done.
HEADnext: your course
Bring the topic, the messy notes and the person it’s for. We’ll do the counting.
~/why-the-weird-name
A frame of rods and beads. You slide one bead across at a time until the whole sum is done. No genius required, just steady moves.
The pace that gets things finished — not a sprint you burn out on by module two.
Squish them together and you’ve got the job description: take a big, tangled pile of know-how and count it out into lessons, one bead at a time, at a pace a busy expert can survive.
every bead slid to the right is one thing you didn’t have to google at 11pm.
~/house-rules.txt
These are taped up in the edit suite. Hold us to them.
The person who runs your scoping call is the person directing your filming and signing off your zip. You’ll never hear “let me loop in my colleague who’s new to this.”
The kit shows up a week early, we do a quick setup call, and on filming day you sit down in a room you already know. Zero commutes, zero makeup chairs.
Auto-transcription hears “SCORM” as “storm” and “sepsis” as something worse. Every .vtt gets read through by a person before it ships.
Two rounds of notes per module are included. Anything past that is $165 an hour, and you’ll hear that from us out loud before a single minute gets billed.
Scripts, raw footage, project files, captions, the final package — it all lives in a shared folder that stays with you after we wrap. Reuse it, recut it, it’s your call.
Sometimes the right answer is a tidy PDF or a live workshop, not a video course. If that’s you, we’ll say so on the free call and point you somewhere useful.
~/filming-day/schedule
You see a friendly face on a screen. Here’s what’s actually going on around it, so nothing about the day feels mysterious.
| When | What’s happening |
|---|---|
| 8:00am | We open your shot list, re-read the script and make sure every lesson’s already loaded on your prompter. producer |
| 8:30am | Setup call. Light, mic, framing. We’ll almost definitely ask you to move one lamp. producer + you |
| 9:15am | Take one of lesson one. It’s a warm-up and we tell you so — nobody nails take one. you |
| 10:30am | First footage lands in the shared folder and the editor skims it for audio gremlins while you keep going. editor |
| 12:00pm | Lunch. An actual one, away from the camera. We insist. everybody |
| 1:00pm | Afternoon lessons in shorter takes. The 2pm slump gets a snack break written right into the shot list. you + producer |
| 4:30pm | That’s a wrap. Everything goes back in the case, prepaid label on, and you’re done. you |
| 5:15pm | We log the best takes and leave notes for the edit, so your first cut is in your inbox within ten business days. producer |
$ abacadence --start
Tell us the topic and who it’s for. Within a working day you’ll get a rough scope and a real number back — no deck, no pressure, no “circling back.” Whoever’s at the desk on Undercliff Ave picks up the phone.
prefer typing? the contact page has a quick form.
| Mon–Thu | 8am–5:30pm |
|---|---|
| Fri | to 1pm |
| Sat–Sun | closed |