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| Richard.Baer | Sound and Camtasia - record sound and screen - record separately | 0 | Feb 28 2013, 5:54 PM EST by Richard.Baer | ||||
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My most recent tutorial (Google Scholar) required me to record a section at home without my trusty headset, so I muted the machine microphone and recorded it as silent. At work, I recorded the second part but because the first was silent I recorded it silent as well. Then I needed to add various images.. long story short, the whole thing had no sound.
Which was a blessing because I now think that it is better to record your tutorial with no sound, then add voice narration after. Thinking back, I realize that when recording screen and audio, my attention is split between navigating screens and talking coherently. If you mute your headset, you can talk as you go through screens which gives you an idea of how long to stay on a screen, when to move on etc. You can then add callouts, do your zooms, get it ready to go. Then you can write a narration script or just practice if it is short enough and record your narration. Then, when you start voice narration, youn only have to focus on commenting on the video as it plays. If you get stumblemouth, you only have to erase the audio and try again, no need to re-record your screens. I wish I had thought of this long ago. |
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| ephedrinediet | Ephedra Sinica Weight Loss Product Reviews | 0 | Dec 6 2012, 12:18 PM EST by ephedrinediet | ||||
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| ghussey | Copyright and images in tutorials | 2 | Sep 20 2011, 3:46 PM EDT by Kazakoff | ||||
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Thread started: Jan 24 2011, 8:51 AM EST
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Will people share how they are handling copyright around database images in their tutorials or static screen shots please.
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| suellausc | Finding the completed resources | 1 | Jun 6 2011, 1:10 PM EDT by Kazakoff | ||||
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Thread started: Jun 6 2011, 5:13 AM EDT
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Hi Carmen - thanks for the acknowledgement of my application to join ANTS. Can you please tell me about my permissions. Can I write to the wiki with my current permissions? I can't see how to do so. Also, can you please point me to the best site to view the existing resources. Is it the DSpace link?
Thanks - Suella
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| Richard.Baer | Faux embedding | 0 | Apr 15 2011, 2:02 PM EDT by Richard.Baer | ||||
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I posted in "Best practices in screencasting" about using interactivity with .mp4. If you are using a server, not Facebook etc, then you have a html and a mp4 to deliver interactive elements. Unless you have a code wrangler who can write embed code for you, you are out of luck because all you have is a URL to the html which invokes the mp4.
Hence "faux embedding". Start the tutorial and freeze it on the title frame. Do a screen cap, crop out everything except the title screen and save as a jpg. Then upload the jpg to your server, link the html to the image and your users will see an image very much like what they would see in a "real" embed. You can adjust the image size to match the space in the web page that delivers the tutorials.
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| Richard.Baer | Interactivity in tutorials (Camtasia edition) | 0 | Apr 14 2011, 6:58 PM EDT by Richard.Baer | ||||
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Thread started: Apr 14 2011, 6:58 PM EDT
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Interactivity can be defined as adding quizzes, "click here to continue" flash hotspots, or html links to external sites.
In Camtasia, you can produce files to .swf (shockwave flash) format and choose the Express-Show option. This puts the video and the flash content in one package. That file is a .swf and plays in all browsers. The problem is that .swf is not supported as a format in YOutube, Blip.tv or any other free video site on the internet. If you upload a .swf to Youtube, it converts it to .flv. FLv does not support interactive elements so your quizzes are lost. So for interactivity, you still need to put your tutorial on a web server. A problem with .swf files is that they tend to be large. This affects bandwidth, storage charges and may affect performance. We have been testing to see if you can add quizzes to mp4's. Alas, not yet. But, you can use interactive elements by producing your tutorial to a .mp4 and then uploading the .mp4 and the .html file to your server. This makes for fewer files and also smaller file size. So if you have been producing to .swf and uploading to your own server, change the output to .mp4, you will still get the interactive elements and your files will server much faster.
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| ElizYates | Screencasting software: adding chapters | 1 | Apr 11 2011, 11:30 AM EDT by ghussey | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 1 2011, 4:46 PM EST
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I'm investigating screencasting software for my academic library and hoping to find a product which allows for chapters, so that users can easily navigate between sections.
Currently, we use Captivate 4 to create our online tutorials; we also have Camtasia. However, as far as I can tell, neither software offers this capability. Any advice will be appreciated. Cheers, Elizabeth Yates
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| Larry_Sheret | Deleting a thread | 1 | Dec 16 2010, 6:38 PM EST by Larry_Sheret | ||||
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Thread started: Dec 8 2010, 7:28 PM EST
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Carmen, I noticed that in the general discussion thread, I somehow posted the same item twice. Is it possible to delete one of the threads to mitigate the confusion of the double posting about Xtranormal?
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| sdlythinker | How to rip Blu-ray film to other formats | 1 | Oct 11 2010, 4:52 AM EDT by cood4u | ||||
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Thread started: May 24 2010, 1:40 AM EDT
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| UBAccessServices | Videos on the site | 1 | Sep 9 2010, 2:31 PM EDT by Kazakoff | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 26 2010, 1:19 PM EDT
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Is there seriously only one?
I am a part of the tutorial creation team at UB's Access Services department. Under an RBDB grant through the Western New York Library Resources Council we have been creating a series of tutorials aimed mostly at librarians themselves. The majority of these are about using the ILLiad software though there are a few other topics mixed in as well. If anyone has suggestions as to further tutorial topics please let me know. The tutorials may be found on WNYLRC's website at http://www.wnylrc.org/orgMain.asp?orgid=352 In addition to these we have created several tutorials covering the use of certain databases and EBL materials which can be found at the YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/UBAccessServices
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| paulbetty | Captivate Help | 19 | Jul 13 2010, 9:39 AM EDT by tumblesonb | ||||
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Thread started: Apr 30 2008, 6:31 PM EDT
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I'm following Richard's lead here, and starting a thread for all things Captivate. I'm currently using Captivate 3. I've got some experience incorporating video, captioning, and javascript into Captivate projects. I'm also interested in exploring the use of branching scenarios to create self guided tutorials, in the style of the Choose Your Own Adventure series (I loved those books!). Feel free to hit me up with any questions you have about Captivate!
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| jmhMC | Camtasia- extracting files | 0 | Jul 6 2010, 4:05 PM EDT by jmhMC | ||||
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Thread started: Jul 6 2010, 4:05 PM EDT
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I need to revise some information in a Camtasia file that was created & produced by a former co-worker who left about a year ago. Her files were all cleared out by IT after she left, and no one else seems to have the original ppt files. We are really hoping that we don't need to re-create the whole tutorial from scratch. Is there a way to go into the Camtasia file on our web site and extract the ppt file? (I tried right-clicking on the file and choosing extract, but that just gave me the avi file.)
If this matters- we now have Camtasia 6, but the original presentation was done on Camtasia 3. Thanks for any suggestions!
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| Lanaghayes | Failulre to Play Video | 0 | Apr 23 2010, 11:13 AM EDT by Lanaghayes | ||||
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Thread started: Apr 23 2010, 11:13 AM EDT
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I cannot get this video to play. Are there special instructions or has this video been removed?
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| Kazakoff | High Definition at YouTube | 1 | Nov 13 2009, 12:40 PM EST by Kazakoff | ||||
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Thread started: Nov 9 2009, 5:40 PM EST
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Hello Screencasters:
A while back we heard that YouTube was going to be broadcasting in High Definition. Last Spring Richard Baer (ANTS team member) actually monkeyed around with Camtasia settings to produce a High Def Video and upload it to YouTube. Its resolution was good, but it was slower to load. Today, Paul Pival (aka the Distant Librarian and fellow ANTS Team Member) told me that as long as you upload your video to YouTube using the 1280x720 pixels (a 16:9 aspect ratio), YouTube will treat it as a high definition video. Now High Def videos are large, so you in order for you to create a high quality file using the minimum file size, you will have to compress it. The YouTube site recommended the H.264, MPEG 2 or MPEG4 codec. Another video on YouTube recommended the H.264 codec. If you are interested in producing library videos to YouTube in High Definition (or Submitting a High Definition Video to ANTS) you might want to check out the following sites: YouTube FAQ's re: High Def http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=132460&topic=16621 Video on YouTube and High Def settings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDRYnaajUcY&NR=1&feature=fvwp We have yet to test out what a 16:9 video would do to files playing on handheld devices. Most of our videos were created using something close to the 4:3 aspect ratio - and when these files are converted to mp4 (for handheld devices like iphones and ipods), they play well (i.e. they are clear and none of the video was cut off). It may be that these device's aspect ratio supports 4:3 - but 16:9 may be cut off. I don't know. Are there any iphone users out there who know whether widescreen plays well on an iphone or ipod? I would like to know. Cheers, Carmen Kazakoff-Lane
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| Richard.Baer | Camtasia help | 14 | Oct 28 2009, 8:54 PM EDT by Richard.Baer | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 12 2008, 12:57 PM EDT
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I have been using Camtasia Studio 5 (and upgrade) since last May. I've learned to use callouts, quizzes, click to continue and producing to .swf, avi and flv. I've also gotten an account at toofast.ca that allows me to embed a link to a feedback survey.
Anyone who is starting with Camtasia, feel free to contact me via this wiki. Richard
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| kabuqinuo | Give me a suggestion | 2 | Jul 26 2009, 9:49 PM EDT by gsakd878 | ||||
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Thread started: Jul 21 2009, 7:19 AM EDT
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I would like to get one cheaper converter and good enough for me novice, as i know wondershare, xili and anyvideo is not bad but the price i cannot accept. Recently there're several friends heard of a video converter named [i][url=http://www.audiotoolsfactory.com/dvd-to-avi.html] dvd to avi [/url][/i] from audiotoolsfactory. Now i download its trail version, and every aspect is not bad too.Is there someone help to check whether it's worthy to purchasing?
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| susan_library | advantages of using in-house tutorials vs. vendor tutorials | 4 | Jul 23 2009, 3:24 PM EDT by Kazakoff | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 11 2009, 4:51 PM EDT
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Hi everyone, my library has developed several tutorials in house aimed at students in particular courses, at the request of our faculty. I know many vendors including Ebsco and Credo Reference have their own resource sections and tutorials within the databases themselves.
I was wondering how many of you utilize resources from the vendor as opposed to creating your own tutorial? Do you point students to a mix of both from your website? I figure some believe there is no sense in "reinventing the wheel" while others like to create their own so they can "brand" the tutorial and include their logo, contact info, etc. Any thoughts?
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| Richard.Baer | Producing Camtasia tutorials to Youtube. | 0 | May 8 2009, 2:29 PM EDT by Richard.Baer | ||||
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I got version 6.0 of Camtasia yesterday and just had to play with the Youtube HD option.
I have summarized the results in this page. http://library.disted.camosun.bc.ca/Youtube-tutorial-test.html In short, the HD option really works. The visual difference is quite clear, even in the default size of Youtube. Clicking the HD option is certainly worth it. Richard
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| laurenref | Best Microphones and Webcams for Recording? | 2 | May 8 2009, 1:07 PM EDT by paulbetty | ||||
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Thread started: May 5 2009, 8:02 PM EDT
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Hi all,
I'm looking at purchasing some microphones that can be used for recording audio when doing screencasts here at our library. I've been creating tutorials using Adobe Captivate and a blue snowball usb mic, but am planning to do some staff training on things like Jing and Captivate in the future so that more of our librarians can be involved in tutorial creation. Headsets make sense, and I'm also thinking that a webcam/mic would be good so that librarians can utilize the camera for webconferencing in the future. Does anyone have strong opinions/recommendations on webcams and mics for screencasting and webconferencing? If so, let me know! Thanks! -Lauren Lauren Ray Educational Outreach Services Librarian University of Washington Libraries olray@u.washington.edu AIM/Yahoo/MSN/Gmail: laurenref 206.543.6847
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| Laura_Howell | Choosing a Software | 4 | Feb 27 2009, 4:29 PM EST by Kazakoff | ||||
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Thread started: Feb 19 2009, 3:36 PM EST
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Hello,
Do you have experience in screencast software? I need your input! Have you or your department done a critical comparison of screencast software in regards to the output (e.g. the resulting video design/look/feel) and how this serves the intended users? At UW we are in the process of evaluating different screencast software such as Camtasia and Captivate. However, in order to get a true idea of how effective the videos are we need more qualitative information on top of the typical ‘specs’ that are readily available on the software websites. Here is a quick example of the type of information I am looking for: I have noticed that a major difference between Camtasia and software like Captivate or Wink is that “Caption Balloons” are used quite differently. In Camtasia the caption balloon are sparingly added afterwards and the “script” that is usually read by the developer and recorded as audio can be added at the bottom of the video during the editing process as text. In Captivate and Wink the caption balloon are added automatically and can be edited afterwards. Thank you, laura
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