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John Chamberlain, CORD Senior Associate NCPN 2011, Orlando, FL chamber@cord.org. M aking T eaching V ideos —Using Camtasia Studio. Six steps to make your video. Draft a plan (it will change!) Script, Storyboard Don’t limit yourself chronologically
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John Chamberlain, CORD Senior Associate NCPN 2011, Orlando, FL chamber@cord.org Making Teaching Videos—Using Camtasia Studio
Six steps to make your video • Draft a plan (it will change!) • Script, Storyboard • Don’t limit yourself chronologically • Remember: this is video, not a slide show • Collect existing media • Image/video/audio/text files • Plan and make your recordings • Camera, computer-screen action, narration • Import all the assets into editor and polish • “Publish” the video, review, and revise • Share the finished work with the world!
Plan: What/how to teach? • Something helped by animation, motion, narration, or multimedia enhancement. • What is the scope of your project? (how long? how will it be delivered/viewed? who is your audience?) • Where will you get the raw content? • Does it already exist? (YouTube videos? already recorded clips? applets?) • If not, how will you create it? (Yourself? Use animations from elsewhere? PowerPoint?)
Plan: What media* will you use? • Images, including animated GIFs • Video camera: webcam, cell phone, point-n-shoot camera, iPad • Microphone plugged into soundcard • Existing video/audio files • Captured action from computer screen *video, audio, animations, images, formatted text, etc.
Plan: How will you get the media? • Download existing files (email, web) • On your own hard drive, if using your computer to record it! • Wired connection (e.g., camera) • USB • Firewire • Wireless • Bluetooth • Wi-Fi
Record: Video from camera • Resolution? Web or HD quality? • Start with hi-res imagery. Don’t enlarge. • Recording video from camera • Dimensions (4:3 or 16:9) • Plan the environment (sound and lighting) • Size of subject (fill the screen, avoid zooming) • Use tripod • Shoot more than you need • Avoid special effects added by camera • Keep in mind: you can/will edit later
Record: Video from computer What sort of things can you capture? • Programs: show “how to” do this or that • Applets: much better than a lecture • Videos: real world • Navigating a web site • PowerPoint slides: easy, cool animations How to capture? • We’ll use Camtasia Studio’s Recorder.
Edit: Assembling your media • Editing video is fun, your chance to fix many little things, and be creative! • But it’s also very time-consuming! • Many editing programs • Windows Moviemaker • iMovie • Adobe Premier • Camtasia Studio • And many more!
Example: Using Camtasia Studio • Import clips into library • Drag clips from library onto timeline • Adjust clips on timeline: sequence, crop (trim away beginning or end), split, delete • See Preview window • Add transitions between clips, adjust durations • Add other effects (using “key frames”) • Zoom and pan • Cursor effects • Callouts • Picture-in-picture
Publish: Create the video result • File formats and sizes • WMV • MP4 • SWF • And more • Remember: More pixels means better image, but BIGGER files • Can customize many parameters and publish options • Save produced files in a sub-folder
Share: Available for all to see! • Upload sites • YouTube, Facebook, Revver, Blip.tv, Yahoo!, My Space, Bolt, Drop Shots, Cast Post, Clip Shack, Daily Motion, Meta Cafe, Our Media, Phanfare, Podesk, Selfcast TV, sevenload, Shozu, Stickam, Ustream, Vimeo, Movie Locker, TinyPic, Sevenload, MetaCafe, SmugMug, Shutterfly • Or your own web server • Linking and Embedding • Link to upload site or your own web pages • Social network pages (YouTube, facebook, etc.) • Email attachments (if not too big)
Programs • Camtasia Studiohttp://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/Free for 30 days, or $179 for schools • Debuthttp://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/ Free for private use, or $29 purchase and VideoPad Video Editorhttp://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/Free for 14 days then limited file types, or $35 purchase.
Camtasia Studio and Recorder • Let’s record today’s Google icon. • Start Camtasia Studio.(Click past the starting screens.) • Click Record the Screen. • Adjust record window to grab the desired part of the screen. • Click Webcam on (if not On already). • Click rec and note key press used to STOP. • Record screen action and webcam, then STOP. • See preview, then click Save and Edit.
Preview your raw recording • Recorder automatically saves your recordings and adds them to the Timeline. • Click the Clip Bin tab, and see the saved camrec file. • Click “Play” button in the Preview window. • Rather than work on this clip, let’s work with an existing “camrec” of mine. • Start a new project: File, New project, No (don’t save).
Time for you to make your first video! • Goal: replicate my short video clip about radians. • We’ll use my “camrec.” • In the new project, import my capture-1.camrec. • Drag it to the timeline and accept 640x480 size. • Watch first minute or so of RAW footage. • Zoom timeline a little. Move play head to ~2:13, and “select” everything before 2:13. Delete this part of the clip and PIP.
Trim away excess material • Play the first few seconds. • Position the play head at the start ofthe Radians and Degrees slide . • Highlight and delete everything before this. • Let’s quickly trim away the end. • Move the play head to the end of the Radians and Degrees slide (~1:12). • Split the tracks there. • Delete the split clips after the Radians and Degrees slide: capture and PIP. • Watch the first and last ~10 seconds.
Adjust the PIP • Trim silence at start of PIP,and move it to start of project. • Adjust the PIP image: • In Preview window, select (click) the PIP. • Move it to the lower left corner, and enlarge it. • Check “Fade…”, Drop-shadow, Bottom-right. • Use play head to “select” all after about 0:10 (after “…360 degrees in a circle”). • Click Hide PIP in the dialog window. • Notice the way the PIP is colored in the timeline, indicating the “hidden” PIP. • Play the few seconds around ~10 sec.
Clean up audio • Click Audio tab. • Check “Enable noise removal.” • Better: click Advanced. • Select the quiet seconds after ~0:10. • Click “Use manual noise selection.” • Select and Delete “dead air time” • Around 0:10-0:11 • Around 0:58-1:02 (before the closing, “Just remember this…” • At end of project. Are you getting better at “seeing” the audio? • Resulting project should be ~1:05 total.
Add callout: Sketch-motion • Position the play head about 0:25, where formula C=2pr appears. • Click “Callouts” on the ribbon. • View the choices, select Sketch Motion Rectangle. • Adjust its orientation, size, position, and color. • Notice the callout in the Timeline. • Adjust it’s “position” and duration as needed to match dialog. • Adjust “Draw time” and fade out settings to your liking.
Add Zoom-n-pan • Starting ~0:35, let’s help student see link between degree and radian circles. • First, let’s “zoom in” and direct attention to the lower-right portion of the screen. • Position the play head where audio starts. • Click Zoom-n-Pan on the ribbon, and click Add keyframe. • In the dialog window, adjust the zoom window size and position to embrace the lower right of screen. • Adjust Duration (zoom in, zoom out times) to ~2 sec.
Add callouts to zoomed window • Let’s “connect” the degree and radian circle graphics with an arrow. • Position the play head at beginning of 45-degree discussion, after the zoom key frame. • In the Callouts drop-down, select the Swoosh Arrow. • With call out selected in Preview,adjust it’s size, location, orientation (Hint: “Flip vertical”), colors, outline, transparency, etc. to connect the 45º and p4 circles. • Get it just right, then use it as a pattern!
Copy/Paste a callout • Replicate this for the other three angles mentioned in the audio: • Right-click arrow callout in timeline and Copy. • Position play head, right-click it and Paste. • Click the new callout in the Preview and move it to connect the next pair of angle-circles. • Hint: You only need do the Copy once. It stays in the Clipboard. • Hint: Pasted objects stack “on top” of previous. • Adjust the arrow callouts on the timeline to match the audio: position and duration.
“Unzoom” back to full size Now, let’s zoom back out. • Position the play head near the end of the clip. • Click Zoom-n-Pan on the ribbon. • Move the slider to Zoom-out, and adjust duration. • Notice: Changing the zoom properties adds a new key frame.
Add a title clip and a transition • Wrap up with a simple title clip. • Position the play head at the end of your video. • Click the Title clips tab, and Add Title Clip. • Enter and format some text in the dialog window. • Adjust the duration to about 2 sec. • Add a transition into the title clip. • Click Transitions, and see Storyboard view. • Drag your Transition choice before the title clip. • View timeline. (Hint: Click Callouts tab.) • Adjust the Transition duration to about 2 sec.
Finally! Produce your first video • Save your project (the recipe). • Click Produce and share. • For now, use “Web” production settings, so click Next. • Specify video name and folder location.Hint: Choose your Desktop for now. • Be sure all checkboxes are checked. • Click Finishand wait patiently! • Click the Play button to see how you did!