elearning: Video Tutorials Camtasia and Jing

Creating Video...Don't be Blinded by the FLASH! Professor Steve Anderson. USC Sumter, stea@sc.edu 803-316-4296

Flash is a file format that embeds well on the web. It is by tech smith: www.techsmith.com

JING
free
great for still captures of *png files
great for "shorties" and low motion video
no editing...saves it AS a SW flash video
nother file formats...no WMV, MP3, etc
Let's you publish it to THEIR server
You mail out the URL to your audience

SCREENCAST.COM (to host video)
save as flash video or directly save it to screencast.com (which gives you the embed code)

Chunking Material

Camtasia allows you to do audio/video recording (like adding audio to a power point)
(save for web, 640/480 ?the default is)

On camtasia you can "replace with silience" so that you can keep video and still have video

On camtasia 6.0 you can separate out audio and video

You can "sample" a section with no voice and hit "audio enhancement" "manually select a region" "remove noise" then it will remove the white noise from the ENTIRE section

Difference bewteen JING (flash for the web and it doesn't have editing)

AVI can be brought into timeline until flashed. Then not editible. JING only produces where CAMTASIA is editible. You can publish to different file formats too.

CAMTASIA is $199 with snagit. (site liscense for 100 bucks)

You can send students to snagit so they don't have to pay for anything.

You can publish to screencast from camtasia but then you'll probably just use jing

"Produce" (Look carefully where you are saving it) Rendering will take a little time to produce

Use transitions wisely since it will take more bandwidth

It automatically puts it into a webpage. You have choice of where to publish.

Typically bandwidth 4-5 MB to 10-15 min presentation "if motion is reasonable"

The larger portion of the screen that you record the more bandwidth it will take.

F9 to pause F9 to start up again after you started recorded. F10 to exit record.

If you don't think you're going to need editing than use JING.

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