Subtitles for videos
February 11, 2011 at 3:24 pm | Posted in hands-on | Leave a commentTags: Academic Skills, accessibility, Adobe, Camtasia, captions, e-thesis, EdShare, Presenter, video, YouTube
I’ve just used the new subtitling feature in Camtasia v7 and it really makes it easy to synchronise the script with the video – you just click on a word in the script when you hear it to divide the script into two or three line chunks. So ideally the process takes only a little longer than the video itself.
The test video in question is A guide to making your thesis available online. This 10-minute presentation introduces e-theses, outlines their benefits and the issues they raise and describes the process requird to create and submit them. It is also available as an Adobe Presenter slideshow.
I uploaded the resultant MP4 to EdShare and was disappointed to find that the captions are not supported (I think). A quick dig around Google indicated that FlowPlayer (used by EdShare) can support captions, so I’ll ask if its possible to get that extension installed.
I then uploaded the same file to YouTube, plus the captions in SubRip format (essentially text plus timecodes). Camtasia can export your captions as a SubRip file, so it only took a couple of minutes to create a fully accesible video. Just click CC in the control bar to view the captions.
New Panopto tutorial videos
January 10, 2011 at 5:21 pm | Posted in lecture recording | Leave a commentTags: Adobe, Camtasia, lecture capture, Panopto
I’ve just made two tutorial videos available for tutors using Panopto.
The first is an update of an earlier video, and takes into account some minor changes due to the upgrade to Panopto 3.0 – in particular the removal of some trivial but annoying error messages during login:
Using Panopto in a Common Learning Space : recording a lecture from start to finish
The second is new, and shows you how to access a recording via Blackboard, trim the start and end points, delete sections from the middle and save it as a new (separate) edit:
How to edit a Panopto recording
Still to come is a video aimed at students, showing them how to view, download and annotate recordings.
These two videos also allow you to compare and contrast the possibilities offered by Adobe Presenter and Camtasia – so the first is based around animated screen-grabs in PowerPoint while the second was a live screen recording with effects added during editing. In both cases a script was used to smooth the production process and minimise editing – and of course the (updated) script also made it much quicker to re-record the changed slides on the first video.
Using Panopto in a Common Learning Space
Using Panopto in a Common Learning SpaceUsing Panopto in a Common Learning Space
Adobe Presenter and Camtasia Studio: compare and contrast
July 24, 2009 at 2:36 pm | Posted in lecture recording, software | Leave a commentTags: Adobe, Camtasia, PowerPoint
I have been a fan of Camtasia Studio for some years, so it was interesting to try the latest version of Adobe Presenter and see how they compared.
- Camtasia Studio (CS) is basically a screen-recorder, but is also integrated with PowerPoint to create narrated presentations. An educational licence costs around £150.
- Adobe Presenter (AP) is integrated with PowerPoint to create narrated presentations. It comes as part of Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended, and an educational licence costs around £70. Continue Reading Adobe Presenter and Camtasia Studio: compare and contrast…
Using Learning Technologies to Bend Space and Time
June 4, 2009 at 1:23 pm | Posted in lecture recording | Leave a commentTags: audio, Camtasia, how-to, PowerPoint
This was the wildy inaccurate title of a talk I recently gave in the School of Chemistry – the subject was really about techniques to record lectures so that students can view them at a time and place of their choosing. This is a particular concern for Chemistry and Phyiscs owing to timetabling problems with their joint Natural Sciences degree.
A recording of this talk is available on Screencast.com, a video-sharing site linked with the Camtasia Studio software I use.
After the break are some details of how I made the recording Continue Reading Using Learning Technologies to Bend Space and Time…
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