Description

Video is useful in nearly any course, and as such, there are numerous free tools available for creating screencasts.  However, sometimes you may need features such as detailed editing, automatic captioning, or the ability to overlay information on your video.  For these situations, you'll need a more advanced tool such as Camtasia.  This session covers recording your screen, combining and editing files, adding additional information, and publishing your completed screencast to a video file or directly to YouTube.

Assumptions

Participants should be familiar with the basics of screencasting, and should be looking for a more in-depth tool.

Required Participant Prep Work

None

Agenda

• Camtasia vs. other choices
• Needs for screencasting
• Recording your screen
• Editing your recording:
  • Combining files
  • Zoom/Pan
  • Callouts
  • Captions
• Producing your recording:
  • Video file
  • YouTube
  • Stills

Learning Outcomes

After completing this session, participants will be able to

• Determine whether Camtasia is a good fit for their screencasting needs
• Set up the screencasting environment
• Record the screen
• Set up a Camtasia project
• Bring in screen recordings and external video/audio/images to a project
• Zoom in to a part on the screen
• Add callouts to a recording
• Add captions to a recording
• Publish to video files and YouTube