How to make an effective sceencastBy: ChanAdward
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A screencast is a video of onscreen activity. It is a helpful tool to show technical tasks, or to illustrate technical concepts hard to explain in words. It might take the form of a formal narrated presentation, a software demo, or an informal walk-through of a particular concept. It can be readily distributed by blog posts, RSS feeds, tags, and social media video hosts like YouTube. These media enable users to share screencasts with a distributed audience, and people can get portable training with podcasts.
But, how to make an effective screencast?
Some important tips from Microsoft to prepare your computer for screen recording:
To improve your computer's performance during the screen-capture session, especially if you plan to capture the entire computer screen, reduce the screen resolution and color quality.
If you plan to capture full-motion video during your screen-capture session, disable your computer's hardware acceleration. That will make your computer runs more smoothly when in recording.
Then, close the unneeded programs. This helps clear the clutter from the screen and reduce problem of device of resource conflicts.
When everything is ready, just make a compelling screencast according the following tips.
1. Develop an audio narration for your screencast.
Write voice narration scripts for the screencast. The best scripts are written word-for-word to ensure the audio track is never silent. It doesn't mean that there must be narration for the entire screencast - musical transitions might be appropriate. Now screen recorder like DemoCreator allows user to import music as the background audio to enhance the demonstration.
A solid script will follow good marketing and sales techniques. So ensure that your script doesn't just explain how to perform a task, but ensure it properly highlights the features and benefits of the product/service being demoed. By continually pointing out the features of the product/service and then going further to explain why they're beneficial to the audience you make a more stunning screencast.
2. Rehearse the video recording
Practice delivery while moving the mouse. In the task you will handle, how much time will be spent describing an operation, what will you say to highlight a feature, and when will you zoom on an area for details, you should get a feel for controlling the timing. During your rehearsal, ensure that you are speaking clearly and slowly.
3. Record the Screencast
Launch the screen recording software and select the area on the screen, then start your screencasting. When the recording is over, preview your screencast. You can edit or rerecord the audio and modify the video, or rerecord the screencast or audio narration until you are satisfied. Just record the minimum area, that will make your publishing files smaller.
4. Edit the screencast
Now the editing features come to be popular in screen recording software.You can delete unnecessary video and audio content as you wish. Also, you can insert new video, graphics, or audio clips to decorate the screencast.
For example, you can add zoom and pan effect to show the specific area in details, you can spotlighting an area of the recording, and you can put a clickable button to direct users to your website. In one word, users can decorate the movie by adding the objects to make the illustration explicit.
5. Publish your screencastThere are some publishing options:
For widely sharing, publish your video as .avi or .wmv file and upload the file to the Youtube.com or Vimeo.com web service.
Publish as a Flash movie and generate HTML files to be uploaded to a website for access by web browsers.
If you are going to send your screencast to another, EXE format could be a good option. It is an executable format can be run without any player.
And you may create SCORM or AICC compliant demo packages for being uploaded to LMS like SharePoint, Moodle or Blackboard.
Screencast ToolsWhat screen recording software you need depends on your utility and what effect you want to achieve. Here are some tools which are widely used in making software tutorials and website demos.
Camstudio: A freeware that records all screen activity from your Windows Desktop into AVI or Flash movie files for use in software demonstrations and active presentations, but with no editing features.
DemoCreator: A powerful screen recorder to create software tutorials, online software training and presentations by capturing screen activities and editing the recording.
Camtasia: Easily record onscreen activity. Edit for professional polish, enhance for emphasis. Share multiple video formats conveniently.
Captivate: An e-learning tool for Microsoft Windows which can be used to author software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and randomized quizzes.http://www.sameshow.com/democreator/article/screencasting-tips.html#107 |
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product demonstration, screencasting, screencast, screen recorder, screen recording software |
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Computers and Technology |
| Submission Date |
Dec 11, 2010 |
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Christmas is coming. "Please show me how, do not tell me how" becomes more and more popular. Do you want to show your website or product in a fashion way at this golden season? This article describes how to make a flash video tutorial of your website or product in minutes.
"A video tutorial is more than thousands of words!" How to make a video tutorial of your website or product? Use a camera to record their menus? Maybe it's not a so bad choice! But a camera face to your computer is not the best way to show your website with the following 3 reasons.
1. The camera can not record the screen clearly.
2. You can not edit the video by adding some instructions or narrations easily.
3. The video file is too big for web sharing and transmission.
Maybe you need an application to record your screen, not a camera! Screen recording software helps you to record the screen to mirror all of your operations by recording mouse movements and keystrokes along with the screenshots. Even you can add some tips to highlight the important functions. Furthermore, you can add narration from microphone easily to enhance the tutorial. At last you can publish the flash movie and transmit to the technical guys. As you know, the flash format has smaller size and better for network transmission.
The following is a step-by-step guide of how to create a video tutorial of Microsoft Outlook by recording the computer screen in minutes. Or you can click to view the Outlook Video tutorial now:
http://www.sameshow.com/samples/outlook-tutorial/outlook-tutorial.html
1. Setting the capture mode and recordThere are 3 capture modes to be selected: Application region, Custom region and Full screen. Now we select application region to record the Microsoft Outlook, guide others how to create an account in Microsoft Outlook. Click "Record" button to start recording.
Application Region: Capture the window of the specific application that is running.
Custom Region: Capture a customized rectangular shape on your desktop.
Full Screen: Capture the entire screen.
2. Edit callouts to the tutorial by slideOnce the recording is finished. DemoCreator will import the slides automatically. You can easily to add some interactive elements to the tutorial by slide. Insert new slide or delete unwanted slide. Or add some callouts, notes, animations to the tutorial to make the tutorial more interactive and animated.
3. Add sound to the tutorialClick "Audio" button and login the Audio Timeline Editor. You can edit the audio easily by cutting, inserting and deleting. And also you can view the slide at the same time when editing the audio. Furthermore, you can record the sound when recording the screen.
4. Publish the flash movieClick "Publish" button and login the publish menu. Select publish to flash movie, LMS, auto-run CD, standalone EXE, or Email. As you know, flash file has the smaller size and safer in network transmission.
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