MICRO-LECTURE-YOURNAME

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1 Camtasia Movies from PowerPoint & Audacity During the following activities you will use a PowerPoint presentation to create slide images, Audacity to capture audio, and Camtasia to synchronize the two. Activity: Preparation 1. If you do not already have one, create a project folder on your memory stick called MICRO-LECTURE-YOURNAME and copy your PowerPoint there ALL FILES will be stored in this project folder! Activity: Creating Project Images / Slides (.PNG) 1. If it s not already open, open your PowerPoint presentation 2. Review the PowerPoint and be sure that you are completely satisfied with it 3. If you are going to include High Definition (HD) video in your Micro Lecture please change your slide size to 16:10 menu View Slide Master Page setup 16:10 OK Close Master View 4. Look at your slides you may have to adjust the position of text or images 5. Save the PowerPoint 6. Now, Select menu File Save As 7. If necessary, navigate to your new project folder 8. CHANGE THE FILE TYPE by selecting.png from the file-type drop-down 9. Select ALL and click SAVE all of your PowerPoint slides will be saved in your project folder Activity: Audio Recording in Audacity A few things about audio because audio is the most important movie ingredient: A. As you record your audio, speak loudly, sloooooowly and clearly B. Practice a few times before recording C. If you do not like the results, you can record it again As you go thru the following, please save your audio files in your project folder 1. If it s not already open, open your PowerPoint presentation 2. Open Audacity 3. Arrange and size Audacity & PowerPoint on the screen so you can see them both side-by-side 4. Put the headphones on the microphone should be in front of your mouth but NOT touching any part of your face 5. If you have not practiced speaking, please do so now 6. Be sure Slide1 is on the screen 7. When you are ready, click the Record button at the top of the screen and begin speaking about the Slide1 8. When you are finished click the Stop button 9. The results will look similar to this: 10. Play and Listen to the recording 11. If you are not happy click the x to delete the recording and do it over Page 1 of 5

2 12. Otherwise, EXPORT your voiceover as Slide01.WAV to your project folder (menu File Export as WAV) 13. Repeat the above and record the audio for each of your slides Activity: Creating Your Movie in Camtasia When all audio recordings are finished 14. Open Camtasia 15. Import all of your image and audio files using the Import Media button 16. Immediately select menu File Save As and save your project file in your project folder use the same name as your PowerPoint presentation 17. Drag the Slide01.WAV audio file Audio Track2 and then drag it left to the beginning of the timeline 18. Drag the Slide1.PNG image onto Video Track1 and drag it to the beginning of the timeline 19. When asked, set the Editing Dimensions to 960x600 and click OK 20. Lengthen the image on the timeline as necessary to cover the audio related to it 21. Play the movie to see if all is ok, adjust as necessary 22. SAVE YOUR WORK 23. Place the second audio file to the right of the first on the Audio2 track 24. Place the second image to the right of the first on the Video track 25. Lengthen the image on the timeline as necessary to cover the audio related to it 26. Play the movie to see if all is ok, adjust as necessary 27. SAVE YOUR WORK 28. Repeat the above steps for every slide / audio pair 29. To enhance your movie add slide transitions, zooms or pans, callouts, arrows whatever makes it more interesting. 30. SAVE YOUR WORK Page 2 of 5

3 Activity: Adding a Link to an external Video in Camtasia 31. On the timeline, double-click on a slide where you want to include a link to an external video maybe one with a video icon 32. Switch to Callouts, and then click +Add-Callout 33. From the callout drop-down select the transparent-hotspot - in the viewing window a rectangle with six dots will appear 34. Mouse over these dots and position and re-size the hot-spot directly over what the viewer will click on to view the movie maybe a video icon 35. At the bottom of the callout dialogue click Hot-spot properties 36. Select Jump to URL 37. Paste the URL of your external video into the URL box 38. Check the Open URL in new browser window 39. Click OK 40. SAVE YOUR WORK Activity: Now It s Time to Produce your Micro-Lecture / Create Your Movie 41. Click the Produce and Share button at the top of the screen 42. Select MP4 with Video Player (up to 720p) as your PRODUCTION SETTINGS and CLICK NEXT 43. Click the folder icon and set the production folder to your project folder 44. Check that the Production name has no spaces or punctuation Page 3 of 5

4 45. CLICK FINISH 46. You will see the rendering progress WAIT UNTIL RENDERING IS FINISHED 47. Once the rendering is complete CLICK FINISH AGAIN 48. Minimize Camtasia, open your project folder, locate.mp4 file and double-click the associated.html file with the same name to view your movie 49. IMPORTANT: Save your project in the project folder Page 4 of 5

5 Activity: Taking your Camtasia project with you Each Camtasia project produces a number of files. For safe keeping, and so that we can mount your movie on the College Media server, you should copy all of those files onto a flash drive and take it with you. Here s how: 1. Close ALL open programs, files and folders 2. If you have built your movie and saved everything on your flash drive skip to the last step in this section 3. Otherwise, put your flash drive into a USB port 4. Open the My Documents folder on your computer 5. Look for and open the Camtasia Studio folder 6. Look for your project folder 7. Copy your project folder to your flash drive 8. Open the folder on your flash drive and examine its contents. Files you should find there are: a. This project s PowerPoint file b. A.PNG file of each PowerPoint slide c. A.WAV audio file for each slide d. A.CAMREC file e. A.CAMPROJ file f. A folder containing various files having the following extensions.mp4,.html,.swf,.png, &.JS If you have all of these files and folders you have successfully copied your project 9. Bring your flash drive to the Academic Computing Center (L-117) and see either Denis or Samantha or Billy or Bruce to have your project uploaded to the College Media Server. Activity: Making Your Movie Available in Blackboard College Media Server version After bringing your produced movie files to the ACC we will send you a URL. Follow these steps to use that URL in Blackboard: 10. Select a Content Area within your Blackboard Course 11. Select Build Content and then Item 12. Type a Name 13. In the editor select Insert Image 14. On your computer locate either the Camtasia movie project folder or the PowerPoint slide export folder and select an image 15. Paste the College Media Server URL that we sent to you into the Target URL 16. Select YES for Launch in new Window 17. Set the Border to Submit your way back to your course 19. Click the image to view your movie it should popup in a new window Page 5 of 5