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Library Tutorials Best Practices: Screen Casting

Best practices for producing effective library tutorials. Adapted from Video Tutorials Best Practices (http://ncwc.libguides.com/videobestpractices) by Amy Brake NC Wesleyan College Library

Screen Casting Best Practices

Camtasia/Captivate/Jing Comparison Chart (Updated June 2012)

Screen Casting Applications

Free

Jing Take a picture or make a short video of what you see on your computer monitor, then share it instantly via web, email, IM, Twitter or your blog. [Comments: We've found this useful for quick videos to answer reference questions.  You can even make a useful video without sound. It can be helpful to use the middle or "restore down" button on your browser before you create your screencapture.  This will give you a smaller area to capture and will make it easier to view your video on mobile devices and different computer monitors.] For Macs and PCs.

Prezi:  With Prezi, you can create presentations on a single "canvas" rather than individual slides that lets you include zooming, images, and multimedia objects.  Prezi Desktop can be installed on your PC, Mac or Linux computer, and you can store files locally or upload them to your account on Prezi.com.  Some Prezi accounts are free, others (with more options) are not.  Here's a link to a UM handout from Chase Masters.

VoiceThread: VoiceThread allows you to upload a variety of media including pictures, videos, and PowerPoint slides. Professors can narrate the presentation by creating voice or video comments on each slide. Students may also add comments on the slides which allow the presentation to become interactive. Voice and video comments in VoiceThread may be closed captioned using this process. At CofC, VoiceThread is available in the Multimedia Resources section on any course homepage in OAKS.

 Not free

Jing Pro: With the Pro version of Jing, you can remove Jing branding from your video, upload videos straight to YouTube and Facebook, and create videos in the MPEG-4 AVC format.

Camtasia Studio/Camtasia for Mac: Capture full screen, window or region of your computer, add in music tracks, microphone, your computer's audio, plus picture-in-picture with your video camera, and edit, adding zooms & callouts, add title clips and transitions, and other media to easily create a polished video.

Captivate:  On PCs and Macs, create videos and add software demonstrations, interactive simulations, branching scenarios, and quizzes to your courseware without programming.   [Comments: The main difference between Camtasia and Captivate lies in the way videos are created:  instead of one video (Camtasia), each Captivate video is composed of individual slidesSome people feel that this gives them more control and makes editing easier, but it does also result in a much larger file, which can lead to problems in storage. If you want to use quizzing, especially going beyond simple Yes/No answers, Captivate is what you want:  its quizzing function is quite sophisticated.]

Screenflow: Capture the contents of your entire monitor at the same time as you capture your video camera, microphone and computer's audio. Editing tools enable you to create screencasts quickly, in a QuickTime or Windows Media movie, ready for publishing to your Web site or blog.  For Macs only. 

 

Camtasia

Camtasia 7 Handouts

The checklist for setting up Camtasia and a microphone before recording and step-by-step instructions for creating a simple Camtasia video from a 2011 Enriching Scholarship workshop produced by librarians from Univeristy of Michigan.

Camtasia Videos

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