Using Camtasia to Create Accessible Video Tutorials

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Using Camtasia to Create Accessible Video
Tutorials

• Parker Owens
• parker.owens_at_eku.edu

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Camtasia is Versatile

• Create audio/video files in multiple output
  formats for training, tutorials, podcasts, and
  presentations
• Screen capture and recording
• Convert PowerPoint to video
• Package existing video with callouts, titles,
  transitions, zooming, quizzes, etc.
• Share video on the web, CD, or DVD

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Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice
Dr. James W. King

• Encourage student-faculty contact
• Encourage cooperation among students
• Encourage active learning
• Give prompt feedback
• Emphasize time on task
• Communicates high expectations
• Respects diverse talents and ways of learning

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Adding value to online learning

• Welcome
• On demand classes
• Screen capture videos
• Content/How to
• Slideshows with and without voiceover
• Videos or multimedia movies
• Interactive quizzes, surveys, etc.

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Considerations

• Students
• Online only
• Class and online
• Individuals with disabilities (ADA laws)
• Bandwidth
• Broadband?
• No access?
• Modem?
• Wireless?
• Computer
• Up to date?
• Readers, add-ins, and applications installed?
• Cell phone?

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Content Delivery

• Production
• Use the wizard!
• Many outputs from one file
• Distribution
• Website
• CD
• DVD
• Podcast
• Blackboard

Windows Media Player QuickTime Specialized
Ipod/ITunes format Gif animation
Flash AVI Real Media MP3
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Distribution through Internet

• Over 10 minutes?
• Streaming server
• MPEG
• Under ten minutes, small screen?
• Upload like a graphics file
• Provide multiple versions of the file, for
  instance, Flash, Real, QuickTime, and Windows
  Media Video.
• Subscription?
• Provide access through ITunes and provide rss
  file location for users of other aggregators.

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What are the benefits of captions?

• Accessibility/ADA laws
• English language education
• Search optimization
• Transcend technical barriers of no sound or slow
  internet connection
• Extra information (visual cues, names of
  speakers, song lyrics, subtitles for mumbled
  lines)

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Files and clips

• Program generated files
• project container - .camproj
• screen recording .camrec
• clips titles, callouts, captions, etc.
• voice recording .wav
• webcam recording .wmv
• Files you can import
• movie .avi, .mpg, .mpeg, .wmv
• image .bmp, .gif, .jpg, .png
• audio .wav, .mp3, .wma

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Create Presentation with Screen Capture

• Designate the screen area to record
• Check your microphone
• Record
• Edit
• Add titles and callouts
• Add music
• Add captions
• Produce final product
• Publish files

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Create Presentation with PowerPoint Import

• Create PowerPoint or use existing
• Record audio for voiceover on slides
• Add timings per slide
• Import PowerPoint into Camtasia
• Edit
• Add music
• Add captions
• Produce final product
• Publish files and also publish original .ppt

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Create Multimedia Presentation

• Make new Camtasia .camproj file
• Add external files to the project file
• music, audio
• artwork, videos
• Pull files onto timeline
• Add internal clip files
• menus
• callouts
• quizzes
• captions
• Produce final product
• Publish files in various formats and upload

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Check before beginning

• Record
• Function Keys
• Alt-F9 Record / Pause
• Alt-F10 Stop
• Sound
• Microphone
• Earphones
• Camera controls, webcam for PIP

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Capturing the screen
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Capture vs. Screenshot

• By default, Camtasia will record a movie of what
  happens on the screen.
• To change, in the Recorder window, go to
• Tools gt Options gt Video gt
• Single Frame Capture
• OR
• Shift Print Screen
• Open Paint (Start gt All Programs gt Accessories gt
  Paint
• Edit gt Paste

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Select Window
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Select Window
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Recorder Window Capturing

• Record button
• F9 Start Recording
• F10 Stop Recording

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Editing

• Storyboard or Timeline format
• Cut/add/re-record segments
• Can add index markers
• Used to generate menus
• Used for routing Flash-based presentations
• Can add effects
• Screen dissolves and other transitions
• Quizzes
• Music
• Titles, credits, captions

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Exporting Video
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Exporting Video
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Misc. Exporting Tips

• By default, things are saved to
• My Documents/Camtasia Studio/Project Name
• If you use Flash, multiple files are created
• Flash output files
• x.html, x.swf, x_config.xml
• Upload to Blackboard
• Zip all files and upload .zip file
• For other files, upload to a streaming server, or
  place the file in your web space
• Contact Paul.Ramsey_at_eku.edu for a directory on
  the streaming server

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Appendix

• Find class files and this PowerPoint
• www.people.eku.edu/owenspa
• Contact info
• Parker Owens
• parker.owens_at_eku.edu
• 361 SSB
• 622-2743
• Accessibility website with class information and
  other info www.accessibility.eku.edu