A Technical Approach on How to Create Desktop Video Captures Using Camtasia 3 0 Discontinued

A Technical Approach on How to Create Desktop Video Captures Using Camtasia® 3.0 (Discontinued)

Full Description

For Beginners--Learn to use the Camtasia® video captures program in just six easy, self-contained, and self-paced lessons. Enhance your training, e-learning, and classroom support with video images of the screen. Learn to annotate the captures, how to add voice and sounds, and how to prepare them for distribution. Creating high fidelity videos has never been so easy... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a moving picture is invaluable for explaining the complicated content on today’s computers. Camtasia captures the action and sound from any part of the Windows desktop and saves it to a standard AVI movie file or streaming video. Share your Camtasia screen recordings on a Web site, distribute them via e-mail, an Intranet or CD. The Camtasia suite of tools makes it easy to record, edit and publish high fidelity, compressed videos for computer based training, technical support solutions, product demonstrations, sales presentations and more. Camtasia is perfect for: Training, Education and Distance Learning -- Capture, share and manage knowledge. Make and share how-to videos. Help Desk, Online Help, Help Systems -- Handle error recording and reporting. Desktop Monitoring -- Monitor desktop activities, process control and live content. Video and Voice Annotation -- Annotate documents with voice and video for applications like CAD designs, medical images and web sites. Documentation -- Preserve and archive desktop activities. Conferencing -- Record, share and archive conference content. CAD and Simulation -- Record and share animation, CAD designs, and annotation.

Outcomes:

Students will produce three videos demonstrating use of the program. The videos will contain added stills, annotations, transitions, and drawn objects.

Assessment:

For full CEU credit, the students will email the three videos to the instructor for evaluation.

Course Information (see above or below lessons, outlines, activities, etc.) Chapter 1-Introduction to the Camtasia Suite; explanation of the four program''''s screens and menu options.
Chapter 2-Your first capture; using Camtasia to teach the Solitaire card game; planning your capture; writing a script; using the Screen pad objects for directions; capturing the moves of the cards; saving the capture as type of file other than avi.
Chapter 3-Editing in Camtasia Producer; opening the file in Camtasia Producer; adding a title screen; trimming with the timeline; producing a movie with the storyboard.
Chapter 4-Capturing with Sound; writing a voice script; recording a video with sound; using DubIt to remove sound from a video; adding sound back to a video; adding a wav file to a video.
Chapter 5-Using the ScreenDraw; capturing while adding highlighting; demonstrating how to do a procedure;trimming a capture to eliminate "dead" spots; adding a transition between clips; combining captures to make a movie.
Chapter 6-Sharing your video and fine tuning Camtasia; creating a pack and show; customizing Camtasia.

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