{"id":1501,"date":"2009-11-02T05:45:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T12:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disruptionblog.com\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2009-11-02T05:45:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T12:45:40","slug":"tutorial-top-7-screencasting-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2009\/11\/02\/tutorial-top-7-screencasting-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial &#8211; Top 7 screencasting tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;A <strong>screencast<\/strong> is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a <em>video screen capture<\/em>, often containing audio narration.&#8221; (Source : <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Screencast\">wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; And it&#8217;s incredibly useful to share information,tutorials and to make trainings. I assume some of you already did screencasts, but just in case here are the few tips I can share. All you need is a computer, a microphone, a few additionnal softwares and a plan of what you&#8217;d like to say.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Software (all of them are free tools). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I personnaly recommend and use Camstudio : <a href=\"http:\/\/camstudio.org\/\">http:\/\/camstudio.org\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Camstudio is a pretty old software with a crappy interface, but it&#8217;s free and it just works. It also record your voice during the presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Other software you might like to check out : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jingproject.com\/\">http:\/\/www.jingproject.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 7 screencasting Tips and tricks<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prepare what you&#8217;ll say. Make a plan with catchy titles, as for a traditionnal presentation.<\/li>\n<li>Double check the software, the internet connection.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid noisy background, make a sound test.<\/li>\n<li>Make short sequences that follow the plan<\/li>\n<li>Anticipate the transitions in your plan<\/li>\n<li>Make a final recap when finishing your video to highlight the important things to remind.<\/li>\n<li>Do not lose time to restart a sequence &#8211; it&#8217;s about sharing knowledge, not imitating famous movie director.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Final editing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you need to make transitions with titles, Windows Movie Maker will be absolutely perfect for that (OK, it&#8217;s not great, but it works, and it&#8217;s free on our machines ^_^). Just drag and drop your sequences and make sur to insert titles. And then upload (Idex, Opex, the web &#8230;), share and publicize your video !<\/p>\n<p>Should you have done screencast in the past, feel free to share your best practices and recommendations !<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"screencast\" src=\"http:\/\/disruptionblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/screencast.jpg\" alt=\"screencast\" width=\"500\" height=\"128\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration.&#8221; (Source : wikipedia) &#8230; And it&#8217;s incredibly useful to share information,tutorials and to make trainings. I assume some of you already did screencasts, but just in case here are the few tips I can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2009\/11\/02\/tutorial-top-7-screencasting-tips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tutorial &#8211; Top 7 screencasting tips<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20,23,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-tools","category-training-courses","category-tutorials","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}