Camtasia Movies from PowerPoint & Audacity
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
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Look at your slides – you may have to adjust the position of text or images
Save the PowerPoint
Now, Select menu File  Save As
If necessary, navigate to your new project folder
CHANGE THE FILE TYPE by selecting .PNG from the file-type drop-down
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
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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
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Lengthen the image on the timeline as necessary to cover the audio related to it
Play the movie to see if all is ok, adjust as necessary
SAVE YOUR WORK
Place the second audio file to the right of the first on the Audio2 track
Place the second image to the right of the first on the Video track
Lengthen the image on the timeline as necessary to cover the audio related to it
Play the movie to see if all is ok, adjust as necessary
SAVE YOUR WORK
Repeat the above steps for every slide / audio pair
To enhance your movie add slide transitions, zooms or pans, callouts, arrows – whatever makes it more interesting.
SAVE YOUR WORK
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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”
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Select “Jump to URL”
Paste the URL of your external video into the URL box
Check the Open URL in new browser window
Click OK
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
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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
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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
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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:
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Close ALL open programs, files and folders
If you have built your movie and saved everything on your flash drive skip to the last step in this section
Otherwise, put your flash drive into a USB port
Open the My Documents folder on your computer
Look for and open the Camtasia Studio folder
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:
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This project’s PowerPoint file
A .PNG file of each PowerPoint slide
A .WAV audio file for each slide
A .CAMREC file
A .CAMPROJ file
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
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:
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Select a Content Area within your Blackboard Course
Select “Build Content” and then “Item”
Type a “Name”
In the editor select “Insert Image”
On your computer locate either the Camtasia movie project folder or the PowerPoint slide export folder and select an
image
Paste the College Media Server URL that we sent to you into the Target URL
Select YES for “Launch in new Window”
Set the Border to “3”
Submit your way back to your course
Click the image to view your movie – it should popup in a new window
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