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. Create a new project folder within the Documents\Camtasia Studio\YOURNAME folder – keep the name of this folder
short with NO SPACES and NO PUNCTUATION – EVERYTHING will be stored in this project folder!
Activity: Creating Project Images / Slides (.PNG)
1. Copy your PowerPoint presentation to the project folder and open this new copy
2. Review the PowerPoint and be sure that you are completely satisfied with it
3. Select menu File  Save As
4. Navigate to your new project folder
5. Select .PNG from the file-type drop-down
6. 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 the two programs 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:
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Play and Listen to the recording
If you are not happy click the ‘x’ to delete the recording and do it over
Otherwise, EXPORT your voiceover as Slide01.WAV to your project folder (menu File  Export as WAV)
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
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Drag the Slide1.PNG image onto Video Track1 and drag it to the beginning of the timeline
When asked, set the Editing Dimensions to 800x600 and click OK
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 t 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 transitions, zooms or pans, callouts, arrows – whatever makes it more interesting.
SAVE YOUR WORK
Now It’s Time to Produce your Micro-Lecture / Create Your Movie
31. Click the “Produce and Share” button
32. Select “CUSTOM PRODUCTION SETTINGS” and CLICK NEXT
33. Next choose “MP4/FLV/SWF” – Flash outputs and CLICK NEXT.
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34. Choose a file format based on where you intend to upload it, YOUTUBE (recommended) or the COLLEGE MEDIA SERVER
YOUTUBE INSTRUCTIONS (MP4)
COLLEGE MEDIA SERVER INSTRUCTIONS (FLV)
Make these settings if you will be uploading your video to
Make these settings if you will be uploading your video to the
YouTube for hosting
College Media Server for hosting
35. CLICK NEXT
36. Be sure that “Embed Video into HTML”
is checked, and CLICK NEXT
37. Be sure the “Folder” you are Producing
to is your Project Folder – if not navigate
there now
38. Check that the Output file name has no
spaces or punctuation and CLICK FINISH
39. You will see the
rendering
progress – WAIT…
40. Once the
rendering is
complete your
presentation will
open in the
Browser for
viewing – play it!
41. Finally, CLICK
FINISH
42. IMPORTANT: Save your project in the same folder as your images and .MP3s
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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 it’s not already there, 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
6. Copy your project folder to your flash drive
7. 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
An .WAV audio file for each slide
A .CAMPROJ file
A folder containing various files having the following extensions .FLV, .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 Samantha or Billy to have your project
uploaded to the College Media Server.
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