Overview of Video, Podcast, Vodcast, and
Power Point Recording
Bob Jensen
Emeritus Professor of Accounting
Trinity University in San Antonio
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
603-823-8482
rjensen@trinity.edu
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
Camtasia Introduction ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/video/acct5342/
Local Link --- ..\Video\Access\PQQ07JoinTypes.wmv
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Camtasia Features
Web Link --http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/record.asp
Local Link --..\CamtasiaFeatures.htm
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Introductory Video
Web Link ---
http://www.techsmith.com/learn/camtasia/5/getting-started/gettingstarted.asp
Local Link ---
..\Video\CamtasiaIntroduction\CamtasiaIntroduction.wmv
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Bring Up Recorder & Producer
Camtasia Recorder --..\..\..\Program Files\TechSmith\Camtasia\CamRec.exe
Camtasia Producer --..\..\..\Program Files\TechSmith\Camtasia Studio 2\CamtasiaStudio.exe
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Camtasia Illustrations
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/video/
Excel Goal Seek Utility --http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/EdTech/Video/GoalSeek01Wmv/
Local Link
..\Video\Excel\GoalSeek01Wmv\GoalSeek01.avi
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Camtasia Illustrations
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/video/
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Bob Jensen’s Camtasia Tutorial --http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/EdTech/Video/Tutorials/
Local Link
..\Video\Tutorials\CamtasiaTutorial.wmv
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Bob Jensen’s Website Overview --http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/EdTech/Video/Tutorials/
Local Link
..\Video\Tutorials\JensenWebsiteOverview.wmv
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Camtasia Illustrations
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/video/
When a student asks a question, say via email, you can
answer with a video that is more effective than text
answers.
Excel Solver Utility --http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/EdTech/Video/Access/
Local Link
..\Video\Excel\ExcelSolver.wmv
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Camtasia Illustrations
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/video/
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MS Access Calculated Controls --http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/EdTech/Video/Access/
Local Link
09CalculatedControls.wmv
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MS Access Bounded Access Charts --http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/EdTech/Video/Access/
Local Link
..\Video\Access\PQQ05-12AccessBound.wmv
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Camtasia Illustrations
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/video/acct5341/
You can serve up video to share with the world on your
Web server or to share only with students on your
Blackboard or WebCT server.
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How to value an interest rate swap and how to account
for it uder FAS 133 rules --- ..\..\Calgary\CDfiles\video\FAS133\133ex05a.wmv
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How to account for options under FAS 133 --..\..\Calgary\CDfiles\video\FAS133\015FAS133options.wmv
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How to account for futures contracts under FAS 133 --..\..\Calgary\CDfiles\video\FAS133\020FAS133futures.wmv
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Camtasia
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Record full-motion screen video with perfect quality
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Include a variety of cursor highlights during
recording
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Edit, cut, and join video clips
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Add digital video files (DV, MPEG, WMV) to your
screen recordings
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Add interactive Callouts, Zoom-n-Pan effects,
Quizzes, Picture-in-Picture, and much more
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Camtasia
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Edit and add audio, including voice narration and music
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Create a Web-based or CD-based menu from which to
launch your video and other media files
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Produce your final video in any popular file format
Your original Camtasia Studio screen recording is already
optimized to give you the smallest video file
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Size for screen content. In addition to selecting the desired
file format during production
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Key Advantages in Education
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Camtasia compressed video can be delivered to
students on CDs, Web servers, Blackboard &
WebCT servers, or over the Web by such free
large file senders as YouSendIT --http://www.yousendit.com/
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Students can repeat lessons, especially technical
lessons, over and over until they completely
understand the procedure.
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Key Advantages in Education
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Class time can be devoted more to concepts and
theory without having to delve into technical
details of a procedure that student can study over
and over again in your video explanations.
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Instructors often master a technical procedure
when preparing for a class that is difficult to
remember in great detail when the class is taught
in a subsequent semester. Sometimes I made
videos just for myself to use when preparing for
class next year.
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Key Advantages in Education
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Camtasia Flash videos can be interactive where
other presentations and files can be brought up
by students who click on “hot spots” while
watching the videos.
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Camtasia Flash videos can be used for giving
quizzes and examinations where students choose
or write in answers.
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Key Advantages in Education
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Podcasts can be created in Camtasia and saved to
compressed mp3 files.
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Vodcasts can be created in Camtasia studio and
served up in video files.
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Podcasts and Vodcasts can be served up in
TechSmith’s Screencast utility.
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Podcasts and Vodcasts can be used on iPods, PCs,
or Macs.
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Key Advantages in Education
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Learning challenged students may overcome
handicaps with Camtasia tutorials designed for
their particular needs such as more audio for
sight-impaired students and more video for
hearing-impared students.
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Videos can be transmitted to distant students
such as those who missed class or missed
technical learning meetings.
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Key Advantages of Camtasia
Students can click on different levels of technical
explanation depending upon their needs. For
example, accounting for interest rate swaps can
be recorded in a Camtasia video for students who
understand interest rate swaps.
Example
Students who do not understand interest rate
swaps may first study a video for teaching the
basics of interest rate swaps before they tackle
the accounting video.
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Key Drawbacks of Video
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The number one drawback of video files is their size. It
is very common for instructors who love Camtasia to
quickly have an archive of course video files that greatly
exceed the storage capacity allowed on a Web server and
or a Blackboard/WebCT server.
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If the video files of earlier lessons in the course have to
be removed from a server to make way for current
lessons, it defeats the purpose of having these videos
available throughout the course for student study and
review, particularly for term projects and major
examinations.
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Key Drawbacks of Video
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the Camtasia video Recorder, video is
first captured in generally enormous AVI
uncompressed video files that are virtually
impossible to store on a server.
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is also possible produce audio-only WAV
files that are compressed into MP3 or
Ipod/iTunes reduced size files in Camtasia
Producer software.
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Producer Video Compression Options
After editing the AVI file with fades, volume adjustment,
transitions, deletion of unwanted segments, splitting of clips, and
possible merging of multiple clips, the AVI file must then be
compressed using Producer software into one or more common
compressed video files:
WMV compression for Windows Media Players
MOV compression for Quicktime Players
SCF compression for Adobe Flash Players
RM compression for Real Media Players
iPod/iTunes compression for Vodcasting
CAMV for Real Player Streaming Media
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Comparisons of Video Compressions
AVI File Size
WMV/SWF Size
Run Time
106,095 KB avi
5,928 KB wmv
02.57 minutes
319,904 KB avi
29,586 KB wmv
22.28 minutes
162,745 KB avi
22,228 KB swf
05.47 minutes
25,315 KB avi
4,766 KB wmv
04.49 minutes
All the above videos have identical (default) frame rates.
Size vs. Runtime varies with the size of the floating (panning) region
capture rectangle used when recording the video.
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Storing and Sending Video
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Typically Web and/or Blackboard servers do not grant
enough space to serve up lots of course video, although
quite a lot of audio might be served up for stuents.
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CDs and DVDs provide cheap storage
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How to send large files across the Internet --http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob4.htm#SendingLargeFiles
Local Link --- ..\..\Bookbob4.htm
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How to Pan Floating Regions
Web Link --http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/EdTech/Video/AutoPanWmv/
Local Link --..\Video\AutoPanWmv\AutoPan.wmv
..\..\..\Program Files\TechSmith\Camtasia Studio 4\CamRecorder.exe
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Illustrations of Panned Floating Regions
Goal Seek Video --http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/EdTech/Video/
Local Link
..\Video\GoalSeek01Wmv\GoalSeek01.wmv
FAS 133 Appendix B Example 5 (133ex05a.wmv)
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/video/acct5341/
Local Link
..\..\Calgary\CDfiles\video\FAS133\133ex05a.wmv
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Interactive Software Requires SWF
If instructors want to add hot spots to video that allows or requires students to
interact with the video such as hitting Web links, answering questions,
navigation to some other spot on the video, etc., only compressing of WAV files
into Adobe SWF flash files is allowed in Camtasia Producer.
Web Link
Interaction Video 1 --- ..\Video\InteractiveVideo\InteractiveVideoPart1.wmv
Interaction Video 2 --- ..\Video\InteractiveVideo\InteractiveVideoPart2.wmv
Interaction Video 3 --- ..\Video\InteractiveVideo\InteractiveVideoPart3.wmv
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How to Download PC Videos to TV
Giant screen TV sets are better than computer screens for viewing
video, including course content video recorded by instructors
using such capturing software as Camtasia. As we increasingly
download video files or capture streaming video on the Web into
video files, it is possible to transfer those files to a DVD disk for
playback on other computers and TV sets with DVD players.
However, is it possible to transfer files to TV in one step without
having to make DVD disks?
See http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob4.htm#PCtoTV
Local Link --- ..\..\Bookbob4.htm
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References and Tutorials
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Techsmith’s learning center --http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/education.asp
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Daniel Park’s book on Camtasia at www.amazon.com
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The End
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