Week 2 of my Practicum

I dove a bit deeper into using Camtasia 8 this week.  My first video on how to take a screen shot using Camtasia 8 turned out pretty well.  However, I needed to make a couple adjustments.  The first correction was not introducing myself because of how these videos will be used in the future.  I added a call out to one segment of the video to give a better visual instruction of what needed to be done.  I also zoomed in and out on certain portions of the video so that the viewer would be able to follow along with more ease.  Now that I have made these adjustments, I think it is a much more user-friendly video.

This week I made a tutorial on how to create a "screen-capture" using Camtasia 8.  A screen-capture is a video recording of the screen.  This took some time because of the information I was providing.  I was hoping I could record the screen and then bring up another recorder interface while making the video.  That was not the case. I ended up taking quite a few "screen shots" of different items in Camtasia.  A screen shot is a still image of the screen.  The next step was pasting the screen shots in the paint application and cropping them to an appropriate size.  After I saved the cropped screen shots, I imported them to my Camtasia Studio.  I adjusted the dimensions of the recording box within Camtasia to fit my needs and began recording.  I have a brand new appreciation for anyone that narrates anything because it took me at least 15 takes before I got the speaking portion correct.  Finally, I added closed captioning to the video.  

I am also working on several other videos that will be posted in this blog in the coming weeks.  I was given a YouTube video to watch and I am making several videos that will instruct the user on how they could make the same style of video in Camtasia 8.  

The below video is the revised Screen Shot video tutorial in Camtasia 8.

The below video is the Screen Capture video tutorial in Camtasia 8.