About today
is Snagit and Camtasia.
Both of these items are from Tex Smith.
Let me go ahead and share my screen here.
Hold on.
Okay.
Let me just get things.
I have too many monitors here.
I move the stuff out of the way.
Okay,
so what we're seeing here is the text mis
website and you can see, of course, is the icon for Snagit.
This is for Camtasia, which say is going to be showing you about.
And some of you may have used what was called Jing
quite a few years back and that that's still a free application.
I believe they allow you to record five minutes of content using Jing
now Snagit is something that I believe everybody here at the FRC uses every day.
So big advocates of, snagit.
And what what's nice about Snagit is you can take
pictures of anything on your screen.
You can then use the editing area to,
add annotation,
do a number of different things, something to show you different things about that.
But not only can we
take screen captures of images,
we can also create videos using Jing okay.
And also there's a lot of jing
tutorials nudging, but also Snagit could tutorials.
And I'm going to be sharing these links with you.
But as you can see it has here by now for Snagit
the cost for snag it is.
Per year, is $39.
But what's nice is the FRC does have a license for using Snagit,
so I can share this, form
with you all and
all we would like you to do is fill out this form.
It lets us keep track of how many faculty or staff are using this license
so we can make sure we have enough available license for, for everyone.
And what it does after you fill out the form and you submit it
and screen's going to pop up with a with another link, and then you're going
to go to a Google doc that gives you the,
master key to, register.
So let me go ahead and let me see if I can share this with everyone.
Okay.
And we can always send it to you
if you,
If you, if for some reason you don't have it
or you lose it along the way, we'll share this again with you.
So that's always nice to have this,
ready for you to use for your classes.
And I know a lot of people
use it for making tutorials
and putting those tutorials into canvas
or making videos, short videos to put into canvas.
You can do, a lot of people
are using Snagit rather than zoom,
because of course, you know, if you have zoom, you can save it in the cloud.
But those cloud,
videos are only there for two weeks.
You would have to download them, upload them into YouTube
or through C media.
But, a lot of people are preferring to use Snagit, and C
is going to be showing you some things about a partner of Snagit
called Camtasia that gives you even more features on the video
and of things.
But let me show you, after you have signed up
for Snagit, you've downloaded it, you've installed it.
What you're going to see when you start it up,
you're either going to see this little bar,
the Snagit bar, or you can also choose to have the
what's called a widget always floating on the top of your screen.
And that's what you're seeing on the upper left upper right hand side here.
And both of them have these, the big red buttons to easily start
capturing items on your screen.
And so just to show you here, and I wish I could blow up the,
this little bar, but I'll just try.
Let me see if this will do it. No.
Okay.
Hopefully you can see that or zoom in on your side, but when you open
up, snag it.
You get this bar and you have the choice to,
create things.
You can either choose all at once or when you click Create Capture,
you're going to have some different options.
But I like having create all because I could choose between.
I'm not choosing just an image or always opening up
capture to do a video when I have on one.
When I come in here and I open up snagit, I can choose what I want to do.
Okay?
And notice when I click on either image or video
that I'm getting different options
here on, on the screen.
Okay.
And so let me see okay.
We'll see you later.
See you later Sabina.
Let me see what else I have here
okay.
So for screen captures let me make this a little bit bigger.
So maybe there's something on my screen I want to share.
And so let me pick this so I can get to this a little bit easier.
Okay.
And so I'm going to choose.
There's a couple choices you can make within here I'm going to choose an image.
To make an image there's different options
of your selection I generally use the region okay.
You may Google full screen.
There's a number of different things in here.
There's a scrolling tab.
So if you were on a website and, you know, it was a long website,
what you can do is you can choose to scroll and get all the information,
and you can save it as a PDF, or you could share it as an image.
But, as you can see, there's a couple different ways within here.
Grab text is interesting.
So if you have an image that,
has print on it, but you want to print off of the image,
you can use this option of grabbing text and it'll pull the wording off
so that you can just copy and paste the text elsewhere.
Okay.
So I'm just going to show you the regions here.
So I'm choosing region.
And the other options over here that I like to have for the image is
the there's one.
It's called caption cursor.
I like to have that on there and then time delay.
So time delay.
If I was taking a screenshot of something that have had submenus when I hover over
an image and I wanted to see the submenus underneath that this time delay,
and you can see the little arrow to the right of the option.
It tells you how long you want to have that delay.
And I think five seconds is usually is usually good
because you have your computer probably set
up to the things you want to record.
But if you want
to choose like this submenu here,
if I clicked on, capture, you can see how I move away.
And the, the, submenu floats back up underneath the main menu.
But with the
time delay I can start to capture.
And then I could click on here and you can see over countdown.
But I've moved my cursor
to where I want my cursor to be so I can get this little drop down
if I'm setting this to somebody to give them directions.
So let me show you what else we have in here.
So after you take an image, let me make this a little bit smaller.
So the bar area is one of the main parts.
And then I'd say the second main part would be
now is the editor.
So this is the snag editor.
Notice that it gave me the little
cursor with the finger showing that this is what I was choosing.
And I may want to come up here.
And I have a number of different options, but maybe you want to put steps.
Maybe I'm going to put this on a Google doc and
or even in an email and tell students or other faculty
what I need them to do so I can go in here and I can do steps.
The first step is going to be, you know, to click on my computer and our community.
You can use different types
of. Steps to
whichever one works best for you I can change it.
I click the check the check to accept
the layout and then maybe I want them
to go to the,
computer programs here.
Okay.
So this is this is quite simple, but then all we have to
do is now add it and we're going to copy all.
And if you were going to send us an email
and just do I have my email open.
Yes. Okay.
So if I had an email and I want to send this to someone,
I could paste this within my email.
I could also come in here and write a note
and then say step one.
First on and I might put the URL where they get this.
So go to
our community.
And you know the submenu
will show, you know, computer programs okay.
So this is what we use a lot with the images.
Something else that you can do with in
within here.
Within the editor,
there's a number of different options up here.
If I wanted to for some reason, and this is a pretty bland image,
but I can put in arrows, I can put in text
within the image itself.
If I wanted to do a call out, I could do that.
So this gives me a little bit more room
to add information within here.
Make it a little bit bolder for instructors
to show different things to students.
And let me look what else I have up here.
Okay. And then shapes.
Sometimes I'd like to maybe I'll take an image
and I don't want something to be, displayed.
So what I can do is I can make a white solid
image and I can put that over something within the image
I've taken if I need to hide it or what.
You can also do a lot of times when
with a personal numbers, be they,
key numbers or things like that, what you can do is
you can come in and blur certain items within a screenshot, okay.
And there's different levels of blurring.
As you can see here.
So I could change it to this one.
But there's a number different ways you can do,
with with the annotations.
Okay.
And let me see if there's anything else.
The drop down menu go through here.
Play with that.
There's a number of different things.
If you want to crop a certain area out, if you want, draw a line.
If there's something you want to highlight, you can do that.
If there's certain items here that you use
more than others, you can move those to,
the area
up here at the top, like, okay, so I put blur up there.
And so this way, if this is something I know I'm going to be using a lot,
I can move it out of the more area.
Okay.
So let me see what else I have.
So we talked about image captioning the different types of captioning.
And we can do.
And any questions
about just the basic images that you can take.
So anything that's on your screen you can make a screenshot out
and then share that with with students.
Put it in your canvas class.
But is there any questions.
So that's pretty easy creating these so you can put it in any
you can put it on a canvas page or a Google doc or whatever.
Whatever. Exactly, exactly.
And so the other thing you can do within Snagit
is you can create videos.
Okay.
So here we chose image.
Now if I click on video we have a couple different selections here.
So what I can do up here I can choose once again by region
a certain window.
And I'll show you when I click on to start to
create a video I could choose within
the start process the full window, and I'll show you that in a second.
Okay.
And so you have an option here to record your webcam.
Because a lot of times I see instructors creating,
PowerPoint,
PowerPoint that they want to share with, students,
but they want to walk students through each of the PowerPoints.
So they do a voiceover of the PowerPoint.
And then we will usually upload this into YouTube to get them captioned.
Okay.
So we're going to do a video and
what we could do after we're done we can share it.
Like I said to YouTube,
number of different places you can save it to Camtasia.
So he's going to show you about this where you can make further
changes within there.
And let me see record microphone we have that turned on.
And if you were recording
if you had to make a recording of something that had sound
on your
computer, you would also need to choose this record system.
Audio.
But let me just show you what this looks like,
and let me just find something that I may want
to show somebody.
Maybe I just wanted to show.
Someone about.
And let me just make this bigger,
because I don't know how the next page is going to show up.
So I'm choosing the side size to make this recording.
Okay.
And so it is initially initializing
and it gives me a countdown.
Okay.
And you can see it is showing my webcam
I can change the sizes.
So maybe I wanted to step back and talk a little bit and
then go back into either the PowerPoint or the screen of the computer.
You can change this to different sizes.
It's a number of different things.
You could do this as you want to move it out of the way.
You could just drag that around.
So this is recording.
My voice is recording.
What's being shown on the screen.
I could walk through in here, and maybe I wanted to show somebody
what the different viewed gesture dashboard views look like.
So it could actually show these different things.
I could explain
about the different items, and then I would explain that card
view is the best way to have your students put their dashboard to.
And so everything that I'm talking about will show up on here.
But then when you're finished and I'm not sure if you'll be able to see this.
So this is another bar that I have down at the bottom that has my controls.
If I want to pause this, I can do that.
And so maybe I had to click some more things.
Think about something, catch my breath.
I could do that.
And then I could start recording again.
Or what I can do is I can simply
end the video.
Okay.
And so you can see what opened up once again is the Snagit editor.
And so here, if I want to, I can play this back,
can listen to it, see if that's that's what I want.
There's a area here where we can edit
the front and the end of the video.
Maybe it took a while to get started here, and maybe
I don't want to start until, you know, a certain place here.
So then I can just cut out that area.
I can also come here to the bottom, do the same thing.
And I believe we can also cut out sections in the center if we wanted to do that.
Okay.
Sometimes if I'm talking in a video and I trip over something or,
somebody comes
in, there's a sound, what I can do is just,
I'd like to pause a couple minutes, which gives me a space that I can see
and that I could go through or makes it easier to cut.
Cut that if you put a extra space within there.
Okay.
And so then what I do after this is all done,
I could share it directly.
Let me see here.
I could share a link to this video or I could oops here to share.
I could upload it directly to YouTube.
You would click on there.
You would have to fill this out, give it a title.
Fill out everything you want on here.
We want it to be an unlisted video, so that way you could share the video to
or the link to the video,
but then, students can't or nobody can search for it in YouTube.
So that's an unlisted, unlisted,
choice that you would make there.
Okay, so I'm not saved in here.
I'm not going to upload it. But,
honestly, we use this
pretty much every day over here to the LRC.
And if you have any questions about it, you can always let us know.
You can stop by and, Yeah.
Do you, do you,
do you have to upload it to YouTube
to do captioning, or is is there a way to do captioning?
That's that's a good that's a good point.
So this
video that was created with Snagit is not captioned,
but we can upload it into YouTube and caption it there.
We also have what's called three kbia.
We can caption it also there.
So if you need information about that.
My my other question is so does
how does this compare to Screen Pal?
Does it have more capabilities?
And do you suggest using this instead of screen for, for,
well, we don't have a license to screen, pal.
Just one thing I know.
Like, I mean, I yeah, I that's what I've been using it for years.
Yeah.
The administration of Justice Department, I know they, they,
the, their department bought a license for their instructors.
So there are people using it.
There are people that, prefer it.
I know your screen pal.
It also has a transcript on the side.
And I think it highlights the words as you go.
So personally, I like that, and I like that a lot.
Thing is
this is, you know, we have the license here, so it's free to do if you do.
But there's no but in terms of comparing the two, it's not like one is.
I think the main thing better or.
Yeah, the what I think the biggest difference
is the automatic captioning, the, transcript on the side.
I like that a lot in in screenflow.
So yeah.
Thank you for that. I would I like that better.
But this this is easy.
This also gives you the option to do the just the plain,
you know, screen captures of the images.
So we use that I probably use that a lot
and then say is going to show you Camtasia
and there's a lot you can do with that intermix that.
And I think you could probably export
the videos that you made in Screen Pal, and you could probably import
if you need to do further editing, you could probably do that
within capitation, but maybe Screenflow has that functionality.
I'm not sure.
So Louise also had some stand up.
Yes, yes.
What will be the best way
to transfer this video, for example, to announcements under canvas?
I would upload it into YouTube and then add a link to it.
Okay, thanks for that because then it would be captioned.
And then also when you add video, even if it's a short video,
if you add it to a canvas, you know the analysis of stuff,
you figure it's going to be bigger.
I would I would think that adding a link to it in canvas would be,
I'm sorry, a link to it from you in YouTube.
I think that would be best. Okay. Thank you.
Okay.
I can also embed it to if you want to in your announcements.
Okay.
And embed it from here or embed the YouTube.
Yeah. If you go in yeah.
You have to go to YouTube, get the share embed
and then go into canvas page or announcement three dots.
Hit that embed cloud paste that code.
Voila.
Yes. So what I'll do we have a list of everybody who's attending.
And so I will I'll send to you once again the the form that you need to fill out.
And also the, the links to the different tutorials about Snagit.
So I think you'll like it.
It comes in handy.
Oh, I personally love it.
I use it every day while we're here on your on the screen.
Would you mind showing them the library in the upper left hand corner?
Because one of the things that happens if you make a lot of videos
is it can take a lot of space on your computer
that you may no longer need once you upload it to YouTube.
Yeah. So this is library we went to here.
So these are all the videos to see how far they go back.
Yeah that's not bad
2025 still.
Yeah that's a lot there.
And then there's different assets and I'll include that in the information.
What are called asset assets are different
things like different types of assets
not the one it has.
But these are like different types of icons
you can use within when you're creating your images.
So you also mentioned CC media.
Could you send a link to that.
Yeah 33C3C media.
Oh add that on the on the handout
I'll send to everyone.
And sorry about the leaf blower.
Okay.
So I'll turn this over to you. Say.
Thank you.
All right.
Let me just get my screen.
I am going to throw a link there.
Thank you Jeff, for the three C Media solutions.org.
And I'm going to share my screen.
And I also included a link to the Tech Smith.
Camtasia online.
There we go.
And you're in this and let me just clean up a couple things
and I'll be good to go here.
All right. So.
Oh you get out of that too.
Forgot that I was messing around.
Okay.
So the link that,
I sent online, are through chat.
Were you able to view at a view will bring you up to the page before this.
You don't have to sign in if you don't have an account with text
or, text minutes.
Who is the parent company to Camtasia?
You will need to make an account and then you'll log in
and then, once you start your recordings,
I'll just tell you, right before you start your recordings to try OBS and do,
the new efforts on it,
you will be able to also
and I'm just getting everything zoom.
It's just being in the way for me.
Just one second.
Anyway, you will get the,
have to make sure that you come in and, well, that's that's.
I'm sorry. That's the wrong one. Let me grab the right one.
You'll have to make sure that you allow for your microphone.
If you're going to use your voice during the recording, your computer is,
going to, give permission to Camtasia to record your voice.
So it needs access to your microphone,
and it will also need access if you're doing,
video capture or face time capture, like the the human face
and you have a camera, it will also need, Camtasia will also need
permission to use the camera like you do with zoom, among other things.
I, I think I grabbed them all, but if there is another one in there,
just you'll have to go through that process, which is fine.
With that said, let's see here
this part of Camtasia that we're going to be looking at
there is a bigger, broader Camtasia that is available
and that Camtasia and does cost some money.
And but this Camtasia, which is Camtasia online, is absolutely free.
And the reason is it just came out.
We have not spent a lot of time with it.
We have not delved into it.
But we as we were, as I was watching a video
the true last week of this coming out, I was like, this is really cool.
There's, things you can do for it.
So as we were kind of spit balling ideas,
one of the things that they showed in the,
the, the presentation that they did
was that they use Camtasia
to create, to use it as a discussion board.
So they had presented material and then they shared
the project with everyone, and everyone had to create a text account.
They were logged in, and then they could leave
comments on the video as they were going, which we aren't going to do today.
There's also the idea of, let's say that you're let me just go into here,
when you're using
it, you can see that you have these different scenes down here.
The scene one you can see up here, it'll say scene to scene three.
And then I can add another scene, which I'll go into in a little bit here.
But you can see that you can add these scenes.
Let me just get out of this scene.
You can reorder these scenes.
And so and the recording time and I haven't
actually run it to its elements, but if my memory serves correctly,
it is five minutes per scene, but you can have as many scenes as you want, right?
So let's say your students are working on a group project,
and everybody needs to add to the group project.
Each student can make his or her own scene to,
you know, one student makes the account.
Everybody collaborates right here in the upper right hand corner
into the project.
They add their own scene and then it's all nicely organized.
It's presented to the instructor, and the instructor can watch
the presentation at the group project.
So that's another idea that you could do.
Another idea, that you can do is that you let's say that
you are
an English instructor and you have a writing project.
And so during this writing project, which is going to take like, for example,
in my own photography class that I'm teaching, is a portfolio class,
and I'm trying to help them get ready for interviews
because that's their final exam.
They have to actually go on an interview with me
in front of everybody else in the classroom to get a job, right.
And that's been on the interviews before.
They can be a little nerve wracking for some people.
So the way that I am helping my students, or at least last time I did this
and I plan to try using this Camtasia online with my current students
is I gave them a 28 day exercise and they had to record themselves every day.
I gave them a prompt like pretend like you were having
a, interview over zoom and you lost connection.
You have just gotten back onto zoom and connected with the people.
How are you going to recover?
What is it you're going to do? Like?
Well, okay.
I'm so glad, you know, thanks for your patience or
something like that because it can be stressful.
So and then I have them show their portfolios in another, another day.
And so every day I give them an activity that they have to do.
Well.
This right here will allow them to have their activities.
Nice. Easily recorded either.
I haven't actually tried Camtasia online on my phone yet,
so that's something that I have.
I know I'll have to need to do, but they'll be able to record
with their computers and their devices nice and easily, and be able to present
just like they would.
They won't be able to have day one, day two, day three, day four.
And just a nice neat little collection with this.
This is available again, like I said, free.
It's free to everybody in the world looks good.
Instructors is free to students, which is why we're like this.
Might have some links for us that we can use for our students.
So again, if you are an English instructor and you have a, diary project
where you're kind of working through the writing process
and whatever it is that you're trying to manifest out of you,
you might have daily diaries, like you would do something like that.
Also, we also have the idea,
and I have been doing this for years, but I might try Camtasia for it.
You also have the ability that if, let's say you have a student
who has, written a piece of, you know, something and you want to create
a video for them to be able to see, you know, here your authenticity,
your authentic voice.
I'll just say it that way.
Then, and among other things, you will be able to create a screen
capture of what it is that you see, you're also be able to see yourself
in the video if you want, so that you can share your ideas and be more clear
about what is working and what is their next step for improvement.
Right?
So these are just kind of like we were just kind of bouncing ideas back
and forth a little bit.
And we do see that there is potential with this free product.
So again I gave you the link.
Let me go ahead
and just go back to this delete screen right here or back, back a screen.
And once you log in you will come in and your project on this
and your project won't have this recent projects right here.
It will be a blank board.
That's great.
But you do have a big green new project button.
So you're going to click on the new project.
And this is when you're going
to get all of those permissions that you have to go through.
If you if this is your first time
and just work your way through those, you know how to do it.
Mostly what I'm trying to tell you to do is that if you plan to just
plug and play, it's going to take a little bit of finagling first.
So give yourself an extra five minutes just to get everything set up and then
mess around with it. Okay.
If I want to again, if I want
to invite other people into the scene, I can come in and invite Karen in here.
Is it al?
Is your middle name?
Pipeline.
Eye blind.
Speak to you.
I can hit invite.
And now I'm inviting, a collaborator, and I'm giving them
permission to edit the scene.
When someone else is added in this scene, it will be locked.
So what's happening here is only one person can work in the scene at a time.
Which is a beautiful thing, because, you know,
maybe I don't know if you've ever tried
to work on a Google document when somebody else
is working on the Google document and things are getting shifted
moved, you just like, stop moving the darn document, right?
So that would be a little bit of a nightmare right here.
So obviously you can, invite people in as a collaborator or up here at the top.
Right. I'm gonna add that back button.
When you are recording, you get a choice of just recording,
just the screen. So
if you just want to create a screencast, you can create just a screencast.
If you want to create just a video of yourself presenting in,
you know, various backgrounds, among other things, you can do that.
This is with borders, among other things.
I'm going to hit this little back button right here.
But what I am.
And so those are pretty basic and easy to use.
But what I'm going to show you today, which is it's a little bit more than,
than just those two, is for, videotaping yourself
while you are also videotaping the screen.
And so we can see here that once I hit this little screen and camera
in the lower left hand corner of my selections,
I get the choice of either I have chrome open right?
So I can either share just a tab in Chrome,
I can switch to other tabs in the recording will only show the tab
that I have chosen, which in this particular case is my testing 100%.
I would turn it and speed greater right there.
If I wanted to, I could show a window.
Currently I only have Camtasia open, but if I had word open or Excel or
another document, those different windows would be available for me to share.
Just that window.
So if I do share
and you have to click on it in order to get the share to work,
I would be able to it from tab to tab to tab,
and it will maintain just the entire window.
It doesn't stay with just a single tab.
It shows all the tabs that I'm sharing, but I if I break,
if I drag word over on top of Chrome,
it's still just recording Chrome, right?
It's only seeing chrome, which is what I've chosen here.
Or I've got the choice of, recording my entire screen.
In this particular case, I am going to go to the Chrome tab.
I am going to choose testing on Chrome because there's no reason for me to,
you know, move out of this.
And then if you, you know, in zoom, if you have, let's say, a video
and you want the video to be recorded by the, recorder,
you want to make sure that, share the,
tab audio is on.
In fact, this is on in the default mode.
Personally, I wish zoom would leave that on in the default mode,
and I would just turn it off if I did not want to share the videos,
because I don't know how many times I'll be in my class,
trying to do a high flex class, I'll play that.
I'll play the video of my my students that are at a distance of like,
I can hear the video and I'm like, I forgot to
I forgot to show the sound, right?
To show the sound so that I've stopped the video shows sound.
So that's just the thing with me.
I wish it was always on, but this is on.
But if you don't want it on, clearly all you have to do is click that button.
Now that we've got this set up, I'm sharing just that tab.
I'm doing a screen and camera.
I'm just going to go ahead and click on share my screen.
Now we can see here and I'm just going to show you
right here at the top we have an area that's screen focused.
So what that does is it allows me to change different views of the screen.
I also can scroll right.
And I can see also different types of backgrounds.
I can also go camera focused where I, the bigger element within the scene.
And then this is smaller element.
Of course, you will have a beautiful selection of other ones
that if you want to work with it, you can work on balanced
and you can, you know, work on left and right and just work.
There's also a all and that'll really expand it for you.
And again, if you decide that you need to go to screen only or camera
only, you can now this this right here is worth the price of admission.
When you do screen and camera,
you are not stuck with what you see in this rectangular window
here on the right hand side above the green buttons.
Right?
What happens is and I'm going to show this to you,
is that later if I'm recording and I'm like,
oh, you know what, I really wish I wish I had this view over here.
I when I'm in the editing window, I can go back and choose
or change my views, but it's going to be a change for the entire scene.
I can't do half the scene looking like this,
and then the other half of the scene looking like that.
It's the entire scene.
If you do really want that type of control
where you're like, I want to change the look halfway through text,
Smith has the full version of Camtasia available for you to purchase, right?
I think this is their little gateway drug
to get you into Camtasia, and you're going to want to do a little bit more.
And by wanting a little bit more,
they will say, hey, that's that's something we had that for you.
And it's just a small nominal fee.
In fact, for students a year,
a full version of Camtasia is $45, which is very inexpensive,
maybe not for a student, but in the world of full licensing,
full licensing of an app for a year, that's pretty good.
And then, for instructors, I don't want to misquote, but I,
I think it's like 100.
It's like $200 a year, around $200 a year for a full license.
But for an instructor, I think it's like $162 and change,
if I'm remembering correctly.
But, we'll have to look that up.
So they do have discount licenses if you really want to go on a full
or more full version of Camtasia.
All right.
And then while I'll come into costs, well, let's just go look at customize.
Look right now, just while we're here at the very bottom
on each of those choices that you have, you do have that customize look.
So you get your variations of this little screen.
This is a scene that I've come up with.
I also can work on, if I want to, I can round the corners.
It's the round it because I'm in a circle.
Those sort of rounded corners, is surrounding corners of my screen.
If I want to, I can add a drop shadow or remove a drop shadow.
These is not one or the other.
It's kind of hard to see, but there's a little reflection right there.
And if I want to mask it, I can mask it.
And you can turn
these off if you want to, or turn them on.
And so, these are available for you.
And then there's also camera effects.
So if I just want to do like a little cutout of myself, I can do that.
I can, run I oh, I turned the border off.
There we go. You can have a border of yourself.
I can, I'm in a round circle, so the rounding corners is not showing.
But if I wanted to, run the mask or take the mask off, I can do that.
And then, of course, I can also do a reflection.
Those are all pretty self-explanatory as you play with them.
And they're not, not to be outdone, but I can also change the background.
I can have star backgrounds.
I can have backgrounds that have motions.
You see.
See all, yeah, you can see like the you can make people dizzy while you talk.
Whatever it is that you really, really want to do.
All right. I'm just going to simplify it.
Maybe just keep it like this and call it good.
Now, when you before you start to record, try and get yourself a nice
quiet environment.
But when you, hit that button, that's going to be a five second countdown.
My recommendation to you is to wait for it
to go down to zero, wait a beat, and then start talking,
because that will give you room if, in case
you need to trim the beginning, you've got room to trim if you need to.
But if you start talking right at zero, it can be a little bit awkward.
And this is just true for,
all of, recording in general.
It's just like a general audio
recording rule, and you let the cat countdown get to zero.
Wait to be, and then start talking.
Same at the end once you're done with your talkie, talking at the very end,
finish your talking.
It's good to see you.
Thanks so much for being here.
And then turn it off again.
You can always edit that if you're, working on it, but
especially if you're, like, having to look around
like where is the off button, that sort of thing.
You can trim that off on the end inside of this tool right here.
As, as Karen, I showed you before with Snagit,
that we can, we can mess with that too.
So we want to make sure our microphone is on.
You do have a little Chevron down here at the bottom.
You can click on that.
Make sure that you are choosing the right microphone for yourself.
You can also if you have more than one camera, choose
which camera you want to use.
And if you want your screen off or on, that is your button right there.
I like to reselect which tab I want, so I my screen, you get everything set up.
You click that record button, you'll get that five second, delay
and then it once it hits zero wait
it says recording and process.
What it's recording right now is actually this screen back here.
As we can see, I can click on other screens
and it will not record those screens.
Once I'm done recording, I can just start talking.
There you go.
I had stop I had to go back up to the tab here at the top.
Remember, this is all being done online, right?
All being zeros and ones over the internet.
Now I've got my recordings for.
Yeah. So we can see that I'm in there.
I've got my recording.
I don't want to I don't want to have that weight in there.
So I'm just going to
and I'm going to bring it back a little bit right there.
I have this trim button right here.
I just have my it's kind of hard to see.
But there is a little marker right there.
So I'm just going to grab this trim marker.
Go right there.
And let's say I need to trim the end with this.
Camtasia online also known as cam.
Oh by the way with Camtasia on line in it,
you can only trim from the ends.
You can't trim from the center as, Karen had previously shown in Snagit.
And instead you can only trim on the ends once I get this set up
to where it's where I like it, I say done,
and now that part is done.
I click play and says recording and there you go.
And you can see it just starts right where I was at now.
I had told you previously that I don't like this scene.
I don't know what I was thinking, you know,
so I still have the ability to come in and just change my scenes.
Now, if I want, I can do, you know, choose whichever one I want.
This is obviously, again, I'm camera focused.
This one, I am screen focused.
I do not have the ability to move these around,
but if I go to customize, I can come down here
and now I have the ability to choose different locations.
So we had it customized before when we were choosing before we recorded.
This is a customize also.
And again it has variations. It has effects.
It has backgrounds like we saw before, but there's a slight difference
between the two, which is why I'm pointing those those two out.
So let's say I really like I personally like it this way.
I tend to look this direction. So I'm going to look towards the material.
I'm going to create that implied line towards the material.
Keep the students going on this direction.
And I would have given them the, entire, critique of their work.
Now, we can see here that as I just quickly go through here and talk,
when I was recording, I was clicking through the different tabs
as I was recording, but none of those tabs got recorded.
It stayed on this single tab that I was recording.
So do you know that if you have to, you know, stop and process
or you need to look something up and you flip tabs, it will stay on the tab
that you said to record as long as you said record a tab.
Now again, this is just one scene.
If I want to add a scene, I can come in same exact thing.
Choose,
Yeah.
Just do the testing again.
I can come out close that, choose whichever one I want,
start my recording again.
Three, two, one.
By the way, you can click anywhere
to cancel recording if you need to do that.
And so, during that countdown I would normally navigate
to the screen that I was wanting.
I would talk about like this bit rate.
You know, this point right here
is really emotional for me also blah blah blah blah.
Given their recordings.
Stop.
Wait.
And start now.
We can see that.
I've got that second scene.
There's my video right there.
I can change the order of it.
And then if I was ready, I can title.
My project is.
And then if I want to
in the upper right hand corner I can choose export.
So in export I can export to screencast if I want.
As a student or anybody that gets a free account with Camtasia,
they get 25 videos
on Camtasia to be for free.
That's it that you can go to log in to your Camtasia.
I'm sorry.
Screencast on your screencast account, you can log into your screencast
account, download videos from there if you want to, and delete them.
And then just kind of keep recycling that space if you want to.
Again, it doesn't matter how long the videos are, you get 25 videos.
So again, if you had several videos here, you could do something like that.
As I said before, I do audio, I teach photography classes, so when I am, doing
critiques for individual students, for submissions on my online students,
I do, audio video critiques of their work, and I take it into Lightroom.
I show them how to use Lightroom and teach them
how to use Lightroom, as I'm talking about
what's working in their photograph and what's their next step for learning.
And then I put them all up in a single folder
inside a drive, and then I share the entire folder with the class.
So anybody can watch any of my critiques from four other students, right?
I am going to experiment with this this year.
And so I will have one assignment.
I will have my 21 or 20 5 or 20 high rooms, as you know, submissions.
I get on time and so I will have all of those down there
so students can watch and see the video that I created.
They can just easily scan through and I'm going to give it
I'm going to see what see what students feel about that.
How do they feel when I.
By the way, if you do share your videos with the entire class,
make sure that you know.
Be careful what you say, because the entire class,
as if you were in an entire class and you wouldn't be like,
you really need to see me about this. This is awful.
You know, you wouldn't want to do something quite like that.
But, you know, if you want to later in your feedback,
note feedback, you can say I you really did meet with me.
You were having trouble with this area, and I want to get this cleared up.
Cleared up.
Nothing that you'd want to embarrass somebody on if you're sharing
the entire project.
So anyway, I can, I can export it to screencast.
It will automatically create a link for me.
It'll be on my,
it will go up, you know, render the project.
The other option, which I didn't realize was going to take that long
because it was really fast last time I did it.
But nonetheless is I could download.
So again, I just hit that export button, I click on download
and then I can choose where on my computer I want to download the video,
and then within a video I can upload it to YouTube,
I can upload it to three C media, I can upload it to Google Drive.
Whatever I want to do with that video, put it in announcements,
among other things.
By the way, this Camtasia online does not offer captioning.
Camtasia full version does offer captioning,
and they offer the dynamic captioning that you see now on all the,
the TikToks and the, reddits and whatever.
You know, it's all that like the, the text that blinks
and pulses as people talk and stuff, among other captioning.
They also have the standard issue captioning that we had back in the day.
Questions, comments.
This is the export
video I was talking about.
I think that's clear as mud.
But what's nice is
when you added me, included me as a collaborator, I immediately
got the email one click of the link and it put me right there.
I could see what you had, what you were doing
as you added the different scenes.
Can you get in and edit while I'm in here?
Maybe I tried to edit way well before you were talking
and it didn't let me, let me see what it was.
Yeah.
I'm just wearing words where it shuts the door if I'm in here first.
Do you just get to see it? Not edit?
You're welcome to delete or destroy anything
that's in here.
No, I don't think it was.
It's going to hurt me because it did.
It did say you were recording and then I'm refreshing.
All right, now see if you can edit.
I'm just curious.
Okay.
Let me just refresh. Also.
So it's it's dotting the i's and crossing the t's.
So good.
And of course I was doing that export, so that might have messed it up.
Since I can replace the scene.
Oh you can.
Do you want to share your screen?
Yeah. I'm not sure. Here.
Hold on.
Here, let me stop my share.
Okay.
So over here.
So I'm seeing your two scenes,
and we're not seeing your screen yet.
Okay.
Hold on, hold on.
And, Jeff, thank you for that pricing.
I got the 162 is what I got.
But I got for students I definitely got $45
on the video when they were doing the presentation.
Okay.
Yeah I added in the discounted link in there too okay.
Has a student.
So can you see this I can yes. Okay.
And so here I'm assuming if I wasn't here's the two that you created.
And so if I want to I can get started.
Yeah.
Can you choose like a different background.
Yeah. Okay.
And then you can reorder the scenes.
I mean really there's not a lot of editing in Camtasia here, but you're in there.
You're editing.
Yeah.
So that was pretty cool right? Right.
Right.
Immediately after you sent the,
Okay.
I can see who's the collaborators are.
Oh, and you have screen access only on the other collaborator.
Yeah.
Cool.
Questions?
It'll take some noodling around if you want to meet
with us online and Moodle with us, you're welcome to do so.
Or we can go back and forth that way.
If you're choosing to share this with your students, you can go in and,
you know, get give them a very strong,
lecture, instruction on how to pull it off.
Well.
You're welcome.
Andre.
Thank you for joining us today in our meeting.
I want to thank you for taking the time to learn
about Snagit and Contagio online.
After the meeting, Karen and I started messing around with Camtasia
online to figure out the nuts and bolts on the collaborating process.
And I want to share our findings with you.
The first thing is that even if you're logged in to Camtasia,
the shared project will not show up on your Camtasia board
until you go to your email and click on this open project
that will automatically open it up into a new tab.
And then when it opens up into a new tab, it will drop
you directly into the project.
Now, what Karen did here is if you take a look down here at the bottom,
I do not have access to edit this particular scene right here.
It says right here I don't have to access edit.
And if you can see that right down the lower left hand corner, there's
a little padlock on the person that's letting me know that that is locked to me.
I can't edit it. But Karen can.
And if we come over here, we see in the lower left hand corner
there are two little people and that means I can edit that scene.
So when she, came up here to the top,
click this, put in my email address,
and it lets me know that I can edit scene two.
Right.
And of course we can come in and we can add additional people.
Brown
to add pipeline.
And I invite Rob.
Then Rob, Karen and I can edit the scene.
Right.
So it is that level of access, even though she's the owner,
I can invite other people in to edit the scene.
I'm not going to write invite it.
Thinking about it, I'm talking about this. I'm not going to do that.
But nonetheless, it gets the same exact thing.
I choose what I want, and then I'll make my choices.
With that said, what I can also do is, Karen.
I'm sorry. And another project.
Karen has come in and she came up and hit the collaborate button
here at the very top, and she invited me to the entire project.
So this is project access.
This is who has access to the entire project.
They can change any of these scenes here down at the bottom.
And if I go to screen only we can see that in scene three, in
which is down here, we've got a little two person right there.
Jane.
JJ Jeff here has also been invited
to be a collaborator on that scene only, and that's the only scene that is shared.
So in a nutshell, if you have a student project
and you're instructing students because you don't want students
to accidentally delete scenes, right, they can come in,
they can accidentally delete a scene, and then it's gone.
We don't know that there's a way to get that back yet, but what we can do
is teach your students to add a scene,
and then after they add a scene, come up to the upper left hand corner,
type in the email address, share it with that person, send it,
and then that student will only have access to that scene.
They will not be able to destroy remove.
We should change in any way the other scenes.
If you have any questions, please reach out to us at the FRC.
We are happy to work with you on this.
This is pretty exciting project about what can be done.
Thank you.
Okay, well that's all we have for you today
and if you have anything else, let us know.
But yeah, that's that's it.