Podcasting Solutions

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Captivate Camtasia Comparison

• Podcasting Solutions

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Discussion

• What is Pod/Vod Casting?
• How it works
• Focus on PowerPoint D2L Users
• Why PowerPoint?
• Why D2L?
• Other uses briefly
• Ease of Use Camparison requiring the least
  training
• Review Captivate
• Review Camtasia
• Walk-through of Applications

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What is Pod/Vod Casting?

• Podcasting capturing of audio into a digital
  file (mp3)
• Vodcasting capturing of audio video into a
  digital file (mpeg, m4v)
• Screen size 1/10th of PC
• Font sizes 32 pt best
• Slow animation

• How it works
• Uses a website for file management distribution
• RSS feeds to update users player
• iTunes Screencast.com
• D2L for distribution
• File sizes big issue
• Break 40 minute lectures into 10 minute topic
  segments

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Focus on PowerPoint Users D2L

• Why PowerPoint?
• Instructors dont have to learn a new app
• Already use PowerPoint easy to add audio,
  convert to podcasting files upload to D2L
• Why D2L?
• Instructors dont have to use/learn another File
  management site (iTunes or Screencast)
• More control over file sharing
• Students manage the player upload issues (they
  know what to do)
• May require the purchase of QuickTime Pro (30)
• Other uses briefly
• Camtasia Captivate can create movies of screen
  capturing such as software tutorials
• Talking head movies orYouTube movies

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Ease of Use least training
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How Captivate works

• Captivate opens a PowerPoint file (ppt)
• Shows thumbnails for all slides during the import
  process

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Captivate Interface w/PPT imported
NOTE PowerPoint animations transitions are
lost.
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Captivate adding Audio
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Export Audio Track many steps
Steps to create an MP3 audio file in Captivate
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Captivate creates Mp3 File

• Compare these
• PowerPoint slides audio done in Captivate
  (swf)
• Example of Audio done in PowerPoint (poor
  quality)
• Just the Audio from Captivate - excellent
  quality (mp3)

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Captivate Mp3 file in learn.ou.edu
How the MP3 file played in D2L w/ Quicktime
loaded on a PC.
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Camtasia How it works

• In PowerPoint, click on the Record AddIn icon
• Takes you into the slide show mode
• Click the Record icon in lower right to begin.
• You will need to record your WHOLE presentation.

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Camtasia records all audio at once
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Camtasias Timeline Interface
Cannot easily separate your audio track to record
a slide audio over.
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Camtasia saveAs VodCast file
VERY EASY TO DO simple steps using a wizard!!
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Camtasia m4v file w/ QuickTime
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Camtasia presets for iPod
What it looks like in an iPod!
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VodCasting in D2L

• D2L Students can download file and import it into
  iTunes
• May require QT Pro
• Camtasia can also save the audio track as an mp3
  file
• Example of Camtasia w/audio saved as web pages

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Examples again

• Example of Camtasia w/audio saved as web pages
• iPod size (m4v)Vodcast done in Camtasia (jump to
  file is best way)
• PowerPoint slides audio done in Captivate (swf)
• Just the Audio from Captivate - excellent
  quality (mp3)
• Example of Audio done in PowerPoint (poor
  quality)

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Which Application is best?

• If your goal is

• If your goal is

• Easy to create edit audio files only
• Captivate
• Easy to create short computer tutorials for web
  use (swf)
• Captivate
• Narrate presentation slide by slide ( edit
  audio)
• Captivate

• Dual purpose Audio Video podcasting
• Camtasia
• Narrate entire presentation (not slide-by-slide
  editing is not easy)
• Camtasia
• Pricing
• Captivate - 115 (IT Store)
• Camtasia - 180 (TechSmith)