Overview of Video, Podcast, Vodcast, and Power Point Recording

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Overview of Video, Podcast, Vodcast, and Power
Point Recording

• Bob JensenEmeritus Professor of
  AccountingTrinity University in San Antonio 190
  Sunset Hill RoadSugar Hill, NH 03586
• 603-823-8482rjensen_at_trinity.edu
• http//www.trinity.edu/rjensen
• Camtasia Introduction --- http//www.cs.trinity.e
  du/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/camta
  sia/5/getting-started/gettingstarted.asp
• Local Link ---
• ..\Video\CamtasiaIntroduction\CamtasiaIntrodu
  ction.wmv

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Bring Up Recorder Producer

• Camtasia Recorder ---
• ..\..\..\Program Files\TechSmith\Camtasia\Cam
  Rec.exe
• Camtasia Producer ---
• ..\..\..\Program Files\TechSmith\Camtasia Studio
  2\CamtasiaStudio.exe

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Camtasia Illustrationshttp//www.cs.trinity.edu/
rjensen/video/

• Excel Goal Seek Utility ---
• http//www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/EdTech/Video/Go
  alSeek01Wmv/
• Local Link
• ..\Video\Excel\GoalSeek01Wmv\GoalSeek01.avi

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Camtasia Illustrationshttp//www.cs.trinity.edu/
rjensen/video/

• Bob Jensens Camtasia Tutorial ---http//www.cs.t
  rinity.edu/rjensen/EdTech/Video/Tutorials/
• Local Link ..\Video\Tutorials\CamtasiaTutorial.wm
  v
• Bob Jensens Website Overview ---
  http//www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/EdTech/Video/Tu
  torials/
• Local Link ..\Video\Tutorials\JensenWebsiteOvervi
  ew.wmv

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Camtasia Illustrationshttp//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 Illustrationshttp//www.cs.trinity.edu/
rjensen/video/

• MS Access Calculated Controls ---http//www.cs.tr
  inity.edu/rjensen/EdTech/Video/Access/
• Local Link09CalculatedControls.wmv
• MS Access Bounded Access Charts
  ---http//www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/EdTech/Vide
  o/Access/
• Local Link..\Video\Access\PQQ05-12AccessBound.wmv

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Camtasia Illustrationshttp//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.
• How to value an interest rate swap and how to
  account for it uder FAS 133 rules ---
  ..\..\Calgary\CDfiles\video\FAS133\133ex05a.wmv
• How to account for options under FAS 133 ---
  ..\..\Calgary\CDfiles\video\FAS133\015FAS133option
  s.wmv
• How to account for futures contracts under FAS
  133 --- ..\..\Calgary\CDfiles\video\FAS133\020FAS1
  33futures.wmv

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Camtasia

• Record full-motion screen video with perfect
  quality
• Include a variety of cursor highlights during
  recording
• Edit, cut, and join video clips
• Add digital video files (DV, MPEG, WMV) to your
  screen recordings
• Add interactive Callouts, Zoom-n-Pan effects,
  Quizzes, Picture-in-Picture, and much more

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Camtasia

• Edit and add audio, including voice narration
  and music
• Create a Web-based or CD-based menu from which
  to launch your video and other media files
• 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
• Size for screen content. In addition to selecting
  the desired file format during production

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Key Advantages in Education

• 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/
  
• Students can repeat lessons, especially technical
  lessons, over and over until they completely
  understand the procedure.

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Key Advantages in Education

• 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.
• 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

• 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.
• 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

• Podcasts can be created in Camtasia and saved to
  compressed mp3 files.
• Vodcasts can be created in Camtasia studio and
  served up in video files.
• Podcasts and Vodcasts can be served up in
  TechSmiths Screencast utility.
• Podcasts and Vodcasts can be used on iPods, PCs,
  or Macs.

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Key Advantages in Education

• 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.
• 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.
• ExampleStudents 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

• 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.
• 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

• In the Camtasia video Recorder, video is first
  captured in generally enormous AVI uncompressed
  video files that are virtually impossible to
  store on a server.
• It 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

• 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.
• CDs and DVDs provide cheap storage
• How to send large files across the Internet ---
  http//www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob4.htmSendin
  gLargeFiles Local Link --- ..\..\Bookbob4.htm

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How to Pan Floating Regions

• Web Link --- http//www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/E
  dTech/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/rj
  ensen/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\133
  ex05a.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.htmPC
  toTV
• Local Link --- ..\..\Bookbob4.htm

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References and Tutorials

• Techsmiths learning center ---
  http//www.techsmith.com/camtasia/education.asp
• Daniel Parks book on Camtasia at www.amazon.com

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