In the last episode I read the script to record the audio component and saved it as a WAVE file. It was more than 44 MB, so I can't really share it with you. But I can make a small MP3 out of it and link to that. This will give you a sense of where I am in the process.
Today, I need to take the baseline PowerPoint file and turn that into a video. This is easy to do because Camtasia has a plug-in for PowerPoint.
Open the PowerPoint, go to the "Add-Ins" and click the "Record" button. Since I recorded the audio separately I'm not going to use the microphone or any of the other components. But here is where we get a little tricky. How long should I stay on each slide? Here is what I did:
Before I hit the button to "Start" recording, I opened up my audio file and got it ready. I also got my paper script in front of me, so I could follow along. I hit the start button, then hit the play button on the audio and came back to the PowerPoint. Then I just followed along with what I heard and read. But this gave me a great opportunity to make notes about my flubbed words and the edits I would need later, so I marked them in my script. You can see from this particularly bad page from Module 3 that I started a couple sections twice and flubbed words a couple of times. These notes would help me later when I was editing.
I recorded and progressed through the presentation recording each slide with approximately the right timing. When I got to the end I saved the video file with Camtasia's ".camrec" extension. This is their video format.
Next time we'll start assembling the video and audio.
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