A customer asked me today how I do my videos for my site...they would not tell me if they thought they were good or bad...but I told them what I do anyway. I thought I would share the info with you as well. Most of what I do has got relevance in an education environment as well, so I hope it is food for thought...
- I record the videos using Camtasia Studio - a simple to use, yet fantastic product for doing all sort of video related work. I use it to create a WMV file from my screen captures.
- I set the resolution of my screen to 800x600 during the recording...although Camtasia can do a resize afterwards if you have done something larger.
- I use a ZOOM Handy Recorder H2 plugged into my laptop - another brilliant piece of kit. It sits about 20 inches from me on my desk, but you can still hear me breathing :)
- I upload all of my videos to my account on http://silverlight.live.com, which in turn provides me with a download URL and an iFrame statement that I embed into the HTML of my blog. Best of all the SilverLight site allows me to stream so you all get a better experience.
- I use Windows Live Writer to keep my blog going...which of course is running on http://spaces.live.com.
- I use a public folder on my Skydrive, to share out files and so on.
At some point, I am going to have a fiddle around with Expression Encoder, which will allow me to do more funky video overlays and controls...some day I'll get round to it...
So I hope that helps
Jonny
