Screen recordings are not typically accessible.MOV (Mac) are generally very large (although high quality) and need to be converted to MP4 format for web-friendly delivery. If you intend on posting your videos in LEARN or Möbius, your video should be in MP4 format.Test out your microphone levels and video content with a quick 15 second video to ensure you are loud enough, and things are being captured correctly before you record any longer videos.Shorter videos can be spliced together later. This protects against overly large files, poor system performance while you are recording/editing and potential corruption/lost work. Full-featured Screen Recording with Camtasia (~22 min).Screen Recording Basics (macOS/iOS/iPadOS) (~17 min).Screen Recording Basics (Windows - PowerPoint) (~22 min).Relevant pre-recorded video workshops available on our YouTube channel: Convert and compress videos for web-delivery.Full-featured screen recording with OBS.Full-featured screen recording with Screencast-O-Matic.Full-featured screen recording with Camtasia.Using Microsoft PowerPoint for screen recording.The Centre for Teaching Excellence's Screencasts Teaching Tip discusses use cases, benefits and best practices of screencasts. More sophisticated screen recording tools that offer advanced editing features are available for purchase. A range of free basic screen recording tools are available.

Need help with something you've read on this page or seen in one of our instructional videos? Waterloo instructors can connect with CEL's Agile Development Team to schedule a live consult with a multimedia developer.Ī screen recording or screencast is a narrated video recording of your computer screen. A screencast can comprise anything from still images (for example, slides containing text or photographs) to full motion (for example, the movement of your mouse cursor, drawing or writing on slide, video clips from lab demonstrations, and so on).

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