For those of you who are regular readers of this blog, you will know that I have been working for some time with the program Jing, a video capture program, to create video tutorials about adding content to your class page(s) on Moodle.
More recently, I have begun to familiarize myself with a similar capture program: Camtasia. One of the benefits of using Camtasia, is in i's being able to record longer video captures (Jing videos cannot exceed 5-minutes), and it's adaptability.
While Jing offers the ability to project your videos online, via Screencast, it saves any files to your computer as Shockwave Flash Objects by default. Camtasia, on the other hand, offers the user a variety of formats in which to save their videos, which opens up the possibility of using your captures in video editing programs such as Windows Movie-Maker or the Mac equivalent, iMovie. Camtasia also provides it's own easily navigable editing studio. This provides users with security in the knowledge they can make a mistake in their capture, audio or otherwise, without the necessity of re-recording as they might be required to with Jing.
Similarly to iMovie or Windows Movie-Maker, Camtasia offers the ability to import other types of video files and images than the captures you have made with Camtasia, a variety of transitions, adding audio tracks such as music, or even post production narrations, and the capability of adding titles, or credits to your new movie. Offering an intuitive sidebar task list, Camtasia is an easy way to create longer video captures and simple videos. And in being able to save in other formats, provides users with the capability to upload easily to Youtube, a common complaint amongst Jing users.
[Please stay-tuned for future blogs about how to use Camtasia to get video captures, edit and upload video.]
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