‘Recording PowerPoint Videos the Easy Way’ – Bob Chamber’s Article

Bob Chamber’s latest ‘The Multimedia Guy Video Blog’ article titled “Recording PowerPoint Videos the Easy Way”. [Article Reprint]

Bob Chambers’ latest ‘The Multimedia Guy Video Blog’ article is reprinted here.

Recording PowerPoint Videos the Easy Way

A while back my partner told me he was talking to Michael Rasmussen about how Michael made his movies. Most of his videos are done using PowerPoint and Michael said he never used the Camtasia Plugin to PowerPoint to record the video. His reason was that the audio quality of the recording was too poor.

This was interesting to me since I always use the Camtasia Plugin. Was I not understanding the problem? Or was Michael?

Actually what I had done was to check the Camtasia initial settings for that plugin and found them to be really poor. They had used an audio codec that created really small files and really bad audio. What I did was to reset the audio codec to the same one that Camtasia Recorder used and the audio problem went away.

Anyway, a few days ago I bought Jim Edwards’ latest program, Camtasia Survival Guide Gold to see if he’d found some new tricks with Camtasia that I haven’t.

Now one word of warning… ask three people how to best use software and you’ll get at least three answers. While Jim’s training is pretty good there a few things he does one way that I do another. And of course I think I’m right J

Sure enough, Jim said to use the Camtasia Recorder to capture PowerPoint slides instead of the Plugin. So I decided to check out if it was just a matter of getting the right audio codec in the latest version of Camtasia.

And was I ever surprised… Camtasia has fixed that problem. The PowerPoint Plugin uses the exact same audio codec as they do in the recorder. No longer do you need to worry about getting the audio right using the Camtasia Plugin for PowerPoint.

I’ll be doing a review of Jim Edwards Camtasia Survival Guide Gold in a few days.

Bob Chambers, The Multimedia Guy

Bob Chambers, The Multimedia Guy, is an ex-aerospace engineer and program manager who started his special interests video production business in 1992 after studying with Leonard S. Smith, Jr., an Emmy winning member of the Directors Guild of America, and Barb Besteni, a professional videographer and trainer.

In 2002 he posted one of the first ever Flash screen capture videos on the Internet and has been using screen capture videos every since as an easy and effective way of putting video on the Web.

Bob continues to teach people how to easily create multimedia products through his own products, articles, newsletters, videos, seminars, workshops and webinars. He also creates training videos for software developers and joint venture partners. Bob is associated with Multimedia Profits Revealed, Multimedia Guy Blog and Insider Video Alert Newsletter.

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