TASK
No.5:
Developing a Video Tutorial with animated (talking & moving) characters
Procedure:
This is another variation of procedure given in Task No.1
The text given in red color is added to the procedure given in Task No.1
Step 1: Develop a presentation (using software such as Microsoft Powerpoint) on a selected topic
Step 2: Decorate the presentation and incorporating graphic images / video clips wherever required
Step 3: Incorporate audio commentary by recording audio within the presentation software or
by creating a separate MP3 audio file (using sound editing software such as “Goldwave”)
Step 4: Arrange slide transition and animation to the text, graphics and audio with proper timing
Step
4a: Microsoft Agent characters may
be downloaded from www.microsoft.com/msagent/downloads.htm
or www.msagentring.org. Using these animated
characters “personalization” effect can be brought to
teaching.
Step 5: On your desktop, click on Start / Programs / Accessories / Entertainment / Volume Control
in the volume control window, click on options (first item) click on properties and click on "recording"
out of the items shown as Microphone, Line in, CD player, Wave-out mix, Stereo mix,
select Stereo mix or Wave-out mix. This selection may depend on your operating system, please the test
the sound recording in the final video file after step 6 below and change the selection if required.
Step 6: Play the presentation and capture the screen proceedings into a AVI file by using screen capture
software such as Camtasia Studio (www.techsmith.com) or any other screen capture software
that can be downloaded from websites such as www.download.com.
Step 7: Using Camtasia software, convert the AVI file to WMV file to play small video file in computer.
Using Camtasia software, convert the AVI file to Flash file to host the same in Internet.
Step 8. To play the video in TV using VCD/DVD players, convert the AVI/WMV file into
MPG/VOB file using Ulead Video Studio 10 software (www.ulead.com)
or TMPGEnc software (www.download.com)