For me the answer is hands down Camtasia. This program can do much more for your video and is easily uploadable. Cam Studio was not hard to actually make the video. My problem was that it gave my computer the green screen of death if I tried to use hot keys to stop taping so I would not get the program in my video. So I just ended up having that little window in my video so I would not crash my computer. Then the real problems began when I tried to turn it in. I even had my husband try to help me convert it to SWF but the conversion never looked or sounded quite right. So I ended up uploading it to youtube and it took around 6 hours for my computer to do that. I thought I was back in the dial up days. Ugh!
Camtasia was really easy to video my app. My only problem with the video was getting my app to work correctly. Then I had so much fun playing with the music and zooming in and out and adding in arrows. I think my video looks cool. My only problem is my computer is having issues uploading it to youtube. The small video uploaded fine but maybe this one is too large. I'll just blame it on youtube because I think that Camtasia is fun. I like personalizing my video myself.
Here is my Camtasia video I created on making a prezi presentation.
Nice presentation, Melissa. Prezi and Wix are two applications that I have been wanting to try. Thanks for the information!
ReplyDeleteGreat job! I knew Prezi would be fun but seeing you do it made it look very easy too! The Camtasia was great too, good zooms and music. I really enjoyed it!
ReplyDeleteYou brought back found memories of my days in math class. This is a wonderful presentation to put on a wiki or web page so that students can learn how to make presentations. :)
ReplyDeleteI have been using my Prezi for everything! Love it...5 stars...
ReplyDeleteGreat Job! Camtasia had much more to offer and even though it looked complicated, I liked how things were broken into parts. I didn't have a lot of problems with Camstudio, but still not as good.
ReplyDeleteYour instructions on how to use Prezi was simple and complete. I tried this application a couple of years ago and became frustrated. Thanks for the new outlook.
ReplyDeleteYou did a really good job. Prezi makes presentations look much better, and more fun!
ReplyDeleteI've never tried Prezi before, but I will definitely have to give it a go after watching this!! Thank you so much.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree... Camtasia all the way!
What an awesome video! Your zooming in and out were spot on and the music's great too! I think in some areas it could be cropped closer, like at 3:10. You're only working on the left side and with Camtasia zooming in closer the audience can get a better view. Then if you need to click on the buttons on the right you can zoom out again. Just something to think about if you decide to do more of this :) I think for math it's a great great tool. I have a writing tablet and I can write whatever and have Camtasia record it. I'm sure there are other tools where you can write and have your writing transferred over to the computer.
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