Video Production

Technique

I use a combination of software to produce lecture videos. For screen shots and screen videos, I use Camtasia. Then, I take the output of these products into Adobe Premiere for final editing, composition, and encoding. Along the way I use PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Audition to create the various media files for Premiere. Yes, one might try using only PowerPoint, as in voice-on-PowerPoint. Some versions of PowerPoint allow you to export as video, but I have never been satisfied with Microsoft's results. Also, how one might embed and caption screen videos gets really cumbersome. But it is not a bad place to begin. As a stepping stone, you might consider making videos only with Camtasia. You can export your PowerPoint slides a jpeg files, and then import them into Camtasia. I use only Camtasia when I want to make quick, unedited screen videos. It is pretty good for this purpose.

Resources

Link to Experimentation

Vimeo Notes

Video Catalog

 

Here are some examples of my instructional lecture videos

Rick's video methods