I made the PIP window a quarter the size of, vertically centered in, and flush right with the larger 1024×768 video window. On import you tell Camtasia how big your PIP window will be, and where it will show up in the larger video window. So I recorded to tape, imported the results to a file, and imported that file into Camtasia as a PIP (picture-in-picture) video. It can record directly from a camcorder, but my second-hand Panasonic PV-GS400 doesn’t seem to work well in that mode. I was happy for all the help I could get.įor this screencast, I upgraded from Camtasia 5 to Camtasia 7. Reading from a software teleprompter is hard, at least for me. PromptDog’s mouse-wheel-driven variable speed control made it much easier to stay in the focal zone. But for me, at least, the stops and starts were distracting. With most of the programs I tried, you manage this focal zone by stopping and starting the scroll. That’s because words and sentences take varying amounts of time to speak, but you need to keep your eyes focused near the top of the screen where the camera sits. No matter what scroll speed you choose, you need to vary it as you go along. If you’ve read from a software-based teleprompter before, you’ll already know this, but it was new to me. It does everything well, but what really put it over the top for me was the way it wires scroll speed to the mouse wheel. Finally I settled on PromptDog, which is free to try but is the one I’ll buy when I go this route again. All failed in some dimension of control: margins, speed, transport. I tried CuePrompter, TeleKast, and many others. But I had to work through a bunch of them before I found one that worked well for me. You’d expect to find lots of software prompters floating around on the web, including some free ones, and you’d be right about that. The process has been challenging, and I want to write about it while the details are fresh.Īfter writing the script, I realized I’d need a teleprompter in order to read it effectively into the camera. This is the first screencast I’ve worked on in ages, and also the first in which I appear as a picture-in-picture talking head. It’ll stand in for me at an upcoming event I can’t attend, and serve as an explanation I can point others too. If your remote does not have a scroll wheel, you’ll also need to map the up and down arrow keys to your remote for forward and reverse scroll.I’m just wrapped up a screencast about the elmcity project. P key (start/stop prompting button top left in the main operator window) While other remotes (such as the Keyspan URM-15T) have the requisite programmable buttons, the scroll wheel on the Air Mouse makes it easier to control the scroll speed with PromptDog.ġ. The Air Mouse Mobile has 3 programmable buttons and a scroll wheel. If you’re flying solo and need to be both operator and presenter, you might want to consider using a remote control. For that reason, the mouse scroll wheel is our tool of choice. Indeed, one of the hallmarks of a good presenter is that they will vary the speed (and tone) of delivery to give their presentation a more natural sounding pace. We don’t have speed settings in PromptDog because it’s very rare that the same scroll speed is suitable for the whole duration of a presentation. Note that if you choose a remote without a scroll wheel, you’ll also need to map the UP and DOWN arrow keys to your remote for forward and reverse scroll. Then watch this video for instruction on how to program your Air Mouse. You can download that software (32 or 64bit depending on your operating system) at If you use the recommended Air Mouse Mobile, Gyration supplies proprietary software called MotionTools to map these shortcuts to your remote.
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