How to create screencasts

How to screencasts using Hitachi Starboard and Camtasia by Patty O'Flynn

Patty O'Flynn put together a short series of screen casts on how to capture video and then edit and reformat it to post it to the Web. While at Woodland Patty regularly had her students producing their own webcasts of various math problems.

Using Hitachi Starboard to capture

Adding markers within your movie project (Camtasia)

Producing a flash movie with 'Table of Contents' (Camtasia)

Creating screencasts on a Linux (Ubuntu) machine

To view full full screen hold the mouse over the video and press the right-hand button that appears.

To install the software used in this demo...

apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop mencoder kdenlive

The command line to transcode .ogv file to .avi...

mencoder -idx original.ogv -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o new.avi

-- SteveRippl - 13 Dec 2010