[game_edu] Request for Technical Assistance

[baylor wetzel]

i use Camtasia, which is cheap ($100) and designed for narrating power
points (although it's also a normal video capture program so i use it for
capturing game play throughs). Works on both mac and windows and i use it on
both without problems. It doesn't do nice transitions like fade the way
Adobe Premiere does but it's just fine for narrating, annotating and that
sort of thing

-baylor


On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:58 PM, George D. Phillies <phillies at wpi.edu> wrote:


> I sent this yesterday, but I think from the email responders the message

> went off to the great bit bucket in the sky.  If any of you have ehard this

> before, I apologize.

>

> I have written with Tom Vasel two books on game design.  I would like to

> turn them into a series of lectures that would be internet -accessible to

> anyone, the way youtube is internet-accessible.

>

> The viewer would see a series of slides, either text or photographic

> images, and hear my voice making remarks.  A single lecture would run about

> 50 minutes but could be broken into parts.  Your sugegstions on software and

> display locations would be appreciated.  The slides should have enough

> resolution to handle complex equations, say the equivalent of a book page.

>

> To give some background, I teach at the WOrcester Polytechnic Institute. My

> nominal core department is Physics.  However, we also have a program in

> Interactive Media and Game Development, with tech and art tracks, that

> requires all students to take at least some software courses and at least

> some art courses; these courses are largely taught by computer science and

> humanities faculty members, though IMGD does have faculty.  My attachment to

> the program is that I have the world's largest collection of board war games

> (4100 titles, 16 four-drawer filing cabinets), so I teach a course on how to

> execute the design process for a board game.

>

> While I do do computer work, it is very large molecular dynamics

> calculations in Fortran, which is of no help here.

>

> Your suggestions on the 'which software' and 'where to place files' would

> be appreciated. My current kibitzers are suggesting MP4 or AVI files, which

> they tell me can be produced with an Adobe program whose name I am not clear

> on. I teach witha chalkboard, so you should assume that whatever software

> you are proposing I will have to learn, in whcih case I might as well learn

> something good.  I usually use windows, but am considering adding a machine

> that would also run unix via dual-boot.  I am not averse to spending money

> for software.

>

> Many thanks!

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