[game_edu] Request for Technical Assistance

[Scott Price]

Hello --

Camtasia has worked well for me in the past for screen capture; I haven't
used it to do voiceover.  I second Baylor's note

For a couple of months now I have been using "Screenflow" on my Macintosh
and am quite impressed with it - it seamlessly handles screencapture,
voiceover, and combinations of those.  You would pull up your slides on your
computer, walk through them, record your voice, and then use its fairly
simple editing tools to line them up if needed.  That's Mac-only, though.

I have less experience on "where to place files".  Everything I've done I've
posted to YouTube through Screenflow's features that do just that.  As long
as you don't need to gather complex statistics on who is watching and how,
YouTube seems like a good way to go, since it takes care of
hosting/bandwidth, simple statistics, and making your work available on a
variety of platforms (mobile, web, different sizes, platforms).  You don't
want to incur that work and expense on your own unless you need statistics
or control that YouTube (or similar services) don't offer.

I have seen people post PowerPoint lectures to the web with narration using
some tool that puts them online as more than video - i.e. you can flip
through the slides yourself and it'll pick up there, rather than having to
slide through a video to find the right slide.  I have no idea what boxed
software does that, though, as it's been a year or so since I've seen that.

--Scott Price

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:58 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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