I would just shoot at that size, but I like the little extra screen real estate and the scaling down doesn’t seem to effect quality much. This a very high quality version, works great on AppleTV and in iTunes. First, I use the built in setting to create the. In my particular process, my next step is to use Stomp to create two different versions. I’m pretty sure it just kind of “virtually” stitches these files together, so DO NOT delete those other ones. This is a peculiar thing in Quicktime Pro… After doing this, the file size of the #1 video you paste into doesn’t change file size (like you would think it would). Then open the second, select all, cut, and paste into the first video. All I do is open the first one and move the scrubber point to the end of the video. If there are multiple segments, I stitch them together in Quicktime Pro. That way no matter what I do with the second copy of files, I always have the original recordings to go back to.
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The first then I do when I’m finished is make a folder called “RAW”, put all the movie files in there, and make a duplicate. If a majorly blunder (minor blunders I just leave in as I think it adds another element of realism), I just hit “Abort” and do that segment over. A lot of times I can get it done in one take, but if I need a break, I just go over and press “Finish” on iShowU and start up again when I’m ready. When I’m all ready, I press record and just go for it. Main points I want to make, what the final product will be, minor details, where the advertising segments are going to be if there are any, etc. Hopefully by this time, I have gone through in my head a few times how I hope this thing to go down. Set recording area to the entire main screen (1024×768).Quality: 4th tick mark, leaning toward High.Microphone Input: Rode Podcaster (and check and make sure levels are nice and high, sometimes have to pop over to System Preferences and make sure input volume is good).At this point, the second monitor is already useful, as I can keep that window open on the second monitor keeping my main work area clean. Usually, Photoshop, Coda/Textmate and iShowU.
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I quit every bit of software that I’m not intending to use in the screencast, leaving open only the important stuff. I get myself a glass of water, shut the door to the room, make sure the neighbor isn’t mowing the lawn, that kind of thing. The room around you is also kind of “hardware”. This mic needs power, and it needs a direct input to get it. I’ve tried keeping it plugged in all the time to my USB hub, but I get WAY lower volume out of it that way. Then I plug it into a USB port on the computer itself. Get hardware set upĪs you can see in the picture above, I kinda push my second monitor out of the way and get my microphone set up in a comfortable position. I don’t have some pretty sanitized sand box I’m doing this stuff in, this is real every-day coding. In a sense, it might be a little distracting, but I like people to see that this is my exact real working environment. I like just showing my entire screen, dock and menu and all. The first thing I do is change the resolution of my main monitor down to 1024×768 and set my custom wallpaper. I use this to convert into Flash video format (.flv) for display on the web. I believe they have package deals if you buy both. ShinyWhiteBox, the makers of iShowU, make a companion product for compressing video called Stomp. All the options you need, none of the confusion. To record the screen and sound, I use iShowU. This allow me to get my mouth right up on the mic without needing to use my hands. I have a shock mount for it, which attaches to a little mini boom-stand I set on my desk. I have a Rode Podcaster microphone, which does a great job. My version of an intro is having a special desktop wallpaper! But, if you are going to listen to me talk for 20-60 minutes, sound quality is a big deal. Obviously my screencasts aren’t super-professional edited productions. The iMac has a built-in mic, which is fine for quick Skype chats, but just doesn’t cut the mustard for quality for a screencast. The second monitor is very handy in screencasting as we’ll see later.
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Each of those hats I wear requires a bunch of open windows and sometimes I feel like I still don’t have enough. Screen real estate is valuable to me as a designer/coder/media consumer/telecommuter. I have a 24″ iMac and a second 24″ monitor to the right.
I get a fair number of questions about how I record the screencasts, so I thought I’d do a post on it that is both of interest now and that I can refer people to later.
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