[Xerte] Camtasia Studio

[Julian Tenney]

Yeah, I can see the progression route. This would be baptism by fire for some staff. I can see why someone like you would really like it (I quite like it), but I can't think of too many teaching staff with ether the time or skills to make the most of it - it seems a bit intimidating at first, but perhaps that eases off with a bit of time. The trouble is getting staff through that initial 'bit' of time. I don't know much about templates, so I'll look into that.

We've been using it to synch up videos taken on cameras / other things and synch them up with ppt slides, and wondered what else we might be able to do with it.

Have you done anything with the quizzes / surveys? Do they hook up to any backend for tracking? Are they good, well presented quizzes with feedback for each option etc?

Any other killer features I might have missed?


From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 18 October 2010 16:35
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Camtasia Studio

I now use Camtasia Studio as my first choice over other pro tools like Captivate. I used to prefer the latter because of the smaller files size e.g. recording stills rather than continuous motion and outputting as flash but with devices like iOS devices  and popularity and functionality of YouTube video seems to be the best format anyway and Camtasia Studio is far more like a video editing tool than other tools. There are loads of resources and tutorials on the camtasia site and elsewhere so I think all of your listed profiles apply. It's got good options for setting up templates with intro's and outro's etc so that all teaching staff have to do is record their bit. But it's definitely not as easy to use as camstudio or jing or screenr etc. I'd say there's a progression route from those solutions to Camtasia Studio for those who really want to get more professional results via post production and editing etc.

I suspect you know all that.
Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 18 October 2010 16:11
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Camtasia Studio

Hiya,

Does anyone here have experience using Camtasia Studio? Does anyone have any experiences of teaching staff using Camtasia Studio? We're looking at it, and I'm playing around a little bit. I wonder if this is a tool that teaching staff can use:


-          Unaided

-          Can use with a bit of training

-          Can use with ongoing training and support

-          Cannot use, as it's too complicated

Thanks,

J


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