Spoken-Tutorial-Technology/C2/Creation-of-a-spoken-tutorial-using-Camstudio/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:10	Hello friends. On behalf of CDEEP, IIT Bombay, I welcome you to this tutorial.
00:16	This tutorial will help you master CamStudio through a step-by-step process.
00:22	Learning is more effective when animation and narrations are presented simultaneously.
00:28	Audio-video demonstrations can illustrate features with maximum clarity.
00:33	CamStudio is a screen-recording software that records all activities which you see on your computer screen and allows you to play them back later on.
00:43	Which means that you can use CamStudio to -
00:45	* demonstrate features of a new software
00:48	* create audio-video tutorials for schools and colleges
00:52	* create video movies used in user trainings
00:55	* show how to perform an activity
00:57	* convert 'AVI' files to 'Flash (SWF)' files and many other uses.
01:01	The uses of this little known software are limitless.
01:05	CamStudio can be used with Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000 or XP versions.
01:15	All you need is a 400 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM and 4 MB of hard-disk space for program installation.
01:25	Camstudio is an open source software and can be downloaded free of cost from the internet. Go to the site: www.camstudio.org.
01:36	This will open the CamStudio website. Scroll down and click on the link to download.
01:42	Follow the instructions and you will have downloaded CamStudio on your PC.
01:47	Once you have installed CamStudio, double-click on the icon to run it. This will open the CamStudio dialog-box.
01:56	You will see the Main Menu right at the top of the window. Under File, you have the option to Record, Stop, Pause and Exit.
02:06	You will find the corresponding buttons in the dialog-box as well- the Red button to record, the Grey button to pause and the Blue button to stop the recording.
02:17	It is recommended that you set the capture region before recording by defining the area of capture. Under Region, there are 3 capture options.
02:27	If you select Region and click on Record then you can draw a rectangular region on your screen within which the capturing will occur.
02:36	If you select Fixed Region then you can specify the capture region in pixels.
02:45	If you select Full Screen then the entire screen will be captured.
02:49	The Enable Autopan feature is a unique feature of CamStudio.
02:54	If this option is selected, the capture region will follow the cursor wherever it goes during recording.
03:01	This has the effect of making the screen capture to occur at the region with the most action.
03:08	You can also set the speed of panning here.
03:14	Under Options, you have Video Options where you can select a compressor for the recording so that the video file size is small.
03:23	By default, the compressor is Microsoft Video 1.
03:27	But, you are free to choose any of the compressors or codecs given in the drop-down box here.
03:33	Alternately, you can even download the codecs from the internet depending on your requirement.
03:39	Setting the video options allows you to optimize your video recordings by choosing between the file size, quality and frame rates of your video files.
03:49	To set the values for Key Frames, Capture Frames and the Playback Rate, first uncheck the Auto Adjust button.
03:57	Now, you can set the values according to your requirement. To record this tutorial, I have used 'Microsoft Video 1' as the compressor with 'Key Frames' set to 5, 'Capture Frames' set to 200 and 'Playback Rate' set to 5. I have reduced the Quality to 50.
04:16	By trial and error and various permutations and combinations, I have personally found these values suitable in terms of output quality and file size.
04:27	Setting cursor options can help focus on the activity you are recording by drawing attention to the area where the action happens.
04:36	Under Options, click on Cursor Options in which you have the choice to either hide or show the cursor. By default, Show Cursor is checked.
04:47	There are 3 choices of cursors here – the Actual Cursor, the Custom Cursor (you can select from the drop-down box here) or you can load the cursor from the cursors folder present on your computer.
05:04	Next, you can highlight the area around the cursor by checking this box.
05:10	You can set the size, the shape and the colour of the highlight. Click on OK.
05:19	You will not see any change in your cursor but the recorded video will have a custom highlighted cursor. Let me demonstrate this for you.
05:38	By default, CamStudio does not record audio. You can record audio from the microphone – a very powerful feature to make audio-video tutorials – by checking this option.
05:50	You will need a sound card with an attached microphone to use this option.
05:55	You can also record audio from the speakers attached to your computer by checking this option.
06:01	There are other options like Program Options which have these sub-options.
06:07	Use these options to customize the way CamStudio behaves when it starts or stops recording.
06:14	Ideally check the option to 'Minimize program on Start Recording'.
06:18	This will minimize CamStudio onto the system tray which is at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.
06:26	Right now, you will see 2 CamStudio icons on the system tray.
06:31	That’s because I myself am recording this tutorial using CamStudio.
06:36	'Record to Flash Options' has these sub-options.
06:40	Keyboard Shortcuts is where you will set the HOT KEYS for record, pause, stop and the rest.
06:47	You are free to choose any of these.
06:50	So, I hope I have given you sufficient information to get you started on CamStudio.
06:55	Use this software to make audio-video tutorials and online visual learning modules of your own.
07:02	Once you have mastered the basics of CamStudio, you may want to watch the next edition on its advanced features.
07:10	Till then, this is Nancy from CDEEP, IIT Bombay, signing off. Thank you for watching.

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