Screen recording for online-teaching

[Sebastian Hänsch]

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Hello everybody!

Because of the Covid-19 restrictions, we are preparing here like many others to offer complete master courses online / for students from home. A combination of screen mirroring and separate microscope / supervisor recording works well in tests. For our archive and for our own evaluation we would like to record complete sessions and I haven't found the right tool for this yet. Even without Covid-19 it would be interesting to record small online tutorials. My problem with free software so far (e.g. Camstudio) is that recordings of the whole screen with a tolerable framerate quickly become extremely large.
 
Therefore my question: Do you have any recommendations for screen-recording software or strategies to realize something like that (codecs / compression / sound combination / working formats etc.)?

I hope I don't duplicate a similar thread here, but so far I haven't found anything using the search function. Otherwise move it if necessary.


Best regards
Sebastian



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[George McNamara]

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Techsmith's Camtasia is the standard of care. Can process to whatever
codec you want.

George

p.s. for microscopy videos (no audio), I tested a whole lot of codec's
and posted the results,

https://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/27 
<https://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/27/>

If anyone wants to modernize the comparison, welcome to use "The Chase"

https://vimeo.com/175151196

can download the AVI at https://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/76/ (which I
believe is uncompressed).

MetaMorph stack at https://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/5/ (can be opened
in ImageJ etc for those without MetaMorph).

backstory in https://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/73/

On 4/9/2020 6:50 AM, Sebastian H änsch wrote:

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> *****
>
> Hello everybody!
>
> Because of the Covid-19 restrictions, we are preparing here like many others to offer complete master courses online / for students from home. A combination of screen mirroring and separate microscope / supervisor recording works well in tests. For our archive and for our own evaluation we would like to record complete sessions and I haven't found the right tool for this yet. Even without Covid-19 it would be interesting to record small online tutorials. My problem with free software so far (e.g. Camstudio) is that recordings of the whole screen with a tolerable framerate quickly become extremely large.
>  
> Therefore my question: Do you have any recommendations for screen-recording software or strategies to realize something like that (codecs / compression / sound combination / working formats etc.)?
>
> I hope I don't duplicate a similar thread here, but so far I haven't found anything using the search function. Otherwise move it if necessary.
>
>
> Best regards
> Sebastian
>
>
>
> CAi - Center for Advanced Imaging
> Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf
> Universitätstraße 1
> Building 26. 12. 02. 38
> 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
> Tel. [phone]
> [hidden email]
> www.cai.hhu.de

[Sebastian Hänsch]

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Hi everybody,

thank you for sharing the information on codec and software suites that can be used for proper screen recording. I think we now have a good solution for our courses and videos at the imaging facility, so thanks to everyone!

Best regards
Sebastian


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