Best set up for screencast with voiceover
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Hi folks,
I've spent a few hours today looking for ways to screencast a tutorial, so me operating some apps on my computer with a voiceover. The sort of the thing you would see if you looked for a fusion 360 tutorial on youtube; its not 360, but you get the general idea.
I spent a few hours playing and was quite surprised how hard it was - I found tools to record video, tools to record voiceovers. and then tools to combine them into one output video, but I haven't gotten the end to end experience to work as yet. So far I've looked at OBS, Shotcut and Da Vinci resolve. As I google, I seem to find lots of slightly sketchy (spyware) looking tools, so I'm turning to PH for guidance :-).
In my mind, given the number of people uploading content to youtube, I would have thought this would be a solved problem many times over, even at small budgets.
Is there any medium budget (say less than £100) tooling that would provide a reasonably seamless experience, All I really need to do is record some clips, likely a few as I don't think I'll be able to do it all in one sitting, and then stitch them together and add some narration - again probably after the fact.
I have Mac, PC and and Linux, so I don't really mind which one has the easiest tooling
/A
I've spent a few hours today looking for ways to screencast a tutorial, so me operating some apps on my computer with a voiceover. The sort of the thing you would see if you looked for a fusion 360 tutorial on youtube; its not 360, but you get the general idea.
I spent a few hours playing and was quite surprised how hard it was - I found tools to record video, tools to record voiceovers. and then tools to combine them into one output video, but I haven't gotten the end to end experience to work as yet. So far I've looked at OBS, Shotcut and Da Vinci resolve. As I google, I seem to find lots of slightly sketchy (spyware) looking tools, so I'm turning to PH for guidance :-).
In my mind, given the number of people uploading content to youtube, I would have thought this would be a solved problem many times over, even at small budgets.
Is there any medium budget (say less than £100) tooling that would provide a reasonably seamless experience, All I really need to do is record some clips, likely a few as I don't think I'll be able to do it all in one sitting, and then stitch them together and add some narration - again probably after the fact.
I have Mac, PC and and Linux, so I don't really mind which one has the easiest tooling
/A
Sounds to me like you need a screen recorder and DaVinci Resolve video editing software. The latter is free, and there's plenty of free screen recorders available too.
Casey Faris is probably your best bet for training,
https://www.youtube.com/user/CaseyFaris777
Casey Faris is probably your best bet for training,
https://www.youtube.com/user/CaseyFaris777
Dogsey said:
I use OBS to pull various elements (still images, Powerpoint, audio and video files, webcam and microphone) to do an online pub quiz, works well enough for me and gives live output straight to most platforms or can be used to record the session.
+1 OBS. Its open source and free: https://obsproject.com/`If you are using your Mac, you already have enough to get started. Use Quicktime Player to make a screen recording (with or without audio) and then iMovie to edit it, adding a voiceover if you haven't done so already.
Camtasia makes life a lot easier as it is designed with instructional videos in mind. It includes features to add annotations. Camtasia: Annotations... and smooth mouse movement Smooth out cursor motion in screen recordings.
Camtasia makes life a lot easier as it is designed with instructional videos in mind. It includes features to add annotations. Camtasia: Annotations... and smooth mouse movement Smooth out cursor motion in screen recordings.
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