In this article, we will teach you how and with what tools you can record your online classes or educational videos.
Today, when the world is not good, the presence of people together has become less and the distances are greater than ever before. This situation made us understand how much modern human life depends on the Internet. These days when we all have to stay at home is the best time for teaching and learning and even teaching. You are probably using this time too, you have registered in webinars and online classes of the academy and you want to make optimal use of your time.
In this article, we will teach you how to use different tools so that you can record your online classes, or if you want to produce content yourself, take a video from your screen or edit the video. The important thing to keep in mind is that if the webinar you are watching or holding is held with the Skyroom platform, you can use the Skyroom plugin that we will mention.
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3 ways to record webinars (online classes)
1- Camtasia software training
Camtasia is one of the most powerful and popular screen recording tools, and usually, those who produce video content and need to make a video from their desktop use this software. Camtasia has great features, including video recording from the desktop, video editing, removing extra parts of audio and video, dual-camera video recording, etc. It doesn’t matter for what purpose you want to use this tool, whether you are a beginner and just want to record your class or you want to create content professionally, in any case, this software will work for you.
Where can I download and install Camtasia?
Camtasia software is a paid software and you can use its original version only for 30 days. After installing the software, without running it, copy the Patch.exe file to the path where the software is installed, right-click on it, select Run as administrator, and click on the Patch button. Now you can run the software for free.
Prepare Camtasia for screen recording
Camtasia software has different parts including the following:
Timeline: You can edit your videos on the timeline page.
Tools panel: In the toolbox section, all the files you have recorded are saved.
Canvas: In this place, you can determine the size and output size and see your video before sharing.
Now that you are familiar with the important parts of this software, let’s review the simple screen recording together.
It’s very simple, but before you hit the big red record button, you can customize the program settings for yourself.
By default, the software takes a video of the entire desktop (full screen), but if you want to take a video of a specific part of the desktop, you can specify the red window for yourself by pressing the Custom button and placing the borders.
In the second part, you can specify the camera and microphone settings. By default, both webcam and microphone recording is disabled. If you want to record a webcam image, you must turn on the Camera, and if you want to record your voice, the Audio must be on.
Some students want to remove the ambient sounds when they record their class and only record the sound inside the desktop. For this mode, tap the small arrow next to the microphone and select the Record system audio option. If you don’t want the sound of your microphone to be recorded, you can select the Do not record microphone option to remove the extra sounds of your environment.
Now that you have the desired settings, press the red record (rec) button and record your desktop.
Edit mistakes
Some people produce content with Kamtasia and may have additional sound or images in the middle of recording or want to separate a part of the video. Many times you may not need the beginning and end pieces. For this purpose, you can enter your timeline and find the desired video there, keep the mouse on the video, can separate any part you want by dragging the video. Of course, rest assured that any changes you make in the timeline of your video will remain in the original and raw video in the Media bin section without any changes and you can access it.
If you want to delete a part from the middle of the video, you can determine its range with the red and green part that the mouse is placed on in the figure below, and then click on the scissors icon from the top menu to delete that part of your video.
Naming, note writing, and effects
For more professional video editing, you can add different effects to your video, create subtitles for it, or write notes on it from the Tools panel. In the toolbox section, there are various facilities that you can use. To do this, just select the desired effect from the left menu, drag it, and drop it on the video.
Save and share files
After you finish your work, select the green Share button from the upper right part of the screen. In this section, you can directly upload your file to YouTube and other social networks, otherwise, select the first option, Local file. Save the file in your desired location.
2- Snagit software training
Sngate is another product of TechSmith company that has appeared very successful and since it has a simple and user-friendly environment, it is very easy to work with it. This tool is used for taking photos and videos of the desktop screen. Some of the features of this application are:
The possibility of recording photos and videos from the desktop in various formats
Ability to add effects to images and videos
Ability to add text and subtitles
Convert photos to PDF and…
Where can I download and install Sangate?
To download and install this software, you can access its cracked version through this link, like Camtasia. After you download the software, install and run it. In the next step, run the Kegan file, a serial will be created for you, by which you can install the software completely.
In the middle of the software screen, you can see the settings that we check their efficiency:
One of the settings is Preview in the editor, if this mode is active, you can see your photo or video on the editor page of the software.
With the copy to clipboard option, any photo or video you take will be automatically copied and you can paste it anywhere you want.
Those who make educational videos from their desktop usually want the mouse movement process to be clear. If you enable the Capture cursor option, you can also record the mouse movement, otherwise you can disable it.
If you enable the 5 Seconds delay option, when you press the record button, it will start recording the screen 5 seconds later.
**Note that if you want to save certain settings for yourself and so that you don’t have to reapply the same settings every time you use them, you can use the + sign next to Preset in the lower corner of the software and the first option is New Preset. Select from the current settings to save the settings for you.
When you have done the settings and are ready to record, press the red Capture button. You will see that a Chinese line square will appear with which you can define the border of your image. Choose the range you want by moving the corners of the lines.
After you select the range, the Sngate toolbox will appear where you can choose whether you want to take a photo or a video.
You can easily record your photo or video. After finishing the work and when your video is finished and you stop it or take a photo of the screen, your photo or video will be automatically transferred to the editor page of the software and you can do various edits on it.
Screen recording settings
When you click on the Video option on the software page, you can apply your video settings. For example, if you want to record the sounds coming from the computer itself (sound inside the system), you must activate the Record system audio option. Or if you want your microphone to be recorded, you should keep the Record microphone on.
Of course, the toolbar that is displayed at the bottom of the screen when recording a video also allows you to adjust the settings from there. that the sound of the system is displayed as a speaker icon and the sound of your microphone is displayed as a microphone icon.
Next to the red button, there is an icon with which you can choose whether your webcam is recorded or not.
Edit videos in Sandgate
On the main page, that is, the software editor section, in the same section where you can play your video, there are small green and red flags that you can use to cut a certain part of the video.
Save and share files
When your video is ready, you can save the video in your system using the File option from the Share section located on the top right of the editing page or even share it directly on YouTube, your email, and even office software.
How to make a video with multiple photos with Sngate
One of the interesting uses of Sgnite is the ability to make videos with different photos. For example, suppose you have a pamphlet and you want to speak with your voice on its different pages and explain, that’s when this feature comes in handy.
For this, you can select the Create option from the top menu and then click on Video from Images. You can even choose from a menu at the bottom of the screen that shows your recent photos. By shifting and clicking, you can select as many images as you want, and then right-click on one of them and select Video from the images.
In this mode, the recording toolbar will appear and you can choose to record your sound and image on the images through the microphone and webcam icon. By moving the images, you can determine the order of the photos or click on a specific photo.
From the right menu, you can write text on your video, make bookmarks, or point to different parts with colored arrows. You can implement all the edits related to the video on these types of videos.
After finishing the work, you can stop the video and save or share it previously through the Share button.
Where can I download the Skyroom extension?
First, open your Google Chrome browser and enter this link. Now select the Add to Chrome option to add this extension to your browser. In the photo below, you can see that after downloading the plugin, the upper right corner will be seen as a blue icon.
If you click on the blue icon, a small screen will open. By selecting Start Recording, you can record your screen. So easily!
Just make sure that the speaker and monitor icons are active so that the sound inside the system and the image can be recorded well. If you want to record the sound of your microphone, you can activate it with the microphone icon.
Press the stop button when finished. You will be directed to a window where you can save your video by clicking the Save Video option.
From the plugin settings icon, you can change the type of video format, sound and image quality, and a few other settings as you wish. If you click on the extension, you will see the last icon on the bottom right, which is multi-line, which is the place where all your recorded videos are stored and you can access them all.
**If you use the Skyroom platform for teaching as a teacher and need to share your desktop screen with your students, if your Chrome browser version is older than version 72, you need this extension to share your desktop. Install it on your browser. If you use newer versions of Chrome or Firefox, you don’t need to install this extension to share your desktop.
Video recording tutorial in Adobe Connect and how to download recorded files
How to record video in Adobe Connect classes:
These days, when most classes are held online, the Adobe Connect platform is widely used. In this section, we want to teach you step-by-step how to record video in Adobe Connect and how to download recorded files.
How to download recorded files in Adobe Connect
To download the files recorded in Adobe Connect, you must enter the Recordings tab as in the previous step. In the Actions section, there is another option called Make Offline, with which you can download the desired file or download and save it in MP4 format in your system.
When you click on Make Offline, a window will open for you to click on Next. In this case, you can choose the file storage location in your system and start the download process.
But before that, you can choose the type and format of the file you want. The formats you can use are FLV and MP4, and we recommend the MP4 format.
In this part, we explained the recording of the session in Adobe Connect in a visual way, and in the last step, we taught how to download the file from Adobe Connect. Hope you can download and use your online classes easily.
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