Video Creation Help

Hi there
you can do this with all free tools. You will need open office for the slides and Jing or screenr for the screen capture. To record the Audio you will need a microphone (logitec headsets are about $20)

Set your slides up and run the slide show in open office whilst recording the screen and then talk over the slides as you pull up each line of text or bullet point.
Using screenr you can host the video there or on screencast if using Jing or you can post to youtube.
Hope this helps
Mark

If you have a PC you probably are using Windows, and that OS comes with Windows Movie Maker. You can download it for free if it's not on your computer. The version of WMM depends on the OS (98 or Win7, as examples) you are using.

If you can find a good image of a computer screen that has the angle you need/want (istockphoto?), use that as the background and use the text function in WMM to ad the text.

If you download the free program "Audacity" (just click on that word/link) that program will allow you to create the voice track to add to the video track.

This will work best if you have Win7 and Windows Live Movie Maker, but you may be able to accomplish this with the earlier versions.

Be creative.

~Bill

Sure no problem.

The best way to do this is to record your audio file and power point presentation separately. Don't try to do them both at the same time. If you try to record both at the same time you can easily forget your next slide, mess up more due to multitasking, and it's harder to edit this way.

To do this I would first write out my Power Point script and then transfer all of my text into a word document for easy access. By doing this you have your script handy and you can record your audio file accurately.

So plug in your mic, get out your word document, and pull up your screen capture software, then hit the record button and record your audio script only inside of the screen capture software.

Try to speak slowly and clearly as you're reading your script in the word doc, don't worry about messing up or stumbling over your words just keep going because you can always edit out the mistakes you made.

After you recorded your audio, export the movie file and upload it into a free audio editing software called Audacity. Once you have your file uploaded you can edit out your mistakes, eliminate excess noise using the noise removal feature, and also speed up the tempo of your file to sound more realistic and to match your slide presentation.

Afterwards, go back into your Screen Capture Software and drag the audio file back into the software. This time when you hit record don't record any audio just record your screen and hit play on your Power Point presentation. As you hear yourself speaking just click through and move from one slide to another.

So when you do this in sequence you will have a clear video presentation with no mistakes. This is the exact process I do every single time. Let me know if you need any further help.

Josh