Lecture capture

Recording in Zoom

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Zoom can be a convenient way to record your screen if high resolution isn’t desired. If you just what to record a presentation with no live audience, you can start a recording in your personal meeting room and share a screen with your PowerPoint. There are two ways to record a Zoom meeting: a Cloud Recording or a Local Recording.

How to create Cloud Recording in a Zoom meeting:

  • Log into https://osu.zoom.us/ with your name.# and university password.
  • Start a meeting as the host.
  • Click the Record button in the Zoom toolbar.
  • Select Record to the Cloud to begin recording.
  • To stop recording, click Pause/Stop Recording or End Meeting.
  • When you are done with the meeting, click Stop and the recording will be queued for processing.

Zoom will send an email to the host’s email address when processing is complete. See Ohio State’s Manage CarmenZoom Cloud Recordings guide for additional information about managing your cloud recordings. These recordings only stored for 120 days. For longer-term storage, you could move your recordings to video hosting like MediaSite.

How to create a Local Recording in a Zoom meeting:

  • Login to https://osu.zoom.us/ with your name.# and university password.
  • Start a meeting as the host.
  • Click the Record button in the Zoom toolbar.
  • Select Record on this Computer to begin recording.

An advantage of a local recording might be that you get more direct access to the .mp4 video file, in case you want to edit it with video project software like Adobe Premiere Pro.

For more information about managing local recordings check out these support articles:

Video about recording in Zoom in general:

More resources about recording in Zoom:

  • See this CarmenZoom Recordings article for more information about Zoom use at Ohio State.
  • See this Info about the resolution of recorded video from Zoom article for recording resolution options. By default, Zoom records at a resolution of 640 x 360px at 25 frames per second. However, it is possible to change the resolution to HD by selecting the HD option in the camera settings. The recording resolution is affected by the resolution of the video and the network bandwidth. If you need a higher resolution for creating an educational video, you might consider another recording app like MediaSite Moasic. The maximum resolution of Zoom recordings when all conditions are good is 1280 x 720px.
  • See this page for more about Video Resolutions from the Zoom Community.

Using YouTube Studio to obtain captions for your video

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Paid captioning services like Otter.ai are nice, but if you don’t have access to another captioning resource, YouTube Studio can be used to auto-caption a video for free.

Steps to upload a video to YouTube Studio for free auto-captioning:

  • Go to your YouTube channel in YouTube Studio: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/
  • Click ‘Create > Upload Videos’ and choose the video(s) you want to upload with ‘Select Files’.
  • After it has been processed, choose the video you want to obtain captions from, from your list of videos.
  • Scroll down, find the Subtitles link, and click on it.
  • You’ll see ‘English (Automatic)’ for the automated captions track.

Here is some info about how to download your captions from YouTube:

Now you have a captions file to go along with your .mp4 video. You can upload the .srt file to other video hosting like MediaSite. Find your subtitles.srt file in your Downloads folder and edit it for accuracy in a text editor.  Now you are able to use it in another video hosting service like MediaSite.

Video about obtaining captions from YouTube Studio:

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Recording in MediaSite Mosaic

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MediaSite Mosaic replaces the older Desktop Recorder app as MediaSite’s lecture capture tool. The Mosaic app is streamlined and easier to use than the old Desktop Recorder. It can be used for capturing lecture video for online or hybrid courses. Some instructors take a ‘flipped classroom’ approach where lectures are assigned as homework and the synchronous course meetings are used for discussion and active learning. With MediaSite Mosaic, .mp4 video files can be automatically uploaded to the MediaSite video hosting system or edited with 3rd party video editing software.

Here is some information about adjusting settings before recording, recording your presentation, and renaming & editing presentations.

Adjusting settings before recording:

  • After launching MediaSite Mosaic choose which screen or window you want to record. As with recording in PowerPoint you can choose if you want to record your webcam or not.
  • Click the Microphone icon to select the mic that you want to use.
  • Click the Display Source icon under the Capture tab to choose which screen or window you want to record.
  • Click the Webcam icon in case you want to record your cam.

Recording your presentation:

  • To begin recording, click the red Record button at the bottom of the screen.
  • Click the Pause button if you want to take a break.
  • Click the Stop button when you are done.

Renaming and editing your presentations:

  • Go to the Presentations tab to find the presentations you have recorded.
  • By default, they are named ‘Untitled”. Click the three-dot menu beside a video and click ‘Rename’ to give it a different name. If you have connected your Mosaic app to Ohio State MediaSite your presentations will be automatically uploaded there. If one hasn’t uploaded yet, you can choose ‘Upload’ under the three-dot menu beside the video.
  • If you want to edit your presentation .mp4 video file locally with video editing software, you can find the .mp4 by selecting ‘Open in Explorer’ from the three-dot menu beside the video. You could create a copy of the file and move it into an Adobe Premiere Pro project to edit.

Video about recording with MediaSite Mosaic:

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Recording in PowerPoint

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MS PowerPoint can be used for capturing lecture video for online or hybrid courses. Some instructors take a ‘flipped classroom’ approach where lectures are assigned as homework and the synchronous course meetings are used for discussion and active learning. Recording lectures in PowerPoint has become much easier and more streamlined in recent years and can produce standard .mp4 video files for posting in a video hosting system like MediaSite.

To record narration in a PowerPoint presentation follow these steps:

  1. Open your PowerPoint presentation and go to the slide where you want to record from.
  2. In the SlideShow ribbon, go to ‘Record > Current Slide’ (in newer versions of PowerPoint you can also to go the Record ribbon and choose ‘Current Slide’.
  3. Go to the three dot menu to check that your desired microphone is selected. You can also select a web cam there is you want.
  4. Click the Record button to begin recording. If you make a mistake, you can retake the recording on the current slide.

To export your video for video hosting or sharing:

  1. Go to ‘File > Export Create a Video’
  2. For most presentations, choose ‘Full HD (1080p)’ for the video size, choose ‘Use recorded timing and narrations’, and click ‘Create Video’.
  3. Choose a filename and location to save your .mp4 video file. You can later edit this file with video software or upload it to video hosting like MediaSite.

Video about recording in PowerPoint

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Notes about using Adobe Spark Video

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Adobe Spark was used to create educational videos for the FCS Real Money Real World virtual program and the Extension sustainably committee used it to create Sustainable Action videos. Here are some instructions you can follow to create a new video presentation based on a Spark presentation template.

Adobe Spark Video Instructions:

To get started making Adobe Spark video presentations:

Login at: https://spark.adobe.com/sp/ with your ‘school’ account (your university login).

To create a new branded presentation from a project shared with you (using the shared project like a template):

  • From the home screen go to: ‘Projects > Shared with You’.
  • Then click ‘Duplicate’ from the three-dot menu on a project that you would like to use as a template. Spark then copies the duplicate to your ‘Your Projects’ area. If you’re not using a shared project to create a copy for a new presentation you can work directly on the shared project. Be sure to let others working on that project know what you are updating.

To edit your new project from a template:

  • Go to ‘Your Projects’ and find the project that was copied there.
  • Hover over the project and click ‘Edit project’.

To create a new slide and record audio narration:

  • Click the ‘+’ button to add a new slide.
  • Press and hold the microphone button to record audio on that slide. Release the mic button when you are done speaking.
  • You can also choose a music background track from the available options.
  • You can reorder your slides by dragging and dropping them.
  • If you want to duplicate a slide you can hover over it and choose ‘Duplicate’.

To edit slide text:

  • Click on the existing slide text to edit it or add another text block.
  • Click and drag on a text box for alignment options.

To preview your video, click the ‘Preview’ button. You can also start playing from a particular slide from it’s the ‘Play’ button which gives you a limited preview.

Editing slide theme and layout:

  • Click on ‘Split Screen’ under the available layouts on the right to divide the slide into two sides.
  • When using the Split Screen Layout for a slide, you can hover over it and swap one side with the other using the ‘Swap items’ button.
  • Click on ‘Medium’ under themes to give the slide a scarlet background instead of white.
  • Use the ‘+’ button to search for an icon to insert.
  • Click and drag on a text box for alignment options.

Exporting your video presentation and adding captions:

  • In your list of videos, hover over your presentation and choose ‘Download’ from the three-dot menu. Spark will take you to a screen showing the progress of your video download. At first it will say ‘Preparing your video download’. The video will download in the .mp4 standard format which can be used in MediaSite or YouTube hosting.
  • Uploading the video to the Otter.ai service is one way of getting the .srt caption files that MediaSite likes. Be sure to edit auto-generated captions to improve accuracy.
  • Choose the video hosting platform that works best for your project and your department. The Real Money Real World (RMRW) videos had been uploaded to the OSU Extension professionals YouTube channel. Videos in the FCS Successful Co-Parenting course were hosted in Ohio State’s lecture hosting system, MediaSite. You cannot host videos directly in a Canvas course because each course shell has a limited file storage quota.

Collaboration with teams and colleagues:

  • To share a Spark project with a colleague, click the ‘Share’ button at the top.
  • Then choose ‘Invite’ and type in their email address.
  • You can collaborate on the same Spark project or create a duplicate of their project to use as a template for a new project of your own.

Last updated on: 7/13/21.

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