Bakari

I'm working on my first module and I'm using one of the video tutorials as a guide. In the guide it says the size of the capture window using iShowU should be 720x480. But that size seems rather small for trying to show all the important windows or panes of an application you're tyring to discribe. Can the screen capture be a little larger?



clara the cat
capture size

Bakari wrote:
I'm working on my first module and I'm using one of the video tutorials as a guide. In the guide it says the size of the capture window using iShowU should be 720x480. But that size seems rather small for trying to show all the important windows or panes of an application you're tyring to discribe. Can the screen capture be a little larger?

Hi Bakari,
as far as I know, the new version of TeachMac dropped the limitiation of a fixed window size. But there is always the concern of Video size: the larger the capture window, the bigger the resulting video. When I first started working on tutorials, I also felt that it would be best to capture the whole screen to get everything. But now I find that in most cases 720x480 is quite sufficient - and even preferable since it keeps the focus on what's important. I sometimes start a new capture if I want to show a different part of the screen and then piece the parts together in iMovie.

Hope this helps,

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clara the cat



byron
Capture size

Clara is correct, the application no longer requires the video be at a specific size. Still, if you capture an entire screen, not only may the resulting video be so large as to make the module impossible to download for dial up users, the image in the module may be too small to see. You can capature in stages. Focus in on the parts that matter. Capture, then stop and capture another part of the screen. You can smooth this out for the user by creating a trsansition shot. Start the capture, following the mouse to the new location, stop and setting up a new still capture. If you play with the settings in iShowU, you may find this unnecessary. You can adjust the setting so that you may be able to follow the mouse for the entire capture without it being too distracting.