Recording Movie Files of Vox Proxy Presentations

Why record movies of Vox Proxy presentations?

Movies can be played on virtually any computer, including Windows PCs, MACs, and Linux machines. Movie files can be placed online and downloaded or played from a CD without the need for any special players other than the media players resident on nearly all computers. Although movies are by nature less interactive than PowerPoint presentations, there are movie editing tools available to add many interactive features.

Camtasia Studio

The software we use to record movie files from Vox Proxy presentations is Camtasia Studio from TechSmith. Camtasia Studio includes a video recorder, a player, and an editor, as well as other video tools. Check out Camtasia directly from TechSmith's web site at:
http://www.techsmith.com/products/studio/default.asp

Camtasia will record both the Vox Proxy character animations as well as the speech and other audio without the need for "looping back" into a microphone.

Camtasia Recorder Settings

In its default configuration, Camtasia will not record Vox Proxy characters. It is necessary to turn on a window layers option in order to do so.

Camtasia Recorder Version 3:

In the recorder, click Tools/Options/Capture and check the box "Capture Layered Windows":

To record audio, you must start the Capture Wizard, then select "Manual Input Selection as follows:

Camtasia Recorder version 2:

Graphics settings:
In the Recorder, click Tools/Options/Capture
Check the box “capture layered windows”.
Check the box “disable display acceleration during capture”
On the main menu, click Capture/Input/Screen to make sure you get full-screen capture.

Audio Settings:
On the Recorder main menu, click Capture/Wizard
On the first screen, check “record audio”
On the second screen, for Input Source, select “Mono mix”
The volume must be experimented with. On many systems, it should be set at only about 20-25% of max.

Recording Procedure

To record a movie of your Vox Proxy PowerPoint presentation, you simply start the Camtasia recorder, click on the Record button, then start your slide show. When the slide show is done, click the Stop button on the Camtasia Recorder.

After the movie file is saved, you can use Camtasia Studio to remove the segments at the beginning and end of the video (where you started and stopped the slide show), edit audio, add narration, and export the file in various formats, including Flash.

Sample Movie Files

View sample movies created by recording Vox Proxy PowerPoint slide shows using Camtasia.