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CREATE AUTO-PPT

CREATE VIDEO

PUBLISH VIDEO

FROM PPT TO VIDEO

1. CREATE AN AUTOMATED POWERPOINT PRESENTATION PowerPoint gives you tools to create presentations (or slide shows) with

audio narration that run automatically.

This is probably the most work-intensive step.

2. CONVERT AUTOMATED PPT INTO A VIDEO It’s a simple, 2-step process.

3. PUBLISH THE VIDEO TO YOUR WEBSITE OR COURSE PAGE With Gmail and YouTube, it’s easy.

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Tech Talk:

HARDWARE SOFTWARE ACCESSORIES

Dell desktop computer

Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.4 GHz

RAM: 2.0 Gb

Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Logitech USB microphone ($23.99)

CREATE AN AUTOMATED PPT – 6 STEPS

1. CREATE A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

For videos of 3 to 5 minutes in length,

shoot for presentations of10 to 12 slides.

2. INSERT pictures, shapes, text boxes, etc.

CREATE AN AUTOMATED PPT

I like to use text boxes

3. ANIMATE objects

I like to use text boxes.

CREATE AN AUTOMATED PPT

a. PLUG IN

b. SET LEVELS

c. POWER ON

d. PLACEMENT

4. SET UP MICROPHONE

CREATE AN AUTOMATED PPT

5. RECORD SLIDE SHOW

*Check “Play Narrations” & “Use Timings.”

Start Recording from Beginning…

CREATE AN AUTOMATED PPTBe sure that these two fields* are selected (checked).

PREVIEW

Preview your recorded slide show.

You might need a couple of run-throughs.

CREATE AN AUTOMATED PPT

6. ADD A SOUNDTRACK a) SELECT THE SLIDE TO WHICH YOU WANT TO

ADD AUDIO

CREATE AN AUTOMATED PPT

6. ADD A SOUNDTRACK b) INSERT AUDIO Select “Audio

from file”*

*NOTE: I had to plug in an “audio device” (headphones) to get “Audio from file” to work.

CREATE AN AUTOMATED PPT

6. ADD A SOUNDTRACK c) TRIM AUDIO

FIND THE TIME LENGTH OF THE SLIDE

THIS SLIDE IS 00:11 LONG

CREATE AN AUTOMATED PPT

6. ADD A SOUNDTRACK c) TRIM AUDIO 3. Click “Hide

During Show”

1. Select the icon for the audio you just added.

2. Click Trim Audio

CREATE AN AUTOMATED PPT

6. ADD A SOUNDTRACK c) TRIM AUDIO

Use “Start Time” and “End Time” to:

1) select which portion of audio to use,

2) Trim audio to exact time length of slide.

CREATE AN AUTOMATED PPT

6. ADD A SOUNDTRACK c) TRIM AUDIO

Set Start Time.

Calculate End Time: Start Time + Time Length of Slide = End Time

00:02.500 + 00:11 = 00:13.500

Set “End Time.”

CREATE AN AUTOMATED PPT

6. ADD A SOUNDTRACK d) SET AUDIO LEVEL

You want this soundtrack to play below the level of narration.

PREVIEW

Preview your recorded slide show with soundtrack.

You might need to tweek that soundtrack audio level.

CREATE VIDEO

CREATE VIDEO – 2 STEPS

1. COMPRESS MEDIA

CREATE VIDEO

2. CREATE VIDEO

PUBLISH VIDEO

PUBLISH VIDEO – 4 STEPS

(Check with your IT department on this one)

How we’re doing it at YVCC:

1. Create a Gmail account.

2. Create a YouTube account (thru gmail).

3. Upload videos to YouTube.

4. Embed videos in your Center’s webpage or in your course pages in your LMS (if you’re teaching online).

EFFECTIVE CONTENT/STYLE

TELLSHOW

TEXT GRAPHICS

“Sentence

Variety”

“Citing Sources” “Citing Sources I”

“There’s lots of videos out there, but they’re just not watchable.” -- YVCC Writing Center Peer Tutor