How to Build a Slidecast
Professor Wm PitzerIMC-693H
West Virginia University
What is aslidecast?
Go to www.slideshare.netand sign up for a free account.
Watch some of my slidecasts at www.slideshare.net/wmpitzer
Open an accounton slideshare.net
Create yourpresentation
I normally save my presentation as a PDF first, then upload to slideshare.
Acrobat’s“magic dust”
A presentation I did in Keynote and saved as a PDF. File size = 7.5 Mb
Open presentation in Acrobat and select Document/Reduce File Size
from the main menu.
Make compatible with later versions of Acrobat to gain larger reduction in file size. I
use 9.0 setting.
Save the file. You will get a prompt to replace existing file if you don’t rename the
reduced file.
This is a common warning: “image masks not downsampled.”
Just click OK and ignore.
After applying the “magic dust” in Acrobat the file size = 2.6 Mb
Upload yourpresentationto slideshare
Click to upload file
Select file to upload
Record your voiceoveras an MP3 file
Preset tracks
Recording controls
Select appropriate
track
Hide windows you don’t need.
GarageBand makes it easy to record in
packets.
Export asMP3
Save the file to your folder. You should also save the GarageBand
project for future editing purposes.
Upload MP3 fileto Slideshare
Select this tab in window
Prompt to load MP3 file
Pick file and click “open”
This may take a while...
When upload is finished you will see this
message.
Slidecast is pre-formatted
with your audio file.
2. Click and drag “audio selector” to
mark where the first slide ends on the
timeline.
1. Play audio to where you want it to stop for first slide, then pause
audio.
3. Click on next slide to select it in the “slide selector.”
4. Repeat steps 1 & 2 for second slide.
Repeat steps 1 & 2 for all the slides.
Always listen to your slidecast to make sure it’s working
properly before sharing it with your students.
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