For my introductory video, at first I could figure out how to make it, so I began filming the screen as I was using the website iLearn, and recording everything that I was doing.
However, I found that this was taking a lot longer than I first imagined it would take, also it was looking very unprofessional to other people when I was showing them, to find out what they thought.
As I went to uni, someone suggested a screen recorder, which then I could record what I was doing on screen and then I could make a voice over to go over the top of it.
I had to search around the internet to which FREE screen recorder I could use.
After some extensive research I found BB FlashBack, which was one of the most highly rated free screen recorders on the internet for me to download.
This is the package that I could get with the BB FkashBack Pro, which seems to be a lot better than the free version, however for this project all I need is a simple program that will record what I am doing on screen and then play it back and allow me to export it out afterwards.
As you open up BB FlashBack, this is the screen that you get. You then select the 'Record a new movie' button, which then allows for you to choose whether you want to record the entire screen or just one window, and in this case I only wanted to record one window, which was the internet window with iLearn in it.
After I finished recording and pressed stop the program then asked me if I wanted to either export it or view it in BB FlashPlayer. I wanted to view it in the FlashPlayer so that I could edit out the parts that I wanted.
However I found that you could not edit using this version, as it is the free version and therefore limited to what it can do.
Therefore I found that I could export the selected areas of the video, this is so I can cut out the beginning and the end which have no relevance to the introdution, where I pressed play and stop.
At first I was going to add the voide over at the end, after doing the video itself, however after doing some initial tests that it would be much easier for me to record the screen as I was playing the voice over.
I edited the voice over in Adobe After Effects so it was one long continuous QuickTime video (with no visuals), this was so I could just follow what I was saying in the voice over.
After completing my final video I was able to export the selected ares into an AVI format, which then I could take into After Effects and edit the parts I wanted to.
I had to search around the internet to which FREE screen recorder I could use.
After some extensive research I found BB FlashBack, which was one of the most highly rated free screen recorders on the internet for me to download.
This is the package that I could get with the BB FkashBack Pro, which seems to be a lot better than the free version, however for this project all I need is a simple program that will record what I am doing on screen and then play it back and allow me to export it out afterwards.
As you open up BB FlashBack, this is the screen that you get. You then select the 'Record a new movie' button, which then allows for you to choose whether you want to record the entire screen or just one window, and in this case I only wanted to record one window, which was the internet window with iLearn in it.
After I finished recording and pressed stop the program then asked me if I wanted to either export it or view it in BB FlashPlayer. I wanted to view it in the FlashPlayer so that I could edit out the parts that I wanted. However I found that you could not edit using this version, as it is the free version and therefore limited to what it can do.
Therefore I found that I could export the selected areas of the video, this is so I can cut out the beginning and the end which have no relevance to the introdution, where I pressed play and stop.
At first I was going to add the voide over at the end, after doing the video itself, however after doing some initial tests that it would be much easier for me to record the screen as I was playing the voice over.
I edited the voice over in Adobe After Effects so it was one long continuous QuickTime video (with no visuals), this was so I could just follow what I was saying in the voice over.
After completing my final video I was able to export the selected ares into an AVI format, which then I could take into After Effects and edit the parts I wanted to.