Well, I've actually had Camtasia running! Yesterday, I unplugged my school computer from the network to avoid the detection of the new program and tried it out, installing from a USB drive. It's REALLY slow(even the "new" school computer is under the recommended system requirements), but I did get the bones of my presentation done. The screens I want are captured and the splits are done. It took just under two and half hours before I found that the program I wanted to teach about and Camtasia really did not like each other. My other program crashes any time Camtasia is used to do anything. After several crashes my intended lesson became a solution to last year's biggest issue when teaching guitar with my 8th graders. I'll now be doing a how to find, download and install Power Tab Editor, which was the start of my intended instructional plan. Last year my students had a really rough time doing this. Maybe this will help them.
My new problem is with the audio. When I try to record the directions to go with the visuals, I get garbled noise. I searched out assistance and spent much time today trying to get something to work. I know that I'm missing something simple, a stupid little thing I'm sure, but I'm stumped right now. Has any one else had trouble here? Has anyone else had their audio come out choppy, and compressed. A 10 second narration takes less than five when running in the program. What am I missing? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
2 comments:
I don't know if this will help or not, but in searching for some information on Camtasia, I ran across one sight that prompted Camtasia users to make sure that that Javascript was enabled and that the latest version of Macromedia Flash Player must be installed. As I am far from an expert on these applications and did not go into great depth (yet) with the research, this may or may not be the answer.
You have most likely accessed this site, but if not, maybe it can be of use:
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/education.asp
I hope you can get the bugs worked out and you are probably right in that something small is the culprit (seems that is always the way it is with some of these appications). Keep us posted.
Big "oops" on my part! I am just now getting to the week's assignment and had not made the connection with Camtasia. Forgive the redundancy!
Post a Comment