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How to create media content

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How to make recordings using your own PC/laptop

Slidecasts or presentations with sound can be created quite easily using PowerPoint. All you need is a microphone, at best an external one, but also the built-in microphone of your laptop will do.

For videotaping presentations, you can also use the recording function in Adobe Connect. Simply create a meeting room, upload your presentation there and start recording as soon as your presentation begins. Basic editing (editing, anonymization) can be done after the recording (see How2 Adobe Connect)

There are also easy ways for audio recordings - whether on a PC/laptop or with a smartphone.

Create media content
Photo: Pixabay // Bereich Lehre und Medien

Recording presentations with sound (Slidecast)

Screen recordings with laptop/PC

  • Screen recording with PowerPoint

    (The video tutorial describes how to record any content or activity on the PC/laptop screen with the presentation program.)

  • Screen recording with QuickTime

    (Video tutorial on Media.UP will follow shortly) The free program is available for iOS/Apple and Windows. It is easy to install and to use.)

  • Screen recording with Camtasia

    (For those who plan to create recordings regularly in the future: Camtasia is a commercial software [approx. 180 EUR/university license] with which screen recordings of all kinds (presentations, screencasts etc.) and subsequent editing are possible. In the full free trial version [30 days], the finished videos include a watermark.)

  • Camtasia Video Tutorials

    (Extensive and comprehensive description of the functions by instructive video tutorials.)

Screen recording with tablets (e.g. for writing on a whiteboard)

Audio recordings with PC/laptop and mobile devices

How to publish your recordings

The produced video material should be uploaded to Media.UP. This way, all content is centrally available. A finely graduated model of copy?rights is available to meet all requirements for data protection and confidentiality. Besides, students do not have to search extensively on different platforms and sites. (Further information about Media.UP )

Media.UP can be connected to Moodle coursesand it also does offer video streams. The respectively latest streams are listed on the starting page. Moreover, there is the possibility to include recordings as file uploads in Moodle courses. Video and audio files are then played directly in the browser.

For questions regarding Media.UP please contact zim-serviceuni-potsdamde or in very urgent cases knut.zeigermann@uni-potsdam.de. A short written request with your contact details is sufficient. We will get back to you by phone.

Screencast on the Moodle Medial-PlugIn: https://mediaup.uni-potsdam.de/Play/11715