Documentation:Annotated Presentations/Get Started

In order to create an annotated presentation, you'll need a computer, a set of slides, a microphone, and software to record your screen and edit your presentation. If you own a laptop and an external microphone, you can download all the software you need for free, and get started.

For an overview of how UBC professor Rosie Redfield creates her videos with her self designed DIY desktop studio, review her video below.

Slides

There are a variety of tools you can use to create slide sets on your laptop, iPad, or Android device.

• PowerPoint (Microsoft Office Suite)
  • PC, Mac, iPad, Windows tablet
  • Paid software with a limited demo version
  • Features basic recording functionality
• Keynote
  • Macs and iOS devices
  • Paid software ($20 with the most recent version of Mac OS)
  • Features basic recording functionality
• Presentations (Google Drive)
  • PC, Mac, iPad, Android tablets
  • Free software, 15GB of free cloud storage (with Google account)
• Prezi
  • Web application, iPad app
  • Free software with 100MB storage (more with paid version)
    • All presentations created with the free version are publicly viewable
• Impress (Open Office)
  • PC, Mac, Linux
  • Free, open-source
• Haiku Deck
  • Web application, iPad app
  • Free core functionality, unlimited storage, some premium/paid features

Once you've created your slides, get comfortable with presenting them on your computer: make them full screen, and do a couple of practice runs of your presentation. If you aren't, become familiar with how the presentation words. Does a click go to the next slide, trigger the next animation, or make your mouse show up? Can you move backwards and forwards? Can you hide your mouse? The more familiar you are with your presentation, the less you'll have to think about when you're recording it.

Audio recording

Microphones

Here are a few useful links if you're looking at microphones.

• The DIY Media website has a page on microphone suggestions, going over the various types of microphones available.
• Choosing Microphones is a 4-minute video from lynda.com which has some helpful tips for deciding what kind of microphone will best suit your needs.
• Wistia's Learning Centre demonstrates the quality of sound achieved with different mics in this 4.5 minute video.

Recording & editing software

While Camtasia is recommended, due to the features and free license for UBC students, staff, and faculty, basic presentations can be created entirely within PowerPoint or Keynote, and there are a wide variety of other editing programs you can explore. Recording an annotated presentation is very similar to recording a screencast: the screencasting toolkit has a wealth of information.

• Camtasia (Mac, PC)
  • Camtasia is a dedicated screencasting and video editing tool. For tutorials and help, have a look at the Using Camtasia section of the DIY Media website.
  • Camtasia is available to staff, students, and faculty. Log into Connect, go to the 'Resources' tab on the main page, and the key for Camtasia (Windows and Mac) will be available.
• Mac OS X Snow Leopard (and higher) includes built-in screen recording tools. You can then edit your footage in iMovie or any other video editing software you have installed.
• Windows Movie Maker (Windows)
  • Windows Movie Maker is reasonably powerful, free to download editing software.
• CamStudio (Windows)
  • Camstudio is free and open-source. While it hasn't been updated since late 2013, it will record your screen and audio perfectly and has basic editing and annotating functions.