Okay. Today, we are going to talk about how to record a video of yourself. Let's say you have
an assignment and you have to record a video and turn it in of yourself making some kind
of a presentation. So, I'm going to show you my favorite, uh, free recording software that I use.
I would go to Screencast-O-Matic.com. You can just type that into whatever browser you use
and, uh, this, this is free. I have a paid account, which isn't very expensive. But,
you don't need one, you can do this for free. So, when you get to this, this recorder,
this website, what you would do, you could get an account, if you want. Or, you could do this,
you don't need to, though you could just record for free, you would just click right here.
Okay. So, when you get to the screen, then you would click launch free recorder, right there.
And you'll get a loading message. It's not the fastest load in the world for sure, but it's,
it's pretty good. After you do this a few times, um, it, it loads a lot quicker. I use it all the
time on my account. It loads really quickly. Okay, so, there you go. And what I usually use
for the vast majority of my videos is, I use the screen recorder and I just record the screen.
And that's, that's pretty easy. But let's say you have an assignment where you have
to record yourself on the camera. So, first, you'll need some kind of a camera.
Or, if this is on your phone, I guess you could use the camera on your phone. But, I, with this,
I'm using a desktop PC so I would go to webcam. I do have a webcam installed on my computer.
Notice, it's picking up my voice there. If it's not picking up your voice, I'm using an external
microphone, your computer might have a microphone, or your camera probably has a microphone too. But,
I, if you don't have this setup, you could go in here and select the microphone, and I'm,
the default microphone is the one that I have plugged in. But if you have other microphones,
you can select those. I, I use one that I plug in just because it tends to be a higher quality.
And we'll stop there. Okay, so I have the computer audio turned off when I record so that when
I record, I don't get any other weird, weird sounds. But, you, you could turn this on too,
like if you were going to have music playing, on a video on your computer or something, you could,
you could do that as well. Okay. So, but let's say that you would need to record yourself making
a speech or something. So, I clicked webcam, then there I am speaking into my microphone. And
so, when I'm ready to go, what I would just do is click record
and I would record this video. 3, 2, 1, there you go. And then this is my test video I'm recording
here for this course. And uh, I'm going to make this speech and record it and when I'm done,
I'm just going to click pause, and then I'm going to click done.
Then, what I would do, you could edit the video if you want. That's pretty easy to do as well. Or,
you could just save it and upload. If you edit, you can do all kinds of neat things.
There's the sound of the video down here, you could add images to it if you would like. There's
just some more complicated things. I could bring in this right here for example if I would want
to. I brought an image in and I could say this image right here will show up on the screen
telling you my name. And then I, I could say, well I'd like it to go for this long. It will go
for four seconds, or I could, I could stretch this out. That's going to go longer. And I'll have it
right there, but I will say on this, I want it to fade in and out. So, I could say, in type, fade.
And then, out that's already set for a fade. And then done. And
okay, this is just some basic editing. There's all kinds of things you could
do if you want to. Test it out. You could take this back and play.
I'll take this all the way back here.
So that image fades in there, as I'm talking there, then it fades out. There's all kinds of
neat little things you can do. Let's just say we're done with editing,
then what I would do, is save it as a file.
And what you could do here, you could set up the,
the folder right here. I would click the folder I want to save it in that I would browse.
this is my, there's my video folders here. And I could just create a new a new folder for
test video.
Now, that's in the folder name there, and for the file name, I'll just say
Screencast video demo. And then I'll click publish
and then, this can take a while. This was a very short video, so it's going to load very quickly.
Then I'll click done here.
And now, they're now trying to pitch me to buy this, but, which I don't. I don't.
I already have an account with them. But if you're using this for free, you won't,
you won't need to, to have a, you don't want to pay or anything. And if I go to my folders,
then,
the video,
okay, some test video. here's the video right here. I could open this up.
And there's my video right there. You can see that fade in and out.
And this is an mp4, which is a really good file type to use. You can upload this to YouTube very
easily. Then you could get a link to it and then I, I, what I would do is as bring up create an
account in YouTube, and load this in there. And then it would be very easy for me to have a,
a link to the video there that I could upload into a course pretty easily. You could when you put the
video into YouTube, you could make it an unlisted video so it wouldn't actually be on YouTube,
uh, it would it would just be, you would have a link. whoever had the link, could watch it,
but that's, that's one way. That's how you would use Screencast-O-Matic to,
to do this. I think Screencast-O-Matic is the simplest of the different database recorders,
or the, the computer recorders, to record. It's simple, it's free, it's very easy.
So, that is how you do it. That's probably the simplest method of doing this.