Tips for recording your screen using Camtasia Studio for OS X
We recommend Camtasia Studio as a good product for creating screencast movies. The tips below are for the OS X version. Camtasia Studio is also available for Windows. Visit our main screencast information page or contact mms-help@sas.upenn.edu for more information.
- Follow Camtasia's step-by-step instructions to learn how to create your screencast project.
- Once you've completed your project, you will probably want to share the recording with your students over the web. SAS instructors can request an account on the media.sas server. That's the best place to store your movies so they'll be available to the students in your class.
- Follow the steps below to save your project in a format that will work well on the web
Select --->Share--->Advanced Export as shown below:
That will bring up this screen shown below. Please type a file name and then select Export to Quicktime Movie from the drop down list and select Options...
The video will need to resized and this can be done by selecting Size... from the screen show below.
Please select Custom from the dropdown box and enter the following dimensions: 768 x 480
Please select the Prepare for Internet Streaming checkbox and choose Hinted Streaming from the drop down list.
Select OK and this video is ready to be uploaded to the the SAS media server.