Thanks, Roger. Here's my setup. <br><br> Software I use for tutorials. All of it is free, except for Windows Movie Maker, which is part of Windows. You could do this without Windows Movie Maker to make it totally open source and free.<br>
<br>1) Video capture: Camstudio (<a href="http://www.camstudio.org">www.camstudio.org</a>)<br> Resolution: 1280 x 720 pixels<br> Capture full screen. Aspect ratio of 16:9, which YouTube will convert to HD.<br>
Codec: Camstudio lossless codec v 1.4<br> Creates an avi file. I create the audio separately.<br><br>2) Video editing: Virtualdub (<a href="http://www.virtualdub.org">www.virtualdub.org</a>), with Camstudio output as input.<br>
After editing, I compress the video with the Camstudio lossless codec.<br><br> I use Windows Movie Maker to create the final video, with the VirtualDub output as input. On occasion I have edited parts of the video in Movie Maker.<br>
Settings: Windows HD 720p format (WMV file)<br> Bit Rate: 5.9 MPS<br> Display Size: 1280 x 720<br> Aspect Ratio: 16 x 9 (this is critcal for HD)<br> Frames per second: 30<br><br>3) Audio: Audacity (<a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download">audacity.sourceforge.net/download</a>)<br>
Mono, 22050Hz<br> <br>Operating system: Windows Vista Home Premium, Service Pack 2<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Roger Wickes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rogerwickes@yahoo.com">rogerwickes@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hey Ira, very good explanation. what are you using for recording
settings? So, what software did you use,
what resolution, and encoding (framerate, codec, codec compression
settings)? <br><br>To All tutorial authors: My thoughts:<br><br>I think we should use a 16:9 aspect ratio, as it allows a nice
three-column (outliner, 3D view, buttons) window layout. And,
Youtube/Vimeo require it nowadays.<br><br>For video tutorials, if you don't want people to be able to download your videos, and want the option of possibly making money from them, and don't self-host or have your videos through some other service, I think we should use YouTube as our hosting service, and we
should all use the same or similar recording settings that give a great
quality recording for our tutorials. YouTube is free, holds the promise of maybe making partner, etc. Also then, a user can just go to Youtube and do a search, and has a decent chance of finding something. <br><br>If you want people to be able to download your video, use Vimeo. It converts your HD to a flv file that VLC can play. It allows you to organize your vids into albums, but it is not nearly as ubiquitous as YouTube. We have 40 Blender groups and there is a lot of group redundancy already, so DONT CREATE ANOTHER GROUP UNLESS it is to add a foreign language Group. <br>
<br>If video does not include audio, it should be subtitled or annotated (Youtube allows you to add annotations after uploading). None of this "watch me play and maybe you can figure out what I am doing".<br><div>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Ira Krakow <<a href="mailto:ira.krakow@gmail.com" target="_blank">ira.krakow@gmail.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:bf-education@blender.org" target="_blank">bf-education@blender.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:25:16 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Bf-education] Developing Blender 2.5 Education Materials<br></font><div>
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I believe we should be developing curriculum and other education materials for Blender 2.5, even though it is not released yet, because it will become the standard soon. To that end, I published a video, Blender 2.5 Ambient Occlusion, at:<br>
<br><span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKUAemD7oo4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKUAemD7oo4</a></span><br><br>I
have two goals for this video. The first goal is to show the rendering
settings of Blender 2.5. The second is to explain AO in simple terms. I
used the pre-alpha Windows version, as of September 15, 2009.<br><br>I have other Blender 2.5 videos, including a tour of the Startup screen, at:<br><br><span><a href="http://blender3dvideos.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://blender3dvideos.blogspot.com/</a></span><br>
<br><br>Sooner or later documentation, videos, and so on, based on 2.4x need to be rewritten. We might as well start now.<br><br>Ira<br>
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