Video Guidelines

Please follow the following guidelines when creating, uploading, and embedding a video tutorial:

Use Camtasia Studio for video creation and editing
Record Video and Audio (using an external microphone) simultaneously (for a how-to procedure, continue down the page)
Throughout your video, return the cursor to the same location on the screen after each step is completed. This will allow you to more easily remove mistakes from the video later
Use an HD widescreen monitor of at least 20”
Set the screen resolution to 1280 x 720
Expand Camtasia’s green dotted line so that the entire screen is selected as the area to record
When the video is finished, select 1280 x 720 as the video’s resolution
Use the “cut” tool to remove any mistakes from your video
Use the split tool to divide your video into segments on geometry, meshing, setup, solution, and results
Save each of these video clips to the Camtasia video library, then open each of them in a separate project
In Cantasia, under cursor effects, select rings for left clicks and ripple for right clicks
Delete any automatic zoom effects inserted by Camtasia
Insert zoom effects to let the user clearly read any text that is entered
When finished, publish each video to Youtube
-use the following tags: Cornell, ANSYS, tutorial, SimCafe, and a tag related to the specifics of your problem
-In the Description of the video, provide a link to the Confluence page for the tutorial. This will increase traffic to the site and improve our Google search rankings
Insert each clip into its relevant section of the SimCafe tutorial page.
1. Go on the Youtube page of the video that you want to embed in SimCafe.
2. Click on "Share" then click on "Embed"
3. Select custom size then input 600x338
4. Make sure "Show suggested videos" is deselected.
5. Copy-paste the html code provided by Youtube in the wiki markup of the page you want to include the video
6. Add

{html}

before and after the code that you just pasted to let Confluence know that this code is in HTML.

For example:

{html}<iframe width="600" height="338" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/p9MljmwR8DI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>{html}

How to Record Videos using Camtasia

Open the Camtasia Application on your computer, expect to see the following toolbar:
Put on your audio headset and talk normally, noting the audio level, like so
Adjust the slider so that it rests in the green to yellow range, about 2/3 across the length
For your local computer, adjust your screen resolution to 1280 x 720
Click on full screen on the Camtasia toolbar
Hit Record, perform your tutorial
At the end of your tutorial, leave 10 seconds of silence
Press F10 to end your tutorial

How to Edit Videos using Camtasia

Video

Text Instructions

Open Camtasia Studio
Import your media file into the clip bin
Right click on the clip, add to timeline or drag clip onto timeline
In the video previewer, set the size to 1280x720
To get rid of the background noise, click on the audio tab and enable Noise Removal
To highlight your cursor, go to the more tab, cursor effects. Under the dropdown menu for highlight, select highlight
To snip the silence at the end, toggle the edge of the clip and slide it left and right
To focus the screen on a certain area of the video clip:
1. Click on the Zoom-n-Pan tab
2. Go to the time you want to zoom, resize the box to zoom
3. Scroll down and Apply SmartFocus to timeline
4. Toggle the SmartFocus button on the timeline to adjust fade in and fade out timing
To append a video to the end of your first video, merely import the media clip and drag it to the right of the first clip. Make all necessary adjustments with the above steps