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Screencast-o-Matic Step-by-Step Directions
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Screencast-o-matic is a world famous recorder to record on-screen activity for short tutorials, visual presentations, and be able to communicate while you demonstrate! Screencast-o-Matic is a screen and webcam recorder that is totally
web-based, and easy to use.
Since it’s a web based program it works with both PC and Mac computers.
Screen-o-matic Free Features:
15-minute recordings
Screen & webcam recording
Publish to YouTube
Save as video file
The PowerPoint Presentation should have the first slide blank and delayed by 5 second in the timing and be saved in PowerPoint Show and open on your desk-top in order to create your video. Getting started:
1. Once you have setup your account click on Start recording
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2. On the screen recorder page download the click link below to use as a
stand alone option.
3. Below are the example of the recording controls. You can choose to record
just your screen or your webcam. The maximum of amount of free recording
is 15 minutes. You have the option of selecting the type of image size, and
the default microphone is already established
4. By dragging the +(plus) sign outside of the box this allows you to setup
how much information you want recorded.
5. When you are ready to record simply press the REC button.
6. A count down will begin when recording begins and this allows you to
talk into your presentation
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Count down allowing users to speak within their presentation.
7. Users can pause the recording to switch between windows if necessary.
Click the Resume button to continue recording and when you have finished
recording click DONE.
Pause button
Preview button
Click done when completely finished recording.
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8. When you have completely finished recording click done your screen will
change as shown below. You have three options as to how you want to save
your recording.
Save to video file
Upload to screencast o matic
Save to Youtube
RECORDER UPLOAD AND SAVING TO VIDEO
1. Saving your presentation as a video file:
2. When you publish a recording you can choose to just publish part of it by
using the sliders at the left and right.
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3. For example if you wanted to just upload or save the first 10 seconds then you
can move in the right handle into that position.
4. Or you can also seek to a spot and then press the E key to jump the end slider
to that spot or seek and press the S key to jump the start slider.
Click the right handle if
you only want to record a
certain section.
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5. Now only the section in between these handles will be saved or uploaded.
6. To go back and use the full recording we can press the R key or we could
have just dragged the handles back out.
7. If this is the first time you are uploading then you’ll need to click this icon to
show all the upload options. By default the options shown are the ones that
have accounts already setup for uploading.
Free options:
Video File, Screencast-o-Matic, and
YouTube.
The remaining three options are
Premium for payment
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8. Saving your presentation as a video file which will turn into a MP4 video
which is recommended since it gives you the best quality for playback option on
the web.
9. Users have the option of clicking on the Quality setting which will allow you
to increase or decrease recordings which helps speed up encoding.
10. To give your recording a name click on the Filename option, type in a
name for the video and by default it will be saved on your desktop.
Type the name of your video
here
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11. Other options for saving your video are by default on your desktop and:
In a folder
Or by using various captions
12. You can also use to include captions which will be described in more detail
later.
13. Finally, click the Publish button when you are ready to go and the video
will be recorded into an encoded video file.
14. After the recording is done you will have the option to select the method
of how the video will be played.
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14. When the publishing is done you can also find these links again by clicking on
the history icon which shows a history of all the publishing you’ve done from the
current computer you are on right now.
Complete history listing of all
the work done on computer
being used.
UPLOADING YOUR VIDEO TO SCREENCAST-O-MATIC
Note: Begin by doing the same steps 2-6 that you used for creating your vid-
eo; since this is the first time uploading to Screencast-o-Matic; you will need
to click the file type for Screencast-o-Matic.
1. Now you’ll be prompted to add your account which will launch a web
browser to a web page you can use to grant the screen recorder access to up-
load to your account.
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2. Once this process is finished in the web browser you’ll see a message like this
popup in the app and you’ll be ready to upload.
3. Once you’ve added your account you will see settings you can choose for this
upload. These are some of the same options used to when creating your video.
4. If you want to add another account or switch to a different account then you
can click the first option (Account).
5. You can change settings like the title by clicking on them here and then
entering a new value then pressing the Enter Key.
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6. If you’ve setup a channel on Screencast-o-Matic.com then you can add this
upload to the top of the channel by clicking on this option then browsing for the
channel.
7. You can setup a password for the upload so viewers will need a link and this
password to view the upload.
8. You can setup a custom link which means you can choose a custom Url to
access the upload which is explained in more detail later.
9. You can increase or decrease the quality of the encoded video which can help
speedup the upload process.
10. And finally you can choose if you want this video to be found when searching
on search engines like Google.
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11. Click the Publish button when you’re ready to go.
12. While the video is being processed you can copy a link to share right away,
which will create a temporary page that shows the upload progress and redirects
to the actual upload playback page one uploading is complete.
13. While users wait for the upload to become complete; they can open a web
browser to the upload or copy a direct link by clicking this options.
14.User can also find these links again by clicking on the history icon which
shows a history of all the publishing you’ve done from the current computer you
are on right now.
Video being processed with options
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UPLOADING TO YOUTUBE
1.Now that you are ready to upload to YouTube you'll be prompted to add your
account which will launch a web browser to a webpage you can use to grant the
screen recorder access to upload to your account.
Step 1 Screen that appears when you’re
ready to upload to YouTube, click on the
icon.
Step 2 Your screen will change which allows
users to launch the YouTube browser.
Step 3 Prepares users to upload your video by clicking
on Allow
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2. Once this process is finished in the web browser you’ll see a message like this
popup in the app and you’ll be ready to upload.
3.Your recording should be setup at 720p or 1080p size. 720 is the optimum size
and at this setting black bars might be added at the top or sides of your recording
if you don’t use the specified sizes. 720p is the recommended recording size and
will give users the best results when uploading.
4. Users have all the options available them to make changes to the setting such
as: the title, providing tags for your YouTube video, as well as making the video
public, private, or unlisted. You also have the option to increase or decrease the
quality of the encoded video which can help speedup the upload process.
5. Click the Publish button when you’re ready to go.
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6. While the video is being processed you can copy a link to share right away,
which will create a temporary page that shows the upload progress and redirects to
the actual upload playback page once uploading is complete.
7. If you wait until the upload is complete, you can open a web browser to the up-
load or copy a direct link by clicking these options.
8. You can also find these links again by clicking on the history icon which shows a
history of all the publishing you’ve done from the current computer you are on
right now.
Video being recorded
Temporary page setup
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Published history that was done on current computer
9. One final thing to mention about YouTube. Directly after uploading you may
have to wait a few seconds until the HD version is encoded on YouTube site.
Also most of the time the YouTube player default to using the lower quality video
playback unless you switch the player to a larger size or you click the cog icon
on the player and choose the HD option.
Cog icon
