[AG-TECH] Recording Access Grid Sessions

[kathy gill]

Natalia Costas Lago wrote:

> I found this post to the mailing list. I was wondering if u devised any 
> way or idea to do that. So far the only way we found to do that was 
> doing a screen capture with windows media encoder on a PC running the 
> VIC and RAT (so u can capture a PPT with several small VIC video windows 
> over it).

When working on the Descent to the Underworld project, we made screen 
captures of sessions using Camtasia Studio, a relatively inexpensive and 
fairly powerful tool; it is often used for capturing screens for online 
tutorials.

However, for this to work properly, I believe you need a machine 
dedicated to session recording, so that all sound is coming thru RAT. I 
was able to record visuals only, since I was using one machine for AG 
and Camtasia. Any attempt to also record sound from both teams (mike and 
speakers) generated a massive echo. :-/

I believe Druid eventually used a digital camcorder to capture the 
screen and sound.


Kathy


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Kathy E. Gill
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Digital Media Master's Degree Program
University of Washington
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