Methods of Recording Lectures
Recording Studio
You can record yourself while showing slides but it is inconvenient and difficult to setup the cameras and display boards. After all, the most important aspect of lectures are the slides and our voice.
If we concentrate on our voice and slide, recording the slides while saying to the computer is a better option. The emphasis of recording method in this article is this method. For the previous methods, you may refer to standard broadcasting methods and lighting.
Asynchronous recording
You can record lectures while you give real time lectures called synchronous learning. Asynchronous learning is when you record without students first. In the asynchronous method you are not bothered by the video conferencing tools.
Screencastify
Recording this type of lecture can be done by using screen recording. The best recording tool for this is Screencastify Google Chrome extension.
I had tested it to work during Google Meet, but not thoroughly yet. It is good because it allows you to record your microphone and webcam also.
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| Screencastify Chrome Extension |
What makes it special is that it allows you to draw lines on screen while recording. Not only that, it quickly allows you to save to Youtube directly, but you must create a Youtube channel first, but it comes with a tutorial on how to creat a Youtube channel.
OBS Studio
You can also use OBS Studio to record your screen.
It is a very powerful program with lots of functions but it makes it difficult. It is still worthwhile to learn in case you want to do more recording techniques.
To do the screen recording you can follow this Youtube video:
Others
Among the list I had tested Flashback Express. It is simpler and can give output better than OBS setup using its Wizard. OBS can be setup to be faster or better pictures but we need to experiment with a lot of settings.
Missing is the built-in Windows 10 Game Mode. Just press <windows> + G.
Webpaint is a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that allows you to paint the screen while recording.
Sychronous lectures
For synchronous lectures, funnily, you have even more tools attached to Google Meet and other video conferencing app. I have tested Google Meet and Zoom.
UMS has the enterprise version of Google Meet so we can have its full functionalities. If you want its caption recording functionalities, you can record the lectures in Google Meet also without any other participant.
Google Meet
You can enable the captions to get a transcript of your voice and store it using Tactiq Pin Chrome Extension. All use Google Chrome unless mentioned otherwise. The only useful extention that is also for Firefox is Webpaint.
Google Meet can also store the screen but it only stores the active screen in the Google Meet, which may not be the your screen, rather your webcam video because it is active at that time. To defeat this, present a window of your slides using any software or record the whole screen so that your picture is also shown.
You can enable virtual background using Google Meet Extension as well.
This is useful if you want only your face to be recorded or shown to students, not your real background. However it has limited choices of background.
Zoom
Zoom should have the same limitation as Google Meet in recording active screen only, but it allows you to record to your local disk but the free version is limited to 40 minutes of video conferencing.
However, Zoom has an impressive selection of Virtual backgrounds, including video background.
It does not have the transcript recording facility unless you subscribe to the paid version of Zoom.
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