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Do You Hear That? It’s Your eLearning Course Sounding Better

eLearning Brothers

Even if you happen to have a microphone, it should be noted that there are tremendous differences in audio quality between the plethora of mics available. Eliminating breaths is another key component of having professional sounding voice overs. Just because you can record audio with a device doesn’t mean that audio is sufficient.

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Repurpose Your Content: Make a Blog Video!

TechSmith Camtasia

For audio, you can use music, voice narration, or a combination of the two. We skip voice narration, because the primary function for our blog videos is for social media promotion. If you are using voice narration for your video, be sure to use a decent microphone to capture your audio. Step 4: Select your audio.

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Screencast of the Week - Red Gate, Coding by the Sea

TechSmith Camtasia

I really wanted to communicate the human side of this story to our customers and so used multiple voice narrations running behind these images. However, the team had come back from the coast with some great photos, a good story and a new product. Camera (not that you need a fancy one): Canon 5D SLR.

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5 Mistakes eLearning Developers Often Make

eFront

Watch out for file size limitations, an extremely annoying shortcoming in some eLearning tools. These force you to edit your content (audio and video) into a smaller size, thereby robbing its meaning altogether! For starters, choose the right narrator, male or female, for your audio files. Next come the tools.

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Silence, in eLearning, is Not Always Golden

Mindflash

Think about getting a good microphone, excellent script writing, how to “do-it-yourself” and when to hire a voice-over professional. Creating downloadable audio files for later use ( performance support ). How audio file size affects performance. Learning Objectives are Paramount. Hiring a professional versus DIY.

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The Ultimate Video Marketing Playbook (2021)

TechSmith Camtasia

Microphone. Whether for your mobile device, input directly into your camera or computer, a microphone will improve the overall quality of you your video. So, to start, I would focus on getting an external USB microphone to improve the quality of your audio. I use my Yeti podcasting microphone and move it out of the video frame.

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The A to Z of eLearning Acronyms Part 2

LearnUpon

It can reduce files sizes to about 5% of their original size, although some detail is lost in the compression. . Voice Over Internet Protocol is a set of rules that allow for the use of the internet to make voice calls or video calls over the internet. Joint Photographic Experts Group (pronounced jay-peg.)