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Noteabilitypro tutorial12/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Fortunately it is pretty intuitive once you get the hand of the basic commands. But I will note that you will have to do some editing, it’s not completely effortless. I’m not going to do a full tutorial about editing things together - there’s a big internet out there, full of useful advice. What you now have is a Screenflow document that has different tracks corresponding to everything you’ve just recorded. Screenflow will give you a window in which you can make sure it’s recording all the separate things you need (tablet screen, your video, your audio). Okay, so you fire up your computer, open Screenflow, plug in your tablet, point your webcam at yourself, and you’re ready to go. And in my (very limited) experience it seems a bit more robust and user-friendly. Convenient for other purposes.īut happily on Screenflow, which I’ve subsequently switched to, that workaround isn’t necessary it will capture directly from your tablet (as long as it’s connected to your computer). (The app is smart enough to capture either the whole screen, or any region on it.) By the way, did you know you can show your iPhone/iPad screen on your computer, at least with a Mac? Just plug the device into the computer, open up QuickTime, click “new movie recording,” and ask it to display from the mobile device. And capture from the iPad was pretty clunky I had to show the iPad screen on my laptop screen, then capture that region into Camtasia. It wasn’t completely free of crashes, which can be pretty devastating when you’re 45 minutes into an hour-long video. But not perfectly, as I eventually discovered. I started out using Camtasia, which worked pretty well overall. Then they will let you edit it all together how you like. ![]() (Again, no guarantees that my methods are simplest or best, only that they are mine.) Happily there are programs that do everything you want at once: they will capture video from a camera, separately capture audio input, and also separately capture part or all of your computer screen, and/or directly from an external device. ![]() Then you need to capture your writing, and your voice, and optionally yourself, onto video and edit it together. And it’s certainly more than good enough for the job. Notability has that feature and as far as I know Notes Plus does not. But I got numerous requests to write on a dark background rather than a light one, which is completely reasonable. And that’s what I used for the very early Biggest Ideas videos. When I’m taking notes or marking up PDFs, I’m actually more likely to use Notes Plus, as its cutting/pasting is a bit simpler. (I’m sure that non-iOS ecosystems have their own apps, but there’s no sense in which I’m familiar with the overall landscape I can only tell you about what I use.) These two apps are pretty similar, with small differences at the edges. I am quite fond of both Notability and Notes Plus. And writing with your fingers just doesn’t cut it here. I like the iPad Pro quite a bit, but note that not all iPad models are compatible with a Pencil (or other stylus). (You obviously don’t have to include an image of yourself at all, but it makes things a bit more human, and besides who can possibly talk without making gestures, right?) So you need some kind of tablet to write on. The most important step here is to capture your writing, in real time, on the video. And this is the quick-and-easy version! But you can adapt the level of commitment to your own needs. Hmm, looking over that list it doesn’t seem as simple as I thought.
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