Comments on: How to create a slidecast training using freeware

By: Kerry

Kerry — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:48:26 +0000

Thanks v much. will try out site …

By: Chris Ferdinandi

Chris Ferdinandi — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:50:46 +0000

Cool – thanks for the tip, Christine!

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:47:42 +0000

I realize that this blog was published over a year ago, but there are now online solutions such as http://www.slide-casts.com that allow you to convert your PowerPoint presentations to slidecasts and easily add narrations to your slides.

(Disclosure: I am the HR Director for Dual Code Inc., the company who created slide-casts.com. I accidentally stumbled onto this blog and thought I’d share the solution I use with other HR people who might benefit from it.)

By: Kerry

Kerry — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:32:29 +0000

I think it may be because they appear in windows media player much smaller than the screen to start (i am coming from vista to ’97) so when you maximise make the slides big enough to read they loose focus.

By: Chris Ferdinandi

Chris Ferdinandi — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:51:33 +0000

@Kerry – Sorry to hear. That’s really odd! I’ve not seen that happen yet.

By: Kerry

Kerry — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:21:47 +0000

hey Chris, am a bit late to this thing but it is very handy. Only thing is my slides came in clean, and preview fine, but are out of focus on the final video.

By: Chris Ferdinandi

Chris Ferdinandi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:06:29 +0000

@Carrie – Unfortunately, I have not! It will use your internal mic. You just have to go select it manually using the process I describe in the article. But unfortunately, as you’ve noticed, it keeps asking you to select a device. I just ignore that pop-up. Minor annoyance, but those issues sometimes come with free software.

There are two potential solutions, though. You could purchase a cheap $20 mic/headset (link), which produces a MUCH higher quality recording. Alternately, you could purchase Camtasia for $300, which I have not personally used yet, but I’ve been told is very easy to use and produces amazing stuff.

Good luck!

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:27:19 +0000

Hi, Thank you for the photostory3 directions. Since writing this, have you discovered a way for the program not to post the irritating message box about selecting the microphone? For some reason Photostory 3 does not recognize my internal mic.

Thanks so much for your help.

Carrie

By: Chris Ferdinandi

Chris Ferdinandi — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:55:35 +0000

@Tim – My pleasure! I spent a lot of time trying to figure it out myself. After a few frustrating failures, I stumbled on the method mentioned above. Hope it works well for you, and if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to shoot me an email.

By: Tim Yevgrashyn

Tim Yevgrashyn — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:27:44 +0000

Thanks a lot for the simple and clear explanation!

I was trying to understand how to do Slidecasts without Apple and you really opened a new word for me ;-)