I just made a video to demo schema explorer.
I did this in one take with no post-production work. I figure practice will improve my selection and delivery of the content.
Behind the scenes I used the following:
Hardware
- Dell XPS 13 - (9350 model), using the built-in webcam (up-nose view, camera in bottom left of lid for some reason), good enough for tiny pic in corner.
- Snowball usb mic (great sound quality, no worrying about analogue stuff), sat on a folded towel on my desk to deaden vibrations through the mini-tripod. The snowball has 3 settings on a switch at the back, had it on 3 - omni directional, I tested all three modes beforehand.
- Supplied stand didn’t actually fit properly, so bought an ammoon mini tripod instead which is lovely (importantly it has the right screw thread for the mic).
- A quiet room after everyone is in bed to avoid interruptions, and did the recording between rain storms!
Software
- Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon
- Vokoscreen 2.4.0 - this handles screen recording & the picture-in-picture from the webcam
I recorded the entire screen at 1920x1080 (seeing as even phones are HD now). and uploaded it to youtube. (drag-n-drop, simplez!)
Settings
Control panel > sound > input > snowball > about 130% input volume
fullscreen capture, display 2, 1920x1080
pulse / blue-snowball selected
mpeg4, mp3, avi, 25fps
Default config apart from save path “videopath”
Webcam switched on
Other attempts
I spent ages finding the right software and doing test takes to get sound levels etc right.
I started off with Kazaam for recording and mplayer for the webcam onscreen video.
I got mplayer to show a borderless webcam video picture on screen that I could then use with any screen recorder, but had problems with dual screen behaviour so even though I could zoom in better I gave up on that once I’d discovered vokoscreen.
You might also want to look at https://wistia.com/soapbox which I hear is very good.