{"id":35,"date":"2011-10-12T18:09:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T18:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.johnny-lin.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2011-10-12T18:15:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T18:15:56","slug":"making-a-screencast-video-using-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.johnny-lin.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Making a Screencast Video Using Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently made my first YouTube video<\/a> using my Dell Vostro V13 laptop running Ubuntu GNU\/Linux. It wasn’t that hard to do, but I thought I’d just write a quick post describing what I did; I had to do a little sleuthing on the Internet to find out what settings to use in order to get it to work on YouTube. <\/p>\n

I created the animation and slides using LibreOffice Impress, the Powerpoint-like presentation program that is part of the open-source LibreOffice<\/a> office productivity suite. Powerpoint, or any other presentation program, would work just as well.<\/p>\n

I recorded the screencast using the application recordMyDesktop<\/a>. RecordmyDesktop produces a .ogv<\/a> video file. My laptop has a built-in camera and microphone, so I just had to make sure the microphone level was high enough to record my voice. One thing I did find was that when I used the space bar to advance the slideshow, the clicking noise was also recorded. By using an external mouse button instead, I was able to keep the clicking noise to a minimum.<\/p>\n

After recording the screencast, I edited it using the movie editor PiTiVi<\/a>. I was satisfied with video and sound quality of most of my screencast, so the only thing I did was crop out portions at the beginning and end of the movie that had no meaningful video.<\/p>\n

The tricky part was exporting (i.e., “rendering” in PiTiVi lingo) the PiTiVi-edited video into a format the YouTube would accept. Here are the settings I used (copied from this Ubuntu forums post<\/a>, written by the forum member theSuperman<\/a>):<\/p>\n