Snapz Pro X 2.1 Goes Universal

On or about 6/26/07 11:42 AM, thus spake "dano" <danowell.com>:

> how to mate and match sound and video like
> Ethan Schoonover does in his Kinkless screencasts

I don't know how Ethan does it, but I know how I do it. I use Keynote to
make my screencasts. Few people are aware of it, but Keynote is a *terrific*
way to make movies. You can export a Keynote slideshow as a movie. If a
slide contains a movie, then when that slide is reached, the movie plays. If
a slide contains a sound, then when that slide is reached, the sound plays.
Thus you can create a movie made up of a series of movies, possibly
interspersed with "still" images (slides without any movie). The sound can
either be recorded as you make the movie, as part of the movie, or recorded
separately and added to the slide. The advantage of the latter is that you
can edit the movie and the sound separately. m.

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Ethan here. I am pretty low effort, low tech about it. I literally just use SnapzPro X's internal audio recording feature to capture audio that is being hijacked by Audio Hijack Pro. I do have a decent microphone but I can't always use it on the road.

My big secret: multiple takes. I usually do a dry run and then one or two (or three or four) takes... But it's all live. For the "titles" that appear in some of the videos I usually just throw together an omnigraffle canvas or keynote slide that I hide after I've used it. There are better ways but I'm lazy... I do want to elevate the production quality on my vids in time.

At 2:05 PM -0700 6/27/07, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>On or about 6/26/07 11:42 AM, thus spake "dano" <danowell.com>:
>
>> how to mate and match sound and video like
> > Ethan Schoonover does in his Kinkless screencasts
>
>I don't know how Ethan does it, but I know how I do it. I use Keynote to
>make my screencasts. Few people are aware of it, but Keynote is a *terrific*
>way to make movies. You can export a Keynote slideshow as a movie. If a
>slide contains a movie, then when that slide is reached, the movie plays. If
>a slide contains a sound, then when that slide is reached, the sound plays.
>Thus you can create a movie made up of a series of movies, possibly
>interspersed with "still" images (slides without any movie). The sound can
>either be recorded as you make the movie, as part of the movie, or recorded
>separately and added to the slide. The advantage of the latter is that you
>can edit the movie and the sound separately.

I haven't got Keynote 3 yet - still working with 2 and its movie
export wasn't quite adequate when I tested it. But this sounds like a
good-enough reason to go to 3. And thanks for the tips on embedding
movies into movies.


At 7:29 AM -0700 6/29/07, Ethan wrote:
>Ethan here. I am pretty low effort, low tech about it. I literally
>just use SnapzPro X's internal audio recording feature to capture
>audio that is being hijacked by Audio Hijack Pro. I do have a decent
>microphone but I can't always use it on the road.

Ah - *that* is the secret! I read on the blog that you use SPX and
AHP, but I couldn't figure out how you got the hijacked audio into
SPX.

>My big secret: multiple takes. I usually do a dry run and then one
>or two (or three or four) takes... But it's all live. For the
>"titles" that appear in some of the videos I usually just throw
>together an omnigraffle canvas or keynote slide that I hide after
>I've used it. There are better ways but I'm lazy... I do want to
>elevate the production quality on my vids in time.

These are easy to pull together.

What I - and probably others - are looking for is something that is
not quick and dirty, but quick and with pretty good production
values. I don't mind rehearsing several times, but I want good audio
synced with the video.


Thanks to both Matt and Ethan.