With all this embedding of one interaction within another, things can quickly get confusing but not necessarily so. A recent post I did looked at embedding a Camtasia quiz within Engage, and another post looked at embedding Camtasia in Presenter.
But what if you want to embed your ‘Camtasia in Engage’ into Presenter? This post looks at how you do this. As you’ll see, the procedure is similar and pretty straightforward. The only thing that changes is the location of the files. First let’s have a look at what we are trying to achieve:
This demo was made with Camtasia 5.1 embedded in Engage which was in turn published to Presenter.
How do you do it?
1 Create your Camtasia production and publish in Camtasia avoiding the ExpressShow template format as this conflicts with Articulate Presenter. I chose Custom Production Settings -> Adobe Flash output ->Template: One video and Theme: Onyx. In Flash options, I chose FLV and a rate of 300 kps and quite low quality for this demo. I also took off the loader and the about box in the Controls tab.
Your published files will look like this:
(Forgive the French. I am working off a French Vista)
2 Create your Engage interaction and use the “Add Media” tool to select the control SWF that is part of the Camtasia project.
3 Publish your Engage interaction to Articulate Presenter.
4 Publish Articulate Presenter once you have finished your other slides.
5 Copy and paste the Camtasia published files (as shown in 1 above) into the published files folder of your Articulate Presenter presentation at the same level as player.html like this:
6 Delete the controller SWF (if you like) and move the FLV file into the player folder so that the top level looks like this:
and your player folder looks like this inside:
And you’re done. Don’t publish your presentation again in Articulate Presenter. Just double-click the player.html file in the root of your Articulate Presenter presentation and you should see what you were after.
My next ‘Camtasia post’ will look at the other way (Method 2) of inserting Camtasia directly into Presenter without going through Engage.
In order to record video clips with audio using Camtasia, you need to use a patch cable. Here are the instructions in case anyone needs them:
http://siliconloop.blogspot.com/2008/05/use-camtasia-to-record-dvd-and-video.html
Dave, an entirely brilliant article that should answer my problem precisely, and perfect in every way except for your entreaty at the end of the point 1 to “Forgive the French.” Rest assured that for allowing us to raid their glorious Alps each winter and export their booze I consider them entirely blameless anyway.
Nice new look on the site too!
Thank you Dan! Nice comment :)
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