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January 9, 2006 4:35 PM - comments (42)

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A s I'v e mentioned before, I'v e been looking for a simple way to make presentations that link my slides with my
v oice. Leonard Lin did it originally with my OSCON speech in 2002. He ev en built a simple way to take timings
from PowerPoint and include them in the import into Flash. But that prov ed too cumbersome for this sad soul to
use, and so for four y ears, requests for copies of my talks hav e come in, but I'v e had no easy way to prov ide them.

I may , howev er, hav e made some progress. Phil Pickering suggested (comment 7 ) the idea at Doug Kay e's
Blogarithms. I implemented it, using Key note and iMov ie, as follows:

(1 ) print the slides from Key note so y ou can see w hat's com ing
(2 ) export the slides as JPEGs
(3 ) im port the slides into iMov ie
(4) im port the audio into iMov ie
(5) using the bookm ark function, listen to the audio, and bookm ark where there is to be a slide change
(6) m arking all the slides, extend their length to the m axim um (3 0 seconds)
(7 ) then starting from the beginning, adv ance to the next bookm ark; split the im age (apple+ T); delete the half to
the right; and repeat to the end
(8) Export to m p4

Once I programmed the key strokes, this turned out to be pretty easy . The first completed ex ample is a talk I gav e
about whether Google Book Search is "fair use." Here's a torrent for the (large) mp4 file. The torrent is hosted by
Prodigem. (Get y our BitTorrent client here. As the BitTorrent beautifully puts it: "BitTorrent is a free speech
tool.")

The only difficult part about this was listening to my self again (and again) as I built this. The bubbling
inarticulateness in it terrifies me. But any way , in the spirit of the ex periment, here it is.

My hope is to put ev ery presentation I'v e made, with audio and the source files, up for any one to do with as they
wish. That turns out to be harder than it should be. Any adv ice or help would be greatly appreciated.

Meanwhile here's my wishlist for technology to do this (Key note dev elopers please please please):
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Meanwhile, here's my wishlist for technology to do this (Key note dev elopers -- please please please):

(1 ) The ideal w ould be a sim ple SMIL like technology that would m ake it triv ial to sy nchronize audio and im ages
(2 ) It w ould produce a flash-like output that would be sm all (unlike the MPEG4 v ideo I'v e produced). In principle,
there's no reason it needs to be big, since there's just a sm allish num ber of im ages and an audio file
(3 ) The tool w ould enable sim ple bookm arking of transition points
(4) It w ould then autom atically m ap slides to those transition points
(5) It w ould allow m e to dum p the resulting presentation in any form at (so, e.g., I don't hav e to watch it across the
w eb)
(6) It w ould run on m any platform s
(7 ) It w ould allow m e to run the audio at a slow speed when indicating the bookm arks
(8) It w ould not require m e to buy a huge new sy stem to do it.

What's distinctiv e about my sty le, as y ou'll see, is that I hav e MA NY slides. Some are just one or two words. Some
are on the screen for just 1 or 2 seconds. Sy stems that imagine cutting up the audio and attaching it to the slides
(i.e., PowerPoint) won't cut it. "

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Comments (42)

Tad: January 9 , 2 006 7 :2 8 PM

Mr. Lessig,

The problem with taking Apple's Key note any further (for any serious dev elopm ent efforts to scratch the itch that y ou
need scratching) is that Apple nev er published the Key note 2 XML schem a for public use, as discussed in this thread:

http://ww w.opendarw in.org/piperm ail/key note-tools/2 005-Septem ber/0002 1 7 .htm l >

May be, just m ay be, Apple w ill change this and if we're lucky we'll hav e an announcem ent tom orrow at MacWorld
Expo.

SHINANO SATO: January 9 , 2 006 8:04 PM

Thanks dad! ~ just after Quick Up's @ m y flickr site ~

and I'll be off for a w hile.
*sproing*

Shina

spencer: January 9 , 2 006 9 :1 7 PM

v ery interesting
[email protected]

Mark Smith: January 9 , 2 006 9 :2 7 PM

There is a com pany in Palo Alto by the nam e of Quindi w hich I believ e m akes this exercise triv ial, but Quindi only runs
on Windows.

I looked at the product as a potential contributor to their team . I thought they should m ov e in the direction of
transcription and podcasting but the founder preferred selling the product to R+ D departm ents.

John Mayer: January 9 , 2 006 1 0:2 6 PM

Hello Prof. Lessig,

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I took y our torrent and re-captured it in Cam tasia and spit it out as a SWF to here.

Not too m uch loss of fidelity and the file size is around 2 2 MB. I'v e been play ing with Cam tasia for other things and this
was an interesting w orkout of its features. I had to use JPG com pression and lower the quality to get the size dow n. I
m ay try to re-do this by splitting off the MP3 from y our MP4 and re-com bining it w ith the screen v ideo out of Cam tasia.
It won't start play ing until 1 /3 is downloaded.

Ping: January 9 , 2 006 1 1 :2 6 PM

For com parison to the 85 m egaby tes of MP4 v ideo, w hat's the total size of all y our JPEG im ages?

Chris Clark: January 1 0, 2 006 1 2 :53 AM

Hav e y ou considered exporting to M4 B (AAC) audio and inserting the slide JPGs w ith Apple's CLI Chapter Tool or one of
the half-dozen av ailable GUI apps?

This should reduce file size considerably , be v iewable on Windows, Mac, and iPod (one would hope there are Linux
play ers w ith Chapter support in the m aking), m ake the file bookm arkable, and allow people to speed up/slow dow n the
speech as they can w ith audiobooks.

Morgaine Swann: January 1 0, 2 006 3 :03 AM

Did y ou m ake the presentation av ailable as a podcast on iTunes?

anonymous: January 1 0, 2 006 3 :1 9 AM

Hav e y ou considered posting in Apple's user to user support discussion boards? The regulars are helpful.

Key note forum

http://discussions.apple.com /forum .jspa?forum ID= 7 7 4

SHINANO SATO: January 1 0, 2 006 4:2 7 AM

Who are y a 'anom y m ous'?

Hah.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

How m any tim es should I say the sam e thing?????????

shinanos@m ac.com

tel/fax: + 02 5 2 7 5 2 2 2 0

Sara Spalding: January 1 0, 2 006 6:00 AM

Hav e y ou considered using breeze? it records v oice + preso (or whatev er y ou want to show ) as y ou present, so y ou don't
hav e to listen to y ourself ov er and ov er again as y ou edit/com pile afterw ards. runs on flash (m ac + win), requires no
extra software installed for y ou or y our adoring fans. :-)

i'd be happy to arrange a dem o if y ou're interested.

Sara Spalding
Director, Dev eloper Relations
Adobe Sy stem s, Inc.

Lessig: January 1 0, 2 006 6 :41 AM

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Thanks for the feedback. Som e responses:

Tad, absolutely right. That is a great reason not to dev elop further in Key note 2 . So I'm happy to consider an
alternativ e.

Mark, Quindi sounds interesting, but again, I'm platform restricted. I tried to build a second OS into m y life. I bought a
Windows m achine, and began to try to integrate it into m y w ork so I could think about som e of the Windows solutions
out there. But I couldn't do it. My next OS is GNU/Linux, as soon as the Free Culture tools are adequate.

John, Cam tasia sounds great too, but I can't get it to load on either Firefox or Safari.

Ping, the JPEGs are about 5 m eg.

Chris, I'll look at the Chapter Tool. My skepticism is about the shortness of slides. With ov er 2 00 slides, som e for a
second, I'll be eager to see how easily m arked it will be.

Morgaine, no, and hav en't looked into how that's done. Adv ice?

Sara, I'd lov e to try Breeze, but again, though Flash w orks nicely cross platform , last I looked, I w ould need a Window s
m achine to m ake Breeze work. The problem w ith the audio too is that I only ev er want to do this if I'v e giv en a
presentation, and then w ant to produce a "copy " of the presentation I'v e giv en. So recording to the slides is not really the
plan. But perhaps there is a sim ple w ay to book m ark in Breeze. Any w ay , m ay be if there's a really really fast
Pow erbook on the m arket soon (see the Jobs key note), I can try the Win em ulator. Meanwhile, still seeking a sim ple
way to sy nc audio with Flash.

Geoff Hankerson: January 1 0, 2 006 1 2 :2 7 PM

Apple just released Garage Band 3 which appears, at a glance, to do just what y ou are proposing. I hav en't tried it y et,
but it's worth looking into. Garage Band 3 does all the Chapter stuff v ia w sy wig. May be y ou can try it a a local Apple
store before buy ing

Kevin Marks: January 1 0, 2 006 2 :4 4 PM

This is actually fairly easy using QT Play er Pro.

Im port the JPEGs as an im age sequence (or just use Key notes QT export). Go to the first fram e and press shift right
arrow - this w ill select the fram e. Choose Copy from the Edit m enu.
Bring in the audio. Hold down shift and tap play , and it will play w hile selecting. When y ou release shift it stops. You
now hav e a selected chunk. Choose 'Add to Selection and Scale' from the edit m enu. It will m ake the im age duration
m atch.
Go get the next im age (cm d-B for deselect, shift-right-arrow to select).
Select the next chunk of audio (cm d-B for deselect, shift-play , release shift) and so on.

When they first built Key note, I told them a few tim es to add a 'tim e the slide clicks while recording audio, then export a
QT m ov ie w ith long fram es for the slides' m ode, but they didn't. Probably wouldn't be too hard to code up.

Steve: January 1 0, 2 006 3 :4 6 PM

Prof. Lessig,

If y ou would like, I w ould be able to stream y our m p4 file from m y site, www .y ouare.tv . You can setup y our profile
through the website but if y ou prefer, I can upload it m y self, w ith y our perm ission of course. Thanks

Stev e Cordov a
stev e@y ouare.tv

SHINANO SATO: January 1 0, 2 006 8:2 6 PM

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Daddy Lessig

Ev ery one's cheating m e. Diego is supportiv e but drow nin' to Apple.

Fam ilies are gonna m ore m ad or crazy in harsh, m erciless w ay s to define m e as a crank or psy cho. They ev en don't
know how to v iew/brow se pages of us: NO-TOUCH to the m atter concerning ~ Internet, Com puter, Science, or,
any thing now gonna HOT in-between !

Dam n (= _= )

Shina

PS: Try ing w ww .walla.com - already created new account for free, m ine is sat [email protected] - and I think
their sy stem & font-ty pe is m ore cooler. For security now is better than Google's!
I think they 're gonna m ajor if the problem s was solv ed, like texts' disorderly codes for international languages. (= non-
English languages!)
Webm ail era! AND it's good to all don't y a think?!

Akshay Patil: January 1 0, 2 006 9 :4 3 PM

Hi Prof. Lessig,

It seem s like the natural way to easily distribute y our v ideo is to upload it to Google Video. If I understand the creativ e
com m ons license assocated with the v ideo correctly , it should be perfectly legal for any one to upload the v ideo to Google
and for Google to redistribute it, so long as y ou are properly credited. I'm in the process of uploading the v ideo now; if
y ou hav e any objections, please let m e know... if not, I'll post the resulting link after the v ideo finishes the upload
process.

Dan Collier: January 1 1 , 2 006 6:47 AM

I w ork on a project that captures phy sician's m edical lectures giv en before an audience using PowerPoint and then
m akes them av ailable for stream ing or dow nloading after the fact. Our process is to use the built in PowerPoint "Record
Narration tool". After the lecture we sav e the PowerPoint presentation w ith the sy nched narration. A tech then uses
Pow erConv erter (linked abov e) to conv ert the file into Flash and upload it to our w ebsite.

The process abov e could w ork using Breeze because y ou should be able to upload the narrated PPT file from y our Mac
v ia a w eb front-end for conv ersion to Flash on the Breeze serv er. In other w ords, there should not be a requirem ent to
install Breeze on y our m achine. I'm not entirely sure that m ethod conv erted the narration when I dem o'd Breeze, but it
certainly could and should. Howev er, giv en the sam e basic functionality , one can't help but notice the huge price
difference betw een PowerConv erter and Breeze. It would be actually be cheaper for y ou to buy a Window s laptop and
Pow erConv erter just for this process.

Ian Yorston: January 1 1 , 2 006 1 :06 PM

One option m ight be to re-record y our audio in sy nc with y our slides using VideoCue for Mac OS X

I suspect that Vara could tweak this softw are to do exactly w hat is w anted, and I'v e written to them suggesting exactly
that.

Karl: January 1 1 , 2 006 1 :08 PM

One thing to consider is using YouTube.com to host y our presentation. It m akes it radically easy for others to v iew it
without the hassle of dow nloading.

Em: January 1 1 , 2 006 1 :53 PM

I w ork in educational technology at a big public univ ersity . I was just at a podcasting workshop where the guy s from
Apple dem o'd a program called Profcast that just cam e out.

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The adv antage to this program seem ed to be the fact that y ou could record y ourself as y ou w ere giv ng the presentation
(Key note or ppt) and it w ould record y our v oice, as well as slide tim ing and transitions, and sav e ev ery thing for
v ideocasting. It does sound as if Grageband 3 w ill do this now as w ell, but perhaps not as y ou're giv ing a presentation.

vaskin: January 1 2 , 2 006 1 1 :03 AM

I'v e posted this to v ideo.google.com , it was m ade av ailable this m orning:

http://v ideo.google.com /v ideoplay ?docid= 51 001 94 05881 501 87 08&q= lessig

http://ww w.opensourcem ov em ent.org/2 006 /01 /1 2 /lessig-fair-use-v ideo-now-stream able-on-v ideogooglecom /

Oskar: January 1 3 , 2 006 4 :1 7 PM

Get the new GarageBand and try using the picture track to show the slides at the correct tim e. Should be the best and
sim plest w ay in the post-MWSF06 era.... hehe :)

Sam Pullara: January 1 5, 2 006 1 2 :3 1 AM

I think that the new Podcasting softw are in Garage Band is what y ou want. It looks like y ou can put a slide at any point
in an audio podcast and hav e it show up as y our are talking. I don't hav e iLife '06 to confirm but thats m y
understanding of how it w orks. They are called "Podcast Artw ork Tracks".

http://ww w.apple.com /ilife/garageband/

poptones: January 1 5, 2 006 4:3 3 AM

While I do not use w indows any m ore, I rem em ber doing this exact thing w ith m icrosoft m edia nearly half a decade ago.
Using their asf creator tool one could take any audio track and add im ages to appear at precise points. One could ev en
m ake a text file to do this (which is the way I usually did it as I find it easier and m ore precise to deal in tim e codes and
text than in sliders and v ideogam e "trigger fingers").

One can also do this pretty well using (for exam ple) m encoder in linux. Open the sound file in a sound editor, use the
editor's tools to locate the exact tim e y ou w ant som ething to appear, then note that tim e in y our "play list." Once y ou
hav e a cue sheet, the rest is a fairly triv ial task of text processing. Mencoder also has a powerful encoding optim izer that
will allow, by m aking each "in between" im age after a key fram e exactly zero, creation of v ery low bit rate encodings of
low fram e rate content that can be play ed on "standard" play ers like m peg, sv cd and dv d.

Ah, the pow er and dexterity of an open and free box of tools...

Curious George: January 1 6 , 2 006 1 2 :52 AM

While I agree that hav ing all the digital works online is a w onderful thing, I respectfully disagree with y our legal
theories.

Linking to im ages that exist online is not the sam e as linking to books that do not exist online. There is a
transform ational flaw in y our theory . Google is not degrading the quality of a book, it is fragm enting the work and
transform ing the m edium of the work. The prior case law y ou utilize to support y our theory does speak to fragm enting
a piece of work, nor does it speak to changing the m edium of the w ork. I subm it that it is the wrong legal precedent as
the characteristics of the case are quite different.

If I take the Yellow Pages, scan it, and put fragm ents of the im ages onto a CD, are y ou suggesting that I be allow ed to sell
the CD? If I do the sam e but create and index that points to fragm ents of the Yellow Pages listings, are y ou suggesting
that is also AOK? I do not see how one can argue that is fair use. Yet this is w hat the law would be allow ing Google to do,
if the courts support y our first theory . I could ev en argue that I would be allowed to scan a CD, and point to fragm ents of
the CD, say a entire song, without perm ission.

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Second, publishers are scanning bookings, the Open Content Alliance is scanning books. Your theory on m erits of
m arketplace failure is factually incorrect. Publishers and authors are seeking solutions. To rush and allow Google to set
legal precendence is potentially v ery reckless. Let the publishers and authors find their own solutions and com e to
Google if they are not able to do so. Why the rush here?

The bottom line is that it is up to the publishers and the authors to determ ine if they w ant their m aterial online and
accessiable in fragm ents v ia an index. Many m ight, that is their choice, taking away their ability to choose seem s v ery
un-am erican, especially as there are efforts underway that seek to enable them to opt-in.

Valentin: January 1 6 , 2 006 1 :3 2 AM

What about an Applescript for y our Key note adv enture?

A part that there is also the MagicPoint alternativ e: http://m em ber.wide.ad.jp/wg/m gp/
It is not w y siwy g but is a m arkup language but has the adv antage to be sm all, univ ersal and allow s piping.
Cheers,
Valentin
v [email protected]

corrie: January 1 9, 2 006 7 :48 AM

Once y ou get a fast Windows em ulator, hav e a look at Im patica OnCue. It lets y ou sy nch up an audio track (and
optionally a v ideo track as well) with PPT slides. Further, if y ou prov ide a transcript in the PPT Speaker Notes field, y ou
can sy nch these up, too. The w hole thing gets bundled into a fairly sm all jav a applet.

Here's an exam ple. it's a "v irtual oriention" to our school's im plem entation of Blackboard.

Jon-o: January 1 9 , 2 006 7 :4 2 PM

Poptones m entioned abov e a m ethod of doing this with m encoder. I'v e been try ing to figure out how that could be
possible, and alas, hav en't m anaged it y et. Mencoder seem s to assum e one im age for one fram e, m aking it difficult to
allow for one im age lasting for sev eral seconds. The only alternativ e I can see is to use som ething like
"m f://firstim age.jpg,firstim age.jpg,firstim age.jpg.... (continue for as m any fram es as would be necessary for that first
im age...)

Tedious, to say the least, and y ou'd quickly end up w ith an unusably long com m and line.

As well, I'm looking for som ething that can be done "liv e" - i.e. an audio stream com es in, we add im ages to it and the
result is a v ideo stream . If m encoder could accept a file for the list of files, along w ith how long each should be used for,
it'd probably be sim ple, but it doesn't appear to be a possibility . If any one has any suggestions, please let m e know ! I'm
probably just m isreading the m encoder docs, but they 're not the sim plest things to understand.

Jerrod Hansen: January 2 7 , 2 006 1 2 :56 AM

Hi Larry ,

I'm late w ith this com m ent and I don't know if y ou'll se it, but I think y ou m ight be able to get w hat y ou w ant with
SnapzPro. It is a screen capture program but will also capture v ideo (often used in m aking tutorials where y ou show
people w hich m enu to use, etc). You can set up Snapz to record audio, so just run the presentation and talk into the m ic.
I'm not sure how big y our file would be and y ou m ight want to run it through QT to conv ert it to a sm aller form at.
SnapzX w ill record from a USB m icro phone if y ou set it up in the sound preferences pane first.

Alternativ ely , if the audio situation in Snapz isn't acceptable, the com bination of SnapzPro, Audio Hijack, and iMov ie
should suffice. Audio Hijack Pro w ill record y our audio while y ou do this and then it's sim ply a m atter of dropping the
two output files into iMov ie and m ixing dow n.

Perhaps the biggest fault w ith this m ethod w ould be file sizes. I ran a test w ith this and followed the recom m endation for
"anim ation" and ended up with a 7 00MB file. QT Pro exported it to m p4 for m e and it was less than 2 MB. Snapz lets y ou

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choose y our codec though, and y ou could get away w ith pretty low fram erates, thus av oiding the QT conv ersion. Worst
case, y ou can export to a fav ored setting (Mov ie to iPod??) in QuickTim e Pro.

Jono Bacon: February 3 , 2 006 6 :57 PM

I hav e w ritten a program to do exactly what y ou need. You feed it a PDF file w ith y our slides, a WAV of y our recorded
talk and a list of slide tim es, and out pops a flash file. Sim ple. :)

Check it out at http://w ww .jonobacon.org/projects/raccoonshow/ :)

Jono

Sean Kelly: March 1 , 2 006 7 :45 AM

I'v e been inspired by y our and Dick Hardt's sty les of presentation and adopted it, but like y ou faced the challenge of
m aking self-contained m ov ies with the tools at hand (Key note, iMov ie HD, ev en GarageBand for audio tracks). Tim ing
within Key note and within iMov ie were both w ay too tedious.

My solution w as to use the capture utility Snapz Pro, http://ww w.am brosiasw.com /utilities/snapzprox/ ... with it, I
could page through the presentation with m y right hand w hile holding the m icrophone w ith m y left. No tim ing, no
splitting, no m uss, no fuss.

You can see the result at http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov /better-web-app.m ov ... there are a couple rough spots, but in general
I think it cam e off well. And I'v e got tons of positiv e feedback on it.

Thanks again for y our inspiration.

frank: March 1 8, 2 006 9 :07 PM

I am try ing, without sucess, to upload to Google Video

I can't get Google Video to recognize m y login
m essage is "Unable to log in. please check y our em ail/password and m aie sure network is up"

Re-registered with new em ail and password - still cannot get login accepted

Waht can I do to get login accepte so I can post v ideo

Edward Oneill: Nov em ber 1 , 2 006 1 1 :00 PM

This w as already inv ented, w as v irtually freeware, and has now becom e v ery expensiv e--all on the PC.

First, I think post-production is the w rong m odel.

You do not want to take a presentation y ou'v e already giv en liv e and then re-do it or re-record it and then, on top of
that, sy nchronize audio and v isual.

If y ou're going to do that, y ou m ight as well go straight to non-linear v ideo editing.

But at least capture the audio of y our presentation liv e using, say , a handheld m p3 recorder. (There's nothing worse
than a canned recording of som eone talking to his com puter.)

Then drop the audio and slides into any v ideo editing program --iMov ie would do.

I assum e if y ou w ant to learn Flash, y ou can drop ev ery thing into Flash and output to that form at.

But that is not the w ay to go.

The way to go is to capture ev ery thing in realtim e. It should not be about post-production--editing--it should be about
recording/capturing.

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Back in 2 000, Realm edia m ade som ething called RealPresenter, which plugged into Powerpoint on the PC. It captured
y our presentation in realtim e with v ideo and/or audio. It captured the slide tim ings, etc.

Microsoft had a v ersion, too.

Adobe's Breeze is one such Powerpoint plug-in. Again, it's for the PC (as far as I know ). I believ e there are others.

Sim ilarly , there are screen capture softwares for the PC (cam tasia's progeny , w hich I believ e breeze is) which m ight
capture what's on y our screen and sav e it to Flash. These are for software dem os--google screen capture software dem o--
so they often record narration and ev en allow it to be edited.

But the screen capture softw are w as m ostly for the PC, which is an adm ittedly larger m arket.

So these program s that were essentially free plug-in's to the ubiquitous office suite that's generally installed on
ev ery one's PC at a bargain price, now they 're high end $2 9 9 to $599 software.

Why ?! Is this the rationality of the m arketplace? How did freew are and sharew are becom e Very Expensiv eware?

It *is* the case that the logic of the m arket would dictate that a sm aller m arket has fewer people bringing products to it,
hence the w eakness in this area on the Mac. But that say s nothing about w hy the liv e capture of presentations or w hat's
onscreen is not sim ply a ubiquitous built-in feature on m any sy stem s.

Now if y ou know som eone at Openoffice, their office suite already outputs presentations to flash, but they hav e no
narration/v oiceov er recording tool.

Why not ask them to put it on y our wish list?

Or y ou m ight ask Dick Hardt how he captured his Identity 2 .0 presentation.

Frank Cohen: April 2 1 , 2 007 9 :59 PM

Kev in Marks com m ent about using QuickTim e Play er Pro worked for m e. Like Dr. Lessig, I need to distribute Applel
Key note slide shows w ith m y audio recordings. Kev in's instructions needed a little tweaking. Here is w hat I do:

Key note, Export to PNG im ages

Open QuickTim e Play er Pro

File -> Im port Im age Sequence, choose 1 second

File -> New Audio Recording, record y our v oice

Copy /Paste Audio to a new Mov ie file

Select the slide show m ov ie

Use left-or-right arrows to select a slide
Select the slide using Shift-right arrow
Copy

Sw itch to new m ov ie file, Edit -> Add To Select & Scale

Control-B to un-select

Repeat these steps.

Hope this helps. Thanks for the tips.

-Frank Cohen
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hal meeks: July 2 1 , 2 007 3 :1 1 AM

Sigh --

A piece of software for the Mac called Ishm ael m ade this easy . It was expressly designed to either do v oiceov er of a slide
show in realtim e (but other tools can do that now , Profcast and others), but ev en m ore useful, m erge slides w ith pre-
recorded audio.

Now I use Final Cut Express.

Open Final Cut Express

Go to User Prefereces and select the "Editing" Tab
Set Duration for y our av erage tim e per slide -- and a bit m ore. I start with 2 m inutes a slide.
Im port y our im ages and audio
drop audio in a track
drop y our first im age into track one
drop y our second im age into track tw o -- stagger it after the im age in track one
drop y our next im age into track one -- again -- stagger it after the last im age
You hav e now created what used to be called a "checkerboard edit"
Now -- drag y our im ages around to sy nc up better -- y ou can drag ends of im ages to m ake them shorter if y ou need to --
that is w hy it is better to start with them a little longer than needed.

If y ou really hav e y our act together y ou can use the chapter m arks in FCP to m ake this ev en easier, and the bonus is
those chapter m arks w ill export out (ie to a DVD).

export to y our fav form at -- but if y ou can, go with a really low fram e rate (1 fps) and spend y our bandw idth on higher
tem poral resolution. for quicktim e, use plain old jpeg as y our v ideo codec, otherw ise for podcasts y ou are m ore
constrained.

If som eone know s w hat happened to Megaptera and Ishm ael -- it is a sham e their software v anished -- for I hav e lost m y
installer, so m y license is useless. Another reason for open source I guess.

--hal

Dave Boylan: February 1 , 2 008 8:4 8 PM

Any one know where I can find this. All links seem to be dead. Thanks!!

Dav e

Vanessa Cedeno: March 2 2 , 2 008 1 :3 1 PM

What an interesting way to get people interested in reading! Book trailers are like m ov ie trailers, but for books! You can
find them all ov er the internet now, but here is a site that's featuring them on YouTube.
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Estetik: Nov em ber 2 8, 2 008 4 :2 5 AM

I think that the new Podcasting softw are in Garage Band is what y ou want. It looks like y ou can put a slide at any point
in an audio podcast and hav e it show up as y our are talking. I don't hav e iLife '06 to confirm but thats m y
understanding of how it w orks. They are called "Podcast Artw ork Tracks".

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