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I'm not sure if this is actually recording… oh yes, it is. I can see that I've got a counter
here, on the Quick Time Player control device. Something I wanted to show you… Oh good,
I get to look at my own face staring back at me as it imports this… you see that we're
on this fifth clip, here. One of the things I did at the very beginning in order to get
this screen recording to record the audio, I didn't bring in my good microphone, but,
you see how this is coming up grey right now, because it's already in the middle of recording.
But before I recorded, I clicked on the downward arrow of the Quick Time Control Panel, and
I got this menu to show up. It was automatically on "Microphone None." That is the default.
So what I did was, instead, I click on the "Built-in Microphone Internal Microphone."
Once I had done that I also moved this slider (you can't see the control panel, though I
could when I was recording. There is a volume slider on it). If I turn this all the way
up, and I have left my computer volume up, (horrible feedback sound), so you want to
turn your computer volume down, and I'm assuming that this (the volume slider on the Quick
Time Control Panel that you can't see) and that it's up fairly high. I don't know if
midrange is adequate or if it's getting a good sound quality (It was) because I can't
see it like I could in GarageBand, but I'm experimenting. Hopefully that will be helpful
and will show you what it can do. For this screen recording, I don't have that much farther
to go. You see we are almost finished with the last video I clicked on from Blue Ball
Park to put into that full project. Apparently, I didn't know how to pause QuickTime Player.
So If I click here, notice it changes my menu back up here to QuickTime Player (this is
at the top of the recording, and doesn't show completely). Let's see if there's any kind
of pause. I don't see a pause here. In a screencast that I was watching recently, I know that
he paused it. When I tried to pause this, I ended up stopping it and it completed the
QuickTime Project. Now I would be able to import these screen recordings into iMovie
as well and then edit them, or put titles. I could do the voice over there as opposed
to doing while I'm doing the screen recording, which might get better quality; it might get
worse quality. So, I'm tempted to stop, but I do want you to see what happens when this
finishes uploading this video and I don't know how to pause the QuickTime Player. Let's
see, I think another thing that you could do while you are recording is you could go
into Finder, and I could… actually, I don't need to go into finder, let me see. I think
I have a better way to show that. If I press the command button and the shift button, I
get a search window up here. I'm going to search for Photo Booth. I don't even have
to get the whole word and it came up as my top hit. I'm going to try selecting that,
Okay, this brings me into Photo Booth, so now, I'm double recording my voice, I guess.
I'm recording it with QuickTime Player and I'm also recording it with Photo Booth. What
I can do, is I can actually shrink this window… no, maybe I can't. I'm supposed to have hold
of the corner… I'm having some great difficulty grabbing the corner and shrinking it… Hmmm.
My goal was to shrink it and put this down at the bottom of my screen. I still believe
that I could do that. I'm not being successful. So you get to watch me filming myself, making
mistakes! And, making mistakes is one of the credos of working with technology, so I guess
I'm okay with that! I'm not really okay with having my face be so big… What I was trying
to do was do a screen recording with me videocasting. Now, I keep staring at the computer screen
which makes it so that I don't look like I'm looking at you. I can't tell if I'm looking
at you now, because I'm staring straight at the web camera, but those are going to be
some things for you also to figure out. Okay, now it tells me that my import is complete,
so I'm going to close the Photo Booth window and you're going to go back to just audio
and my beautiful face there behind the menu. So it says Import complete, Imported 4 minutes
and 51 seconds from 5 clips. I'm gonna say OK, and if I were finished, I could just go
ahead and work with that footage in iMovie and I could stop the import. But I'm actually
going to import some other things as a different file. So, I'm gonna look through the other
film clips that are on here and see if there is some organization to that and import them
as certain files. Alright, thank you.