Video & Audio Recording Software

Software: Panopto

Features

• Ability to trim ends of video and middle parts
• Can integrate short quizzes into your videos
• When viewed in Panopto viewer, students can take notes online and navigate between timestamps easily
• Integrates easily with Canvas and built to be optimized
• Personal Panopto account allows you to easily copy videos between courses
• Resources and support on using Panopto
• For student use: Panopto must be enabled by the faculty member before students can use it. Can only use Panopto after faculty have enabled the Assignment Dropbox.
• Panopto captions are done automatically with approximately 75% accuracy, but need to be manually turned on by the creator. Also allows for upload of captions after recording.
• Potential downsides: has its bad days 

Hosting

• Is its own hosting platform, videos recorded in Panopto are automatically uploaded to your Panopto library
• Can download videos from Panopto into video formats (.mp4, .wav)

Access to Software

• Part of Canvas

Software: Adobe Premiere Pro

Features

• Innumerable advanced professional video editing features
• Guides and tutorials on use from Adobe
• Downsides: significant learning curve and system is not always intuitive, takes up significant space on your computer

Hosting

• Is not a hosting platform, requires export to a hosting site
• Can download videos into most formats (.mp4, .wav) or direct to Youtube/Vimeo

Access to Software

• Downloadable as part of the Adobe Suite
• Requires contacting IS to be set up with access to the Adobe Suite to be able to download Adobe Premiere Pro

Software: Powerpoint

Features

• Allows for recording screencapture with audio
• Can add basic video effects, shapes, filters, cropping, trimming the ends, and adjust the volume 
• Embedded in Powerpoint and interacts well with other powerpoint tools
• Can create gifs from your exports
• Learn more about features
• Potential downsides: Doesn't let you edit in the middle of your recording

Hosting

• Not a hosting platform, allows for export to host elsewhere
• Exports to most video formats (.mp4, .wav) as well as Youtube

Access to Software

• Default application and part of the Office365 suit

Software: iMovie

Features

• Title pages, transitions, sound effects, allows editing of separate video and audio streams, allows mixing of video and still images
• Includes higher level of editing capacity than most free/included video software
• Potential downsides: takes longer to learn because there are more features to figure out, not always intuitive

Hosting

• Not a hosting platform, allows for export to host elsewhere
• Exports to Youtube and Vimeo, also exports to most video formats (.mp4, .wav)

Access to Software

• Default software on Mac computers

Software: Quicktime

Features

• Very simple and easy to use.
• Allows for recording just voice, computer camera and audio, or screencast with audio.
• Ability to trim the ends of your video after recording
• Potential downsides: Doesn't let you edit in the middle of your recording

Hosting

• Not a hosting platform, allows for export to host elsewhere
• Exports to most video formats (.mp4, .wav)

Access to Software

• Default application on both PCs and Mac computers

Software: Screencast-o-matic

Features

• Quick, easy to use screen, camera, and audio capture
• Can trim ends of recording
• Can add captions
• Records up to 15 minutes
• Potential downsides: limited editing features, not a great tool if including any student information since hosting site has unclear privacy

Hosting

• Is its own hosting platform, videos are uploaded to your Screencast-o-matic library and all you need to do is share the link

Access to Software

• Free download available from Screencast-o-matic

Software: TechSmith Capture

Features

• Quick, easy to use screen, camera, and audio capture
• Potential downsides: has no editing features, not a great tool if including any student information since hosting site has unclear privacy, not able to include captions

Hosting

• Is its own hosting platform, videos recorded using TechSmith Capture are uploaded to your TechSmith library and all you need to do is share the link

Access to Software

• Free download available from TechSmith

OpenShot Video Editor - OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows. OpenShot is designed to be:

• Easy to use
• Quick to learn
• Surprisingly powerful 
• Easily cut, slice, and edit any video or film