Saturday, May 17

Smartboard & Camtasia


A couple days ago I had a group of guys want to use the Smartboard in Studio 2, but also wanted to record their screen as they drew on it. On Windows there is an application called Camtasia which allows the screen to be captured, but the problem was that only the monitor was being recorded and not the Smartboard. In order to fix this I was able to change which display that was being use, so the Smartboard would be the main Windows Desktop screen with the Smartboard application running, and boom it worked out smoothly. Then a couple minutes later they came back asking if there was a way to get better precision on the screen. If you click on the Smartboard setting there is a option that allows you to recalibrate the board through clicking on certain areas shown on the Smartboard.


Key Points

  • Windows studio has Camtasia to do Screen capture videos
  • Smartboard actions can be recorded through Camtasia
  • Calibration setting allows for better precision if the drawing is a little off.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for writing this explanation. The request from the group is a good use for the Smartboard.

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