Solved Need video recording software for Fedora
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@Pete-S said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
Video is a lot of work. If you want the end result looking remotely professional, don't record on a webcam.
I record via a Lumix Z300. Love it. Doing a ton with it in Europe right now.
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@scottalanmiller said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
@Pete-S said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
Video is a lot of work. If you want the end result looking remotely professional, don't record on a webcam.
I record via a Lumix Z300. Love it. Doing a ton with it in Europe right now.
I'm not surprised. That's a Panasonic and they make good video gear.
The problem with webcams are that they are made for a specific purpose and because of that they have an ultra wide lens. At webcam distance it will cause perspective distortion of the face.
A professional would never place a camera as close as a webcam and would instead shoot with a narrower focal length further away to get the same framing. The end result will look much better - even if a camera with webcam image quality was used.
This is what perspective distortion looks like:
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For what it's worth, I used common logitech webcam (C920's to be precise) and our production usage looked amazing.
Not once was there a complaint of "The trainer looks distorted".
I get the case, but are we looking for the solution to spend money on, or to get a quick and dirty training video or two made?
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@JaredBusch I know you said it'll be a few days before you get to look into this so here are some things you'll want to plan out.
- How many scenes do you want for any given training?
- On these scenes, how many sources do you want visible?
- Do you want to be able to transition from being on screen to off screen? (presumably yes so you aren't covering some portion of the software you're training on).
- Do you want any special effects between transitioning scenes? Fade, sparkles etc etc.
- Can you easily support Chroma Keys (floating head) Behr Sparking Apple (green) works amazing for cheap green screen on a flat wall. It's super easy to light and fills evenly for a good uniform Chroma Key to cut out.
- Do you ever want to take up the entire screen?
- Do you want some sort of custom overlay or banner/branding on any of these videos (easily doable but you'll need to create it and understand where it'll be positioned.
When creating new scenes, make sure you copy your existing sources, this makes it stupidly simple to have a uniform appearance between scene transitions (Full application > full application with Jared Chroma Keyed in the corner with a Bundy Associates Banner running along the bottom). ETC ETC ETC
Also worth doing is just copying the entire scene, and hiding the sources you don't need. This way if you always want to be on the screen, besides when you want to pick your nose. There is no step or hassling with getting the scenes to be identical. (Transitioning from Jared on screen in front of an Application to Jared being on screen in front of the web browser)
Edit 3: Hot keys will be your friend as well, so you can easily transition from on screen, to off, from 1 application to another.
Assuming you aren't going to be live streaming these (you could if you wanted) you'll want to put as much production limiting in as possible. IE create all of your transitions while recording with Hotkeys so you don't have to create those transitions in Post.
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https://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/
Love it, the latency and recording and output file are amazing, small size, great quality.
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@JaredBusch did you ever get to look at this?
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@DustinB3403 said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
@JaredBusch did you ever get to look at this?
I was out of state on site all week. Just back into the office today and needing to play catch up.
Will be in St. Louis 2 days next week. But one of the topics of those meetings will be the videos we want to start producing.
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@JaredBusch said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
@DustinB3403 said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
@JaredBusch did you ever get to look at this?
I was out of state on site all week. Just back into the office today and needing to play catch up.
Will be in St. Louis 2 days next week. But one of the topics of those meetings will be the videos we want to start producing.
time to play catch up
Take a look at this post for things to consider.
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@DustinB3403 said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
@JaredBusch said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
@DustinB3403 said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
@JaredBusch did you ever get to look at this?
I was out of state on site all week. Just back into the office today and needing to play catch up.
Will be in St. Louis 2 days next week. But one of the topics of those meetings will be the videos we want to start producing.
time to play catch up
Take a look at this post for things to consider.
Yes, I read that and noted it for follow up. Thanks for the info
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What about those open-source game streaming software. Those seem real good when I checked them out, forget the names though.
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@Obsolesce said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
What about those open-source game streaming software. Those seem real good when I checked them out, forget the names though.
I'm not looking to stream. But this can do that also.
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@Obsolesce said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
What about those open-source game streaming software. Those seem real good when I checked them out, forget the names though.
OBS-Studio is what pretty much everyone uses.
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@JaredBusch said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
@Obsolesce said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
What about those open-source game streaming software. Those seem real good when I checked them out, forget the names though.
I'm not looking to stream. But this can do that also.
Yeah my thought behind it was that it seems great for training. When you watch some of those game streamers using that Foss, it's good quality with showing you, your screen, the sound, etc, and I'm sure you don't need to actually stream... I am assuming you could save it or worst case stream it to somewhere that saves it.
Dunno though, just an idea I thought had possible potential , never tried it.
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This is the one I was thinking of
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@Obsolesce said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
This is the one I was thinking of
That is what we have been discussing.
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@JaredBusch said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
@Obsolesce said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
This is the one I was thinking of
That is what we have been discussing.
Ah, totally missed that. My bad.
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@Obsolesce said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
@JaredBusch said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
@Obsolesce said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
This is the one I was thinking of
That is what we have been discussing.
Ah, totally missed that. My bad.
Like a blind man trying to find his shoes. . .
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@JaredBusch whatever came of this, did you get to dig into OBS Studio at all?
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@DustinB3403 said in Need video recording software for Fedora:
@JaredBusch whatever came of this, did you get to dig into OBS Studio at all?
Not yet. I opened it once though!
We did meet with some marketing people and I have spent time reviewing how various others have chosen to design their videos, to work towards a structure for mine.
I never found a better solution when I was searching for software that week. So unless I run into some odd issue with OBS, I expect to use it once I get moving on this project.
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@JaredBusch Very nice.
