Creating a Video

If you have been asked to create a video, including a pre-recorded presentation, for assessment this will be submitted via Moodle. The instruction for how to do this are given in the Video Assignment guidance. The purpose of this guide is to provide you with a range of resources to help you create and edit the required video.

You MAY find the easiest way to create video content is through the Echo360 Mobile Apps. Specifically, the Mobile Apps allow you to Upload a video from your phone or tablet into your content library.

Once you have a video in your library, you can follow these instructions to submit to an assignment from your library

Guidance on using my Lecturecast Library

In order to use the Echo360 (Lecturecast Mobile Application you must have accessed the Lecturecast system via a link on your Moodle course.

However, you may also wish to create video in an alternative way. Below is a curated list of recommended tools and guidance. Although it is possible to create a narrated presentation using PowerPoint or Keynote, this is generally not recommended as it tends to create very large files. We have however, included guidance on how to do this, if this is what you are most comfortable.

Recommend tools

Video Editing

Android: Timbre
Apple (iPhone/iPad/Mac): iMovie

Audio editing

Windows, Mac and Linux: Audacity

Presentation software

Windows and Mac: Microsoft PowerPoint
Mac: Keynote

Screen capture and narration

BB Flashback Express (Desktop@UCL Anywhere, Windows)

Recommended guidance

Creating a narrated presentation

PowerPoint: Recording and Narrating a slideshow (LinkedIn Learning)
Keynote: Record a slideshow (Keynote 7) (LinkedIn Learning)

This video (11 minutes) shows you how to take an existing PowerPoint presentation and record an audio narration on each slide. This can then be exported as a video file, which can be imported into Moodle, Lecturecast or Media Central.

This video has captions and a transcript.

Making a video or audio recording

Starting your podcast: A guide for students (BBC, some useful links and guidance)
How to film a perfect video with Saima (BBC Own IT)

Compressing a video

This video (7 minutes) demonstrates how to compress video files using the open-source software Handbrake. This can be used with all videos, but is particularly useful where making narrated PowerPoint videos (see above) produces large file sizes. Such videos can often be compressed to around a quarter of their original size with minimal loss of quality.

Captions and a transcript will follow shortly.