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| I used a very rough quality graphic and my animation voiceneeds some work; however, the link below is for a very rough concept to use Crazy Talk for teaching English as a second language. CT was used in conjunction with Visual Communicator, formerly produced by Serious Magic which was recently purchased by Adobe. The non-CT video portion was done completely at my computer, using a webcam. A virtual background was used. Still in the idea stage!
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| I've been using CrazyTalk in all of my subjects. I'm an online tutor and teach English, but I also take some other teachers' subjects and build for them too. French, Spanish and Japanese. CT is great.
At the moment I am building a Philosophy and Ethics site, I created a Wall of Fame for the Pre-Socratics in Dreamweaver and used the pop-up function to make boxes small enough for a CT head to come up and summarise each philosopher's philsophy.
You mentioned your animation voice. I use a program called MorphVox, really cheap and it alters my voice. I have used friends' voices but sometimes I need a few more and MV adds some humour. As well, it can import background noises into the wave file. I know CT does that too, but this is a little quicker and I've built up a cache of them. Great for doing 'on the spot' reporter heads. It also has a function that adds strange effects to your voice. With an underground background and a 'watery' voice I can narrate 'Finding Nemo'.
I also used Camtasia to screencord. I was using the David painting 'The Death of Socrates' and I can vid Socrates talking and then one of the others. I use CT to create the dialogue. I am doing the same with a few other classic paintings. It's very effective.
I have really enjoyed using the special effects in CT to show the alphabet letters when having a character speak the alphabet or say numbers. It's been very visually effective for those types of learners.
I will be looking up Visual Communicator. How did you do the virtual background?
I have only just started using IClone and I'm still working out the ticks.
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| Thanks for your input. MorphVox looks good for voices. I'd be interested in viewing any of your current web pages or your web site that you're building on Philosophy and Ethics.
Visual Communicator was originally created by Serious Magic, which was purchased last year by Adobe. They are coming out with a new version 3.0 in the next few months. It's a little strange, but until the new product is released, they've pulled the current version. It's now available for sale. It may be possible with a lot of hunting to find version 2.0 from 3rd party vendors, including some that may offer accademic prices.
Visual Communicator Pro and Studio come with a plastic green screen, which is placed behind the subject in view of the camera. The software then allows you to place a virtual background in your video while you film.
The selling point for Visual Communicator is that you have an onscreen scrolling teleprompter, so you can read a script while filming. The Studio version's teleprompter can be set to take up the entire screen while the Pro version (which I use) has a fixed size, although the font size can be adjusted. I haven't seen any other video creation software with this feature. There are a tremendous amount of special features such as being able to import Power Point slides, or you can use a professional level title creation add-in that is included with VC.
The main drawback of Visual Communicator, when compared with other video creation software, is that it doesn't have a standard horizontal time-line bar, which does make it awkward at times. There is a vertical drag and drop area that is used to drop video clips, transitions, and other effects; however, it requires scrolling. |
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