Chapter 5. Recording Basics

We have covered the basics of planning for your e-learning video project in the first four chapters. Now the fun begins! It is time to put the planning principles to work and begin creating the actual video.

Today's process of recording is similar to the early days of Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph cylinder and movie camera. Basically, you turn on a machine and point it at something to record, using either sound or light. These devices have undergone constant improvement and innovation for more than 100 years. It did not take long after the personal computer (PC) was invented to come up with easy ways to make recordings using the basic PC and Macintosh hardware with newly invented software.

There are two types of recordings you can make: audio and video. And there are numerous ways to make each type. We will discuss some of the ways recordings are made, but in this chapter we are going to concentrate on two ways: audio recordings...