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Using Lecture Capture Live during live presentations

Hi,

I'm currently evaluating "Lecture Capture Live" but I think there is a feature that is somewhat missing.

I want to use this capture when doing a live presentation so my PC is connected to a projector and my idea is to have only slides showing in the projector and the full "editing mode" of live capture in my PC monitor.

Isn't this possible to achieve? Opening a popup with the slides (and synchronized when I press next slide) will achieve this.

Any ideas how can I do this? I can set the monitors to duplicate the image but then my viewers would see all the editing stuff in lecture capture and the slides will be smaller for them to see....

Anyways, that doesn't seem to be very hard to implement :)

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Hello,

This isn't currently supported, but some form of 'presentation mode' is on our to do list.

We like to respond to potential customer needs quickly, so if the implementation of this feature would encourage you to choose AutoView Lecture Capture Live, then I can make this a priority task and should be able to show you something that works in the next day or two.

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Thanks for the feedback Tim.

Right now my evaluation is still in early stage so I only need to know if this is possible to implement and is in the "roadmap".

Can you provide, for example, a sample screenshot (or just a sketch) of what this feature would be? Also, a detailed description of this feature?

I just want to be clear that autoview can achieve what we want and that is to be able to capture live when doing a presentation with no inconvenience for the presenter. This is a very important point: presenters are used to powerpoint so this can't be an inconvenience. For example, if they can't see the slides in their monitor that would be a big inconvenience for them.

For example, a simple implementation would be a "slides popup" that I can drag to the projector "monitor" and that is in synch with the main "editor panel" where the presenter marks the time for the next slide.

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I've had a go at putting in your suggestion into the code, it turned out to be quite simple.

Have a look at the attached screenshot, this was taken on a dual monitor development system with a stretched desktop, but you can image the left hand part of the screen being the projector output in your scenario. If your graphics driver is capable of putting the popup slide window full screen on just the one video output (my dual monitor system can't), then the display will look almost like a powerpoint output to the people looking at the projector screen. The slides in both the popup and the main display will stay in sync.

This is now in the dev version of AutoView, so it will be part of the next release of the Moodle module, which will be in the next few weeks.

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Great feedback Tim, many thanks :)

That screenshot is exactly what I thought and what I need to start pitching this in my company.

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Another related question: maybe sometimes the presenters don't have quick access to the Moodle server so I'm thinking about doing a local install of Moodle with autoview for them to record the lectures.

Is it possible then to export/import these lectures into our main Moodle? (I know that right now this isn't a feature, but I'm a programmer so I'm wondering if this is something easy to add to autoview :) )

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AutoView lectures are backed up and restored as part of the normal Moodle backup process so it shouldn't be a problem to transfer them from one Moodle system to another using normal course backups.

Furthermore, if you zip all the files for any given AutoView presentation, restore them on to another Moodle and then add a new AutoView module which points at the existing .avx file, instead of creating a new one, then the presentation should work correctly. You may have to re-write the URL's for the slide/video sources if these were hard coded (which isn't the default), but that's about it.

However, you will need to install a Red5 server with the Lecture Capture addon as well as Moodle onto every computer you want to be able to record on without an internet connection. This can be done if you have a sufficiently powerful computer to run all the software on at once, so if your plan is to have a couple of dedicated laptops which can be used for this purpose, I see no reason why it shouldn't work.

We are working on a 'standalone' version of AutoView Lecture Capture, which can operate without Moodle, although it will still need the Red5 server. This would simplify the software setup for your capture systems.

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