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So there I was...
Apr. 9th, 2015 08:14 pm...dead in the water, ten miles off Shanghai... oops.... wrong story.
So it turns out that by default, when I "play" a PowerPoint slide show, my laptop display and the display hooked up to the laptop's HDMI port display the slide and a screen with the slide, the next slide, and a bunch of other information, including the notes, if any, for the slide up on the other monitor.
Unfortunately, the slide show was done using 4:3 slides, which places black bars on either side of the displayed slide, and swapping what's shown on the monitors doesn't really change that. Attempts at recording the slide show include the black bars.
OTOH, when I changed the resolution of the HDMI monitor to 800x600, two things happened:
1. The slides were displayed funny, since the monitor's actual resolution is 1366x768.
2. The recording came out perfect.
I'll probably do a "dress rehearsal" of the recording tomorrow. One thing I've noticed that bothers me about the test runs I've done so far is they lack the spontenaeity that comes out in front of a live audience. Worse, there are times I lapse into a tone that sounds downright... yech! As if I am completely not interested in what I'm doing.
Hopefully, this is the result of having a bunch of stuff on my mind while I was doing the test runs, such as: "Is the sound level adequate?"
Tomorrow will tell.
So it turns out that by default, when I "play" a PowerPoint slide show, my laptop display and the display hooked up to the laptop's HDMI port display the slide and a screen with the slide, the next slide, and a bunch of other information, including the notes, if any, for the slide up on the other monitor.
Unfortunately, the slide show was done using 4:3 slides, which places black bars on either side of the displayed slide, and swapping what's shown on the monitors doesn't really change that. Attempts at recording the slide show include the black bars.
OTOH, when I changed the resolution of the HDMI monitor to 800x600, two things happened:
1. The slides were displayed funny, since the monitor's actual resolution is 1366x768.
2. The recording came out perfect.
I'll probably do a "dress rehearsal" of the recording tomorrow. One thing I've noticed that bothers me about the test runs I've done so far is they lack the spontenaeity that comes out in front of a live audience. Worse, there are times I lapse into a tone that sounds downright... yech! As if I am completely not interested in what I'm doing.
Hopefully, this is the result of having a bunch of stuff on my mind while I was doing the test runs, such as: "Is the sound level adequate?"
Tomorrow will tell.
