Review and Edit a Recording in Personal Capture for Mac

Overview

After you complete a recording, you will want to review it.

You may also want to edit it. When the recording is ready, you will want to publish the recording so it can be viewed by students.

If your institution has integrated Lecture Tools with EchoSystem, you can also add Lecture Tools materials to a published Personal Capture recording, to provide students with pre-class exercises, such as polls or quizzes. Student responses can then be discussed in class.

Review a Recording

1. Use either method to select a recording to edit:

   • In the My Recordings screen, select the recording and click View/Edit. The Edit Recording screen appears.

   • Immediately after stopping a recording, the Edit Recording screen appears.

2. In the Edit Recording screen, press the Play button.
   

3. Review the recording.

   • Check that the video quality is satisfactory, especially if you used high definition cameras.

   • Decide if there are any portions you want to remove in the editor. If you paused and resumed a recording but did not use the keyboard shortcuts, you will have on-screen actions that you may want to remove.

Edit a Recording

You can:

• Trim the beginning and end of a recording ("top 'n tail")

• Cut a segment from the middle of a recording

Trim ("Top 'n Tail")

You may want to trim off the beginning and end of a presentation, leaving only the substantive portion.

1. Select the recording to be edited.

2. Click View/Edit. The Edit Recording screen appears.

3. Drag the left slider in to trim the beginning of the recording.
   

4. Drag the right slider in to trim the end of the recording.
   

   
   

5. Make sure the playhead is at the beginning of the timeline.

6. Play the recording with the cuts in place.

7. Either clear the cuts (with the Clear Cuts button) or save your changes (with the Apply Edits button).

8. If you save changes, the edits are applied and the My Recordings page displays.

9. Notice that your recording is shown as Edited.
   

Cut a Segment

If you paused and resumed a recording, you may want to cut out the middle portion of the recording that shows you clicking the pause and resume buttons.

1. Select the recording to be edited.

2. Click View/Edit. The Edit Recording screen appears.

3. Mark the segment you want to be cut, using either the playhead and marker buttons or the sliders.

   1. To use the playhead and marker buttons:

      1. Position the playhead on the section where you want the cut to start. In this example, the cut begins at 00:00:15 seconds.
         

      2. Click the mark-in button. This places the mark-in point at the current playhead position.
         

      3. Position the playhead on the section where you want the cut to end.

      4. Click the mark-out button. This places the mark-out point at the current playhead position.
         

   2. To use the sliders:

      1. Find the sliders to the left of the timeline.
         

      2. Drag the left slider in to the start of the segment.
         

      3. Drag the right slider in to the end of the segment.
         

      4. Verify that the sliders are in the correct positions.
         

4. Click Cut.
   

5. Notice that the cut area appears gray on the timeline.

6. Play the recording with the cuts in place.

7. Either clear the cuts or save your changes.

8. If you save changes, the edits are applied and the My Recordings page displays.

9. Notice that your recording is shown as Edited.
   

Clear Cuts

You can use these methods if you are cutting a middle segment. You cannot use this method when trimming the beginning or end of a recording.