How To Make a Video using Screencast-O-Matic

CNS provides a free Deluxe Screencast-O-Matic account to all presenters to help you create and caption your video presentation. Screencast-O-Matic provides tools for recording, uploading, and captioning your video. Check out these two brief Screencast-O-Matic Training Videos for more information on basic (e.g. recording with or without webcam and deluxe features (e.g. adding captions). They are <2 minutes each and will simplify your recording process.

You are not required to use Screencast-O-Matic to create your video. However, you will need to use the Screencast-O-Matic captioning tool to add captions to your video prior to uploading your video file.

Downloading and Installing Screencast-O-Matic

Instructions for installing Screencast-O-Matic are shown below.

Go to https://screencast-o-matic.com/CNS2021.
Click “Download Install” to initiate the download of the application.
Install and launch the Screencast-O-Matic application.
Click the “I have a Team Plan” button.
Enter the Access URL: “CNS2021”.
Enter the Password that was emailed to you. If you don’t know your password, please contact us at submissions@cogneurosociety.org.
Screencast-O-Matic is now installed and running. See the instructions below for information on recording, captioning, and uploading your presentation video.

How to Add Background Screen to Video in Screencast-O-Matic prior to recording.

Add background before starting to record. Go to the Tools menu. Click Edit, then Tools.
First remove your background color from the recorder or video editor.
Go to Tools, click on Overlay then Image
Choose an image from your computer.
Once it is placed on your video, move image to cover your Main Video.
In the Image Menu, click on Layering.
Drag the Image below ‘Main Video’. You will notice your webcam recording placed above your image.
To add the image throughout your video, adjust the transitions by clicking on In and Out in the image menu.
Play to preview your video.

Recording Video

Screencast-O-Matic has a screen recorder for creating presentation videos. Before starting to record in Screencast-O-Matic, check out these additional resources:

Easy Tips & Tricks:https://screencast-o-matic.com/channel/scripted-recordings

Beginner’s Guide to Screencast-O-Matic’s Free Screen Recorder: https://screencast-o-matic.com/blog/beginners-guide-free-screen-recorder/

From the Screencast-O-Matic desktop application, click the Record
Set your recording preferences, such as screen size, recording time, audio, and/or embedded webcam.
OPTIONAL: To make your background transparent so you can add a background later to your video (See how to add a background):
- Click the "wand" icon in the top right hand corner.
- Check the box "Remove Background Color" and toggle your tolerance level
- Then click okay.
Click the red Record button to start recording.
Click Pause and then Done to save your recording.
From the menu that automatically pops up, click Edit Video.
Make desired edits to your recording, then click Done.
From here you can go Back to Recordings(upper left) or proceed to captioning your video following the instructions below.

Note: You may use another method for creating your video, and then import your video into Screencast-O-Matic for captioning (see “Importing Video” below).

Importing Video

If you don’t use Screencast-O-Matic to record your video, you can import a video from your computer.

From the Screencast-O-Matic Recordings screen, click Import(upper right).
Select a video file from your computer.
The selected video is imported into the Screencast-O-Matic desktop application for editing and captioning.
If you did not use a background image when recording, it can be added in Screencast-O-Matic

Editing Your Video

From the Screencast-O-Matic Recordings screen, select a video.
Select Edit from the pop-up menu.
You can trim your video (e.g., Cut) and make other changes.
Save your changes by clicking Done.

Captioning Your Video

All CNS presentation videos are required to be captioned. Screencast-O-Matic’s auto-caption feature uses machine speech-to-text translation, which can have difficulty getting scientific terms correct, so you will need to carefully review your captions for accuracy. This can take time, so don’t leave this to the last minute.

Be sure your video is in its final state before captioning. Making changes to your video after you caption it could result in having to start the captioning process over.

Check out this additional resource before captioning your video: https://screencast-o-matic.com/tutorial/easily-add-captions-to-videos/

From the Screencast-O-Matic Recordings screen, select a video.
Click Edit
Click the [+] Captions
Select Speech-to-Text (EN-US), then click Start.
Screencast-O-Matic will start to auto-caption your video.
Wait until auto-captioning is done. You can verify by scrolling to the bottom of the Captions Text sidebar.
Review the captions in the Captions Text sidebar and make corrections.
Click OK to save your captions.
Save your changes by clicking Done.

Save Your Video File

To complete the video process, save your captioned video to your computer, and then upload it following the instructions below.

From the Screencast-O-Matic Recordings screen, select a video.
Click Save as Video Filefrom the Options menu (lower right).
Set your publishing options:
1. Typemust be MP4.
2. Enter a Filename. Your video filename must follow the file naming protocol so we can identify it when you upload it.

Video Filename Protocol Example(s):

- mp4
- mp4

Click Folder and choose a folder on your computer to save your video file too.
Set Open Captionsto English.
For Quality,make sure it says Normal.
4. Click Publish.
After the video is saved to your computer, play it to verify the quality of the embedded captions. Edit as needed.
Check the final time of your video. If it is beyond the maximum time allowed (5 minutes), you mustre-record. See Presenter Timing Table at the top of this page.
Video presentations for Posters must be uploaded to the CNS Virtual Meeting Platform (See Instructions below)