I am seeking to create education videos from my keynote speaking program. My speaking program uses Keynote. I thus need to split the screen, half Keynote, half the IMac camera, and then record the screen for editing. Is there an app that will accomplish this? Thank you.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Give the free, open source OBS Studio a look. It records window capture and video device capture you've positioned as frames on a canvas. I haven't used it enough to provide meaningful guidance to settings, but in my limited use it performed well. There is documentation available. There are laptop performance issues, which required me to set graphics to "Better battery life" in the Energy Saver pane of System Preferences.
Some observations:
- you may want to use an external webcam as resizing and repositioning of the video capture frame necessitates sitting off-axis to any built-in iSight camera.
- to maximize Keynote content and avoid letterboxing, you may find it advantageous to use a vertically oriented custom slide size.
- Keynote needs to be in window mode, i.e. not Play mode, with the Navigator open and a slide activated in it; use the up and down arrows on the keyboard to move to the next slide. You may want to hide the Inspector.
You need El Capitan to use the split screen view.
You can try to download it at the link below. If it won't let you, then your only options are to upgrade to Sierra or find an older computer where you can download it using your Apple ID.
Are you asking about QuickTime Player -> File -> New Screen Recording
Or are you asking about how to do split screen?
Or are you asking if there is a way to have the output from your iMac camera display on the screen?
Sorry for the confusion. I wish to use the IMac camera to record myself, both audio and video. I wish to split the screen on the monitor so that the Keynote app loaded on the desktop can be utilized, so in this manner I am narrating and playing the audio/video from the Keynote prepared presentation. As this would be split screen, I am then looking to record the entire screen in order to have it as one entire presentation, which can be exported to an MOV or MP4 format, edited and then posted. The greatest issue here is functionability via split screen. I am asking if this is possible through the current MAC programs. or, more likely, is there an APP that will provide the ability to do the split screen and then use the IMac to record the entire screen presentation?
Thank you.
I tried playing with Keynote on Sierra, and I could not get it to split screen when it was in full screen "Play" mode.
The only thing I could do was pair down the edit mode so I just had the slide edit window, and put that on one side and pair it with another app on the other side of the screen.
As for recording, can use QuickTime Player Screen Recording mode, as I've indicated in my first reply.
You could most likely use Applications -> Photo Booth for displaying the Mac camera on screen.
I'll toy with this, Bob. I'm seeking to have Keynote in "play" mode because in the editing mode when scrolling thru it, it just seems rather "cheap". I use Camtasia for the screen capture, that's the least of worries. It's trying to make this look professional for recording and playback AND perhaps using it in a live application that's the rub. Adobe has "Captivate", but it's stupidly expensive and a little glitchy. Thanks for the help!
I've fallen behind on the OS and will upgrade to Sierra and go from there. Thanks for the help.
Roote, it looks like with OBS you have to produce the presentation using their software base. It's interesting though, I'm going to dig a little deeper. Thanks for the help!
Split screen with Keynote and camera
