You now hosted your very own live webinar training session and you want to record that so that you can sell it or have people play it over and over without you having to do anything. What tools do you need and what steps do you take to record your GoToWebinar recording? You can use the built-in recorder; you can use Camtasia; or use a second computer to record the webinar. Which one is right for you?
The built-in GoToWebinar recording is easy and useful if you are brand new. As long as you're hosting a webinar on a PC, there is a start recording button that you can click that will take the video and audio of your presentation and save it once your webinar is done. The only downside of this recording is that it's not very good quality and you have to remember to set an option to save as a WMV or Windows Media file instead of their own format. One to keep in mind is to resize your screen down to 640 x 480 resolution to make sure your video is not huge.
A better way if you're slightly more technically advanced is to use Camtasia recorder to save your screen and voice. The audio and the video quality is going to be much better and it really isn't that much more work. Just have the software; hit the recorder button. Luckily, Camtasia has a 30-day trial so you don't even have to put money down until a month has passed to try out this method of recording. The only problem with this is that if there are others speaking on the call, Camtasia is not going to pick up their voice. And to take care of this, you need to join under a second computer such as a laptop and record with Camtasia from the laptop that way it will capture everyone speaking on the webinar.
Those are the three ways to record a webinar using the built-in version in which case you have low quality; Camtasia on your computer which only picks up your voice; or Camtasia on a second computer which picks up everyone's voice.
Watch me demonstrate how I run and record a webinar at www.webinarcrusher.com.
