Multimedia Production Tools

In addition to typical production tools such as Adobe, Microsoft, and Google tools, I use these multimedia production tools below to speed up my production process while maintaining the production quality and to enhance and enrich my multimedia contents.

Techsmith Camtasia

Camtasia is packed with features - especially the animation effects, video effects, annotation tools, and screen recorder - designed specifically for educational video productions. I use it to make most of my educational videos. It is the most versatile software for instructional video-making.

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Techsmith Snagit

I use Snagit mostly for taking screenshots. Although both Windows and Mac come with screenshot apps, using Snagit speeds up my screen capture process by 10 folds.

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Plotagon - 3D Animated Movies

This 3D animated movie creator app is designed for people with no background or experience in animation movie-making. When creating skit-based animated movies for educational purposes, I prefer Plotagon to high-end apps and live-action movies. According to my research, Plotagon movies are as pedagogically effective as live-action movies.

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Free (mobile app) or $3/month for education (Desktop app)
Plotagon website.
Plotagon promo video.

Text-to-Speech (TTS) Tools

I frequently use TTS tools to create voiceover narrations for my videos and PowerPoint presentations. Although I am comfortable with recording my own voice, I still use multiple voices to improve message coherence and increase viewer engagement.

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Microsoft AZURE Audio Content Creation Tool (Free)
Voicemaker (Free)
Murf (Free)

Voice Cloning

I cloned my voice so that I could use my own voice for text-to-speech (TTS). My TTS voice sounds just like me, and it's faster and easier than recording with a microphone. Watch this video to see how easily I generated a TTS narration with my own voice.