During one of the Belgian Java User Group (BeJUG) sessions the speaker used QuickTime Player to record his own presentation.   Yes, the more recent MacBook Pro’s are powerful enough to record your screen, audio (using built-in microphone) and meanwhile do your presentation and demo’s!

The BeJUG hibernate 3.6 presentation by Emmanuel Bernard was a 2 hour presentation with two demo’s, the end result can be viewed HERE.

The recording used the default screen resolution from the portable which was 1900 x 1200 resulting in a 500Mb QuickTime MOV file.  After the presentation the movie was saved using the 1080p option.

The tutorial below shows you how to post-process this self made movie using the latest version of the Parleys.com Publisher.

Important Publisher features demonstrated in this tutorial:

1) Use the freely available QuickTime Player to record the screen and audio from the presentors portable

2) Extracting the sound (mp3) from the QuickTime movie using the Parleys.com Publisher (right-click option)

3) Re-encode the QuickTime MOV file to MP4 and change the resolution from 1900×1200 to 1024×768 (right-click option)

4) Create a two part presentation using the magical “Create two parts” feature (right-click option)