Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Alistair and I'm going to talk to you today about how to use the swivel to record your lectures including your slides and video simultaneously. So what do we need to do this? Well, you'll need a swivel unit obviously and this is what we're recording on right now and I'm demonstrating its ability to move by moving. So you'll need one of these and you'll need a recording device. We tend to use Apple products, iPads seem to fit the bill nicely as well as a lightning to HDMI cable and an HDMI cable as well. Okay so the first thing you need to do is to download the swivel app. Go on to your iPad, get on to Wi-Fi and download and sign up, log in, all that stuff on your iPad. Now before you go any further, you need to think about the slides you are going to use in your recording. Should you want to have a certain configuration where you've got slides and then there's video inside the slides, then you'll need to alter the way you've spaced out the information on your slides. So you'll see in an old PowerPoint there, everything is basically taking over the whole space. In the newer iteration, I've left space in the bottom right hand corner if you want to put the video there. If you want it in the top left corner, then you would make space for that. Now if you want to record in a way that I've chosen that's side by side, you have the video and the slides beside each other, then you don't need to change anything at all. Okay so once you've done that, the next thing to do is to actually get the slides on to Swivel. Now you'll need to go on to your computer, your desktop or your laptop to do so. Go on to the Swivel Cloud website and drag and drop your PowerPoint file into the appropriate box there. Unfortunately those of you who have video or animations in your PowerPoints, you will not be able to use them as Swivel doesn't recognise these as yet. Okay so now, get your iPad again and go on to the Swivel app because you need to select your file. When the file is being processed by the Swivel Cloud, it then becomes available on the Swivel app on your iPad and all you need to do is press present and away you go. Now if you're actually using this recording not in the way I am, where I'm just recording myself and using the slides as a prompt, then you'll want to mirror. There's two ways of going about this, there's the easy way and the hard way and we're just going to talk about the relatively easy way today. The harder way is wirelessly and I've got it set up there in the picture where I've done that and that involves using Apple TV and I've got a separate set of slides which I can do a recording with to show people how to do that should they wish. So now let's talk about the actual Swivel itself. The unit doesn't do any recording so you need the iPad, as I said before, to do the recording itself. All it does is basically track you, that's what it does. Now the unit can be turned on just by pressing the button to the right, a long press of about five seconds and the unit will come on, you'll know it's on because the red light comes on and it moves up and down. You'll need to connect it to Bluetooth so turn Bluetooth on on your iPad and search for Swivel and make that connection. Once it's connected, this button on the left will go green. The next thing you need to do is retrieve the controller microphone. The controller microphone is what I'm holding here and it has three purposes. It has a microphone, you can probably hear me louder than you were, it has a tracker which is what the unit tracks and not the individual and this can bring certain issues when you're recording. So if I move around too much and too close to the Swivel unit, it can be distracting. So I do recommend that you use a lanyard, you can slot it in there and wear it around your neck and you don't need to think about this as much. The other problem is sometimes people play with the controller when they're speaking, unconsciously I'm sure, and this makes for lots of interesting noises because there's a microphone in it as well and that's what's picking up the sound. The other thing is that it's a slide advancer so I can go back and forth with these buttons and the middle button can be configured to have different functions. In this case I've configured it so that it stops the unit from moving. So after we've got this on, we need to connect it to our recording device, the iPad, and we need to think about plugging in the audio. If you don't plug the 3.5mm jack into the iPad, the recording will come through the iPad itself and not through the mic and it will be rubbish. Something to consider when you're recording, and it's worth practising and doing this as a dry run on a couple of occasions before you actually decide to lecture with it, is where you're going to put it. So when I was taking these pictures I found some boxes to put the iPad on top of, iPad and swivel, to make it so that it was elevated and it wasn't looking so far from the ground and looking straight up. If you have a tripod, even better, that's what I'm using right now. The other consideration is how close you're planning on being to the unit. If you're too close it tends to try and find you a lot, it tends to move around up and down, left and right, and it can be distracting for individuals watching the recording. So try and find a sweet spot where you're still in picture, relatively good in picture I suppose, I'm not sure of the exact grammar on that. Not too close that it's constantly moving. Also if you choose to record with the controller mic in your hand, be aware that it will follow your hand and not your head. Okay so back to the actual presentation in the room. You'll need to connect it to whatever system it is that you're recording in, so at our university we have a console which has usually a VGA or an HDMI cable or input and we have to select this on the controller unit. How we go about doing this depends again on the configuration of the room, but generally there's a button you press like laptop or VGA or HDMI and it's also on the screen. You should be at this point mirroring. Now in order to do so, if I go back a little bit, you'll see in the picture at the bottom right is the lightning cable which connects to the VGA or the HDMI which then connects to the console. It hopefully looks something like this. Okay now one of the final steps is then to set this up and turn it on. I suggest you do this lastly because if you set the mic up controller earlier on in the process it'll mean basically the unit will try and move around as you set it up and it can be quite frustrating. So one of the final steps is to turn the mic controller on. This is a simple procedure. On the side there's a little button, the on button, the uppermost button. If you long press that about five seconds a green light will come on and the unit will start tracking and then when you're ready to record the button below is the one you press. I don't know if you'll be able to see in this light, it's slightly overcast but at the same time bright British weather, eh? And after you finish recording if you've got it automatically to set up so that it sends the recordings off to the Swivel Cloud, which I have, then fair enough. If not you need to press the little button, digital button, on the iPad that has a little picture of a cloud and that will send it to the Swivel Cloud and you'll be able to access it on your desktop. And from there you get to choose the configuration. I alluded to this initially about how you would set up the actual PowerPoint with the end video production in mind. So this is your chance to choose where you want to put the video and how you want to produce it. I suggest you save it in the cloud as well and then produce. At the configuration stage choose the way you want to put it, video inside the slide or side by side and away you go. Lastly, you can either produce it so that you export the file to your hard drive or a new feature which is really nice is that you get an embed code and you cut and paste that into your virtual learning environment, ours in this case is Blackboard, and in Blackboard you just press the button HTML and drop the code in there and in a really nice way it just pops up on your VLE. Just a note, in this particular recording I'm making I've chosen to have the screen of the iPad facing me as I'm using it as a prompt. If you were going to actually do what I'm advocating in this video and use this as a mirroring device then you won't need that and you can just use the television or the projector as a means of finding out where you are in your presentation. I say this because the camera is better, the rear facing camera is better on the iPad and you get a better quality video than the one that's being shown to you currently. Hope you found this of use and thanks.