Best Practices when Recording with Panopto
Follow these tips to ensure you always sound your best when recording with Panopto.
- Minimize Environmental Distractions
- If you are recording from your home or office, it is easy to forget about small distractions that can turn out to be huge distractions on screen. To minimize these distractions:
- Close your windows and door (consider putting a “recording in progress” note on your door)
- Silence your cell phone and avoid sitting next to an office phone that might ring (or take it off the hook)
- Project your voice. Speak as if you want to be heard by someone on the opposite end of the room.
- Use the lapel mic whenever possible
- Repeat student questions when giving an answer
- Use mute or turn off the microphone when having private conversations
- Turn off/mute any sound coming from your music device, TV, radio, etc.
- Wear solid colors if recording with video. Patterns can be distracting and can show up as moving when recorded, such as Houndstooth or Herringbone patterns.
- Make sure there is nothing distracting behind you that could disrupt your video
Minimize Technological Distractions
- Eliminate desktop distractions (email pop-ups, Twitter feeds, etc.)
- Close all other applications on your computer, except what you are using, and try not to use more than one application at a time. Too much load on the computer can distort audio and video quality.
