I’m an international school educator and an advocate for the flipping classroom approach which supports independent study at a student’s own pace. Since I was introduced to CANVID, I’ve been using it almost non-stop for my lessons. It’s one of the most intuitive and user-friendly screen recorders I’ve used. The team behind this product are very responsive to feedback and are always adding new useful innovative features such as auto zooming to areas of interest, mouse removal, background noise removal (a lifesaver when you have small kids), video cropping, changing backgrounds and generating transcripts all of which can be saved as presets.
There are two recent absolute life-saving features: The first one is the ability to modify my recorded narration using text to speech, where AI mimics my voice which is really cool. The other feature is the synthetic camera feature that imports my face from a previous video and lip-syncs it to the new one . Everyone I’ve shown it to has been blown away. It’s currently limited to only 2 minutes, but the team was nice enough to extend it to 5 minutes for testing.
Talk is Cheap: Let’s Have a Look at the Results
To give you an idea of the results you can produce with CANVID I used two short Java coding lessons.
In the first recording I explain the concept of Java Modulus. I used CANVID’s voice clarity to clean up my audio and an older CANVID project to generate a synthetic camera and serve as my camera template, - as described in the support article. The result in my mind is stunning. It’s not perfect, and I can see a few tiny wobbling effects during the silence period, but I doubt many will notice unless they are looking for it.
To give you an idea of the stunning transformation you achieve when recording with CANVID, I exported a raw version without most of the automatically applied effects, to better represent the result you would get when using a normal screen recording app.
You can clearly hear how the recording has reverberation and sounds of me hammering away on the keyboard. If you listen carefully, you can also hear all my wonderful students roaming around in the hallways on their break - this is especially noticeable during the period 1:55 to 2:1
If you compare with Java Modulus (CANVID) above which was exported with all the CANVID goodness, the visual transformation is directly apparent, but it's also worth noting that the audio is completely cleaned up with no background noise.
In this next recording discussing for-loops in Java, I used exactly the same old CANVID project to serve as my camera template, but this time I removed the background of the camera to produce an immersive effect projecting myself onto the screen. This was only a flip of a switch in the CANVID editor, as described in this support article.
This ability to generate the personal touch of a camera after recording is a game-changer, especially for anyone creating videos on the road. Yes, you can sometimes spot a few minor “mumbling” artifacts during silent moments, but honestly, if this is what they call a beta feature, I can’t wait to see the final release.
Sam E
International School Educator
