Captis.js is an authoring tool for publishing impress.js slides using video commentary. With captis you can record and edit your videos using browser.
For detailed user guide please visit http://binyatov.com/guide.pdf
Currently the project is fully functional only in webkit browsers.
The server part has only be tested in OS X.
ffmpeg is needed to 'stitch' the audio and video files together. For a reading on the problem and how to install ffmpeg have a look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20263131/merge-wav-audio-and-webm-video
Captis has a client-side and a server-side component
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To install the client-side through bower:
bower install captis -
To install the server-side using npm:
npm install captis -
Drag and drop your impress.js slides inside the root directory and add this lines between head tags:
<script src="bower_components/captis/dist/captis.min.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="bower_components/captis/css/captis.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="bower_components/captis/libs/fontawesome/css/font-awesome.min.css"> -
Using browser, go to
http://localhost:3000/<html file>and you'll see your slide.
Captis features a toolbar with all the necessary controls.
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To open and close the captis toolbar hit:
ctr + e -
Once the toolbar is open you need to click the camera icon to allow the use of the camera and microphone.
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Clicking the
RECbutton allows you to start recording -
Clicking the
Savebutton stops the recording. NOTE: When you click stop, the audio and video streams are going to be merged (server-side) into one file which will be injected to your presentation.
##Playback
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Refresh your presentation.
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To open and close the video hit:
ctr + w
Captis.js is released under the MIT License.