Rich Johnstun
Rich Johnstun
Sr. Instructional Designer at Instructional Media
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    Rich Johnstun

    I've been involved with adult education (mostly technical training) since '01. Since '08 I've been focused completely on instructional design and e-learning/media development.
  • Canton, OH
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Video quality
"You will encounter a lot of quality issues if you are inserting your videos at 1080 resolution and then scaling them to the window. By sc..."
  • 11 years ago03/08/13 at 8:02 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Video Editing Software for eLearning
"Since this just popped up again, the newest version of Camtasia is actually a decent video editor. I wouldn't spend the money on it just ..."
  • 11 years ago02/28/13 at 4:51 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Beautiful PPT2010 - HOW to build slideshows (& eLarning?)
"Thanks Bruce. This is brilliant. "
  • 11 years ago02/22/13 at 4:59 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Storyboard Estimate
"I don't think 100 hrs per hour of completely project is out of line to build a program from scratch, but there are a ton of variables the..."
  • 11 years ago02/19/13 at 12:36 pm (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Big Thank you!
"It is pretty amazing. My company has looked at other tools and one of the thing that does keep us in the Articulate family is the support..."
  • 11 years ago02/18/13 at 8:17 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Question for Audacity/Voiceover/Sound Engineer types...
"You can also try an equalizer on the section you are fading to drop the frequency of the drum portions, reducing their signal. I've got s..."
  • 11 years ago02/12/13 at 12:23 pm (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Free MIT Learning course, Register Today!
"I'm currently taking a course via. Coursera that has 47K people in it. It's really incredible to watch everyone organize themselves. "
  • 11 years ago02/11/13 at 11:30 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion best practices for recording audio in typical conference room
"Good point Bruce. If you play with the noise filter on Audacity it can really do well at cleaning things up. You have to use caution as t..."
  • 11 years ago02/05/13 at 6:46 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion best practices for recording audio in typical conference room
"Anything you can put around the mic to cut the echo will improve the quality. One of the cheapest tricks is to line a cardboard box with ..."
  • 11 years ago02/05/13 at 6:14 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion The $35 teleprompter
"Thanks for the drawings. That looks virtually identical to the one I use at work, that was incredibly expensive and over priced. Of cours..."
  • 11 years ago02/01/13 at 7:34 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion The $35 teleprompter
"What would you estimate the weight of yours at?  The teleprompter I use at work probably weights 40lbs without the camera and I know my h..."
  • 11 years ago01/30/13 at 10:48 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion The $35 teleprompter
"Nicely done Eric! I've got a spare 19" Dell monitor laying around and have considered building a larger one just for the heck of it. If I..."
  • 11 years ago01/30/13 at 7:25 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Best Practices for Synthesizing Course Content
"Steve really makes a solid approach.  I deal mainly with technical courses. My SME's are often engineers and my audience is not. They wil..."
  • 11 years ago01/28/13 at 11:23 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion 16x9 vs 4x3???
"I usually do have to do some heavy filtering and clean up, but I often end up with these crazy graphs and graphics that they have created..."
  • 11 years ago01/28/13 at 7:32 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion The $35 teleprompter
"That was a great video Steve. I wish I had the time to do more special effect in the videos I do. It's so much fun. "
  • 11 years ago01/28/13 at 4:55 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion 16x9 vs 4x3???
"We have pretty much made the complete jump to 16:9 because our content is typically very video heavy. It can be a challenge at first when..."
  • 11 years ago01/28/13 at 4:53 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion The $35 teleprompter
"Steve Flowers said: Great finds. I love DIY videos. Chained from video to video and burn up an hour or so Time well spent. ..."
  • 11 years ago01/25/13 at 9:48 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion The $35 teleprompter
"Greg Smith said: If you need something a bit less budget, as we all know how clients get,  I recommend this http://www.lcd4video.com/ipad..."
  • 11 years ago01/22/13 at 6:59 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion The $35 teleprompter
"It still needs some fine tuning, but here is what it looks like using my iPad to prompt. You barely see the camera lens behind the glass,..."
  • 11 years ago01/22/13 at 5:47 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun started a new discussion The $35 teleprompter
"I've been wanting a teleprompter for my personal home studio for sometime. I recently started digging around online to see the best way t..."
  • 11 years ago01/21/13 at 4:54 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion iPhone Courses
"We have a large segment of our force (5500ish people) moving to the Note II "phablet" and plan to start developing full blown courses to ..."
  • over 11 years ago01/15/13 at 9:23 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Sharepoint Overview
"I do a lot of work in SharePoint and building training related to it. The best overview I've seen to help people get started with underst..."
  • over 11 years ago01/14/13 at 5:22 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Video editing software?
"LIghtworks Is a free open source full function video editor. If you aren't a video person, the learning curve might be a little intimidat..."
  • over 11 years ago01/14/13 at 5:16 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Free office background
"Very nicely done. Thank you. "
  • over 11 years ago01/09/13 at 7:54 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Free course on Digital Sound Design from Coursera
"Yeah, "instructor led" is a pretty mis-leading term in regards to how they work their classes. The really cool thing is that there is ton..."
  • over 11 years ago01/09/13 at 7:41 am (UTC)