Note Tips – Slide Making

[Vishnu M]

I was hoping for some tips on how to take good notes for the course. The section of suggestions on scientific writing for CW1 were greatly useful but I perhaps found them too late. I was wondering if there was anything similar on how best to record the information from the lectures and readings for later reference – tools, methods etc.

Also the slides/animations are very impressive, I would eventually like to produce some like these for my own learning reference with annotations and other info for refreshing understanding and making concepts clearer. How did you make the slides (animations, drawings) and the images within them – what programme(s) did you use. Do you have any resource on this, or that you used?

[Simon]

I always prefer making notes on paper, whether in-person or online. This is because it’s faster to write by hand than to type, and easier to draw diagrams than using electronic note-taking software. But, perhaps I am a bit old-school and others will have better advice.

The new (for 2020-21) topic videos are made with the following tools:

Waveform and spectrum plots including the animated versions: my own Python code using matplotlib, scipy, librosa

Slides, including other animations: Apple Keynote

Screen capture and video editing: Screenflow

Audio hardware: DPA headset microphone, dbx 286s mic preamp / processor, Apogee Duet audio interface

Video compression: Handbrake

[Vishnu M]

thank-you

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