Big Interview Help Center

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• admin 7:47 pm on January 1, 2012 Permalink  

  Setting up Your Webcam and/or Audio 

  Setting up your webcam and audio is the first thing you should do in your Big Interview account.

  Step 1: In the upper right hand corner of the screen click YOUR NAME.

  

  Step 2: Now, on the YOUR ACCOUNT page click the tab called INTERVIEW SETTINGS.

  

  Step 3: You should now be on a page prompting you to “Choose your default interview type”.

  You can select between “Video & Audio” or “Audio only” (depending on whether or not you have a webcam.)

  

  Step 4: If you have the Adobe Flash plugin set up correctly in your browser, you should now see a slightly darkened screen with a small pop-up window in the middle of the screen. This will say “Adobe Flash Player Settings” and it asks you to either “Allow” or “Deny” biginterview.com from working with your webcam.

  

  Step 5: Right-mouse-click on the little pop-up box and choose SETTINGS.

  

  Step 6: You’ll now see the pop-up ask “Allow biginterview.com to access your camera and microphone?” Choose ALLOW, and check the REMEMBER box (this will remove the need to click ALLOW each time you start a new mock interview.)

  

  After checking ALLOW, click CLOSE. Your webcam will be automatically enabled, and you should begin seeing yourself on the left side of the screen under “Camera Set Up”

  Step 7: Below both “Camera Set Up” & “Microphone Set Up” you’ll notice a drop-down menu where you can choose the driver corresponding to your webcam and microphone. These should automatically default to the proper drivers, but in case your webcam or microphone are not enabled, you can select from the drop-down menu the best driver for your device.

  

  

  Step 8: Click UPDATE PROFILE and you’re ready to start!

   

• admin 7:30 am on January 2, 2011 Permalink  

  About Your Videos 

  Here we’ll learn about a few of the ways to review your recorded answers.

  Step 1: In the Mock Interview module

  
  
  Step 2: When you’re recording your interview answers, you’ll notice that below your webcam feed there are severals buttons – a RECORD, a PLAY BACK and a SAVE button.
  

  These are the only buttons you’ll see before you actually begin recording.
  
  Step 3: After you’ve hit the RECORD button, a 3-second countdown will start (giving you a couple moments to get ready).

  When recording has begun, you will see the word “RECORDING” on your webcam feed and you should see a white line flicker to let you know your voice is recording also. You will also see a big STOP button that allows you to end your recording.

  
  
  Step 4: After hitting STOP, you’ll notice the SAVE button is no grayed out, and the RECORD button now says RE-RECORD.
  
  Now you have a few choices to play with. You can click PLAY BACK to review your video. If you don’t like your recording simply click RE-RECORD to try again. Or if you’re satisfied with it click SAVE to save your recording to the Video Library. You can then either record more answers to the same question, or you can move on to the next question.
  
  Step 5: When you click SAVE, you’ll notice two more buttons appear. They are DELETE and SHARE buttons. Use DELETE to discard any recordings you want to remove.
  
  
  Step 6: The SHARE button does just what is says. If you want a colleague, friend or counselor to give you feedback, you can email them a link to your recording. You can even use the code snippet to embed the video on your blog or other social media profile. Note: the same SHARE button is also available in the Your Videos section (which we’ll go over now).
  
  
  Step 7: The Your Videos section is a great place to keep track of all your recordings. You easily review, rate and share all your saved videos.