As NPC 2021 will be held as a hybrid conference, remote speakers are required to record and submit a video of their talk and On site speakers are required to upload their slides by October 28th.

Remote presentation

In order for you to send us your pre-recorded video of your presentation, we ask you to transfer your file using WeTransfer as the main file transfer platform, so we kindly invite you to follow the instructions below:

• Make sure your video fulfils all the instructions bellow.
• Visit wetransfer.com

• Click on “Add your files” and select your video file (.mp4).
• In the “Email to” field, type the following email address: “dnac.sas@gmail.com”.
• In the “Your email” field, type your email (it’s recommended to fill in the email you used for the registration).
• In the “Title” field, type your full paper title (this step is mandatory to match your video to your paper).
• In the “Message” text area, fill in all the paper’s authors names and their affiliations.
• Click on “Transfer”.
• After that, you will be asked to enter a verification code which was sent to your email (the one you filled in, in step number 3).

That’s it! You will be notified automatically once we’ve downloaded your video!

During the actual presentation on November 3 – 5, 2021, each Presenter is requested to join his/her session in order to give their presentation live and to be online to answer questions from the audience. , the pre-recorded video of the presentation will be used as back-up and at least one of the paper’s authors will be online to answer questions later, otherwise, the paper will not be published in the IEEE Xplore.

The pre-recorded video is mandatory, but still, speakers will have the option to present live during the session.

Below are the maximum duration of videos and Q&A sessions depending on the paper type:

• Duration of video files:
  • Full papers presentation video: 17 min
    
• Duration of the Q&A sessions on Webex:
  • Full papers: 5 min

Instructions for Video Recording

Videos should contain a prominent view of the presentation slides along with audio of the spoken presentation. Optionally videos may contain a shot of the speaker’s head for increased engagement. (This shot should be thumbnail-sized and overlayed on the slide images as shown here.) Many presentation software allows recording audio and video directly in the application and can export appropriate video files. Please see the notes below for detailed instructions for PowerPoint and KeyNote. If you use a different application, please see the notes under Other Options.

Details
Recommendations:

• format 16:9
• resolution 720p
• better to be less than 200MB
• duration depending on your paper type, check above information





PowerPoint

1. Follow these instructions to add audio (and optionally video) to your slides.
2. Follow these instructions to generate a MPEG-4 (.mp4) file from your slides and audio/video.
3. Alternatively, you can follow this video tutorial which goes through both of these steps. Also, see this video tutorial if you like.



Other Options

1. Record your screen (and microphone) while giving the presentation.
2. As a last resort, and only if you are comfortable directly editing video, you can export your slides as images, record an audio track, and combine the two.