1. When watching the cast on Ian’s blog with default sizing the blasted “YouTube” branding sits on the host’s face.

2. When introducing the high-level product architecture, I’d suggest keeping the text labels inside the objects very sparse. As the voice-over reveals more about the objects’ function/purpose, you can reveal more text.

3. Overall the pace was good, however, you know your UI much better than we do. The segments where the VO informed me what we were going to see just before, or as, we saw it helped me learn the UI better.

4. Lastly, and I think this has been covered, an upfront statement of What’s In It For Me would orient the viewer much more to the market and positioning of the product.

Good work!

I originally conceived this video as “inner content” for our site (incorrectly) assuming users already knew something about Gibraltar. I now see that I could have easily included a bit more background at the start that would have made it much clearer to folks who are getting their first look.

You might prefer this an earlier screencast that was designed as a basic approach to how Gibraltar works:

http://tinyurl.com/GibraltarVideo

I enjoyed the screencast, but because there wasn’t any background on how the application worked in its most basic form, I felt lost.

We can hopefully get a screencast showing a more basic approach to how this product works.

My 5 cents.

Thank you so much for this review. My new screencast got more views in one day than my previous screencast received in two months!

Your suggestions are spot on. I actually knew about these flaws at the time I uploaded, but had reached the end of my endurance after a 3 day marathon creating this screencast. I’ll be spending a lot more time here learning from you before starting my next screencast.

For a few laughs at my newbie struggles, check out this blog post about my behind-the-scenes experience producing this screencast:

http://rocksolid.gibraltarsoftware.com/isv/learning-camtasia-screencasting