Posts Tagged ‘Camtasia’

Screencasting Interview on the Internet Marketing Podcast

Posted on December 17th, 2009 by Ian

Yesterday I was interviewed by Andy White (author of Podcasting Unleashed) on the hows and whys of screencasting for marketing software products.  Some of the links mentioned are listed here. We discuss: How to get started at zero cost (using Jing (Win/Mac), QuickTime Pro (Mac), BBFlashBack (Win) and RecordMyDesktop (Linux)) Professional screencasting packages (Camtasia and […]

Links for the Internet Marketing Podcast

Posted on December 16th, 2009 by Ian

This post accompanies the Internet Marketing Podcast post, I was interviewed by Andy White on the hows and whys of screencasting for software marketing.  These are the links that were mentioned in the podcast. My interview runs for the last 20 minutes (from 0:37:00 to 0:52:00): To see how you could make your first screencast […]

15 tips to remove noise from screencasts and videos

Posted on November 21st, 2009 by Ian

One of the biggest problems with screencasting is poor audio quality.  It doesn’t matter how swish your graphics are or how carefully you’ve planned your script – if your audio is hissy, full of pops and breaths and background sounds (like traffic!) then the listener will be disappointed. This topic is discussed in more detail […]

Constructive critique of ResolverOne’s BioPython screencast

Posted on November 14th, 2009 by Ian

ResolverSystems have just published a new screencast made by Jonathan Hartley (one of their engineers) showing how BioPython can be used from within one of their spreadsheets.  I’m going to give a brief critique here with two suggestions for improvements.  Here’s Jonathan’s screencast: The Good: The video is clear and the length is 3 minutes […]

BBFlashBack Pro 2.6.6 review

Posted on November 13th, 2009 by Ian

Recently I used BBSoftware’s FlashBack Pro 2.6.6 to record two series of tutorial videos for ShowMeDo on OpenOffice Base and Impress (see some details on the series at ProCasts). You can see one of the resulting videos at the end of this article. Here I’ll share some of the highs and lows of using FlashBack.  […]

Future Trends in Screencasting

Posted on September 19th, 2009 by Ian

Below I list a number of thoughts I have about the future of screencasting.  What’s coming is ‘The Age of the Smart Editor‘.  Having screencasted for 4 years (by co-founding ShowMeDo in 2005 and ProCasts in 2008) producing both educational and sales screencasts, I’ve used a lot of software and I have many ideas for […]

Portable (no-install, no-Internet) Screencasting on Windows

Posted on September 13th, 2009 by Ian

Recently I was asked if it is possible to screencast when you can’t install a screencasting tool and when you don’t have Internet access.  You know what?  You can! If you use the free CamStudio on Windows then you can get the Portable CamStudio download – you just pop it onto a USB stick and […]

Edit RecordMyDesktop Linux Screencasts with Camtasia Studio

Posted on September 9th, 2009 by Ian

Tim Bower has just shared a tip in our Google Group – here’s how he recorded a screencast on Linux using RecordMyDesktop and then converted it so Camtasia Studio on Windows could edit it. Camtasia doesn’t like Ogg Vorbis (.ogv) videos so Tim first had to convert it to a more familiar format, he settled […]

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‘Screencasting in 7 minutes with Jing’ workshop at BarCamp Brighton 4

Posted on September 7th, 2009 by Ian

Yesterday at BarCamp Brighton 4 I ran a ‘start screencasting in 7 minutes with Jing’ workshop – I’m happy to say I had 7 new people start ‘casting for both internal education (in Thales) and for communication to clients for freelancers.  TechSmith have picked-up this post – thanks Betsy! Jez (see further below) took a […]

Critique of GibraltarSoftware.com Tour Screencast

Posted on August 25th, 2009 by Ian

Jay of GibraltarSoftware posted a link to the Business of Software forum asking for feedback on his new Tour screencast.  I figured that a critique here would be useful to other Handbook readers rather than a reply over a BoS.  Over on ProCasts I have critiqued five other screencasts, I’ll be doing those here now […]