Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Selling ProCasts (my professional screencasting company)

Posted on August 7th, 2010 by Ian

Some of you know that I built my professional screencasting company ProCasts during 2009 into the UK’s largest screencasting agency. I’ve decided to move away from professional screencasting (don’t worry – I’m still working on this Handbook!) and so the business of ProCasts is up for sale. If you’re building your own professional screencasting brand […]

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Two more reviews for The Screencasting Handbook

Posted on May 16th, 2010 by Ian

I’ve received two more reviews for the Handbook, first Stéphane Wattier penned Un guide pour vos tutoriels vidéo (English translation). Here’s a section from the Google-translated English version: “In French, we can find comparative screencasting tools, tutorials devoted to a particular tool (see for example my current folder on screencasting) or this file explaining how […]

First Edition of The Screencasting Handbook published!

Posted on May 6th, 2010 by Ian

I’m very pleased to announce that the First Edition of The Screencasting Handbook was released this weekend, it covers everything that a new screencaster needs and it’ll teach an intermediate a few things too. This release is priced at a discounted $36 until May 15th when it returns to the regular $39 price, buy your […]

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 […]

New Podcasting Unleashed eBook by Andy White

Posted on November 16th, 2009 by Ian

Andy White, my accountability buddy, is writing his own eBook on podcasting.  Podcasting Unleashed s being developed in the same way that I’m developing The Screencasting Handbook.  It is at an early stage, like me he’s just recently started selling copies (you have to be on the email list to get the link). The homepage […]

First Handbook screencast – “Making a screencast in the next 30 minutes” using Jing

Posted on October 8th, 2009 by Ian

The first screencast tutorial is on-line, it shows you how to make your first screencast, using the free Jing, in the next 30 minutes.  This screencast is a part of Chapter 4 in The Screencasting Handbook.  Since Chapter 4 is now complete I’ll be releasing a new copy of the book to my mailing list […]

Almost ready for the first proper release!

Posted on October 8th, 2009 by Ian

Having written 10,500 words and recorded one 6 minute screencast for new screencasters, I’m getting close to releasing the first ‘real draft’ of the book.  Here’s an expanded Handbook Outline (15 pages) that shows you the first couple of chapters and the full chapter list as of today. Whilst much of the book is yet […]

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 […]

7,500 words written for The Screencasting Handbook

Posted on September 17th, 2009 by Ian

Over the last few days I pushed the book up from 3,000 words to 7,500.  You can get an idea of what’s on offer by checking the outline pdf, it contains the first two chapters.  We’ve just been discussing a few points of the latest version in the Google Group. My goal is to start […]

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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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