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 […]

Andy White, author of Podcasting Unleashed, has created three videos that show common microphones in action.  These mics are great for screencasting and Andy shows you a few tips on mic technique. If you’ve never used a higher-end mic then watch these videos – you’ll learn how to identify the front, top and back of […]

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.  […]

Tim has a nice long blog entry on Why I’m Excited About Educational Video.  He posted a link in our Group, on his site he discusses: Video Teaches! Video Complements Other Instructional Material The Technology Required to Successfully Use Video is Finally Here As Tim points out, screencasts are a great way to pass on […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Are you making your own screencasts? Frustrated that they’re not generating the reactions you want? Annoyed by your audio?  Feeling that you’re recording without a plan? Here we present 24 tips borne from many years of screencasting experience whilst teaching 100,000 users a month at ShowMeDo and explaining client’s products inside ProCasts: Avoid built-in and […]

Gasto has written a lovely short review piece about The Screencasting Handbook on his blog: “Ian Ozsvald is releasing his screencasting handbook. A manual to cover all screencasting aspects involved in producing videos for web/DVD distribution, to show products, website, and educational content. Screencasting has become a very important yet unknown profession, that shares territory […]