Paul Pival has written a lovely short review of The Screencasting Handbook, his review is for Release 8 which came out in early April (Edition 1 should be Release 10 to come out around the end of April): “Ian starts with examples of using simple tools such as Jing and Screentoaster to create quick and […]

I’ve just pushed out release 8 (April 2010) of The Screencasting Handbook, these are the new sections: “Distributing your screencast” is now finished, it covers common sites like YouTube and Vimeo, how to self-host with techniques like FTP and Amazon’s S3+CloudFront and how to use off the shelf video players like FlowPlayer and the JW […]

On January 27th here in Brighton I’m co-running a SkillSwap evening, I’ll spend 45 minutes teaching screencasting (based on a Mac) and Andy White will spend 45 minutes teaching podcasting.  We’ll cover planning, recording, editing, distributing and mics between us. We’re both aiming the talks at freelancers (so they can communicate better with clients) and […]

As promised just before Christmas the next release of The Screencasting Handbook is now available.  Release 7 adds “Export – which file formats do you need?” so you know how to export your screencast so it works for your own distribution and in sites like YouTube and Vimeo. I discuss: HD examples for Vimeo and […]

I’m very excited to have my first proper review for The Screencasting Handbook, Paul McGovern is a new reader and he’s given the book a thorough bit of coverage: “…up until now there really hasn’t been a standard point of reference for those interesed in the concept or who wish to learn more.  The Screencasting […]

I’ve just released the next update to The Screencasting Handbook – with this update the book has doubled in size to 77 pages.  The current version is Revision 6, you can see the full table of contents on the homepage. The important additions are: New “Making a screencast in 1-2 days” chapter, it is 30 […]

Lynn over at ScreenFlow was kind enough to invite me to write a guest post on screencast planning.  I’ve written a two page post on the 4 steps to planning a tutorial screencast, it should give you some ideas on how to think about: audience – who are they and what are their needs? outlining […]

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 […]

I’m having a problem with .FLV video recording on Mac and Linux machines using vnc2flv and vnc2swf.  I’m playing with automated screencasting ideas and I like the idea of using VNC-based tools.  I can generate .SWF files without a probem, .FLV output from both programs causes a weirdly flashing screen. Update – problem solved.  The […]

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 […]