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The Screencasting Handbook release 8 now available

Posted on April 1st, 2010 by Ian

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 […]

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VNC/FLV screencasting problems – flvrec.py (vnc2flv) and vnc2swf

Posted on December 16th, 2009 by Ian

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 […]

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“The Screencasting Hanbook” is now Open Sourced

This is a quick post (see the longer post on my personal blog: Open Sourcing “The Screencasting Handbook”). I have just open sourced this eBook as a free book (it has been commercial for 3 years) as some of the content (mainly relating to software packages) is looking a little old now. The techniques and […]

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“How to screencast” post on Freelance Advisor

I’ve just started a three part guest post series on Freelance Advisor, the first entry is “Communicating more effectively with screencasts“. The goal of the first post is to show freelancers how they could use screencasts to improve their business, in particular: Avoid meetings by sharing progress reports with screencasts Communicating more effectively with clients […]

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Selling ProCasts (my professional screencasting company)

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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The Screencasting Handbook release 8 now available

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