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Designing a PowerPoint Screencast Using Camtasia

TechSmith Camtasia

Screencasts are an effective teaching tool that offer instructors greater versatility in developing lesson plans. Students can watch a screencast video at their convenience, pausing and reviewing as often as needed. Students can watch a screencast video at their convenience, pausing and reviewing as often as needed.

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Advanced Screencasting: Editing Narration in Audacity Tutorial

TechSmith Camtasia

For most TechSmith tutorials, the narration track is actually recorded first with a handheld microphone or a podcaster USB microphone that feeds straight into Audacity (an open-source audio editor). The post Advanced Screencasting: Editing Narration in Audacity Tutorial appeared first on TechSmith Blogs.

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1,000 Screencasts and Counting.

TechSmith Camtasia

1,000 screencasts! I just heard from Bill Jelen, aka Mr Excel , that he's completed his 1,000th screencast. And, each screencast was created with Camtasia Studio! Every day, Monday through Friday, Bill produces a new Excel screencast. The screencasts average in length around 2 minutes. Simply amazing!

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Make your Screencasts Pop in 3D!

TechSmith Camtasia

One of my favorite screencasters, Paolo Tosolini has shared his tips to make your screencasts stand out from the crowd! He helped make a screencast that had a ROI of $2.4 In this guest blog post, Paolo will share how to make your screencasts pop like they're in 3D! Paolo also blogs and podcasts about Italy and travel.

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Screencast of the Week - Ian Ozsvald and ProCasts

TechSmith Camtasia

This week's Screencast of the Week comes to us from a professional screencaster, Ian Ozsvald of ProCasts ! I liked this screencast for several reasons. The audio quality is great on this screencast which is important as viewers are generally intolerant of poor audio. The screencast runs 1:32 and is short and to the point.

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What's the ROI of a Screencast? $2.4 Million!

TechSmith Camtasia

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what's a screencast video worth? Paolo has been doing amazing stuff at Microsoft - he has created a "Podcast-in-a-Box". In the Podcast-in-a-Box kit, there is a copy of Camtasia Studio plus a Flip video camera and professional audio recorder among other things. How about $2.4 How about $2.4

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The 12 Days of Screencasting - On the Eleventh Day.

TechSmith Camtasia

We're in the home stretch for our "12 days of Screencasting" series. On the eleventh day of Screencasting, Tom Johnson gave to me. He also records podcasts, interviewing technical writing luminaries around the world. I hope you're finding the tips useful. If so, please let the authors know in the comments. "On