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Supplement Your Camtasia Screencast with Scenarios

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How do these fit into your screencast, you ask? Remove the background, and you can now use the characters and branching options to jump on and off screen right on top of your screencast to offer help, ask questions, or allow the viewer to choose to view the module again.

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Housekeeping Best Practices For Screensharing and Screencasting

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I prefer option 3 because it allows me to keep my presets like the first option, and I start my screencasting videos with an animation for the company I am representing, so there is no need to introduce my brand through a desktop background. Another thing I do is never show the desktop background in the first place. That’s my opinion.

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[Webinar] How to Use Camtasia for Your eLearning Courses

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By the end of this webinar, you’ll have enough know how to use Camtasia’s screencast capabilities to make great eLearning courses. It gives the ability to record screencasts to your desktop and make edits to that video for your eLearning courses. What is so cool about Camtasia Studio?

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Video Production Tips: Slate, Mic, and Lighting

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When shooting a live action video, you suddenly have to care about different things than you do in a screencast. Microphone use is a little bit different from what you would use in a screencast, and you have a wide variety of options. Lighting a subject is very different from a screencast.

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6 Tips For Correcting Video Errors With the Camtasia Timeline

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I, on the other hand, make frequent mistakes when shooting on camera, or when recording a screencast, so I’ve put together a few tips on how to make correcting video errors using your Camtasia timeline as simple and straightforward as possible. Cover a bad visual with b-roll. Once I turned on the fan, I was able to duplicate my sound.

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How to Map Out Your Video Production With Blocking

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They do the same thing in video, and you should be doing something similar with your screencasts. Have you ever planned a video production, either a screencast or a video recording, and had it end up nothing at all like you envisioned it? What caused the deviation from your plan? Was it a change in direction that came late?

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Webinar: A Beginners Guide to Camtasia Tools

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You can view more of Lon Naylor’s screencasting tips at LearnCamtasia.com. In last week’s Camtasia webinar, we hosted Lon Naylor in a Beginners Guide to Camtasia Tools. He outlines some great shortcut keys, timeline secrets, and general Camtasia knowledge that you’re sure to be excited about!