TechSmith Camtasia

APRIL 14, 2021

If your videos aren’t meeting your expectations, or you’re struggling with the video production process, you may be making one (or more) of these common mistakes made by video creators. There are seven common mistakes or traps that video creators often fall into. Not getting to know your video recording equipment.

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TechSmith Camtasia

MAY 19, 2021

You’re probably tired of writing lengthy emails in response to “How’s that project going?” Humans understand information better when it’s presented visually, which makes communicating with images and videos extremely important. That’s precisely why your company should use video, and why you should create videos to report on projects.

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TechSmith Camtasia

DECEMBER 10, 2015

YouTube is a great service for sharing videos and screencasts publicly with the world. It’s not so great if the videos you’re sharing have confidential information, trade secrets, or information that would give outside hackers an insight into the inner workings of your company. Plus it gobbled up space on our servers.

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TechSmith Camtasia

APRIL 7, 2021

It’s no secret that videos and images win on social media channels. If you’re using social media to engage with customers, images and videos are a fantastic way to communicate. This is where images and videos can level-up your replies and help you provide high-value help. Then you can modify it to accomplish the goal.”.

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TechSmith Camtasia

APRIL 19, 2013

Screencasting is daunting—it’s no secret. The time and energy it takes to record, edit and publish high-quality videos is often much longer than the end product. This tends to lead to hours of frustration, eventually pushing us away from our video project and toward cat videos on YouTube. Start at the beginning.

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TechSmith Camtasia

DECEMBER 23, 2010

We're in the home stretch for our "12 days of Screencasting" series. On the eleventh day of Screencasting, Tom Johnson gave to me. When figuring out the recording dimensions, if you're planning to upload the video to youtube, record at 1280 x 720 pixels (so the videos will render in HD).

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TechSmith Camtasia

MARCH 19, 2019

For many businesses and marketers, this means creating an animated explainer video. Marketers aren’t the only ones saying video makes a difference. Consumers agree – 68 percent say they prefer to learn about a product or service by watching a video. How to make an animated explainer video in 5 easy steps.

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TechSmith Camtasia

JUNE 30, 2021

So, you want to start creating instructional videos…but where exactly do you start? Instructional videos come in many different forms, meaning there’s a style that suits almost every creator (and learner!). For video creators, this is great news. His tip is to set an objective at the very beginning of the video.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Professional trainers likely know all about making employee training videos, but what if you’re not a training pro? While you may not consider yourself a trainer, knowing how to create instructional videos can help you teach, train, and explain whatever you need to share easily and efficiently. Employee training videos work better.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Screencasts are an effective teaching tool that offers 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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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

With the aim to reimagine and rebrand old tip videos, social media intern Kelly Turner decided to take advantage of this opportunity and create new content too. Screencasting is all about process. In order to achieve this, it’s important to put some forethought into the moves you’ll make in the video. Write your script.

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mLearning Revolution

JANUARY 11, 2012

One Acrobat.com service I thought about was having a light-weight version of Adobe Captivate as part of Acrobat.com that would enable customers to do simple screen recordings or even software simulations, that could be shared and posted everywhere, on YouTube for example, or even right on Acrobat.com somehow. So much for that.

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TalentLMS

MARCH 17, 2016

The overwhelming surge in popular social media hangouts like Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, Snapchat, Google+, YouTube, as well as the true power that blogs have, all tell us where the potential learners are. Create your Own Videos. The key is to speak clearly and provide subtitles in your videos.

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TechSmith Camtasia

JULY 31, 2018

Think of an explainer video as the modern day elevator pitch. The explainer style of video is designed to grab people’s attention. They are often displayed on landing pages, in emails and more commonly, as ads on YouTube. One way to help establish this goal is to write a purpose statement. Create an account?

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In the same way, two instructional videos can be equally good. A tutorial video on using a table saw can be good and so can one on making pivot tables in Microsoft Excel. So, what makes a good tutorial video? While there are often a number of things that need to be covered in a video, not all of them are learning objectives.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 25, 2009

You may have heard the news last week that Articulate launched a new screencasting tool called Screenr. It is a free web-based tool that lets you create screencasts without installing any software. You can even watch the screencasts back at HD-quality and they look great. Screenr gives you multiple ways to use your screencasts.

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TechSmith Camtasia

JANUARY 5, 2015

Prepping for your screencast is the most important and beneficial step to the screencasting process. Ironically, I learned just how true that can be while recording this video. Since this was the first video in the series, it took the longest to iron out. Watch it here on YouTube. Write a script.

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TechSmith Camtasia

OCTOBER 14, 2013

I strive to engage students, and video creation goes a long way toward motivating them and giving them avenues for expressing themselves. Working with multiple media, especially video, enables authors to use communication strategies that extend the familiar approaches we find in print. Can’t see the embedded video?

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TechSmith Camtasia

JUNE 4, 2018

It is a post-production effect that allows video editors to replace backgrounds and insert footage or images into their scenes. Many companies use green screen to produce informative product videos, company updates and more. The first thing to know is that it’s incredibly easy to produce a green screen video these days!

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TechSmith Camtasia

JUNE 6, 2017

These tools include text editors, and graphic and video tools. But how do you decide when to use text, images, or video for your product assistance? Is the use of images or video forbidden by law? This makes the use of video as the primary medium quite difficult, but using images may not always be the best solution either.

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Nick Leffler

DECEMBER 29, 2014

During my creating of some of the lectures I had some content that wasn’t well explained in the typical screencast method of the course. I created a few videos which in the end I’m satisfied with, but they came at the price of dealing with the shortcomings of Powtoons. Those reasons are as follows: One.

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TechSmith Camtasia

JULY 10, 2013

Katie is presently working with and passionate about social media, Google apps for Ed ( #GAFE ) and scripts ( #GSCriptChat ), HTML, iPads, iOS, screencasting, video editing and much, much more. Can’t see the video? Watch it on YouTube ! How did you discover the magic of screencasting? Can’t forget that.

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TechSmith Camtasia

MARCH 5, 2012

You can also catch up on the first and second week blog posts. What's been the initial reaction to their finished screencasts, both internally and from their clients? Have you thought of new ways you might use screencasting in your business? Chris: We have almost exlusively used screencasting for technical training in the past.

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TechSmith Camtasia

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Having trouble viewing this video? Click here to watch on YouTube. So, she decided to forgo her annual letter, opting to create a short video with Camtasia instead. “My Because my family is used to me taking lots of photos throughout the year, recording a video was an easy transition. Making a Video. Future Plans.

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The Training by Nelle Blog | Corporate Training and Consulting

OCTOBER 3, 2019

To get the ball rolling, simply write down the scenario you'd like to address, transform it into a case study format and let your employees reflect on the outcome of the scenario. in a meeting or special training session), or simply use an internal blog/discussion board for employees to comment. So, What Will it Cost Me?

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TechSmith Camtasia

MAY 6, 2019

It’s no secret that YouTube is the ultimate place to post video content. YouTube has over 1.9 billion monthly active users and they watch a billion hours of video every day. To put that in perspective, that’s over 114,000 years of video consumed EVERY DAY. Create a YouTube video strategy.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

If you want to know about, say, photography - one of my current interests - the first thing you do is go to Google and YouTube. Your search doesn't lead you to slide shows full of bullet points and multiple-choice questions, but to blogs, Wikipedia articles, screencasts and lots and lots of videos.

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TechSmith Camtasia

APRIL 3, 2013

See the “ Cress and Little ” video below. Can’t see the video? Watch it on YouTube. We had students create presentations, videos, Glogs, prezi’s, blogs, and live demonstrations. We had students write about the mathematics. We even developed alternate personas to introduce each unit. So, has it worked?

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learnWorlds

DECEMBER 12, 2019

It could be text, graphics, animation, video, audio or more enhancing tools. A course which uses PowerPoint presentations, simple video, audio, graphics and quizzes of True-False or multiple-choice test questions. This table shows how you can create a video going through the different development stages. Content Creation.

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TechSmith Camtasia

MAY 22, 2013

This past spring Graham recently finished writing his Master’s thesis titled ‘ Student Perceptions of the Flipped Classroom.’ ’ Interactivity – The Future of Flipped Classroom Video. Wouldn’t it be great if you could ask comprehension questions within your videos? Can’t see the video?

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Mindflash

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Check out a few of these videos of Gary! ). Get to Know Your Customers Do a meetup with your current and potential customers at a local coffee shop or author a few blog posts to elicit a response. Here are a few to get you started: Jing (Free or Paid Version) – Easily create screencasts and video tutorials.

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TechSmith Camtasia

MAY 4, 2020

Making that first video can feel like a struggle. However, learning how to edit video content doesn’t have to be difficult and you’re DEFINITELY not alone! We’re here to help you survive your first video. This video will walk you through exactly what you need to know to edit your own videos. Full Video Transcript.

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Mindflash

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Check out a few of these videos of Gary! ). Get to Know Your Customers Do a meetup with your current and potential customers at a local coffee shop or author a few blog posts to elicit a response. Here are a few to get you started: Jing (Free or Paid Version) – Easily create screencasts and video tutorials.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

I write this as I travel to Birmingham to participate in a panel discussion with Nick Shackleton-Jones and Robin Hoyle on the role of social media in learning. The internet and mobile technologies are changing our lives as completely as the invention of writing, printing, the telephone and radio/TV have done in the past.

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TechSmith Camtasia

JUNE 5, 2013

He still writes and analyzes education on his website: Educator, Learner. Learn how Brian Bennett, former science teacher, harnessed screencasting in his classroom to create, evaluate and give feedback on digital content to benefit his classroom and his students. Can’t see the video? Watch it on YouTube !

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

You probably look for a video. According to a Pew research study , 87% of users said that YouTube is important for helping them figure out how to do things they haven’t done before. If you’re looking to level-up your video skills and knowledge, you’ll love this guide. Part 1: What is an instructional video?

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 11, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. This post includes links on the gender pay gap, accessibility for videos, useful tools, and creating branching scenarios. Ranting on the Gender Pay Gap in e-Learning An old blog post from Julie Dirksen about the gender pay gap in the elearning field.

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