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Your Year for Video! Getting Started, Leveling Up, and Making Better Videos

TechSmith Camtasia

If you’re used to doing just screen captures, opt for a talking heads video. Maybe try out different content formats within the same video. You might even find your new go-to video format. Leveling up your video skills is all about trying new things and making small changes. Don’t leave it there, though.

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How To Edit Video: Reducing File Size

TechSmith Camtasia

Video Format and File Type. **If There are many different video formats you could export your finished video into. To help you not worry too much about file size, we’ve created Camtasia and Snagit video outputs to default to the MP4 file type, and will recommend MP4 in the majority of cases for online sharing.

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Snagit 11.1 Release – Windows 8 compatibility, system audio capture, and more

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System Audio Recording: Capture the sound coming from your computer speakers and from your microphone. Useful for capturing things like a YouTube video or Flash game ( tutorial ). Release – Windows 8 compatibility, system audio capture, and more appeared first on TechSmith Blogs. What’s New in Snagit 11.1.

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Repurpose Your Content: Make a Blog Video!

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A vlog is a blog that is primarily delivered in video format. For our purposes, when we say blog video , we’re talking about a video summary of a blog post. We skip voice narration, because the primary function for our blog videos is for social media promotion. The post Repurpose Your Content: Make a Blog Video!

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3 Lessons Learned from Adding Video into My Company’s Newsletter

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The TechSmith newsletter is sent out to over 310,000 readers each month, and we continue to gain more than 1,500 new subscribers monthly. A lot of people had very specific requests, but I noticed that a lot of the requests had one thing in common…they wanted more video content. I mean, what if I sounded weird?

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The Beginners Guide to Successful Video Pre Production

TechSmith Camtasia

It’s a small detail, but you don’t want viewers to have to guess whether the video is associated with your or not. If you’re using an LMS, you’ll want to know what video formats your LMS supports. Even if you can get the video into the LMS will the end users be able to see it? If it isn’t, cut it.

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Camtasia Small Business Test Drive: Week 2

TechSmith Camtasia

I like that Camtasia has a preset for YouTube, but I want to expand the dimensions to fill my entire screen then have the video format accordingly (rather than being tied to a specific screen portion during recording). Those are unedited in this video and they work out very well. What are some things you found to be lacking?