TechSmith Camtasia

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Tom’s also a screencasting pro, and he frequently puts video content on his YouTube channel or on Screencast.com. Having the videos accessible via Edmodo is also nice in case students are absent or need to review in the future. I think that it helps them to write to an authentic audience. How do you make your videos?

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

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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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

If you want to become a better screencaster, how are you going to improve your skills? Camtasia expert, Daniel Park, has a couple upcoming events that may help you get the skills and expertise to get to the next level of screencasting. dappertext was founded by Daniel Park, who is an author, screencasting guru, and TechSmith alumnus.

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TechSmith Camtasia

JULY 11, 2017

Screencasting at work? Screencasting and screen recording give you the ability to demonstrate a process, personalize communication, and archive important information. Plus, video usage in the workplace is on the rise. And lucky for you, we’ve pulled together a list of ways you can start using video today. Why, of course!

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TechSmith Camtasia

MARCH 7, 2011

I was absolutely blown away at the number of screencast examples many of you shared on this recent blog post. The screencast that was listed the most in your feedback was one done our Instructional Designer, Ryan Eash. I wanted to make sure everyone saw this screencast. Topics include: Writing a script.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Part of where I struggled was writing up files for demos and examples each day for a lesson. Rather than writing out entire documents and refreshing the browser to see the effect, I start by prototyping in services like CodePen or jsFiddle. What About Screencasting? Using screencasts, I can do the same thing.

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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. It’s a lot like writing a play.”.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Guest post by German video producer and author Andreas Zeitler. I started with a long history of screencasting. I discovered over the years, that in education as well as in advertisements, screencasts are just not good enough on their own. I recommend using mind maps to write down all ideas belonging to a project.

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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). a tip on recording dimensions!".

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TalentLMS

MAY 14, 2021

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the phrase “ voice-over video? ”. Voice-over is an extremely versatile type of video and can be used on anything from movie trailers to college lectures to, of course, corporate training. Using video for learning is very popular nowadays. Inspirational/introductory videos.

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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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TechSmith Camtasia

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Whether you’re a small business, an educator, or an entrepreneur looking to teach your audience, YouTube is a must-go spot to host your learning video content. That includes product videos, how-to videos, tutorial videos, or educational lessons. 80% of Internet traffic will come from video by 2019. Absolutely.

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TechSmith Camtasia

JULY 31, 2012

Back in December 2010 we posted a series, The 12 Days of Screencasting, where each day we asked a guest blogger to provide a valuable tip on screencasting. Demo Girl Molly McDonald talks about timing in screencasts, and we give away the “Jing Love” song. Alan Lepofsky talks about recording audio and video separately.

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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

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

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. Now, all of that can sound a little intimidating, but don’t worry, in the rest of this post, we’ll walk through how to make your own explainer video, stress free. Start with the end in mind.

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TechSmith Camtasia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

However, you don’t have to be in the same physical space to collaboratively make videos. We decided that we wanted to create our videos for next year together. We needed to find a way to collaboratively make videos from the comfort and convenience of our own homes. Can’t see the video? Separate audio and video.

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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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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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eLearningArt

MARCH 22, 2018

Video is the #2 eLearning trend picked by the experts for 2018. When you think of video, what comes to your mind? According to eLearning video expert Sam Rogers, you can get started today with the tools and skills you already have. And with that said, let’s create our first video together! Good news….

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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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mLearning Revolution

JANUARY 11, 2012

More on this in the eBook I’m writing on what I learned at Adobe. I know some people may have an issue with this limitation, but I actually like it and I believe this feature alone will make you a better screencaster. I’ve only posted a few screencasts, but I’ve already gotten a few comments and I enjoy responding back.

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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. Each channel has its own separate permissions.

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TechSmith Camtasia

MAY 30, 2014

Once people could add interactivity to Camtasia Studio videos in the form of hotspots , the Screencast team got a request for hotspot playback. When Screencast supported quizzing, our marketing team asked to include quizzes on www.techsmith.com. If Jing could upload images to Screencast, then Snagit should be able to as well.

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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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LearnDash

MARCH 3, 2013

Write, write, write! That said, it’s not impossible, and writing for the industry is your best way to break into the internet profit! When you write for the e-learning industry, you enter the realm of a select few who are willing to put their views out there for the rest of the world to see.

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TechSmith Camtasia

JUNE 24, 2019

That is a lot of internet usage — and those users seem to be creating and sharing more images and video than ever before. Here’s what they had to say: The below is a transcript of the interviews: Why do you think people are sharing more images and video? “ Why are images and video increasing in importance? Walk right in.

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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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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

JULY 25, 2012

This time around, we spoke with Shannon Sellars and Erin Klein about their screencasting work and what they hope to learn from/contribute to ScreencastCamp. So if you want to co-lead a session on copyright and fair use with Shannon, or learn a thing or two about blogging from Erin, this post may be your perfect starting point.

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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. Write a script. Watch it here on YouTube.

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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? How did you discover the magic of screencasting? Oh, and taking over the world. Follow @katieregan88.

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