After the 2010 Google Super Bowl ad I was inspired to try my hand at making one of these very cool screencast videos. In case you missed the blog post about it, here is the Google ad that aired and my first attempt to do one:
Google Search Video Post
Check it out and leave a comment [...]

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Like a lot of folks, I was intrigued by the rare ad run by Google during the Super Bowl. Some people loved it, some hated it, some indifferent. Certainly, if loud action shots, side splitting humor, or just good ole’ fashioned big boobs are what float your boat as far as commercials go then this [...]

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Here’s a Camtasia Screencast QuickTip on how to create a “Lower Third” for branding and copy protecting your videos.

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One of the things that definitely separates marginal video from really good ones has to do with “what’s going on visually?” as the viewer watches. I almost always try to put some kind of visual spark to keep the video interesting. Lots of folks have asked me where to get graphics to use for this [...]

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My good friend Brian Edmondson asked about how to have videos show up in one of those cool “lightboxes” where the video jumps off the page in a box and the rest of the page dims out thereby “highlighting” the video box.
These are also sometimes called a “modal dialogue” box.
Here’s one of the many ways [...]

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In this QuickTip, I’ll show you how to get around the limitation in Camtasia Studio 5x and earlier versions where the audio and video are “married” together making it difficult to replace the offensive audio track.

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Have you noticed that by default the new Camtasia Studio 5 displays a “green rectangle” around each Pan & Zoom event in the produced video?
At first, I thought it was kinda cool but now it just screams “Hey! I’m a run-of-the-mill-Camtasia-video!”.
Well, I hate being average so I found out how to remove the thing…here’s the [...]

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