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Nancy Duarte: How to Create Better Visual Presentations
See on Scoop.it – PowerPoint for Video Nancy Duarte explains how to create better visual presentations so you can communicate your ideas with efficiency, clarity and impact. She is CEO of Silicon… Lon Naylor‘s insight: I constantly see video “gurus” telling people to just insert all your script text into PowerPoint slides, read it aloud […]
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Advanced Camtasia 8: Using Hotspots to Navigate Within Your Video Course
There are times when a regular Camtasia Table of Contents will work for navigating through a series of videos. There are other times when you will prefer to navigate within a video using the Hotspots method. When you are ready to try this, it will open your mind to some interesting ideas for learner control […]
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UNCHECK the Crop Tool
There are some simple things in software that can sometimes really trip you up! Know what I mean? đ Camtasia 8 has a nifty little tool called the Crop Tool that will let you crop stuff on the timeline (like video clips) to make them “fit” and look better. Nice, right? Here’s a little problem […]
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Working with Visual Properties to Create New Animations in Camtasia 8
If you own Camtasia 8 youâll notice that the ability to create animations was added in a tab called âVisual Propertiesâ. Because I tend to be a creature of habit and am used to doing my animations in PowerPoint it has take me a long time to get used to doing some of them in […]
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PresenterMedia PowerPoint Integration Tool
There are some tools and resources I use when making Camtasia and PowerPoint videos that would simply CRUSH me productivity-wise if I didn’t have them. At the top of that list is PresenterMedia. I know…I talk about it all the time but in this 8 minute mini-webinar (taken from our new Career In Screencasting Course) […]
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3 Super Useful Tips To Improve Video Productivity
As I prepare this weekend for my 30 Day Video Challenge I have been compiling some of the new productivity tips that I have implemented over the last year. I only started using the three tips below after I had a little slump this past August. I had taken some time off in July and […]
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The Art Of The Sales Story
It probably won’t come as a surprise to most folks who are actively creating videos for sales and marketing that using a script to carefully craft the sales message holds the same importance as creating good sales copy has for a sales page. That’s because they are essentially the same thing! A video script = […]
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What are the Top Skills for a Video Screencaster?
Today we held the first of our live sessions in the âCareer in Screencastingâ course and we got some really great questions. William asked this âWhen you are creating a video portfolio what would be the top skills to highlightâ. I thought it was a great question because it takes more than just familiarity with […]
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