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Test Video Ad Rival Player
Here’s a new WordPress video player called Video Ad Rival from Peter Beattie of VideoRevolver. [Ad_player id=”2″] This interesting little item lets me configure a “Pre-Roll” ad for videos kinda like YouTube does with their TrueView “In-stream” ads. You know, the ones you can skip after 5 seconds? For videos on my site, I can […]
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Time to Test YouTube Ads!
First of all, let me say: I kinda hate YouTube ads. I don’t allow them on many of my own videos because I think it’s just…well, tacky. Plus, MY videos in general are meant to serve my viewer’s interests and throwing up a blatant ad in their faces says: “Hey! This video is about ME making a couple of […]
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Camtasia Studio Animations Explained
Animations in Camtasia Studio are something many folks struggle to “wrap their heads around”. In this mini tutorial, I’ll walk you through the basic concept to make it easy to understand! Once you understand how animations work in general, it’s much easier to incorporate them in your work. But PLEASE remember this: Animations are a special effect! […]
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Old Time Movie Effect in Camtasia
I gotta say…Techsmith has been kicking up the content on their blog as of late! Here’s a nifty example of how you can add an “old time” movie effect at Production time in Camtasia: ==> Techsmith Blog: Old Time Movie Effect I actually knew about this technique before but totally spaced it out until I […]
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Public Domain Content For Your Videos
Pond 5 is known as a source for stock images, video clips, audio, and more. They now have something called The Public Domain Project: ==> http://www.pond5.com/free Wow! A HUGE library of some really fun and useful content for your videos! I’ve been having a field day browsing and downloading all kinds of vintage clips, music tracks, and […]
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YouTube “End-Card” Tips
A really great video marketing tool for your YouTube channel is to use something called an “End Card” or sometimes called an “End Slate“. In this Screencast Coaching excerpt, Lon covers what that is, why it’s useful, and gives some top tips for making your own and using it in your Camtasia videos that you […]
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Facebook Challenges YouTube Channels With New Features For Pages
Twitter’s not the only one Facebook is battling for control of news and content distribution. With Pages getting quieted down in the feed, Facebook wants to.. Source: techcrunch.com Looks like we should get ready for some Facebook video changes. Wonder how “ad infested” it will be…<sigh> See on Scoop.it – Camtasia Tricks
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How To Organize Your Camtasia Projects
Camtasia Studio video projects can contain a LOT of assets like graphics, TREC or CAMREC recordings, PowerPoint slide video content, audio narration tracks… Not to mention all the other kinds of useful resources for completing a project successfully like planning documents, mind maps, scripts, and references that a more complex project will require. Oh…then there’s […]
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