Typically, for a lot of you, these last few days of the year are full of organizing your home and office and getting ready for some fun parties and activities to mark the beginning of a new year. But, I have another super valuable activity you can do over the next few days that could […]
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Today let’s get into a super sweet PowerPoint video project using one of the Levidio PowerPoint Templates. This is the first in a series of a bunch of PowerPoint video tutorials, templates, tips, and tricks I am working on! Think of it as a specific “toolkit” you can learn from and use in your PowerPoint […]
Continue readingWe got a question recently during our weekly group coaching about how to know what to charge for your videos when you are a service provider. Lon and I have spent quite a bit of time discussing the Cheap vs. Fast vs. Good scenario when we roll out a new training product and it’s the […]
Continue readingCamtasia Callouts are images or effects you can add to your videos to create engagement, add information, or bring the viewers attention to certain parts of the screen. I use them in pretty much all my software demos, tutorials and courses. The Camtasia Software does provide a nice assortment of call-outs both in the Callout tab […]
Continue readingSo, I was bored the other day… Scrolling through Facebook and saw a pretty funny political “meme” graphic. I wanted to test a couple of things: 1. Make a video version of a somewhat “controversial” image and see if it would get any Share / Views action on Facebook (it did). 2. See if I […]
Continue readingWhen I look back at my early work, I’m surprised I’ve lasted this long. A lot of the video courses and marketing videos I built years ago just weren’t very good. But that’s okay. I’ve learned a lot about design over the last 5 years and I’m still constantly learning. Last week I learned more about […]
Continue readingKeyboard short-cuts (or hotkeys) have been around forever in the mouse-moving. pointing & clicking world of Windows as a way to avoid constantly traversing the screen to get software to do what you want. Buttons, menus, links…all the things that made a graphical user interface popular in the first place get a little tedious when […]
Continue readingIn previous posts we’ve looked at using PowerPoint Templates for video and Leveraging PowerPoint Templates in Camtasia Studio. But what if you need to create the PowerPoint Design for your video from scratch? In this post I’m going to show you what I consider a typical, beginner PowerPoint slide and my opinion of what is wrong with […]
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