Today we held the first of our live sessions in the “Career in Screencasting” course and we got some really great questions. William asked this “When you are creating a video portfolio what would be the top skills to highlight”. I thought it was a great question because it takes more than just familiarity with […]
Continue readingI get this question a lot in my coaching classes “Now that I’ve learned Screencasting with Camtasia and PowerPoint how can I make money with these skills?”. Now, some people decided that their goal is to break free from the service business and only use their skills to create videos for themselves and their own […]
Continue readingWe’ve had some fun talking about the interesting way of delivering messages visually using what’s called kinetic typography. See Michelle’s posts HERE: How To Make Kinetic Typography Effects In PowerPoint While it’s very possible to create such video content using PowerPoint, it does take some advanced skills (not to mention patience and effort) to pull […]
Continue readingAccording to Wikipedia, Kinetic typography — the technical name for “moving text” — is an animation technique mixing motion and text to express ideas using video animation. I started doing some additional research on this technique after one of our coaching students, Michael Holthuysen, posted a link to a cool video about creating kinetic typography […]
Continue readingAs I scrolled through the videos submitted for critique on our Screencast Video Coaching forum one, in particular, caught my eye right away. Jason, one of our newer students, had put up two videos: One full motion video of himself and one PowerPoint style screencast. I was quite impressed that someone could do such a […]
Continue readingHave you heard of “Mind Mapping”? It’s a technique for brain-storming ideas and tasks into a managable outline and used for everything from “honey-do” lists to full blown project management. In this mini-webinar excerpt from our Weekly Screencast Coaching call, Lon Naylor invited his good friend and Mind Map expert Bob “The Teacher” Jenkins to […]
Continue readingWhen I taught Camtasia Studio live here in Atlanta last month I was a bit embarrassed when the students asked about adding captions. In spite of the fact that I’d use Camtasia for years I had no real experience adding them to my videos. I promised that if they would come to one of our […]
Continue readingTechSmith Corporation has released Camtasia Studio 8.2! The big revisions are mobile device integration and Producing to Google Drive as an additional option. Here’s an overview by Lon Naylor recorded during a weekly Screencast Coaching Webinar: In the video, Lon also used a nifty app for your PC called Reflector that “mirrors” your iPad on […]
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