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Why I Chose Camtasia Over Articulate Storyline and Captivate
When you develop, online video based training courses, you have a few options for development. You can use a rapid e-learning tools like Articulate Storyline or Captivate or you can use a tool like Camtasia, which differs from the others in that it specializes in giving you perfect screen recordings. I’ve been an Instructional Designer for over […]
Continue readingA Mini Guide to Video Captions in Camtasia and YouTube
Last month we had a lively discussion in our Facebook site about adding captions to a video course. Who would have thought there would be so much interest around this? I mean, video captions are nice and all but this discussion went on for days. So are some of the things we discussed… Why Add Captions […]
Continue readingWhy Build Training Videos with Camtasia Studio?
This week I (Michelle) traveled to New Jersey to deliver a live Camtasia Studio training session for a small group at a healthcare company near the Jersey Shore. The group I taught would be in charge of all the marketing videos, software tutorials and training courses for their organization. As I drove back to the airport […]
Continue readingEdit and Re-purpose your Webinar with Camtasia Studio
While it’s true that Lon and I are huge Camtasia Studio fans, you might be surprise to learn that about 90% of the content here on LearnCamtasia.com was originally created during live webinars. Camtasia is our tool of choice for recording and editing them (and creating all our marketing videos, professional tutorials and demos) but when it […]
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PowerPoint vs. Camtasia–How to Choose the Right Tool for your Video
I got an email today, from a video creator, asking me the following: “I need to create a series of videos for my customers, training videos, and then I also want to create a series of video sales letters. To date, I’ve been using power point with animations and voice overs. What is the difference in […]
Continue readingCreating Custom Call-outs for your Camtasia Studio Screencasts
Camtasia 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 […]
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Camtasia Editing Hot Key Shortcuts
Keyboard 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 […]
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Text Animation Workaround
There seems to be a kind of quirky behavior to text callouts when you want to scale them with animation. One of our favorite animations is to configure the “beginning” state of an element with the Scale property set all the way down to zero…then Add an animation to Scale it up creating a ZOOM IN […]
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