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Camtasia Training tutorials & resources
You Can Avoid these Five Failures by Planning out Your PowerPoint or Camtasia Training Videos
Early on in my ( Michelle) career as an Instructional Designer I used to work for AT&T and my job was to help their instructors create better courses. Most of the instructors came up from the ranks and were assigned the role of trainer because they were so good at their job that their bosses thought […]
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 […]
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Organize Your Video Projects with this Trick
As you start creating video projects of any kind (Camtasia, PowerPoint, camera, webinars, etc.), one of the first “holy cow!” moments will come when you look at your hard drive and realize that: Wow! There are a LOT of files involved in this whole deal! Keeping things organized is a fundamental practice in not only […]
Continue readingNew to Video Training Development? A Successful Elearning Project Requires Good Planning.
To a novice even simple things seem complex. And when things appear complex, we can become frustrated or feel like we don’t have the skills to accomplish what it is we want to do. In a very simple sense a video training course is about creating an environment where a person goes from a point […]
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How To Do a “Double Zoom” in Camtasia
As I was watching the pre-launch videos for a recent video product launch, I noticed an interesting little kind of “zoom” effect. Sort of a really quick double-pump deal… It’s nice, subtle, and wicked simple to use to add a small “pattern interrupt” to your video projects: This little trick and be used not only […]
Continue readingFive Cool Things I Discovered Helping My Son Create a Video Game Tutorial for YouTube
As a mom you hope that your kids might follow in your footsteps and have an interest in the work you do. I’ve often helped my kids put together projects using Camtasia Videos and PowerPoint and asked my son Joshua, who just turned 16, if he would have any interest in editing videos for me […]
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Camtasia Animations 101
Camtasia Studio can actually do some pretty amazing things when it comes to Animations. On a recent training webinar we did called “3 Top Tips For Successful Screencasting“, I decided a good topic would be: Camtasia Animations 101 – make stuff move quickly & easily by learning how…once and for all! There seems to be […]
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 […]
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