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Meet the Envato Family

One of the coolest resources out there for all kinds of interesting media elements for your Camtasia videos is a “family” of websites from a company called Envato. This innovative company provides "marketplaces" for artists and code jockeys to upload their works and offer them for sale. Everything from stock images, audio tracks, motion graphics, […]

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Creating Lower Thirds for Camtasia

In this Screencast QuickTip, I address a member request for improving the look of a graphic he uses in his video called a "Lower Third". Check out Todd’s "Crappy Sample" here: Crappy Sample! Pretty serious lookin’ dude, eh? Ya… serious about making better videos! Lookup swift codes United Kingdom banks 😉 Here’s my tip and […]

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Camtasia 7 Sneak Peek

Here is a sneak peek at a couple of the new features in Camtasia Studio version 7 from Techsmith. New Camtasia 7 Callouts Adding callouts to your videos is always a quick & easy way to add visual interest or emphasis to a talking point. Camtasia 7 has some new callout styles and, even cooler, […]

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A Google Search Story Video

Like a lot of folks, I was intrigued by the rare ad run by Google during the Super Bowl. Some people loved it, some hated it, some indifferent. Certainly, if loud action shots, side splitting humor, or just good ole’ fashioned big boobs are what float your boat as far as commercials go then this […]

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Free Image Editing Tool

One of our favorite image editing tools is Picnik.com. You can upload an image to the site, work it to your heart’s content and then save it back to your own PC. Picnik will allow you to: crop resize rotate touch up adjust lighting Best of all, it’s free! No registration is required. It works […]

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