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The Honest Economy: Great Thoughts For Video Content
How Transparency Can Change the Economy and Inspire a New World In this moving talk, Marcus Sheridan shows how massive companies like McDonalds and CarMax are destroying negative stigmas and inspiring a new way of doing businesses—all where “secret sauce” doesn’t exist—simply by embracing transparency as we’ve never seen it before. Lon Naylor‘s insight: As […]
Continue readingDubbing in Narration in Camtasia Studio
There are going to be times when, in spite of your best script writing efforts, you (or a client) will need to change a part of the narration after your video has been edited . If it’s a very short video I’ll occasionally rerecord the full narration, but if not, you need to find a way […]
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Enter Screencast Contest to Win Awesome Video Prizes!
Hey screencast video creators, are you up for a challenge? We are having a video contest with some amazing prizes worth over $2,400! We are excited to announce our first ever video contest which was inspired by the recent release of TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio 8. You are invited to share your screencasting talents by submitting […]
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Creating a Typewriter Effect in PowerPoint 2010
You may have seen the typewriter effect used in sales and marketing videos across the Internet and wondered how it was done. Creating the effect in PowerPoint 2010 is actually quite easy. You just need to spend a little time fiddling with the speed and making sure your narration synchronizes with your typing. Once you […]
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These 9 Principles of Instruction Can Help Plan your Video Tutorials
When you are creating a tutorial or an e-learning course, there is a certain flow that the course must have in order for an adult to stay engaged and motivated to complete it. I learned a lot of theories about this back in graduate school where I studied adult learning in field called. Instructional Technology. […]
Continue readingCreating a Custom Video Template in PowerPoint
Because Lon and I use PowerPoint a lot when we create our Camtasia videos, we used to spend a lot of time staring at a blank white slide template wondering how to make it unique or how to create a color scheme that would work. Often we wanted the video colors to blend with a website […]
Continue readingVideo Match Made in Heaven
There are a lot of great tools within Camtasia and you don’t really have to have other software. However, using PowerPoint together with Camtasia can be a match made in heaven. Powerpoint has a lot of great features that will help your videos stand out, such as animation, transitions, themes and design tools. This program […]
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Why E-learning Videos are Better than Instructor-Led Live Training
I’ve been creating so many training videos lately that I recently took some time to think about why I love video based on-line training more than I’ve ever liked going into a classroom and sitting through hours or days of an instructor led classroom course. Although in traditional Web based Learning, learners don’t design the […]
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