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Free Audio Tracks On YouTube

From the  “Did You Know” Department: YouTube actually provides some really nice Royalty Free music you can use (in fact, it’s encouraged) in your videos? I know, right! Nice that you can search by genre, mood, instrument, and duration. You can also mark your favorites to download later. The Terms & Conditions include the ability […]

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How To Avoid Plosives in Your Video Narration

Lon has been preaching the value of decent audio for years now… The fact is that bad audio will impact the perceived quality of your Camtasia screencasts and PowerPoint presentation-style videos to a very significant degree. Here is a excerpt from one of Lon’s Screencast Coaching webinars that explains how to avoid the #1 cause […]

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Music Revolution Royalty Free Tracks

Here’s a music track resource with some really nice free stuff! Here’s the link to the free tracks page: ==> Music Revolution Free Tracks Music absolutely is an important part of video production. It can invoke emotion and completely set the mood and feeling of your projects! Don’t believe me? Try swapping out your current music […]

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Some Common Mistakes with your Visual Design

I was working with a coaching client the other day.  We reviewed his first attempt at a training video.  For this review, we focused on the video’s visual design. Overall, he did a great job, especially for someone just starting out.  However, he made some mistakes that are common to many of the videos I […]

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How to Manage Your Video Projects Like a PMP

Right now you are trying to figure out what a PMP is, aren’t you? PMP stands for Project Management Professional and it is the certification that is most widely recognized by corporate America as someone who is serious about the profession of Project Manager. When I worked at IBM, they wanted all their Project Managers […]

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Great Royalty Free Music Tracks

Camtasia Studio comes with some very decent music tracks that you can add to your videos projects. In Camtasia version 8, these tracks come from one of my favorite sources for low cost music: Stock20.com I’ve been using their material and recommending them for years now! But here’s a really nice resource for excellent quality […]

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What Inspires Your Video Creativity?

This morning I sat down to create a video for a new product that Lon and I are launching in a few weeks.  It is called “From Lame to Fame” and we show Before and After versions of videos and techniques. We decided that this time I would design a video salespage instead of the […]

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Easy Video Suite player embed test

What’s the best way to see how well video gadgets, doo-dads (that’s the technical term for new and cool goodies), and strategic technologies in general? Ya just gotta test ’em! One of the technologies that is very important now days are “video players”. Traditionally (or at least historically), “embedding” video files into web-based pages, blogs, etc. has […]

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