Archive for March, 2009

Screencast Tutorial Part 3 – Editing your screencast

Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in MicroISV, Screencast Tutorial | 5 Comments »

We've discussed why you should screencast and how to choose your screencast software in this screencast tutorial series, now we'll look at editing your recording. Your goal when editing is to ... Read more..

Sound clearer by recording with 6dB less noise

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in General | 1 Comment »

The quest for the 'quiet PC' is always a challenge for any audio engineer.  A standard PC has several fans, each of which contributes background noise that a sensitive microphone ... Read more..

Screencast Tutorial Part 2 – Choosing your software

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in MicroISV, Screencast Tutorial | 8 Comments »

We've already covered why you should be screencasting, now let's look at your software choices.  For each platform you have a choice of a few pieces of software.  Each of ... Read more..

Screencast Tutorial Part 1 – Why You Need Screencasts

Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in MicroISV, Screencast Tutorial | 18 Comments »

If indeed a picture is worth a thousand words then perhaps a screencast is worth a million?  Your viewers get to see your application in action just as if you ... Read more..

Open-source advocacy with Adblock Plus

Saturday, March 14th, 2009 Posted in General, Screencast Client | 3 Comments »

Over Christmas I'd spoken to Wladimir Palant of the Adblock Plus project, Adblock (you guessed it...) strips ads from within Firefox.   Some of his users had trouble understanding how the ... Read more..

Converting screencasts to Ogg Theora (.ogv)

Saturday, March 14th, 2009 Posted in Screencast Tutorial | 1 Comment »

For the Adblock Plus video Wladimir wanted a freely licensed .ogv video to accompany the YouTube format.  At first I turned to my trusty ffmpeg but it seems that theora/vorbis ... Read more..

8 Tips to Make Screencasts That Grab Eyeballs (part 1)

Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Screencast Tutorial | No Comments »

Are you making your own screencasts?  Frustrated that they're not generating the actions you want?  Here we present 8 tips borne of 4 years screencasting experience from teaching 100,000 users ... Read more..

Introducing – Richard Mitchelson (Deisign, Animation, Creative)

Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Team ProCasts | No Comments »

My name is Richard Mitchelson and I am a creative designer/animator with 5 years commercial experience working with clients such as the BBC, Toyota, Nokia, Vodafone, Philips and ... Read more..

Introducing – Ian Ozsvald (founder, producer, screencaster, open-src advocate)

Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Team ProCasts | No Comments »

We figured introducing our team makes sense so you know who you're dealing with.  I'm the founder of ProCasts.  The idea of professionally producing screencasts came to fruition during August ... Read more..