Marketing with screencasting interview for the Internet Marketing Podcast

Thursday, December 17th, 2009 Posted in General, Screencast Interview, The Screencasting Handbook | No Comments »

Yesterday I was interviewed by Andy White (author of Podcasting Unleashed) on the hows and whys of screencasting for marketing software products. Some of the links mentioned are listed ... Read more..

Camtasia for Mac released

Sunday, August 30th, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »

I'm happy to see that after participating in the beta programme for TechSmith's Camtasia for Mac, they've successfully launched. They're listing a $99USD price (1/3 off of the standard price) during ... Read more..

New tutorial series for ShowMeDo – OpenOffice Calc 3.1 for Microsoft Excel Users in 12 parts

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Screencast Client | 1 Comment »

I've just finished production of a new 12-part tutorial  series for ShowMeDo, the result is OpenOffice Calc 3.1 for Microsoft Excel users.  The overview is embedded below, links to all ... Read more..

New Poll Added on the Right – ‘You Screencast To Make…’

Monday, June 1st, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »

I've retired the previous poll and added a new one, you'll see it in the right side-bar.  This time I'm asking 'You Screencast To Make...?' to find out if you're ... Read more..

Editing Audio from Camasia using Audacity (5 minute Screencast Tutorial)

Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Screencast Tutorial | 7 Comments »

Whilst speaking with Daniel Foster at TechSmith I decided to create a short video that shows you how to use the free Audacity audio-editor to gain more control over your ... Read more..

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..

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..

Less than 90% adoption of .MP4-compatible Flash 9+10?

Friday, January 2nd, 2009 Posted in General | 5 Comments »

In CamTasia 6 we are forced to use .mp4 as our web-friendly output format, this replaces the venerable .flv format from CamTasia 5 and earlier.  This has caused some upset ... Read more..

Convert CamTasia 6 .mp4 to .flv using ffmpeg

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in General | 7 Comments »

Are you having trouble converting CamTasia 6's mp4 screencasts into the older flv format that we had in CamTasia 5 (and earlier)? CamTasia 6 doesn't include FLV as an output option ... Read more..