Camtasia rocks!

As Scott Watermasysk's IM title says, "I've created a monster". Scott introduced me to Camtasia and I've already created 4 videos and we've created a new video blog at CommunityServer.org.  There are two videos that cover installation: Web Installer and Windows Installer and a couple other overview videos.

We also enabled the email blogging feature for our Annoucements forums which is cool because my new blogging tool is Outlook! Just open Outlook, author an email, done -- even with attachment support. I just posted a screen-shot from our coverage on Digg.com.
Published Thursday, January 26, 2006 8:29 PM by Rob Howard

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# re: Camtasia rocks!

Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:10 PM by Scott
I've also heard that SOME presenters use it to tape demos ahead of time and run the screencast during their presentation rather than take a chance of having a demo fail or having a long compile bore the audience.

Not that *I* would do anything like that. <cough cough>

# re: Camtasia rocks!

Friday, January 27, 2006 8:05 AM by Joe Brinkman
Rob,
Glad to see you like Camtasia. I have been using it for a couple years and I am constantly amazed at how easy it is to create good videos. Sure does help with the demo skills as well. Nothing like hearing every pause and "umm" in your own words to get you to improve your speaking skills. It looks like the demos were created using a slightly older version of Camtasia. They recently released a new version that updates the graphics a little and adds a few more features for exporting to Flash.

# re: Camtasia rocks!

Friday, January 27, 2006 12:42 PM by Abdu
Check out also Viewlet Builder from qarbon.com. It's very easy to use.

Abdu

# re: Camtasia rocks!

Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:21 AM by Dino
If I understand you correctly, you can do the same thing with Windows Media Encoder. You can capture video and audio from your PC and record it as .wmv. Windows Movie Maker lets you slice and dice movies, too. Both are free!