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What's a Watt Stopper? My First FLIP Camera Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am also fooling around with Camtasia Studio to see what the more advanced editing features are. Advice about using the FLIP camera: The Flip Spotlight site has a resource section with lots of tips for using the camera. Here's some resources. FLIP Camera. Video Guides for Nonprofits. The camera comes with some editing software.

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Need Some Inspiration To Video Blog? Look no further.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are using FLIP Cameras and Camtasia editing software to product a series of videos of their deep field work in Africa. Advice about using the FLIP camera: The Flip Spotlight site has a resource section with lots of tips for using the camera. Flip Video Camera : These are easy to use, inexpensive cameras with a built-USB port.

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NTEN and SalesForce Screencast: Learnings About the Interview/Documentary Approach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I made a few tests to see how it might work I also got some advice from Jon Udell. One thing I learned just two weeks ago from a phone call to the TechSmith tech support guy is that the.wmv files from Ready/Talk can be run through microsoft media encoder - so they could be pulled into Camtasia and edited.

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Using Web Conferencing Software To Create A Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The father of screencasting, Jon Udell , who of course is a technical expert in everything, uses this technique -- the screencast interview or talk show. He invites an expert in a particular software or technique and they are on a conference call together to look at and discuss what is on the screen. Does he edit in Camtasia?

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Quick Tips for Improving Screencasts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, the technique I ended up with was to capture the window and use zoom/pan in editing process. Now, I'm curious to go back and make a screencast in Camtasia using auto pan and see what the difference might be. When I first started to record, I don't think I used auto pan and tried to do it manually and it was totally klutzy.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

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" Through bloggers , we learn that like it did for an older version of SnagIt, TechSmith is offering a free download for an older version of Camtasia, the gold standard of screencasting editing and capture software. advice and writes a great blog too. Michele Martin is already exploring.

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