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5 Tips to Effectively Tell your Story with Video

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Start with drawing up a simple storyboard. Your storyboard can help you come up with a list of scenes, camera shots, and props you will need. Video production tools have a lot to offer in terms of animations, transitions, audio settings and much more.

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Screencasting (and the software) has three functions: storyboarding, production, editing. Some immediate reflections on screencasting while it is fresh in my head. I've been researching screencasting software. and needed a small project. I resorted to pen and paper for part 1 for this experiment.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So that left me with a few hours of video and audio to edit and that's too much to do in Camtasia. Because the screencast is conversational, the screen doesn't have to exactly synch the audio. I got enough information to put together an outline and rough storyboard So, I had the overall structure for the 15 minute screencast.

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Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I originaly produced this at 800x600 as a SWF with highest quality audio/video and the resulting file was a whooping 72,000 KB. I rendered ten different versions (6 in SWF with different audio sampling and video frame rates and sizes) and 2 in Quicktime and 2 in WMF.) I created a storyboard with small scenes. My work flow.

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How to Create a Giving Tuesday Video

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Storyboard. Before you dust off your director’s cap, start by storyboarding the video that you want to create. Check the audio quality. When recording, make cuts often and check the clips you record for audio quality. You can always stitch your video clips together with movie-making apps later. Getting Started.

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