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Giveaway: A License for Techsmith's Screencasting Tools - Camtasia and Snagit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The good folks at TechSmith have given me a free license for Snagit (screencapture tool) and Camtasia (the screencasting editing and capture suite) to give away to a nonprofit. If you travel through my flickrstream , you'll see that I'm addicted to screenshooting - taking stills of the screen. There's no better tool for that than snagit.

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10 New Nonprofit Trends

Qgiv

Tools like BombBomb , Promo.com , and Camtasia take the technical work out of producing quality videos. Camtasia makes it easy to turn your raw footage and voice over recordings into a video you can make yourself with their simple video editing tools.

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Camtasia and the Chipmunks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Christine Martell has been teaching herself how to screencast and completed her first screencast. What's really impressive is that it made Screencast of the Week over at TechSmith , the makers of the software. Christine was using some of the wonderful how-to videos on the TechSmith site (and I also think my screencasting primer too).

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Save on Thousands of Products with JourneyEd.com for Nonprofits and Libraries

Tech Soup Blog

JourneyEd.com products come from more than 200 vendors and include products like Camtasia, virtualization software from VMware, and more. Camtasia Studio 8. Camtasia Studio 8/Snagit 12 Bundle. Most of these discounts were previously only available to students, schools, or others in the educational marketplace. " N2840 2.15

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Free Ticket Cliff Atkinson’s Presentation Training in LA Next Week

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Betsy will pick someone from the comments to use the ticket and throw in a free copy of Snagit and Camtasia. If you want the free ticket and work for or with a nonprofit in the LA area, please leave a comment about why you want to do the training and include your contact information.

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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. Then when I heard that the WFP was using Camtasia Suite to edit, the video software I used for many years to create screencasts, I'm going to give Camtasia and FLIP HD video shots a try. Here's some resources. FLIP Camera.

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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. Then when I heard that the WFP was using Camtasia Suite to edit, the video software I used for many years to create screencasts, I'm going to give Camtasia and FLIP HD video shots a try.

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Using Web Conferencing Software To Create A Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Does he edit in Camtasia? Ready/Talk outputs the file into.swf format which can't be brought into Camtasia for editing. I tried to convert the.swf file into one that would import into Camtasia using replay converter and couldn't do it. Option 1: Record the.swf playback file using Camtasia after the call.

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Stephen Downes' First Screencast: It's On Web2.0 and Personal Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was delighted to discover Stephen Downes screencast created with Camtasia for several reasons. Second, I'm always happy to see another screencaster, particularly one with great content, take the step of learning Camtasia. I'm interested because it is what I attempt to do with my blog, screencasting, and all the other web 2.0

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I Love Snagit Laptop Stickers!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just arrived in the mail along with the new copy of Daniel Park's Definitive Guide Camtasia Studio 4! Just in time to help me with the screencasts I'm working now about SalesForce.

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Your Guide to Hardware from TechSoup

Tech Soup Blog

Start saving even more with discounts on iPads, Surface Pro tablets, Camtasia software, and other popular products. TechSoup has partnered with JourneyEd.com to give you unique access to their discounted rates on laptops, tablets, accessories, and software. Request JourneyEd.com discounts. Subscribe to TechSoup Boost for More Savings.

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10 Fundraising Ideas for Mental Health Nonprofits

Qgiv

Instead, the once-herculean task of making a video can be accomplished in a few clicks with video editing software like BombBomb , Promo.com , and Camtasia. The best part is that video editing is no longer a task that only someone with a design degree can pull off. How do you make a successful fundraising video?

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SlideShare Adds Audio and Meeting Rashmi

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I tested it using the Camtasia powerpoint narration feature, but looks like there is some bug. (And everyone know how much I love SlideShare ) I got to met her at BlogHer and talk about Slideshare! Slideshare recently launched slidecasting, the ability to add audio. I'm gonna have to fireup audacity and give it whirl.

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How to Change the Size of the YouTube Player

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If not, I'll pull out camtasia and do a video, but I won't edit out the ums. Sue asked me this question as a response here To kill two birds with one stone, I created a flickr screencast. Sue, let me know if this answers your questions.

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The Making of "Product Demo - Mobile Beacon" Video

Tech Soup Blog

The middle sequences with the websites were captured using a combination of Adobe Captivate and TechSmith Camtasia Studio for Mac. I tried to prevent as little shadow behind me as possible. Screen Capture. TechSmith offers discounts to registered 501(c)(3) organizations via their website.

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Expect some light blogging because.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also, the video editing tools are better (although I'm hoping that Camtasia will work on dual boot =) I'm also going to embrace web-based productivity apps. This stress makes me grumpy and is the primary reason why after 25 years of being a pc user, I'm finally going to switch to a MAC.

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Jon Udell Answers My Screencast Question!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That of course, led to readers posting comments and more insights and even connected me with Avinash Kaushik who I interviewed in Ready/Talk and recorded it - using the recording for note taking as the wmv file is not standard and could not be successfully edited in Camtasia.

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Converting GoToMeeting recording to something you can actually use

Judi Sohn

Other folks suggested replaying the file through Camtasia , but I wasn't going to buy a $300 piece of software for this. That didn't work, as the trick posted only seemed to apply to an earlier GTM version. Same with another tip to use HandBrake. A call to GoToMeeting support didn't gain much more than sympathy.

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Resources to Sharpen Your Technology Training Skills

Tech Soup Blog

JourneyEd (find discounts on hundreds of products, including screen-sharing software such as Snagit and video-editing software such as Camtasia). Litmos (learning management system). Got a favorite online technology training resource? Share it with us in the comments. Image : Rawpixel.com / Shutterstock. spanhidden.

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Screencast of the Week: Foxy Tunes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It looks like it was produced in Camtasia, but not sure because it looks like a Mac interface (not sure if the dual boot allows you to use the software in windows and record in MAC). They also removed the Camtasia flash loading animation with their own. (I I need to learn how to do that sigh.).

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Learning Center at OurMedia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

However, I can only get as far as the free evaluation copy of captivate or camtasia allows. I came out of my busy work trip with a list of ideas. and one of them is to do more screencasting. Oh, I wish someone at one of those companies give me a free copy in exchange for blogging about it.

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The importance of professional development in the nonprofit sector

ASU Lodestar Center

I was able to develop dynamic, innovative, and knowledgeable courses using e-learning tools such as Articulate, Camtasia, Microsoft Office, and worked with graphic artist to develop custom interactive multimedia instruction (IMI).

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gokubi.com

gokubi.com

Also, can’t wait to see how this is going to fit into your Camtasia product line. At work we have a need for longer, edited screen movies, and if Camtasia can have any of the Jing mojo rub off on it, we’ll probably switch. It’s a short list because, frankly, Jing is more than I ever hoped for in a free product.

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Pricing Your eLearning Materials: Subscription versus One-Time-Fee Models

Web Courseworks Associations

In any case, the recorded webinar should be enhanced with pre and post-tests, learning objectives, and a “level one” evaluation. Consider upping the quality with the use of authoring software like Camtasia or H5P to allow for a quick edit of the webinar and inclusion of embedded questions and games.

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Quick Tips for Improving Screencasts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. So, the technique I ended up with was to capture the window and use zoom/pan in editing process. Very sparingly.

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next I'm going to try the free trial of Camtasia (Udell uses that one) and go back to fooling with Camstudio (the free open source tool). So look out for more formal reflections about process, particularly on the art of screencasting, along with reviews for some of the tools, both free and expensive.

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

TechSmith is the maker of my favorite apps, Camtasia and SnagIt. Then I noticed that Andrew Parker had just tweeted it. (I I mention Andrew because he is seeing if there any Twitter t-shirts that I can take to Cambodia. Did I also mention that they sent a box full of SnagIt t-shirts for Cambodia?)

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. NpTech Software. An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared.

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Crazy for the Tools

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TechSmith also makes cool free/paid video capture Jing as well more complex Camtasia – all good. I still use TechSmith's Snagit for more complicated screen capturing and it does a nice integration with Word.

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Learning Journal: Experimenting With Adding Music to Web Videos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stepping back and thinking about the screencasting now, the Camtasia software has the ability to "silence" the video audio and to add another music track. This means I need to capture something that tells the story visually (either stills or video clip without dialogue).

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" 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. This article summarizes new research from Forrester detailing "The Seven Tenets of the Information Workplace."

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