Video Match Made in Heaven

There are a lot of great tools within Camtasia and you don’t really have to have other software. However, using PowerPoint together with Camtasia can be a match made in heaven. Powerpoint has a lot of great features that will help your videos stand out, such as animation, transitions, themes and design tools. This program [...]

Can Camtasia Skills Really Double your Salary?

It’s so much fun when you hear about someone who goes through one of your training courses and within a short time they land a fabulous job making double their salary. This is what Kevin Adkisson did recently after going through the LearnCamtasia.com.com course. After he sent us this thoughtful note I knew I wanted [...]

The Easiest Way to Create a Storyboard for your Video

Many people who are new to eLearning want to know how to create a storyboard. Should they use a professional tool? Should they create a template from scratch? What should they put into the template? Generally, a storyboard for eLearning is a document that specifies the visual elements, text elements, audio elements, interactions and branching [...]

Meet the Envato Family

One of the coolest resources out there for all kinds of interesting media elements for your Camtasia videos is a “family” of websites from a company called Envato. This innovative company provides "marketplaces" for artists and code jockeys to upload their works and offer them for sale. Everything from stock images, audio tracks, motion graphics, [...]

Creating Lower Thirds for Camtasia

In this Screencast QuickTip, I address a member request for improving the look of a graphic he uses in his video called a "Lower Third". Check out Todd’s "Crappy Sample" here: Crappy Sample! Pretty serious lookin’ dude, eh? Ya… serious about making better videos! Lookup swift codes United Kingdom banks Here’s my tip and tutorial [...]

Camtasia 7 Sneak Peek

Here is a sneak peek at a couple of the new features in Camtasia Studio version 7 from Techsmith. New Camtasia 7 Callouts Adding callouts to your videos is always a quick & easy way to add visual interest or emphasis to a talking point. Camtasia 7 has some new callout styles and, even cooler, [...]

A Google Search Story Video

Like a lot of folks, I was intrigued by the rare ad run by Google during the Super Bowl. Some people loved it, some hated it, some indifferent. Certainly, if loud action shots, side splitting humor, or just good ole’ fashioned big boobs are what float your boat as far as commercials go then this [...]

Free Image Editing Tool

One of our favorite image editing tools is Picnik.com. You can upload an image to the site, work it to your heart’s content and then save it back to your own PC. Picnik will allow you to: crop resize rotate touch up adjust lighting Best of all, it’s free! No registration is required. It works [...]

We’re a Techsmith Camtasia Service Provider

Michelle and I have been selected and placed on the Techsmith Camtasia Service Provider list. We are very excited! We’re getting lots of Press too as there are not many on-line Camtasia Training Webinars available! Lookup swift codes United Kingdom banks