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My New Book is Out!

Greg R Notess — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:57:59 +0000

ALA has published my new book on screencasting! Screencasting for Libraries is now available. See more information on my Book page or browse the first chapter below.

Screencasting for Libraries

New Snagit for Screencasts, Jing Pro Dead, and Webinar

Greg R Notess — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:52:34 +0000

Techsmith released a new version of Snagit on Feb. 28. Snagit is a great, full-featured screen shot (still image) program. With versions 11 for Windows and 2 for Mac, Snagit now has much more robust screencast (video) capabilities as well.

Want to see it in action via a Webinar? If you are reading this in time, there is a webinar today at 1PM EDT (and another on March 22 at the same time). Register at Techsmith for these webinars that are supposed to include “real-life examples of how you can use the new Snagit.”

Note that with the launch of the new versions of Snagit, Techsmith is retiring Jing Pro. The free Jing is still available, but Techsmith decided that the Pro features are not better served with Snagit.

The screencast recording functions of Snagit do not include editing but do include easy uploading to YouTube, Screencast.com, and more publication sources. Here’s a quick demo about a Google Patent Fail uploaded to Screencast.com.

Camtasia Studio 4 Out

Greg R Notess — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:34:52 +0000

Techsmith has updated Camtasia Studio to version 4. While I have yet to download the new version to try it, there are some nice sounding features like more output formats, including m4v for podcasts, improved audio editing capabilities, production previews, open ended survey questions, extending end frames to fit added audio, closed captioning, and more. Paul mentioned the release and a first look from Digital Inspiration.

With all the new features comes a higher price for educational users ($199 instead of $149). The upgrade price for educational users is $89.50. I was hoping for less expensive pricing that that, especially with competition from free products like Wink. I’m also disappointed that version three never fixed the looping bug. Users of version 3 should not have to upgrade to get that fixed, and even more discourage is a report on 10/17 in that thread that the bug continues even in version 4!

Software Updates

Greg R Notess — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:31:03 +0000

Paul points out that Adobe is now shipping Captivate 2 and that Techsmith will have version 4 of Camtasia Studio out soon (next week if they stay on schedule). I’m hoping to see that both find the balance between being even easier to use and adding more features and capabilities.

Page Content

Greg R Notess — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:56:47 +0000

I have mostly been adding content into the pages (the top tabs and also links from the Pages section in the sidebar to the right). I’ll use those to add links to screencasts and notes about the process, software, hardware, etc.

Welcome to LibCasting

Greg R Notess — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:53:18 +0000

After creating screencasts and exploring screencast software for the past year and a half, I have been wanting to put some of my materials online. I have been teaching several half day workshops on creating screencasts, “Creating Online Tutorials in Less Than 30 Minutes,” and I plan to use this experimental blog to share my notes and to get feedback from attendees and others about their screencasting experiences.

I plan on adding in some links to other blog posts, news items, and Web pages that I’ve gathered over the past year. I may date those posts earlier than today’s date just so I can keep track of when they happened.