LibCasting

Techsmith announced today an upgrade to Camtasia for Mac to version 2.1. The announcements mentions two significant new features: Clip Speed: Like in Camtasia Studio 7, Camtasia for Mac can now speed up or slow down a section of video Green Screen: Add a green backdrop to a video and then remove that color to [...]

Just before last weekend, Adobe updated Captivate to version 5.5. The new features include the following Gradients, shadows, and rotation Updated quiz templates Publishing to MP4 Ability to publish to tablets, smartphones, and iOS devices Single click publish to YouTube option Also new is a subscription pricing model. Pay $59/month on a month-to-month basis or [...]

Techsmith updated Camtasia Studio to version 7.1.1 last week. The maintenance release mostly includes various bug fixes,but the announcement also highlights: Updating the My Screencast.com plug-in Fixing the a problem where a lack rectangle or table of contents covers the video and incorporated a requested option to show a rectangle around the area being recorded [...]

While their Twitter account still exists, Screenjelly has not posted for over a year. When I checked screenjelly.com today, it redirects to a strange SteinerSports picture and email request page (which is why I have not linked it). Parent Veodia.com (which also bought out ScreenToaster) ends up at a “You reached an inactive URL address” [...]

I’m not in Philadelphia for ACRL today, but there was an interesting session this afternoon entitled “Do Screencasts Really Work? Assessing Student Learning through Instructional Screencasts.” Even better, ACRL has posted the PowerPoint slides, the paper, and a handout with links and sources. These report on research from the University of Michigan library attempting to [...]

Since the demise of ScreenToaster (and I can’t even get to their site today) and my expectations that ScreenJelly may not last long, I’ve been looking for a new favorite among the free, online screencasting tools. Screencast-O-Matic has greatly improved since I last looked at it, and the editing options with the oh-so-affordable $9/year Pro [...]

I came across another screencast that only uses audio to add a music soundtrack. I was checking out the CrossLoop page which has a link to their demo video. Like the excellent CustomizeGoogle demo, the CrossLoop demo uses text within the screencast to communicate its main points. While I liked the screencast and watched most [...]

While I have known for some time that Camtasia can output a video to an animated GIF, I never had need of it previously. But as I was updating my search bookmarklets page, I thought that it would be nice to have a visual example of how the transfer search bookmarklets work. So using Camtasia [...]

Until January 7, Techsmith is offering a free version of Camtasia Studio 3.1.3 (the latest version is up to version 5.0). The download site says it is an “exclusive offering for PC Plus Magazine readers from the United Kingdom” but another site that links to the deal says that they “have confirmation from Techsmith stating [...]

I’m pleased to see that Genie Tyburski is now adding screencast to her wonderfully informative Virtual Chase site on legal information. She is using Camtasia Studio 5 and discusses the software and hardware being used. I expect more will be forthcoming, but for now, here is a list of what she has available. Searching SEC’s [...]