LibCasting

Techsmith has launched a new version of Camtasia Studio. Officially released on Tuesday, I have not had a chance to try it out yet, but is is already building some buzz. At least I’ve been reading about it. If you’d like to see what’s new, try any of the following: Techsmith Press Release, What’s New, [...]

Paul “Distant Librarian” Pival has posted a YouTube video and a better quality screencast on how to find the RSS feeds now available on Ebscohost. The problem with posting a screencast on YouTube is that it is hard to read the text on the screens due to the YouTube resolution. I need to blog the [...]

Want to get an idea of what features might be available in the next version of Camtasia? See the “What’s coming in Camtasia Studio 5?” interview with  Camtasia Studio Product Manager, Troy Stein. I was intrigued that the interview is presented as an audio-only podcast rather than a screencast. It makes sense since the interview [...]

One other use I’ve been making of screencasting is for communication with technical support and systems departments. Ever call in a technical issue and have the tech person not understand the problem? As a reference librarian, I know that I get calls where I am trying to guess the problem based on a verbal description. [...]

While I’m catching up, I thought I’d follow up on my process post from November. I still haven’t finished (or even worked on) the screencast I talked about in that post, primarily because our site was going to be changing and the steps I wanted to show would be changing as well. That change is [...]

Now that the new semester is underway and both our library Web site and catalog have changed their design, it is time to get moving on updating some of my screencasts. It is also a good reminder to update this blog. I’ve just published a number of entries that had remained as drafts for the [...]

I’ve added a couple new screencasts to my Database Examples page. First of all, CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox add-on extension which can, surprise!, customize Google in a wide variety of ways. When they updated their extension recently, I was pleased to see they offered screencasts, labeled as their “Introduction Movie.” With three versions available (Flash, [...]

Screencasting software often has a PowerPoint plug in which can be used to convert a lecture with PowerPoint to a screencast. I have not used this feature to produce any screencasts yet, but I have seen several that have been done this way. It seems especially useful for recording an entire lecture. Kevin Yank has [...]

I’ve been waiting a bit before I try the new versions of Captivate and Camtasia, in part in the hopes of reading what others have to say first. Yesterday, Paul pointed to just such a comparison. At WebBriefcase, we now have Camtasia Studio vs Adobe Captivate. Written from the perspective of a Captivate user, this [...]