Archive for March, 2010

Camtasia 7 Out Now

Posted Mar.30, 2010 under Camtasia Features, Camtasia Upgrade

Camtasia 7“It’s an amazing piece of software”.

I have been so busy putting the last touch to SuperCallouts because I wanted to have it ready as a bonus for you for the launch of Camtasia 7.

So I have only had a few minutes to play with Camtasia 7

But I have to tell you, my first thought after installing it – it’s just an amazing piece of new software. I find it sleeker, more fluid and filled with lots of great new stuff.

Check out more about Camtasia Studio 7 here!

What’s New in Camtasia Studio 7

Camtasia Studio has always been more than a simple screen recorder.
Now, with Camtasia Studio 7, Techsmith has redesigned and rebuilt
it to help you generate sophisticated, effective screencasts—faster,
easier, and with more consistency.

Library

Save editing time and achieve consistency by storing callouts,
title slides, or an entire intro sequence for later reuse.

Copy and paste

Reuse transitions, zooms, and other effects—just copy and
paste to a different spot on the timeline or add it to the library.

YouTube upload

Get in front of millions! Produce and upload HD-quality videos
to YouTube without leaving Camtasia Studio.

Grab attention with new callouts

Enhanced callouts

Give your screencasts a visual makeover with new callout styles
and an easy way to make your own—now with support for image
transparency!

Keystroke callouts

Make keystrokes visible to viewers! Camtasia Studio takes note
of any keyboard shortcuts used during recording and shows the keys
as a graphic overlay.

Sketch motion callouts

Call attention to the important bits with animated shapes that
appear to be hand-drawn right onto the video.

Enhance with powerful editing

Precision volume controls

Fade the volume of an audio track up and down at any point in your
video, using simple controls built into the timeline.

Editable cursor effects

Help viewers follow along by enlarging the mouse pointer, making
it a spotlight, or visualizing clicks.

Smarter SmartFocus

TechSmith’s SmartFocus technology places smoother, more accurate
zooms and pans so your content always looks sharp —a huge
time-saver!

Check out more about Camtasia Studio 7 here!

Always look amazing

Sleek, new interface

Find and use more of the product’s features…and get
projects done faster.

Optimized screen recorder

Our capture engine now boosts frame rates by up to 50%—for
smoother motion when recording things like 3D design software, real
world video, or Flash animations.

Eye-grabbing media assets

Your library comes stocked with professionally-designed media assets
from Digital Juice …with the possibility to add more.

Check out more about Camtasia Studio 7 here!

Until next time ;-)

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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Introducing SuperCallouts

Posted Mar.29, 2010 under Callouts

In October last year I was working on a Camtasia video project. I needed some cool custom callouts to include in the video. I knew what I wanted and started looking for the images online.

But everywhere I looked the images and callouts I found were either outright ugly, of low quality, high priced or all of the above. The sites wanted me to pay a monthly subscription fee and I realized that what looked like a low monthly fee would soon turn into a substantial yearly cost…

I decided to create the callouts I needed for myself instead. To make the images took a lot of work but I have to admit that I was spurred by the friendly comments I got.

People told me “great video”, “cool graphics”, “nice presentation” and stuff like that. More effort went into creating even more callouts for my videos. The idea of sharing this with more people started to grow on me. The idea of SuperCallouts was born.

Now, six months later and after a lot of hard work from my team and myself, SuperCallouts is finally ready.

So what is this package with 365 professionally designed high quality graphics going to cost you? Read on because I think the answer will make you happy.

Knowing what graphic collections like these cost and how much work that went into SuperCallouts we could easily charge over 100 dollars for this product but we won’t. My wish is to share this with a lot of people so I wanted to give great value at a really affordable price.

We have set the price to $47.00 BUT from tomorrow and for about a week onwards I’ll give you a chance to get it as a free bonus…

I’ll tell you all about it tomorrow.

Until then – all the best wishes,

Peter Gillberg – Your Camtasia Guide

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Video Voice Over Tips

Posted Mar.26, 2010 under Audio Sound Music, Tips, Tutorials, Videos

Voice over tipsThe very talented Chris McQueen from TechSmith has shared a video filled with excellent tips on what you should think about when doing voice overs.

The video is both informative and funny, well worth spending your next seven minutes on if you work with or are planning to add speech to your Camtasia Studio videos.

I have also included the tips in a summary of the video below.

Without further ado, take it away Chris:

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Free Upgrade to Camtasia 7 Included

Posted Mar.22, 2010 under Camtasia Upgrade, News

I have had a lot of questions from people interested in buying Camtasia. Comments like “if Camtasia 7 is coming soon, should I wait with my investment” and similar questions.

Because Camtasia Studio 7 is close to the release date, anyone from now on who purchases Camtasia Studio 6 from SoftwareCasa, will be getting a free upgrade to version 7. This upgrade from Camtasia 6 to Camtasia 7 is automatic.

If you would like to buy Camtasia Studio 6 with Free Upgrade to Camtasia Studio 7, please go here.

Until next time ;-)

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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I Need Your Brilliant Input

Posted Mar.18, 2010 under Callouts

Yes, I really do. I need your help creating the Future Camtasia Studio Custom Callouts.

We have been hard at work creating a new exciting pack of Callouts to be used in Video Production together with Camtasia Studio and other video creation tools.

I have included a video below for you to get a sense of what we are doing. Included in the video are some examples of the Callouts of my design.

So I am calling all Camtasia users and anybody working with video out there for help building this graphics pack. You will be the co-creator so to speak :-)

Check out the video:

I need your help with suggestions of what graphic icons should be included. What graphics do you need for your video productions?

As a thank you gift I will give out a free copy of SuperStamps (197 Images with transparency that you can use in your videos) for every suggestion that’s included in our new SuperCallouts for Video.

Please post your Graphic Icon suggestion in the comment area on this blog (below) or email me your suggestion.

Callouts in videos can be used for many different reasons. A few of the main purpose of Callouts are:

  • To create attention
  • To draw attention to important areas of your video
  • Act as bullet points in lists
  • Could be used as watermarks in your videos
  • Give meaning by acting as metaphors, for example a clock means time

For your Callout suggestion, please make sure to include:

  1. The idea – what Text or Image do you need as callout?
  2. What color?
  3. What shape should the graphic/icon have?
  4. Anything else that may clarify your idea?

I really love to hear your suggestions so please post it below now and if included in the final product you’ll get a free copy of SuperStamps value $20.00!

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Camtasia 7 is Coming

Posted Mar.16, 2010 under Camtasia Upgrade, News

Camtasia Studio 7The rumors are true, Camtasia Studio 7 is coming soon. These exciting news was released by TechSmith yesterday.

Some of the first beta tester comments about the new Camtasia 7:

“Camtasia Studio 7 is the absolute best”

“a great new look”

“The gold standard in screen capture videos gets even better”

“version 7 represents a major upgrade”

To celebrate this new version I have some really exciting news of my own. I will post it here tomorrow or Thursday because I need your help with a project I am working on. So stay tuned. Subscribe to the email updates to get the latest information on this news.

Until next time ;-)

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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Create Better Tips Videos

Posted Mar.02, 2010 under Tips, Tutorials, Videos

Camtasia Video TipsToday I have an excellent video for you. Bill Myers has created a video covering 7 tips for “how-to-do” videos.

Billy cover areas like transitions, text, background, music and more in 2:25 minutes.

For your convenience I have included a summary of the video below.

OK Billy, take it away…

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