( The video is about a security bug in Facebook, but that was beside the point. Yes, this video is brand new, that isn’t beside the point…)

Enjoy

Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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There are several reasons why I think this is important. One is of course the viewer experience is greater when showing your videos on HD. But there is more to it than that.

For one you get the Youtube HD logo on your video, which you will not get otherwise. People also tend to watch videos in full screen mode more and more, and stream videos to their High Definition television sets and for HD TVs it’s great if you have a higher quality of video.

I have included the important take-aways of the video below. My hope is that you can use the list as a quick reference when setting up your Camtasia settings for HD.

The video runs 4:40. OK take it away Bill…

Here are some take-aways from the video.

Before you record

1. Set your recording to save as .avi in your Camtasia Recorder Tools/General Options.
2. Set framerate to 30 (Tools/Options/Inputs)
3. Select area to record to 1280×720

After recording, when editing

1. Select HD in settings and if you don’t have this setting, choose the same size as you are recording in, in this case 1280×720.
2. Edit your video

Producing Video

1. Go to custom production settings
2. Choose other formats MOV
3. Under QuickTime options set H.264.
4. Set your framerate to 30
5. Set Keyframe to Automatic
6. Set Compression to Best
7. Data rate set to Automatic
8. Sound settings for production – Set it to 48.000, 16 bit and set it to Stereo so Youtube can recognize it as a HD file.
9. Check that video size is 1280×720

And then upload it to Youtube. Youtube should recognize it as a HD file.

That’s all there is to it. Now start creating lots of HD Camtasia files! Let me know what you think about this article/video in the comment area below.

Until next time
Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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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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As we continue to master Camtasia Studio, today I will show you a tip in producing a screencast that will surely capture your viewer’s attention and at the same time deliver your key points!

Add an extra kick to your screencast by using Title Clip.  Title Clips,  allow you to add graphic/text to introduce a video, set chapters or display relevant information like credits or video resources.

Here’s the step-by-step instructions on how to create a basic Title Clip:

1.  Open Camtasia Studio and Record or Open and existing Video.

2.  Once you’re done  select ‘Title Clips’ from the Task List.

3.  On the Title Clips pane, enter your desired text for the clip.

4.   If you want to add background image to your clip, click on ‘Image’ option, then hit ‘Browse’ and locate your desired image to add.

5.  If you want to change the background color, simply click on Color button and select your preferred color.

6.   For additional texts, you can just type within the box in the pane.

• To change the size of the text box, simply drag the handles of the green rectangle in the Preview Window.

• To move the position of the text, simply drag the green rectangle in the Preview Window then click Finished!

Your title clip will be automatically added to the Clip Bin where you can conveniently use in the future with the drag-and-drop function.

How to Change Duration of Your Title Clip

Just drag the title clip onto the Timeline in your video. By default, the duration of the  Title Clips on a Timeline is five seconds, to change the duration, you may do the following:

1. Select Tools

2. Go to Options

3. Click Programs Tab

4. Choose Title Clips

5. Set the amount of time for your Title Clips to display.

That’s all there is to it, I hope you find this tip very handy in your next Camtasia Studio screencast.

Until Next Time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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Hello There!

If you have just purchased Camtasia Studio or are thinking of purchasing for a friend then read on….

I decided to go back down memory lane on my first time using Camtasia Studio.  I had just had enough raving from my friends about  Camtasia Studio and so I decided to get my own copy.

As I was staring at the Camtasia Studio welcome screen, I was not sure what to expect. Yet, the only thing I was sure of was I’m about to embark on a trip to Wonderland.

To start off, the Welcome Screen itself was simple and clean. Its simplicity of design gives you an impression of, “Are you a newbie? Don’t worry, I’m ready to guide you.” That impression kept clinging to me while making my way on discovering the world of Camtasia Studio.

So, I tried recording an on-screen video, the Capture Area Selection window’s black background and minimal major options laid out gave me just exactly what I needed. Its visual presentation is good, that even, as a first time user, I can just simply do my own thing without having to completely depend on online tutorials.

Recording was even cooler than what I expected it to be.

Here are the 10 things which I thought 100% Cool and Easy while discovering Camtasia Studio:

1. The 3,2,1 counting before the recording takes place. Whoa! What I miss is just a stool and a megaphone, I could have shouted, “Action!”

2. The Preview Window: Lots and lots of it, that is. I love it, super! I could just go back and re-do it, go on and edit it or just produce it in no time at all. Whichever way I want it, no more questions asked.

3. With a lot of formats to choose from: AVI, M4V, MP3, etc. I can’t wait to start making one and post it to my social network groups and blogs. My friends will surely be jealous of me. Haha

4. Assist Me and Show Me: When I talk about not completely depending on online tutorials, I meant it because every function available on the task pane, gave me the Assist Me and Show Me button on their respective windows. It made my experience easy and less hassle.

5. The customizable callouts gave me a chance to emphasize and de-emphasize the things I wanted to on the video I captured. It’s so easy and fast to do.

6. Decoupling of Audio and Video: As I was editing my test video, I noticed that there’s something wrong and I wanted to edit the audio track. Good thing, I found out that I could decouple it from the video track so easily. Phew! What a relief.

7. Adding Additional Audio Track: I like this, I was able to add another track which I found relevant for the video that I was recording. Pretty easy too!

8. Adding Transitions: All I had to do was just select an available preset and Tada! As easy as that and my video moves from one scene to another with style.

9. Adding quizzes and surveys during the video was cool too. I just had to choose which part of the timeline I wanted the quiz/survey to come out and then type in questions and the correct answer and then it would appear then and there!

10. Upload to Screencast feature: Boy, this one gave me a faster way to get the URL and embedded code. It’s really fast, as in, no need to open a browser, go to the site, login, upload, and get the code. The end.

There’s nothing I found too difficult or hard to understand. With consistent use and training, I’ll eventually be a rookie or an expert (if given the chance)in video recording, editing and sharing.

For now, need to familiarize more of this Super Cool program, Camtasia Studio 6.0 especially the new features.

If you are already a novice user you can continue enjoying the super features if you don’t own the latest version Camtasia 6.0 just send your existing license to Softwarecasa Support for your 50% discount on the upgrade!

Don’t Miss the Bus!

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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SuperStamps includes 197 professionally designed graphics/icons in that you can access and use directly from Camtasia Studio.

As a small token of our appreciation to you, we are now giving away a smaller version with 20 New images (not included in SuperStamps) to all Camtasia Guide visitors.

You can freely download this package and use it in both educational, commercial or for private use. The only thing we ask you is to not resell it.

Download your Camtasia Callout SuperStamps MiniPack here.

See below for some examples of what’s included.

Already a SuperStamps owner?

Do not dispair, this bonus pack includes 20 Completely new icons not included in your original package.

What’s it for?

You can use SuperStamps directly from inside Camtasia Studio. Just download the .zip folder and unpack it. When setting up Callouts in Camtasia, just choose Custom Callout and include the SuperStamp callout you want.

But SuperStamps also work excellent in:

- Snagit as a stamp
- Microsoft Office to enhance reports/whitepapers and so on
- PowerPoint
- And any application where you can use graphics to enhance your statement.

I have an old version of Camtasia?

No worries, you can use SuperStamps MiniPack with all versions of Camtasia. But if you are ready to start using Camtasia 6.0 with support for HD you can upgrade Camtasia.

What about Copyright?

SuperStamps and SuperStamps MiniPack come with a generous license agreement. You can use these icons even in commercial products or work. The only thing you can’t do is to resell them as graphics or part of a graphics pack.

What’s included?

To keep the size of this email down I have just included smaller image examples. The actual images is 256×256 pixels and because they are made in PNG format you can make them as big as you like without any quality loss.

Download your Camtasia Callout SuperStamps MiniPack here!

SuperStamps MiniPack is great but what if I want the whole deal?

Check out SuperStamps Full version – 197 Professional Vector Grapichs

This is the full version with 197 additional SuperStamps. PLEASE NOTE: During the month of June we have a special $5 off. $14.95 instead of $19.95 on SuperStamps.

Let me know what you think of these Callouts in the comment area below.

Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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All the new features in Camtasia 6.02

General:

• Added ability to produce a .FLV file.
• Added possiblity to set keyframe interval for .FLV and .MP4 file productions.

Studio:

• Fixed an issue that would cause .MP4 production settings to not be correctly utilized for productions using PIP video.
• Fixed an issue with dropping a transition over an existing transition causing a loss of sync between the Video 1 and PIP tracks.
• Fixed an issue that could cause quizzes to appear twice during the playback.

PowerPoint

• Fixed an issue that would cause an audio/video sync issue for some recordings with both audio and video.

Camtasia Recorder:

• Improved error handling.
• Improved the recording performance with applications with layered windows.

Go here to read more about Camtasia 6.0 and if you’re already a proud owner check out: Upgrade Camtasia

Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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If you think, your Camtasia Studio 5 is the best thing you’ve ever got, then you’re wrong. A few months back Techsmith launched its newest version, Camtasia Studio 6.0. With exciting new features added, you’d absolutely want to get your hands on it.

I would have written about it earlier, but I was just too busy building the worlds best software store! Now I hopefully have some more time on my hands trying out all the cool new features.

Some features that you should take a deeper look at:

Unlink audio and video tracks
This feature allows you to decouple the video and audio track, these tracks can then be locked edited independently of each other.

Customizable Hotkeys
7 additional hotkeys with which you can customize for you to save time in editing.

Production Presets
You can configure as to how you want your work to be shared and the dimensions to use. The options are Web, Blog, CD, DVD-Ready, HD, iPhone, iPod, Screencast.com, and Youtube.

Preview Window
Here’s what I think is cool, with the preset configured, a window will show the preview of how the video will look with the chosen dimensions. You can also see a preview of your work while and after editing.

Perspective Tilt
On the Zoom and Pan window, you can zoom one  side of the video into different perspective. It’s as if looking on a flat screen on different angle you prefer for your audience.

Upload to Screencast.com
If you have a screencast account, you can upload your video to Screencast.com by signing in. With a free storage space and monthly bandwidth of 2gb for Free accounts that you can absolutely take advantage of.

Camtasia Studio 6.0 will fill you appetite for smart video recording, editing and sharing.

Go here to read more about Camtasia 6.0 and if you’re already a proud owner check out: Upgrade Camtasia

Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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Camtasia version 5.1 was just released. It includes some great new features.

Read on to find out all the details…

The New Juicy Camtasia 5.1 Details

• New callouts shine the spotlight on your content
• Add background music with a third audio track
• Deliver screencasts to millions of iPhone and iPod Touch users
• Customize Flash FLV videos with TechSmith ExpressShow
• Build a Web menu for your videos with Camtasia Theater

Special Offer – Upgrade to Camtasia 5.1 (You’ll need a previous license)

Focus attention with Spotlight and Highlighter callouts

You have two new options for drawing attention to areas of the screen. Spotlight dims everything on the screen except for the part you want to emphasize. Highlighter is like applying a bright, bold highlighter pen to the screen. Both callouts grab attention…and look great!

Add callouts faster, edit them easily

Now you can add callouts with fewer clicks and edit them more intuitively. And if you want to add a lot of callouts with the same style, one after the other, that’s much easier, too.

Set the mood with a music track

Open and close your screencast with a theme…or use music to segue between sections. With a third audio track now available on the timeline, it’s easy to add background music to your videos.

Put your screen recordings on the iPhone

Steve Jobs plans to ship 10 million iPhones this year. Now you can produce your videos for iPhone and iPod touch users, at just the right dimensions, using a simple preset. Your viewers are on the go, so let them bring your videos along!

Customize FLV videos with ExpressShow

The Flash FLV format is best suited for longer screencasts that contain more motion or camera video. You can now wrap FLV videos in the sleek ExpressShow template. They’ll look fantastic…and benefit from full-screen playback, a floating table of contents, custom “about” box, and more.

Organize and present Flash videos with Camtasia Theater

Have a handful of related videos? Here’s a great way to present them online! The rebuilt Camtasia Theater makes it super easy to create a customizable Web menu for any of your Camtasia Studio-produced Flash videos. ExpressShow, SWF, FLV, with or without quizzes or hotspots—Camtasia Theater can handle them all! And your viewers will appreciate how easy it is to jump between videos using the table of contents.

Special Offer – Upgrade to Camtasia 5.1 (You’ll need a previous license)

Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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• Camtasia 6.0
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Oh boy does it look nice. The new version 5.0 was released today.

Here are a few of the many new features:

• Streamlined Camtasia Recorder
• Snap-to-App windows sizing tool
• Cross-hairs region/window selection
• Inactive area dimmed during recording
• Mouse returns to same position after pause
• Customizable toolbar
• Power-saving features of operating system can be disabled
• Refined task list
• Project settings with real-time preview
• Industry standard 30 frames per second
• AutoSave feature
• Improved FLV production
• Additional production presets
• Right-click naming for callouts
• Crop to selection option in the context menus
• Camtasia SmartFocus™
• Seven additional transitions
• 3D Edge callouts
• Screen targeting option for zoom-n-pan
• Optional automatic transition insertion
• Precise zoom-n-pan control
• Onyx controller for Flash video
• TechSmith ExpressShow™
• FTP output
• File uploading to Screencast.com or FTP site

Click here to read more about New Camtasia 5.0 Features!

Sorry, gotto go play with Camtasia. Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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