Morae 3.2

Morae 3.2 was released just a few days ago. It’s a free update from version 3—brings these new capabilities:

• Open architecture: plug-ins for Morae
Developers can now write their own Recorder and Manager plug-ins, customizing Morae to capture, integrate, search, and visualize data streams from all kinds of sources. We provide a couple of useful plug-ins and plenty of documentation to get you started.

“Morae’s new pluggable architecture will make it possible for us to integrate diverse, third-party data streams such as eye tracking and heart rate when we’re testing participant response to things like video games, advertisements, movies, and the other media stimuli we research in our program.” –Dr. Corey Bohil, Media Interface and Network Design (M.I.N.D.) lab, Michigan State University

• An improved interface for real-time task scoring
• Greater variety of transition effects for highlight videos
• Screen dimming to focus attention during automated user testing

Camtasia 10 Years!

Our all time favorite Screen Recording / Screencasting software Camtasia Studio is growing up. Camtasia was first released at Comdex 1999. Camtasia has come a long way in these last 10 years and are now available both on Mac and PC platform.

Techsmith compiled a cool timeline below that shows Camtasia milestones, advertising and logos, reviews, feature releases and technology milestones. Check it out:

To celebrate Camtasia’s 10th birthday, SoftwareCasa has a sale on Snagit Screen Capture and Camtasia Screen Recording software!

For a limited time, save an extra 10% on already-discounted volume licenses of Camtasia Studio, Snagit, or both in a bundle. Offer ends December 7, 2009. SoftwareCasa is also doing a special price on Snagit Single user - $47.00.

You find the Anniversary Specials here:

Snagit Single User $47.00
Snagit Multi User Discount (10% 5-users and upwards)
Camtasia Multi User Discount (10% 5-users and upwards)

Until next time
Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

ScreenCast for Cash

Calling all screencasting masters, have you been uploading tutorial videos about that software you’re so fond of or that game that got you hooked up and is so adamant to share to the whole wide world its whats, how-to’s, tips and tricks?

Do you want to share your tutorial videos and get a chance to win $1,000?

Well, brace yourself mentor!

MindBites, a website where you can search and publish how-to and tutorial videos, is holding a contest called, Screencast 4 Cash where lucky winners can get the chance to win up to $1500+ and more.

Interested participants must be at least 13 years old to be able to join the contest.

If you are interested, then register yourself at MindBites.com, then proceed on creating your original tutorial video, where it must be instructional in nature, has at least three minutes duration. After complying to the rest of the guidelines, you can then upload your entry and wish for the best.

Here’s the timeline for the contest duration you should remember:

• April 21, 2009 – Contest begins

• April 28, 2009 – Weekly Voting opens

• May 18th (11:59 PM CST) – Deadline of Entries

• May 19th – Daily Voting begins

• May 26th (11:59 PM CST) – Voting closed

• May 27th -Announcement of winners

The prizes for lucky winners are:

Grand Prize: $1000 + TechSmith Camtasia Studio/Snagit Bundle software

People’s Choice Award: $500 + Snagit software.

To vote, simply login or register at MindBites.com, click on “All Entries – Vote” tab, and add your vote to the screencast you find worth voting.

Just so you all know, the partners for this contest are TechSmith, Download Squad, MindBites and Youth for Technology Foundation (beneficiary of 10¢ in every vote you make). Representatives from each of the above-mentioned partners will be the judge for the Grand Prize. Whereas for the People’s Choice Award, it will be based on popular vote by registered site visitors, who will be able to cast one vote weekly during the submission period and one vote daily thereafter until the close of the voting period, as set in the Timeline.

Now, start working on that entry boy and go bag the Grand Prize!

Good luck

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

Camtasia 6.02 with FLV

Camtasia Studio upgrade 6.02 was just released including support to produce FLV files and some other goodies.

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

Camtasia for Mac – Betatesters needed

The highly anticipated Camtasia Studio on Macintosh platform is in Betatesting.

TechSmith is right now looking for betatesters and you can go here and do a survey if you are interested in participating.

They are looking for a mix between new and professional users.

Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

Camtasia 6.0

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

Camtasia 5.1

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

Read on to find out all the details…

Camtasia 5.02 and other News

Camtasia 5.02
TechSmith just released a new minor upgrade – Camtasia 5.02. If you have version 5 you can upgrade to this new version from while running Camtasia Studio. Just choose Help / Check For Upgrade in the menu to download the new release.

Camtasia 5.02 fixes a production crash that can occur at the end of production when you are producing to SWF with MP3 audio in version 5.0.1.

Camtasia 5.01

A new maintenance release for Camtasia Studio 5 has just been released – maintenance release 5.01.

This is a minor release with some 34 minor bug fixes. I have used Camtasia Studio 5.0 a lot so far and have come across very few problems, but it’s always nice to see that TechSmith is on top of things and are releasing these minor upgrades.

Read on to find out what the upgrade is about.