ScreencastCamp is a gathering of screencasters and visual communication aficionados wanting to network, learn, and collaborate on the art of screencasting.

The event relies on the passion and creativity of the attendees—all sessions, discussions, and demos are led by attendees sharing their knowledge. The program isn’t determined beforehand—it’s created the first day by the participants.

Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join. ScreencastCamp follows the BarCamp model–an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment.

TechSmith trainers, developers, video staff and evangelists will be onsite and sharing their knowledge too.

When: Friday, August 12 to Sunday, August 14

Where: At TechSmith headquarters in Okemos, Michigan.

How much: Absolutely free! All meals and drinks Friday evening through Sunday afternoon are provided by TechSmith.

For more info check out Screencast camp website

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Become an expert screencaster, without hassle and without a huge time commitment.

In Camtasia Studio 7: The Definitive Guide, Camtasia Guru Daniel Park will help you understand how to make professional, effective content quickly and easily.

He’ll guide you through the simple-yet-powerful tools in Camtasia Studio that allow you to record the activity on a computer screen, add narration and video, and edit the recording like a professional videographer.

“This book is a must-read…”
Bill Hamilton, President, Techsmith Corporation

This digital book is a great support for all Camtasia Studio users. Walking you through step by step with easy to understand instructions.

And because it is digital, you get additional functionality like ability to search, plus over 300 full-size color screen shots and forty embedded screencasts (videos) that explain the finer points of Camtasia Studio.

For more info, check out:  Camtasia Studio- The Definitive Guide

The best part is, the first six chapters are free, that’s a whopping 200 pages of Camtasia Studio tips, tricks, instructions, tutorials and much more.

Download Camtasia Studio Definitive Guide free trial chapters here!

The author, Daniel Park, who is now running his own consulting company, Dappertext LLC, was once known as TechSmith’s “video creation guru.”

If you like the free pages  and you have decided that you want to get the full version, all you have to do is activate it. That’s 1,000 pages of screencasting knowledge!

Buy Camtasia Studio – The Definitive Guide
Download the read the first 6 chapters (200 pages) free

Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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Something strange has happened over at SnagitGuide.

They started experimenting with Snagit, the screen capture software when they discovered something. Something horrifying I cannot fully comprehend or even begin to explain. And I am afraid my time is running out.

I will try to get more information to you shortly, but I think they are watching me…

I am scared, very scared.

I warned you but look for yourself if you dare…

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Camtasia Relay 2.0 is a software that captures meetings, audio, video recordings and presentations for your educational organization or enterprise.  It lets your team capture important activities at the same time.  As an offsite manager, It makes me adjust to the needs of my growing workforce by providing recorded trainings and new hire orientation coming in left and right.

Being physically present in meetings where important decisions are made is just as challenging, so I attend them virtually by browsing through recorded meetings and conversations, and viewing them at my own convenience, and broadcasting my decisions through the server in the same manner. It leaves me up-to-date with the latest information and providing guidance to my leadership team.

Here’s a snapshot of Camtasia Relay features:

Flexibility - Camtasia Relay is packed with options that are simple and hassle-free.  You can also trim the idle time by using its customizable presets to make well-organized videos and lets you record without the using the internet.

Portability and Compatibility. It supports a wide variety of file formats that you can choose from in saving your videos.  This ensures that you can play it using your iPod, or saving it in a USB and view it in a different media.

Secure. It lets you administer the files that can be posted to avoid the threat of posting unofficial videos.  It also notifies the presenters through email when the processing and publishing of the videos are done.

Cost-Efficient. The full functionality of Camtasia Relay 2 reduces time and effort to get through most of the conference-related tasks and presenta-tions.  This lowers manpower and other equipment costs that impede a business’ development.

The Camtasia Relay 2’s functionality has helped me a lot in coping with the demands of my work, and participating/managing my group.   What’s best is it can also be used by students, faculty, and IT administrators in accessing information when they need it 24/7.

To find out more, visit: Camtasia Relay Lecture Capture and Presentation Recording Software

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Following the feedback from the Mac community, Camtasia for Mac has now its first ever update since the first release, Camtasia for Mac version 1.1. This upgraded version has been updated with the most frequently requested features. The new version includes the following new features:

• Region Capture

A specific area on your screen can now be selected instead of recording the entire screen. You don’t need to crop and zoom anymore as you will be recording only the exact part that you want to capture.

• Audio Enhancements

Noises coming from clicking, typing, fan and other distractions can now be removed. This audio enhancement can also regulate the pitch of your voice and remove the clicking sound when you’re speaking closely to the microphone.

• Monitor Selection

If you have multiple displays on your Macintosh, you can now select which monitor you’d like to record.

• Voice-Only Recording

This feature allows you to capture only the microphone audio without recording the screen video. You can also create and edit a voice-over separate from the screen recording so you can easily make changes in the narration.

• Pause and Resume

If you’re recording a long video, you can now go into “Pause” mode while trying to gather your thoughts or clear your throat. With this feature, unwanted content can be avoided while recording.

Using these new features will surely result in a hassle-free recording experience and high quality projects.

For current users of Camtasia for Mac 1.0, start using these new features now by checking for an update directly in your software then select Install Update on the Software Update window.

Not yet a Camtasia for Mac user? You can learn more about Camtasia for Mac 1.1 here!

Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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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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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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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

Read more about Morae 3.2

Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia and Morae Guide

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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

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