Wednesday, July 1

Thing # 8 - Screencast

There are so many screen capture capabilities out there. I chose one that would capture my video & audio at the same time (screencast). I'm still a fan of Camtasia - but it does cost $$. The reason you would want to purchase rather than use free - only if you want to produce really high quality video - like adding menus to your video, controlling the product output of your video, adding captions, & having a high level editing component where you can cut/splice & make all sorts of edits. I like to make really good video for tutorials for tech purposes so that is why I choose Camtasia. Also, our multimedia teachers prefer it - the output is important if you are creating media that you plan to use for a long time & play on various devices - like ipods, etc. If you are making quick easy video - then I think free is good, but sometimes you run into tech issues depending on where & how you wish to play it.

Here is a short tech tip on saving files that I created using Screencast:

3 comments:

VWB said...

looks pretty good to me for free!

this is something I really think can help us...if we all make short little things like this and share them around....typical things that we get asked over and over again!

KRM said...

Definitely! there is a ctr wiki now - but the trick is to get folks used to going there to get answers. Not sure they will do it?

Grendel said...

I loved it but need additional speakers to hear you! My hero!