Howdy Ya’All ! Thanks again for riding in. Today at the ranch we have a very special thing. First is the Camtasia Studio 7 Overview Video. Secondly is a great Behind the scenes video showing you how it was done. In the behind the scenes video you will see the faces of Kelly Rush (Marketing Video Producer) for TechSmith, Daniel Parks (TechSmith Newsletter Writer) sign up for that here. TechSmith Newsletter you will be happy to receive it. It has excellent information. Ann Morgan (Graphic Artist at TechSmith) was also a behind the scenes helper for the creation of this video. All of them look like they were having a great time. A dream job of mine! Well, lets get all saddled up and ready to wrangle the screencast they made for our viewing pleasure. Thanks to all the great people at TechSmith.
Camtasia Studio 7 – Overview Video
TechSmith Behind the Scenes – Making the Camtasia Studio 7 Overview Video
More videos will be released showing functionality and some cool new features later. So hold on to your horses this is going to be great. We hope you enjoy these videos.
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Today at the ranch we are giving you the newest sneak peek from TechSmith on the new and all improved Camtasia Studio 7. It has to do with the audio enhancements. I am sure you will find these new features a big plus. Once again TechSmith comes through for us end-users by listening to what we asked for on certain things. But, I am sure there will still be more requests for changes as always in new versions of any software. There is always room for improvements but this is an excellent starting point and should satisfy a lot of end-users. I will once again let there video do the talking. Take a look at it now.
Oh!, I almost forgot to tell ya. Hold on to your horses because in just a few short days you will be able to take hold of the reins and try these new features out for yourself. Also, a message for Bets at The Visual Lounge Blog. Get better and you sure know how to put a new meaning to one arm bandit lol.
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Today at the ranch we will be letting the kind people of TechSmith show you the latest about Camtasia Studio 7 Version. It sure makes life easier for all of you YouTube Watchers and Uploaders out there. It can even do the HQ (High Quality) Videos. I think you will truly enjoy this new feature.
Hold on to your horses partner. I forgot to tell you that with Camtasia Studio 7 you will now be able to upload from right within the software after producing your video. It is gonna be great to see this new version. Remember, it will be soon that you will get to try this new version. Just a few more days as Bets from TechSmith said. It should be around the end of the month. Hope you find this information helpful and fun to read and watch.
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Howdy Ya’All and thanks for riding in to the ranch. Grab a cup of coffee and sit right down and enjoy your stay. Today TechSmith reveals another Sneak Peek at the latest additions added to the new and improved Camtasia Studio 7 Version. This is a feature I am darn sure everyone will enjoy. I sure know I will like rustling up the dust and creating a storm of screencasts with the new things coming. Here is the latest video put out by TechSmith about the new Keystroke Callouts Feature. I will let them explain it as they do it rather well. Feel free to post your comment today about what you think of it.
Ooops! Hold on their partner! I almost forgot to tell you that the best way to view these videos is in the Full Screen Mode. For those of you not sure of how to wrangle that one up I will tell you how. Just right click your little mouse button on the box in the video with the four little corner arrows and it will take you to the full screen mode. If you wan to get out of the full screen mode then just click it again or hit the Escape (Get me out of here, just kidding!) button on your keyboard. Hope this helps Ya’All.
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Thanks for riding in and checking the ranch for new updates. Today we will show you the newest sneak peek of Camtasia Studio 7 from TechSmith. Yippy! They have added some new cursor effects options while in the edit mode only, not live while recording, maybe next version. This will definitely help your viewers follow along better and also make things nicer in the editing mode for us end-users (Video Content Creators). Things like visualizing clicks, enlarging the mouse cursor, and one of my favorites, making the cursor a spotlight. Check the video out below for the new options and the sneak peek:
Hold on partner! I forgot to tell you that they added a new feature to the timeline for the cursor. Great idea, it will allow us to place the cursor effects more precisely on our video creations. You can also choose not to have the cursor appear at all.
Thanks to the Great People at TechSmith for listening to us end-users and the quick responses from their most excellent support department. That is what makes them right out #1 to myself and my ranch hands here. Keep up the great work Ya’All!
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Just giving you an update and a sneak peak at the new Callouts in Camtasia Studio 7. I cannot wait to use these and make some new tutorials showing you how to do the same.
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Well the folks at Techsmith put out the word Camtasia 7 is coming soon and it might just be a major upgrade from what you already know. I personally can’t wait to try it out.
How do you get small video files? Well that is a hard question to answer. There are many things that make a video file large. Multiple transitions, callouts, zoom and pans, and as well as audio will increase the size of the video. The size in which you produce the video will also increase it. A 340×280 video is going to be much smaller than a 800×600 video. Then selection is based on the need for the video. Will this be shown on a website, disk, or something else? For me I typically produce my videos in mp4 or flv formats, but that is because I create videos for web sites mostly. To make my videos smaller in Camtasia Studio I will lower the Frame rate to below 10 and the key frame every 5 seconds. By doing this you are capturing less keyframes so, less toward the end size. There is a trade off here though and that can be quality. Lowering the frame rate only works well with videos that do not have many animations like fade-in and out of callouts and zooms.
Another area to cut back on is the audio settings. You don’t need to have it set for more than 64 kbps. 128 is CD quality, but does your presentation really need that? You have to decide.
You have to find a balance. The more you pack in the bigger and there is not much you can do about that. To speed up download times split the videos into multiple video, but have the player play them in sequence. The viewer won’t realize it most of the time.
In our last article I talked about using Amazon S3 to host your videos created by Camtasia Studio. This method is easy when you are using a normal website and can just link to the video’s html page, which plays the movie. But, what if you use something a little different like WordPress?
WordPress sites have become very popular over the years. They are easy to build and customizable to work with most types of sites. They allow for blogging like this and their ability to easily create RSS feeds to keep your readers up to date makes it appealing. Now, combining WordPress and Camtasia Studio produced videos can be a little challenging for the novice web designers. Camtasia Studio, when it produces a video for the internet produces multiple files to include its very own html file. In order to play the video it uses each file to add the Camtasia Studio specific items like callouts and captions. Because of these extra files you can not just use a video plugin to show your video. Well I guess you can if you want to lose your hotspots and interactivity. This is where you need a little knowledge of embedding flash files.
First, you need a place to host your videos. Amazon S3 is just one. For more on this read our previous article Camtasia Studio and Amazon S3. Once you have your videos uploaded you need to add them to your post on your WordPress site. You can do this by using the Flash Player embedded coding. Now I know what you are saying, “I am not a webmaster and don’t know what code to use!” Well what if I told you there is a website that can do the majority of the work. You need the SWFObject v2.0 HTML and JavaScript generator. This site will generate the needed coding to add to your blog. It is that easy.
The following video was added to this post using the same generator and is hosted on my Amazon S3 account. The video also shows you just how to do this.
Note: This video is unedited. Click Here to view in a larger window
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