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Please tell me all the recordings for this video was implemented in Camtasia...
1). the wipe at around 1:03 showing a "box wipe" effect.
2). as per story board, moving the view back to front at around 2:41.

No that video was produced in a video editing tool and not Camtasia...Camtasia doesn't have that type of sophistication.

Good call Camtasia User 2. At present, this is not something that can be accomplished exclusively with Camtasia Studio. And like most media productions, of course there will rarely be one tool that does everything; each tool serves a special purpose. :)

For the video, I used the following:

- Adobe Premiere Pro (for most of the general editing)

- Adobe After Effects (for some of the effects, such as the screens swapping at the end)

- Newtek Lightwave3D (for the carousel of "jelly" guys)

- Audacity (for the voice narration)

- Apple's GarageBand (for the music)

- WinMorph (for morphing screens from one place/shape to another)

- And of course, Camtasia Studio for recording the screen, some initial editing of the recorded screen content, and the final production to embedded FLV format.

We storyboarded pretty heavily for this video, and I can't explain enough how helpful it was to have this storyboard to constantly refer back to and reflect upon during the production process. At the end of the day, whether you are making a 30 second commercial, a 10 minute screencast, or a three hour epic movie, having a full production process (pre-production, production, and post-production) is absolutely essential, and will help you and everyone involved with the projects, at all stages of the project.

Best of luck, hope that helps!

Thanks Kelly Rush and user 2. I did assume that there were more applications used to achieve, especially when I saw the "Jerry Guys"... As you have put it the workflow will be greatly helped if a good plan is in existence. Thanks again for listing the tools of your trade...
I am learning Blender for the animations and hope to achieve the effects you have in the video within it...

Nice video Kelly!

I guess I would have expected that you'd use more of your own products.

@camtasia user 2: We definitely did use Camtasia Studio 4 quite extensively (as I mentioned previously for recording, some rough editing, and final production). However, there were some parts of the video that are simply....I guess out of the scope of what Camtasia Studio is meant to achieve (especially creation and rendering of 3D objects). ;)

But again, I stress, in media production, there is no "total solution". You have to approach these projects with your "Swiss Army Knife" set of production packages, and use each tool for the aspect of the project that it works best for. :)

Thanks Brooks! ;)

Very cool! Blender 3D is a fantastic tool. I haven't used it much myself, but I know that some great stuff can be accomplished with it. If you haven't seen it already, the short film "Elephants Dream" was created extensively with the use of Blender 3D (website: http://orange.blender.org).

Good luck!

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Hi, the storyboard template links seems to be broken.

Cheers,

Sebastien

When searcing storyboard template links for video marketing I've found them here:

http://www.screencast.com/users/BetsyWeber/folders/Video_Resources

Video screencasts should now be easy to record!