Notes From the Road, Day 2 - From Camtasia to Jing... And back again?
Posted on Monday May 12, 2008 by Betsy Weber
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I was honored enough to meet the wonderful Beth Kanter in person at SXSW this year. You remember Beth from these blog posts, right? Beth is a screencaster extraordinaire! Troy Stein was able to meet up with Beth on his travels in Boston recently. Here's what Troy has to say about his meeting with Beth:
Met with Beth Kanter in her home in Massachussets. Beth was running between her workout and the airport and was gracious enough to spend some time with me.
Beth makes tutorials and training for non-profits. In the past, she's made some really fancy training videos with Camtasia. One project was 12 minutes long, but took 20+ hours to complete, including storyboarding, recording, and especially edit.
Lately, Beth has been using Jing to do more improvised recordings. She says that she'll do a quick dry-run before she starts the recording, then she'll record it with Jing.
She said that it was liberating to create something so quickly and easily. But, she often wants to edit her Jing recordings.
Beth also said, "I don't mind re-recording a Jing if its a minute or two long. But, when I screw up in the third or fourth minute, it can be really frustrating. Don't get me wrong, I get frustrated when I mess up using the Camtasia Recorder, too. But the pain is lessened by knowing I can edit my Camtasia recordings. But I can't edit my Jings."
Is that an issue for anyone else?
Would it be helpful to edit Jing recordings inside Camtasia?
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I think it would be a great feature! I hate tripping over words and like the chance to fix flubs ..
Posted by Beth Kanter | May 13, 2008 6:42 AM
Posted on May 13, 2008 06:42
Yes!
I have a consulting client whom I am getting to use Jing to show his work, it would be wonderful to offer editing as an additonal benefit to the client.
In addition, I am working as a Community Member advising Seniors for their Senior Projects at my local high school. One of the students composed 8 songs about the seasons and we discussed using Jing as means of creating content for his demonstration. Considering I have Camtasia Studio, having the ability to edit a Jing would help with the learning curve while introducing video creation.
As an owner of Snag It, Camtasia Studio and user of Screencast, thanks for making great products!
Regards,
Tom
Posted by Tom Harney | May 14, 2008 11:54 PM
Posted on May 14, 2008 23:54