Conjunction Junction and Camtasia Studio
Posted on Wednesday December 10, 2008 by Betsy Weber
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In the 70's and 80's in the United States, they use to play these great short educational films during Saturday morning children's television called Schoolhouse Rock! The cartoon videos would teach you about grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and politics with a catchy tune.
I've been riding the trains around Paris this week and Troy Stein, the Camtasia Studio Product Manager, has been riding trains around Berlin too. We were talking about the old Schoolhouse Rocks! video called 'Conjunction Junction'. If you haven't seen it, check it out below. It runs just over 3 minutes long.
As Troy and I were chatting about getting around town and switching through multiple trains to get to our destinations, the subject morphed into software. We were wondering... as you work through your Camtasia Studio projects, what other programs or junctions, if you will, do you switch through to complete your screencasts? For example, do you use a separate audio editor or do you use another program to convert your videos to additional file formats? And why? Any insight would be useful as we try to understand what you need to complete your videos projects.
And, I'll apologize in advance - if you're like me, you won't be able to get the song, 'Conjunction Junction' out of your head for several days. :-)
Thanks for any insight you can provide us!
Comments (5)
Hi:
I recently you asked about being the Camtasia Product Manager for a day.
Here is my test and a request to document your work:
Record a video using a standard retail camcorder. (I have a Sony HDR-SDR1.) Record in a standard format like MPEG2, then show how you can import, edit and produce your video to Screencast.
I am making this request as, I like your products and I am trying to use them more but I have recently run into difficulty importing, editing and posting video to the web for my family and friends.
Regards,
Tom
Posted by Tom | December 10, 2008 11:53 AM
Posted on December 10, 2008 11:53
"For example, do you use a separate audio editor or do you use another program to convert your videos to additional file formats? And why? Any insight would be useful as we try to understand what you need to complete your videos projects."
I recently used Nero 9.0. to complete a video project because I was unable to import and edit a video project in Camtasia Studio 6.0 using a retail video recorder (Sony HDD-SDR1).
Regards,
Tom
Posted by Tom | December 10, 2008 11:58 AM
Posted on December 10, 2008 11:58
I congratulate you. Very cute video. And yes the audio is very catchy. What did you produce your video in ?
Posted by Sergio | December 11, 2008 7:37 AM
Posted on December 11, 2008 07:37
Whoa!!! Conjunction Junction... now, THAT's a flashback!!! And one great matphor for your topic.
Thanks!
Posted by Jim Watson | December 17, 2008 9:18 PM
Posted on December 17, 2008 21:18
We find Theater in Camtasia V6 very useful but it has a few improvements that are needful. Theater should have "normal" windows functionality such as file/save.../ and the ability to load a past project. If an oversight is found or a change needs to be made in one of the production enteries, theater must be closed and a new project started. And once theater is closed all the file includes and layout work is lost and must be re-entered. This is very frustrating and time consuming for a large number of entries or when a number of iterations must be made to a set of productions. But even with that Camtasia is a great product, thank you.
Posted by Robert Lewis | January 6, 2009 9:15 PM
Posted on January 6, 2009 21:15