Final Videos - 24 Videos in 24 Hours with Camtasia Studio (Visual Lounge)

Our screencasting marathon has started! I'll be posting the final Camtasia Studio screencasts here today as they become available. Rather than create 24 separate blog posts with each video throughout the day, I thought it would be easier just to post them in one post as they become available.

Troy Stein, the Camtasia Studio Product Manager, is the host in all the videos. We had a variety of guests throughout the day and night.

Note: we found a few of these screencasts will take a little extra production time. Stay tuned...

8:00am - Best Practices for Quality Audio Recordings, Matt Pierce (Training) - 14:39 minutes

9:00am - Recording Best Practices, Anton Bollen (Training) - 8:34 minutes
Apps mentioned:
Sizer
foobar2000

10:00am - Making SmartFocus Smarter, Ryan Eash (Training) - 8:24 minutes

11:00am - Camtasia and YouTube, Matt Pierce (Training) - 9:51 minutes
See this blog post for example videos and project settings

Noon - Screencast.com Integration with Camtasia Studio, Katie Lewis (Product Marketing Manager) - 8:24 minutes

1:00pm - Customizing ExpressShow, Dan Davis (Flash Developer) - 13:16 minutes

2:00pm - Jing and Editing in Camtasia Studio, Tony Dunckel (Snagit and Jing Product Manager) - 11:10 minutes

3:00pm - Keyboard Accessibility, Dan Davis (Flash Developer) - 8:30 minutes

4:00pm - HD Video and how to get 1080 recordings and production, Casey Phear (Tech Support)

5:00pm - Replacing Audio, Kate Sumbler (Tech Support) - 4:03 minutes

6:00pm - Hidden Gems in Recorder, Mike Kujansuu (Product Marketing Manager) - 5:55 minutes

7:00pm - Replacing Video, Daniel Foster (Writer and Newsletter Editor Extraordinaire) - 6:36 minutes

8:00pm - Special Guest - Eric Marcos and his students in the Classroom and Math Videos plus Dave McCollom (Education Evangelist)

9:00pm - How to Customize HTML output, Brooks Andrus (Senior Flash Developer) - 12:43 minutes

10:00pm - Focus on Flash. "Why MPEG4? How does it help you?", Brooks Andrus (Senior Flash Developer) - 8:48 minutes

11:00pm - FLV and customer suggestions, Betsy Weber (Chief Evangelist) - 9:33 minutes
Links mentioned: Customer feedback form
TechSmith on Twitter
Betsy Weber on Twitter
Dave McCollom on Twitter (Education Evangelist)
IdeaScale

Midnight - Extreme Makeover! Chris McQueen (Training)

1:00am - Camtasia Relay Integration and demo, Walter Pelowski (Customer Solutions Engineer) - 11:30 minutes

2:00am - Editing faster in Camtasia Studio 6, Jonathan Eaton (Development) - 32:34 minutes

3:00am - Best practicing for sizing projects - 7:21 minutes

4:00am - Microphone round-up, Casey Phear (Tech Support) - 4:49 minutes

5:00am - Not so obvious tips, Mike Curtis (Information Development) - 9:21 minutes
You can find Mike's tips from his screencast here

6:00am - Best Production Options (including Production Presets), Brian Lesperance (Sales Manager) - 7:09 minutes

7:00am - Working with Camera Video, Betsy Weber (Chief Evangelist) - 4:54 minutes

And, you can always watch us live here (keep in mind we're doing setup and production, so the live stream isn't always interesting, but there is a chatroom where you can interact with us. :-) ).

Thanks for joining us! I hope you'll pick up a few new Camtasia Studio tips and tricks!

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Comments (14)

Richard Campbell :

Betsy:
Watching you guys on ustream is just tooo addicting and interupting my progress on completing my own Camtasia projects!!!!!

Great work!!!

Posted by Richard Campbell | February 17, 2009 9:41 PM

Posted on February 17, 2009 21:41

Joe Pacino :

I really like the way the captions are handled with the SWF-FLV controller that toggles the captions on and off. If I choose to go with MPG-4 and H.264 as you have been recommending, will I be able to get the same kind of capability in handling the captions with an on-off toggle button?

Posted by Joe Pacino | February 18, 2009 11:27 AM

Posted on February 18, 2009 11:27

Donald :

Betsy, did the videos listed above that have no links not get done or were the links missed? Love Camtasia Studio and SnagIt! Thanks for everything you all do there at Techsmith...

Posted by Donald | February 18, 2009 11:13 PM

Posted on February 18, 2009 23:13

Mark McVeigh :

Great work you guys! Have now watched all the available screencasts & have learnt a load of new hints & tips.
What a great way of showing quickly & simply a lot of Camtasia's potential. It would have taken me months to uncover so many nuggets!

Enjoy your well deserved rest.

Posted by Mark McVeigh | February 19, 2009 6:37 AM

Posted on February 19, 2009 06:37

Will :

Great stuff! These are really valuable and give us a unique insight into how you guys use your own tools. I'm curious -- why did you pick 640 x 360 as your production dimensions on Screencast.com?
Also -- I noticed that your videos were all Flash format. Does that mean they were FLVs? And if so...why not MP4s? Does that have something to do with your original broadcast on ustream?

Posted by Will | February 24, 2009 2:16 PM

Posted on February 24, 2009 14:16

John :

I noticed that some of the sessions are missing links. Are those videos still producing? LOL

Posted by John | February 25, 2009 8:18 AM

Posted on February 25, 2009 08:18

Troy Stein :

@Will: I chose the 640x360 b/c it matched the dimensions of the little HD video camera I was using. The videos were produced in MPEG4 video format. We'll have FLV back in 6.0.2 at the end of March. But, even with the choice, I'd probably go with MPEG4 b/c that gives us the option of allowing folks to download the files and take them with you... something you can't do with FLV.
- Troy

Posted by Troy Stein | February 25, 2009 10:19 PM

Posted on February 25, 2009 22:19

Marvin :

Just imagine how useful your service would be if you allowed us to download and save these tutorials so we could watch at our leisure !!!!

I don't have time to squander when I'm doing client projects; all you do with this type of marketing is create frustration ...

You got something to say or do, then be a greater service and let us save files for viewing another time !!!

Posted by Marvin | February 26, 2009 2:15 PM

Posted on February 26, 2009 14:15

Frank :

Thanks for letting me know that these videos are available. I am very pleased with the software and TechSmith's support.

This information is extremely helpful. Thank you for sharing it..

Posted by Frank | February 26, 2009 5:43 PM

Posted on February 26, 2009 17:43

clark minton :

I am enthused and excited by how Camtasia has the products and techniques to handle screencasts. Please don't think my suggestions are anything ,but cheerleading you to greater heights. Don't you think a permanent background of your choosing would be preferable to the black cloth hung in the background?
One simple way in the studio would be in front of a large HD TV where the computer screen is "playing a background" on a DVD. But when you are shooting outside a studio there needs to be an easier way.
Can anyone help control the background electronically?

Posted by clark minton | February 26, 2009 6:56 PM

Posted on February 26, 2009 18:56

David :

Well done! - much better that your main competitor's 'evangelistic' approach to presentations. 'Information without the drivel' - keep it up!

Posted by David | February 27, 2009 8:07 PM

Posted on February 27, 2009 20:07

Marvin,

You can subscribe to these in iTunes and download them that way, or just go to the rss feed and right click on the enclosures and save:

http://www.screencast.com/users/VisualLounge/folders/24%20Camtasia%20Videos%20in%2024%20Hours/rss

chill out dude!

Posted by Will | March 4, 2009 11:41 PM

Posted on March 4, 2009 23:41