You Can Do It - Screencasting in 7 Minutes!
Posted on Monday September 7, 2009 by Betsy Weber
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Sometimes I hear people say that it is too hard to make videos. Think again! If you have 7 minutes, Ian Ozsvald of ProCasts can have you screencasting!
Ian just participated in BarCampBrighton4 and led a talk about ''Screencasting in 7 minutes with Jing' workshop at BarCamp Brighton 4'.
Check out Ian's blog post here and he'll show you how to start screencasting in 7 minutes. You'll see his video of his session and him helping others install Jing and make their first screencast. You will also see one his friends in the session use his MacBook to record his first screencast on searching Wikipedia (there is a link in the blog post above), plus Ian gives some tips on recording better screencasts.
Ian has some great tips for first time screencasters:
- Do a walk-through first of all so you're practiced
- Speak slowly and clearly
- Record the audio in a quiet room (you can clearly hear other background voices in Jez's example above - best avoid this if you're doing work for clients!)
- Don't wiggle the mouse to highlight something, prefer to use an editor later to add highlights or spotlights
- Just Do It - don't worry about it, just make a recording and repeat it if it wasn't good enough. Soon you'll have something online that Does The Job
Ian has made 170 screencasts since 2005 so he knows what he's talking about. :-) And, I'm excited for his next project to be released - he's working on 'The Screencasting Handbook'! Be sure to sign up on his website for updates.
