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This week's Screencast of the Week is a great one! How many of you take pictures? If you're like me, you love taking pictures to document travels, capture milestones and fun times with friends, family and co-workers. What if you took those pics, added some background music and turned it into a video to share with your friends and family? It's a great way to commemorate good times!

John Basile (aka Scraster) did that for his good friends who had chronicled the progress of their pregnancy with a photo session every Sunday morning. The baby, (John's Goddaughter) was born September 13th. Around that time, John's friends handed off the Sunday morning photo series and a fitting Velvet Underground song on a Flash drive. John put together the following slideshow using Camtasia for Mac.

I asked John how he created the screencast with Camtasia for Mac. Here's what he shared with me:

"In Pro Tools, I edited the Velvet Underground's track Sunday Morning to include the intro, an instrumental break, and the fade out ending. I brought the audio into Camtasia for Mac, along with all the images (as JPGs). In the Timeline preferences, I set the Default Image Duration to 3 seconds and the Default Transition Duration to .05 seconds. I had to fine-tune a lot of the clip and transition durations, but having the drag-and-drop fade-in/fade-out actions is a huge time saver. I enjoy using Camtasia for Mac over than other slideshow softwares I've worked with because it allows for more control and detail when timing images to audio."

Check out the screencast below. It runs just under a minute long.

Sunday Morning: a progress report from Earshot Presents on Vimeo.

Any nominations for next week's Screencast of the Week?