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Screencast of the Week - Red Gate, Down Tools Week

Posted on Sunday May 16, 2010 by Betsy Weber

After a short hiatus, 'Screencast of the Week' is back! And, we've got a fantastic screencast this week from Red Gate Software.

This screencast has everything! A balloon release, gun fights (no need to worry - they're nerf guns), music (from their resident band, Macca), a guy inhaling a helium balloon and singing, Red Gate employees eating lunch at 40 time speed and various people describing the many projects they worked on.

I love, love, love this screencast for so many reasons! I love seeing inside Red Gate - the culture, the fun, hearing their philosophies and how they work. They also made great use of many of the new features in Camtasia Studio 7 like sketch motion callouts, adjusting audio points/volume leveling, and the 'Camtasia bounce track (one of the free Digital Juice music tracks).

Curious about how screencast was made? Anthony Osborn, who created the video, will share the project file with you. Just get in touch with him via Twitter if you're interested. Thanks for sharing, Anthony!

Down Tools Week 2010 from Anthony Osborn on Vimeo.

And, I love the idea of a 'Down Tools Week' - give developers a week and see what kinds of interesting new tools and programs they can come up with! Anyone else doing this?

Nominations are open for next week's Screencast of the Week. Don't be shy - you can nominate yourself! Email, leave a comment or tweet me!

Comments (4)

Well, it is very "advanced" screencast I would say. I think about 80% is "normal" video. But anyway, software is something we daily have to do with. So why don't combine it with normal videos.

Btw, I have a screencast of the week series in my blog too and look for nice german screencasts.
So, if someone knows good vids, contact me via comments / twitter (@wapr_) /email

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Very interesting post. Thanks again.. Please Keep it Up!!

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wendy :

good idea,interesting

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