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I would like to see "best of breed" business e-learning courses in a variety of industries developed with Camtasia, with how to information.

I have been a network writer and producer (primarily with NBC) over many years. I am also a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America. More importantly I am a great fan of SnagIt and Camtasia and have done a fair amount of experimental work with it.

I believe it would be quite helpful to encourage users of these products to explore in detail many aspects of these programs to help others who may not have really explored the menus and capabilities of these programs. The videos (or whatever presentational approach is used) should focus closely on just a single aspect of the program and enlarge the users knowledge.

Here is a page on Wikipedia I've just revised about my grandfather, a New York painter named Jerome Myers. Much of the material was captured, edited and imported using SnagIt.

Look particularly at the three early New York City montages that are found at the middle of the article. These pictures were processed using SnagIt Editor. Still I turned to Google's free program Camtasia to allow me to create the montages. It is not hard to do and could be helpful to many users. It compliments SnagIt perfectly. Here is the url address:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Myers

I'm currently using SnagIt 9. Here are a couple of questions to tease you with. Let's say you have two separate pictures and want to have them appear as one picture side by side? How do you do it easily? Let's say you have a picture that is titled a shade counter-clockwise how do you adjust it to straighten it. Yes, it's under image rotate, but what number do you need to put in the box to do the job if it's almost perfect?

Now two tougher questions. How do you do a touch up of a photograph to remove some white dandruff on the shoulder of a dark jacket? Even tougher - and I'm not sure of the answer? Is there a spray can effect available for touch up? If so, how do you do it?

Anyway when I come up for air from some other work I'm doing, I'll put together a little Camtasia demo together and answer some of the above questions.

What would be nice if TechSmith started to put a call out to many of its users to start putting together such short video demonstrations of features that might believe would be helpful to other users. Might even dangle a bit of a prize to the winning submissions. Nothing to effect the bottom line too much - perhaps a complimentary upgrade of whatever program they select.

Stay safe and one last question - and we're talking about something that could definitely save your life or the life of someone else. If you believe you or they are having a heart attack what are the first TWO things you should do? We're talking about increasing the chance of survival by 25 to perhaps 30%.

I'll send the answer to Betsy in the next few days. It'll be interesting to find out how many of you already know the answer or will have found it out.

Regards to all - and I'll be back to beat up from time to time on some things in TechSmith customer education that could be expanded in video demonstrations and such. This is not to suggest that SnagIt and Camtasia aren't wonderful programs - they are - and I love them dearly. Still the best compliment I can pay them is to try and make them even better.

Barry

I have been using SnagIt for years at work, and I just downloaded it for home. Then I saw all of the other products offered. I would love to see a synopsis of all the TechSmith applications, and briefly what you can do with them. I could surf around the website and figure it out, but time is valuable, and a little synopsis would be fantastic!

I have this incredibly original idea that I'm sure no one has ever thought of (right!!).

Noting that Dan Park's latest Camtasia book is coming out in a few weeks, I've been wondering why no one's ever written a comprehensive book -with a disc containing practice files- for Snagit. Snagit 10 is loaded with so many wonderful features, not all as easy to learn as you might think, that a good "definitive guide" to Snagit might be a popular offering. Yes, the information in the Learning Center and in the video tutorials is great, but a comprehensive book covering every possible aspect of Snagit 10 would be a most welcome product.

I work as a Product Marketing Manager for a technology firm and have used Camtasia for the past three years for canned product demos and short product promotional videos with screen captures. I would love to see more best practices for these sorts of videos and examples of really professional looking business-related videos created with Camtasia with how-to information. Thanks so much for a wonderful product!

I would like to see some of the technical best practices for screen capture. Microphones, cameras, desktop environments, HD or Not HD.

What can we do to make our Demo Recordings "pop" and look very professional. Also how can we integrate Video into normal screen captures?

It is quite possible that folks want to see discussions about the following:

- Planned & upcoming features about Camtasia? (personally, I have a lot of hope for certain features to be introduced soon -- I'd love to get my ear onto the pulse of Camtasia development)

- What can/will be done to merge features between the PC and Mac versions of Camtasia?

- What can/will be done to maximize Camtasia for eLearning?

- Tips on maximizing the library features for multi-user use, enabling corporate branding, reusable assets, etc.

I would be willing to post articles on some of these topics if you would like.

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Bruce Rothwell
Rockwell Collins
Cedar Rapids, IA

I would like to be able to create and post thumbnails from captured images from within Snag It.

I would Snag-It to me give the functionality of Shrink the Web.com.

http://www.shrinktheweb.com/

I've been using Camtasia and Snagit for a number of years working full-time in the corporate world. I've created and produced a ton of application how-to tutorials.

Now I've started my own business and a major component of my marketing will be to create and produce videos for my customers.

So, I'd be real interested in stories about how professionals are marketing their Camtasia/Snagit skills and what kinds of videos they are successfully selling.

This is such a great idea.
Cheers.....

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