Last week a link was quietly dropped on the TechSmith website which includes the ActionScript 2 source code and graphical assets for Camtasia Studio’s ExpressShow Flash playback wrapper. This package allows Flash developers to the customize look / feel and behavior of the playback controls, hotspots, quizzing and captioning for Camtasia Studio 5.x ExpressShow screencasts. [...]
I’ve borrowed the title of this post from the Wikinomics site which describes how new communication technologies are reshaping the way the world does business by allowing the distributed voices of the rank and file to collaborate online.
Over the last decade some of the enormous untapped potential of the web has been realized as tools [...]
Here in the US, and Michigan in particular, the near term economic forecast is pretty gloomy, but I don’t think the same is true for the screen capture / screen recording (screencasting) industry. I was struck by this thought as I was reading how shark fans are tracking the location of a great white shark [...]
I’ve been watching the blogosphere comments regarding TechSmith’s Jing Project and a frequent objection / feature request is for Jing to output to the popular consumer video hosting site YouTube. This is an interesting request given a couple of facts:
YouTube currently doesn’t support upload of videos from third party tools or sites. To say it [...]
If you are embedding Jing video content on your website sometimes its preferable to have the video autostart instead of showing the reflecting click to play thumbnail. If that’s the case, you just need to pass in a parameter via flashvars or the url query string. Here’s a Jing video sans audio which shows you [...]
If you’re looking to embed Jing content hosted on Screencast.com on your own site here’s a snapshot of how you would do with SWFObject:
Right now there’s no “nice” way to grab a uri to the swf file you’d like to embed, so you will need to “View Source” in your browser, do a search for [...]
If you’ve tried the Jing Rich Recording Client on OS X and the novelty of the Sun UI glob has worn thin it’s super simple to set up a shortcut key and turn the UI off entirely (a Jing menubar icon with three items will appear on the right hand side of the menu bar [...]
Every once in a while you get to work on a project with the potential to be a game changer in the industry; something that can change people’s lives; a revolutionary technology that may fundamentally change the way we communicate with each other. I’m proud to announce that I was able to contribute in a [...]
Sometimes you don’t want / need a flv PIP over the top of your table of contents. Instead what you’d like is a simple, small image file to sit above your TOC adding a nice finishing touch to your Camtasia Studio 4 Flash output. This screencast walks you through the xml edits currently needed [...]
The .fla files and .as files for the new Camtasia Studio 4 preloaders are now part of the software installation. This allows owners of Flash 8 to easily customize their screencast preloader experience. In this screencast you’ll get a step by step walk through on how to quickly update one of the preloaders with a [...]