Category Archives: Screencasting

Camtasia Studio 4 - Custom Flash Preloaders

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 [...]

Camtasia Studio 4 - Flash Closed Captioning

This screencast takes a look at how, with a few simple xml edits, you can customize Camtasia Studio 4 Flash closed captioning.

Screencasts are available for the video iPod as well

Camtasia Studio 4 - Flash Quizzing

With Camtasia Studio 4 we completely revamped the Flash output’s quiz and survey capabilities and for the first time, IMHO, have quizzing which is aesthetically palatable and functionally robust.
This screencast highlights some of the new features, including:
1) Flow layout
2) Multiline questions and answers
3) Global, question and answer level feedback capabilities
4) Virtually unlimited number of questions [...]

Camtasia Studio 4 - Misc Flash Output Features

Camtasia Studio 4 was released a few weeks back and I’ve finally had the opportunity to make a few screencasts highlighting some of the new Flash related features as well as some backdoor hacks that allow you customize and configures many items that aren’t exposed in the UI. So, the next few posts will be [...]

FITC 2006 Presentation Screencasts

I created 48 minutes worth of tutorials exploring the use of Camtasia Studio, Flash, After Effects and more for my FITC presentation (way more than anyone will be able to stomach, but it was worth not sleeping for a 4 days :) ).
I haven’t updated the rss feed for the podcasts, but will tomorrow so [...]

Screencast: The Power of Perspective

One of the things you notice real quickly if you watch the typical screencast is how visually uninteresting and downright boring they are—my own included. With this in mind, I’ve begun to explore injecting some visual spice into screencasts using multi-application workflows.
One of the great strengths of Camtasia Studio is that its a video [...]

Screencast: Camtasia Studio Productions & IE 6/7 Active Content Changes

At the request of some Camtasia Studio Users anxious about the latest round of changes forced on IE as a result of the Eolas patent suit against Microsoft, I’ve created a screencast which illustrates how to use FlashObject to update existing Camtasia Studio 2, Camtasia Studio 3 and Camtasia Theater productions. The screencast is geared [...]