Category: Tutorials
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Recent Updates from Techsmith Camtasia
A recent newsletter from Techsmith alerted me to a handful of updates to their screencasting product line – Camtasia Studio 7.1 for Windows is out, and while I haven't tried it, it promises "Now you can create searchable videos (even the audio!), and automatically generate 508-compliant captions. Plus, you can import caption files in foreign…
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Have a listen to EBSCO’s Text-to-Speech feature
EBSCO recently announced that they have "added text-to-speech (read aloud) support to EBSCOhost databases, including its major school and public library databases, by embedding Texthelp Systems’ SpeechStream toolbar—a valuable benefit provided at no additional cost to the user. Users will be able to take advantage of this new feature with any full-text articles available in…
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Screencasting for the iPad
I haven’t tried this, but Techsmith’s Visual Lounge has a post about optimizing your recording and editing settings for optimum screencast playback on an iPad. Remember, iPads and iPhones won’t play Flash (though they will play files hosted at YouTube). I’ll repeat Betsy’s question – anyone out there recording screencasts specifically for the iPad?
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David Lee King on Microphones
David’s got a couple of posts that are relevant for screencasters: 5 Mic Tips for Presenters and Three Nice Microphones. I use the Samson myself.
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Adobe Captivate 5 coming along with a version for the Mac
According to the The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), when Adobe Captivate 5 is released in June, for the first time there will also be a version for OSX. Captivate is one of the heavy hitters in the Windows screencasting world, the other being of course Techsmith’s Camtasia Studio, which is my preferred tool.
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A quick review of The Screencasting Handbook
As I'm wrapping up my preparation for my screencasting workshop next weekend at CIL2010, I finally got around to reading my copy of the forthcoming book, The Screencasting Handbook, by Ian Ozsvald, and thought I'd provide a quick review. Ian's releasing this book in stages; it's not done yet, though you can buy it at…
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Camtasia Studio 7 coming March 30
According to Techsmith's Visual Lounge blog, Camtasia Studio version 7 will be released next week, on March 30th. The blog has a series of previews of what's changed – check it out. Looks like some nice eye candy with cursor effects and callout changes. Oh, and if you just purchased version 6 (anytime after March…
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MURALS – closed-source screencasting?
The other week a colleague pointed me towards a website called MURALS, which appears to be a collection of library-related screencasts you can buy for your library. I have a few problems with the site. There's no information about who's putting these together. Not a huge deal, but it would be nice to know. It's…
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Serials Solutions partners with Springshare LibGuides
Another press release at Library Technology Guides: Serials Solutions partners with Springshare LibGuides. I’m not entirely sure what this integration actually means, but as a customer of both LibGuides and Serials Solutions I have a query in, and will let you know what more I find out.