Special Camtasia Recorder Settings Running Time: 10 Minutes Description: Screen Capture Secrets – This windows media screen capture introduces all the different settings available in Camtasia Recorder. I had to do it in Windows Media because Camtasia Recorder doesn’t allow you to record itself!!!! Make sure to play around with all the different settings. Different settings are appropriate for different projects – remember it’s distribution first – capture second. Resources: Camtasia Download Windows Media Encoder

Add Professional Menu’s To Your Screen Capture CD’s Running Time: 15 Minutes Description: Screen Capture Secrets – This 15 minute screen capture shows you exactly how to create professional Menu’s for your finished product. If you choose to distribute your finished product as a physical product, it will need some finishing touches. Camtasia Studio contains an entire application for creating professional menu systems for CD’s You can add: AutoPlay Feature – Insert the CD into you PC and the menu system starts automatically Hyperlinks – links to other resources on the web, these can be any page addressable by a URL Text Tips – a small bubble menu that gives a description of what the link will do when a...

Annotate, Add Captions and Edit Screen Captures Before Distribution Running Time: 10 Minutes Description: Screen Capture Secrets – This 10 minute screen capture shows you how to add text, graphics, and additional content to a "raw" screen capture before you produce a movie or encode it as a final product. After capturing the raw file you may remember an additional point or require additional explanation regarding a specific point in the capture. Perhaps there are two places that need attention in the presentation at the same time – how can you call attention to a secondary point after you’ve already captured the file, you certainly don’t want to do it over! Camtasia studio includes an "Effects" application that allows you...

Piracy – Where Do Your Files Go When People View Them Running Time: 4 Minutes Description: Do you really know where your files go after someone views them? If you want to have you multimedia files passed around – don’t bother reading this session. If you are concerned about where you files go after someone views them watch this quick presentation. It show how a quick hunt on your hard drive will give you everyone’s MP3 files, flash presentations, even complete videos. If your aren’t careful this is exactly what is happening to your paid content. Remember that it’s how you decide to distribute your content to end users that comes first – not what you see on your screen....

How To Use Camtasia To Produce a Real Video ( no longer recommended) Running Time: 8 Minutes This format has recenly been discontinued by Real Player, for that reason I no longer use it. Description: Screen Capture Secrets – I don’t recommend using this format however I’m including it for your information. In addition I cover some of the differences between streaming bitrates and surestream. These are advanced webcasting terms that are covered in www.webcastriches.com. Feel free to play around with these settings and learn what is capable with camtasia. Remember that it’s the end users settings that you have to worry about – not what you see on your screen.

Screen Size and Color Capture in Multiple Output Formats This is an example of a Camtasia screen capture that I converted to Flash Version 6.0. Running Time: 8 Minutes Description: The actual presentation shows how the size of the screen cpature and the color depth that you have your monitor set at affects the size of your finished files. When you click on the above link a new page will open up and the flash version of the screen capture will play in the page. This original screen capture was taken from a 800X600 computer screen. When I used Camtasia to make the finished movie in the flash format it created a .swf flash file that is over 2 MEG’s...

How To Recod Screens With Camtasia Recorder Running Time: 10 Minutes Description: Screen Capture Secrets – This capture includes the entire screen – even though we really only needed to capture a "program window". The following example includes a similar capture this time I only recorded the "program window". Take a look at both and decide which is more effective. Camtasia recorder is the application that actually captures the screen. It allows you to capture all, areas, portions or program windows. These sessions go over the appropriate setting for each type of capture however you have to decide what the right amount of the screen is for your project. Remember that the size of your file increases in direct proportion...

Fine Tune Your Windows Media Encoder Settings Running Time: 16 Minutes Description: Screen Capture Secrets – Windows Media Encoder can be a little confusing, especially when you are new to webcasting and multimedia. In this 16 minute multimedia screen capture I use Camtasia to go under the hood and look at the properties tab in the Windows Media Encoder Software. Each of the tabs that you should know about is covered. Watch this to make sure you understand exactly what you can do with this free multimedia encoding software.

This video is part 2 of 2 in the Screen Capture Secrets CourseDownload Windows Media Encoder Running Time: 5 Minutes Description: Screen Capture Secrets – Not sure where to find the free version of Windows Media Encoder? Follow along with this screen capture and I’ll show you exactly how to find it. Resources: Camtasia Download Windows Media Encoder

How To Get Started With Windows Media Encoder Running Time: 10 Minutes Description: Screen Capture Secrets – This screen capture shows how to set up Windows media encoder for a quick screen capture session. It uses the default install directories and settings and shows from start to finish how to capture a portion of your screen at no cost using free software. Resources: Camtasia Download Windows Media Encoder