The Forge - Episode 14 (HD) "Sock Monkeys Roasting by an Open Fire!"

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Happy holidays from the Forge! This episode we talked to Jess Knot about Camtasia Relay 4 and Conan Heiselt about Camtasia for Mac 2. Also, Daniel Park gives some tips about screencasting, and Jo Sutka helps Matt give away some swag and other great gifts!

Want to vote for the ScreenChamp? Go to http://promo.techsmith.com/screenchamp --remember you can vote 1 time per day until December 16th, 2011.

Show Notes:
0:00 Welcome
0:27 Show intro -- Did you know the music for the intro was create by a TechSmith employee?
0:40 - Housekeeping. Email us at theForge@techsmith.com, or use hash tag #TSCForge
1:13 - Introduction of Jess Knott (aka ADDIE Mortem for the Lansing Derby Vixens) introducing Camtasia Relay 4.
2:13 - For geeks - Jess really meant to say processing power. Render while you do other things
2:27 - Introducing Camera for Relay.
3:14 - The audio gets really loud, but Relay doesn't care with automatic volume adjustment
3:43 - Global captioning editor - you can add captions through Camtasia Relay
4:10 - give feedback - http://feedback.techsmith.com
4:56 - Introducing Conan Heiselt, Instructional Designer at TechSmith
5:22 - What should we know about Camtasia for Mac?
5:49 - What's new that helps users get things done faster and look great?
6:22 - What some of the tips to make eveyone's life better?
6:40 - What size you edit at you should share at that size.
7:32 - Annotations have got a big lift - here's a few tips.
8:28 - Lots of customization options with annotations
9:23 - You can remove the gradient - which is a either you love gradient or you don't.
10:57 - You can save annotations that you've created and customized
11:27 - Tutorial Viewer (found in the help menu) - lots of access to training content
12:38 - Introduction for Daniel Park
13:04 - Daniel is vexed.
17:04 - Definition of a crappy video - a video that does not do the job that you conditioned it to do.
18:57 - Technically anyone can make a screencast
19:04 - If all you bring is technical aptitude, but with out didactic or persuasive ability to go along with it, you might be good at making ineffective videos.
19:30 - if they are beautiful, but prettying it up doesn't make it more effective.
19:53 - How do we help people make screencasts more effective.
20:01 - Train yourself up - buy Richard Mayers book or good books on technical training, become adept at marketing
20:45 - The next level - learn to quantify success as a screencaster.
23:30 - How's the book doing?
23:34 - Making some changes to the formatting, including removing the DRM.
24:09 - http://www.dappertext.com - check out Daniel and his book. http://www.dappertext.com/csbook.html
24:34 - Back to the Forge.
24:44 - Welcome to Jo Sutka, Trade Show manager at TechSmith
25:38 - http://promo.techsmith.com/screenhamp - go vote
26:37 - Bunches of stuff to give away...
28:23 - TECHSMITH CHOPSTICKS!
28:47 - http://bit.ly/forge-dec-2011 -- enter to win.... Closes Dec 23rd
29:42 - We are back next month - January 19th, 2:00 PM - ScreenChamp awards
30:29 - Closing Credits

Category:

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[TheTubeTube2]

Good Content well told and technically competent counts for everything, A crappy video is usually dud content put together or repaired with whiz bang FXs.

Planning and pacing pull your audience into the production and don't let anything get in the way.

[ChannelTechSmith]

@TheTubeTube2 Good words!

[TheTubeTube2]

Guys.... I hope you have a fire extinguisher handy, I can't take my eyes off that fir branch fire surround once father Christmas catches fire the rest will be history.

[ChannelTechSmith]

@TheTubeTube2 Ha! Please don't tell the fire marshal, k? ;)

[Ed2itive]

The "Win FREE STUFF" bit.ly link seems to be broken. 

[ChannelTechSmith]

@Ed2itive Thanks for the head's up...all fixed now!

[sayhelloALICE]

you're fun! :D <3 kat

[ChannelTechSmith]

@velihall Sorry for that...all fixed now. And happy holidays to you! :)

[velihall]

The bit.ly link in the post is wrong, the one in the video is correct. You can use the one in the post if you make the F and the D lowercase. Happy holidays!