Most advanced screencasting softwares have editing tools with which the user can create mouse callout effects. Mouse callouts are effective–pretty much mandatory–for guiding the viewer’s attention to an area of interest on the screen. But what if you use a tool like ScreenToaster or Jing that is more focused on raw screen capture than post-produced [...]
Remy Sharp runs jQuery For Designers, a screencast education site for jQuery users. He screencasts using iShowU on a Mac with a pro microphone and is a local here in Brighton.
Here Horst Jens, another long-time author in ShowMeDo, tells us about his background working with kids and open-source and how he spreads knowledge via screencasts.
This interview, titled “Interview – Michael Pick : Man behind WordPress Screencasts!” is republished on scrast.net with the permission of its author, Mayank Gupta. It originally appeared on the Blog Design Studio blog on August 14th, 2008. People who know me personally would know that I’m a firm believer of the fact that videos and [...]
This interview, titled “Interview with Ian Ozsvald – Screencasting made professional!” is republished on scrast.net with the permission of its author, Mayank Gupta. It originally appeared on the Blog Design Studio blog on January 19, 2009. I hope you all remember the interview of Michael Pick, the light-bulb engineer at Automattic Inc. Today, I present [...]
If you’d like to visually demonstrate a keystroke (or combination of keystrokes) performed in your screencast, download a set of FREE keyboard icons at keyboardicons.com. Alan Who? [sic], web producer and creator of KeyboardIcons, has created four sets from which to chose:
ScreenToaster has been praised in reviews ever since its beta release. It’s no wonder why. ScreenToaster offers more features than any other free, cross-platform screencasting in its class, and even offers functionality that professional screencasting softwares don’t. ScreenToaster lives on the cloud and requires no downloading or installation. ScreenToaster offers the user the option of [...]
TechSmith’s Jing is good for quick and dirty screen caps. The tool can capture your entire screen, a window, or an area of the screen you specify. For now, Jing doesn’t offer editing, but does produce some nice, high-quality screencasts (up to 5 minutes in length) with audio from your internal mic or external mic [...]
Screencast-O-Matic is a free and easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast) and upload it to Screencast-O-Matic’s free hosting all from your browser with no install. You can embed Screencast-O-Matic in your own site so people can create screencasts and upload them to a channel you create (more on that [...]
There’s a keyboard shortcut for almost every command imaginable in ScreenFlow. Download and print this handy reference sheet to increase your speed and efficiency as you create your screencasts. The ScreenFlow keyboard shortcut reference sheet PDF is provided courtesy of Scraster Professional Screencasting. Thanks, Scraster!