Keep your audience focused with Mouseposé 3
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 [...]
FREE keyboard icons for your screencasts!
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:
ScreenFlow keyboard shortcut reference sheet in PDF
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!
Lessons to the aspiring screencaster from Strunk & White
This guest post is by Daniel Park, author of Camtasia Studio: The Definitive Guide. Daniel publishes a free, semi-regular newsletter about screencasting called… The Screencaster. You can sign up to receive The Screencaster by clicking here. The other day, I got a solid lesson in good screencasting from a most unexpected place. Most Americans, at [...]
Mac keyboard shortcuts for screen captures
Some screencasting softwares don’t have the capability of taking still screen captures. Here are some shortcuts for capturing the screen of your Mac, and some super-shortcuts for getting those caps into Photoshop with lightning speed:Apple+Shift+Control+3 – takes a grab of the whole screen.Apple+Shift+Control+4 – gives you crosshairs to select your area.Apple+Shift+Control+option+3 – takes a grab [...]
