Corporations use Camtasia Studio in Very Different Ways

Last month I delivered Instructor-Led Camtasia Studio training to two small groups: once for Chick Fil A Corporate offices here in Atlanta and once for Castellini in Kentucky. Both companies were vastly different in their environment and in the ways they were planning on using the software. I wanted to share my observations to give [...]

Getting Better Audio Quality in Your Screencasts

Many of our students ask us about getting rid of the background noise they pick up in their microphone when recording in Camtasia. Here is a recent question: “Is there a recommended or decent way to record audio for slides? It seems the microphone I’m using picks up quite a bit of fan noise from [...]

Why E-learning Videos are Better than Instructor-Led Live Training

I’ve been creating so many training videos lately that I recently took some time to think about why I love video based on-line training more than I’ve ever liked going into a classroom and sitting through hours or days of an instructor led classroom course. Although in traditional  Web based Learning, learners don’t design the [...]

One of the Best Careers of 2011: Training Specialist

According to US News, Training Specialist, also know as an Instructional Designer or Instructional Technologist, is one of the best careers for 2011, at least in the US. That’s good news for all of you out there who enjoy creating video tutorials. Here are some other interesting snippets from the article: Prospects (US figures): Employment [...]

An Inspiring Camtasia Case Study

Most of the time when I hear a case study of someone who used an internet product and did extremely well as a result I am always a little skeptical.  How do i know this person isn’t being given a little cash to hype up their story? I guess you could say after being in [...]

Spicing Up the Salespage to Market your Video Tutorials

Once you have created your video course, if you are trying to sell it, you are going to have to create some kind of salespage to market it.  And no matter how much internet traffic you send to that page, if it does not convert your visitors into buyers you will be wasting your time. [...]