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When you’re looking at acquiring a Screen Capture utility, there are a variety of features you may or may not need.  Here we identify many of the features and benefits so you can decide if they’re important. Continue Reading »

When you’re sitting down to begin planning out a training video, or any kind of presentation for that matter, the first question you want to ask youself is this: WHO IS YOUR AUDIENCE?  I like to use something I’ve adapted from other writing schools: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How? Continue Reading »

Once you’ve created a compressed video file, what do you do with it so people can view it?  The simplest answer is that you need to load it up to a file server, just like any other file you want to share on the internet.  However, this is a bit misleading. Continue Reading »

As we said in the previous entry, streaming video from a web server can present some technical challenges, mainly due to bandwidth issues.  Luckily there are several ways to deal with this. Continue Reading »

Flash technology was born ten years ago now, back in 1996.  A couple of software developers named John Gay and Robert Tatsumi founded a company they named FutureWave Technologies. They created some software that used something called “vector graphics” to render graphic animations.  Vector graphics wasn’t being used very much back then, and it was very fast and lightweight. Continue Reading »

Camtasia Studio 3 is a suite of applications for recording, editing and publishing rich screen video presentations. These presentations can be used for a variety of purposes, including: tutorials, teaching aids, repetative presentations, sales training, marketing presentations, and even for encapsulating personal videos. Continue Reading »

Most people don’t realize it, but Microsoft’s Windows has had a screen capture facility built-in since it was released as Version 3.0 years ago.  Back in the days of DOS, there was a key on your keyboard labeled “Prt Scr” that could be used to print the contents of the display screen on your printer.  It was somewhat quirky, but it worked most of the time.  When Windows was introduced, print drivers were really messy and hard to get working nicely.  So the behavior of the “Print Screen” key on the keyboard was changed slightly.  It became a “screen capture” key. Continue Reading »

While I’d tend to want to dismiss this question as rather silly, because it might seem so darned obvious, it really isn’t.  You see, there are a number of different ways that people learn things.  Some are visual; some are aural.  In fact, each sense presents opportunities to learn and associate information as it’s being presented. Continue Reading »