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July 28, 2009
5 Things I've Learned about Making a Web Demo using Camtasia
- If you want quick and dirty, set everything to auto and hope you don't flub your lines. Camtasia does quick and dirty very nicely.
- If you want something semi-professional looking abut don't have time or cash for a pro, record your video for length, edit it together minus VO, then narrate the video. Edit it all back together, throw in a couple of zooms, and your golden.
- Find a computer with lots of memory. Your first clue that you don't have enough RAM is clips will start locking on the timeline, forcing a restart of the program to get it loose again.
- The best process for editing video I found:
- When building your video, start with importing and laying in all your video.
- After you've got it roughly together with title screens and what not, start dropping in the audio. (Hint: break your audio up into clips before importing into Camtasia, makes it a lot easier)
- Edit again, tightening around VO (but not too tight! Leave room for transitions)
- From the beginning, put in all your panning, zooming, callouts and other effects. Tighten your video a little further at every step.
- Watch it once more with feeling.
- Produce it and kick it out the door. It doesn't pay to revel on these things, just get 'em done.
- There's a fine line between being thorough and getting yourself wrapped around the axle. Trust your instincts. If you feel its good enough, its good enough. You don't work for an ad agency, so don't get caught up in the details. Spend that time doing your regular job!
I love using Camtasia. Probably my most used software. You have shown me some new insights on how I can use of the software's tools. The largest problem I have is using the video on my website. However I just discovered Josh Bartlett's Easy Video Player. Wanted to recommend it to you. See Easy Video Player Review for more details. Thanks again for this informative post.