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Camtasia and the Chipmunks
By Christine Martell | January 13, 2008
On the latest episode of Podcascadia, I was talking about my struggle to learn Techsmith’s Camtasia. Now I did say, my complaints were not directed at Camtasia, but at the limitations of e-learning that focus on telling me how things should work rather than how to think it through when they don’t.
I had been Googleing and finding all sorts of things that could be creating chipmunk voices in my vidoes. Low and behold, one more try to search for the solution to my challenge brought me to an update in the software. Suddenly all those learning videos paid off, and I was able to achieve a screencast that sounds like me.
Added note: My screencast, which I created for a colleagues birthday present, was named screencast of the week on the Techsmith site!
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January 14th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Congratulations to you! You’re an awesome screencaster. Screencasting is an essential tool in any tech trainer’s tool box
January 14th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Good job, Christine! I’ve been teaching myself both Camtasia and Captivate, and I’m so glad that I now know of a troubleshooting resource!
Shari
January 14th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I’m sure I’ll be a great resource with my whole couple of weeks of experience…… always willing to try!
Beth Kanter, the subject of my screencast, has built a great resource. It is geared toward non-profits, but has lots of great content that applies across the board. It a screencasting wiki, and you can find it at http://screencastingprimer.wikispaces.com/
January 14th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Thanks again Beth. Your inspiration was a big part of it. I think screencasting is a tool all trainers can use, actually anyone who is communicating online in any fashion. Lots of creative possibilities to explore.