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Easily record your screen to create compelling training videos, screencasts, and presentations … without ever leaving your desk.

Now you can Capture and record everything you see on your computer screen with audio
Edit and enhance the videos - using cursor movements with special visual effects, perform in highlighting, zooming, and panning, and even record what you draw on the screen
just like the Pro's.

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Tips for Creating Videos

Ever visited a website that offered a tutorial on something such as creating a website or customizing a blog? There are plenty of tools to help create that in a website.

To create a simple montage of photos, words and music to commemorate a wedding, birth or even a weekend barbecue then might be the helping tool. It is also free.

For those that just want to have some fun on the web, digitalfilms.com allows you to create short animated films where you can choose the background images, create the characters and more.

To get more technical and provide some instructions and how-to tutorials, products such as Camtasia and NetPlay allow recording of what is happening on your desktop. For instance, a Word document can be open and then it can record how to select text, change the font, change the color and insert a picture.

To make the most of videos, start with the end in mind. What should this video capture and convey to an audience? Create a simple script to use as an outline to make sure you cover all of the key points.

If you are demonstrating something for your own target market that will be displayed on your website, feel free to get into technical aspects and make a longer video. If it teaches the audience what they want to know, they will be glued to the screen.

On the other hand, if the video is to go “viral”, meaning that it gets passed around on the web with a service such as YouTube.com, a video should be short and to the point. People have short attention spans and don’t want to spend too much time on anything. Create a series of several short videos to convey the message and viewers can choose to keep going on to the next video if they wish.

When uploading a video to a video sharing site, be as descriptive as possible when filling out the information about the video. This will help viewers find it. Other people will be able to rate it, and if you get a bad rating from someone, try to think of it as constructive criticism or just shrug it off altogether. A lot of people are bored with their own lives and have nothing better to do than post disparaging comments on others’ videos and blogs.

A better source of advice is from a sites own target market. Ask website visitors to view the videos and give some feedback. To make this easier, create a form for visitors to fill out. Offer them a small thank you gift, such as a free report upon their completion of the form.

Receiving feedback will ensure the videos are on the right track. This will only help create better videos in the future.

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How To Create a Video In CamStudio

CamStudio is an opensource software screen recorder. This means that you can use it to record screen videos - videos using your computer screen.

You can also record audio using your computer's microphone and/or audio coming from your computer. It's perfect for tutorials and best of all…it's free!

Step 1. Visit CamStudio.org and download the free software.

Step 2. Once CamStudio is installed, you can make your video adjustments. Open CamStudio and click on the options button at the top. A menu will drop down and you'll see Video Options at the top. Adjust your video to compress via one of the listed programs, you'll have to download these from the other programs websites or you can leave it on the default settings.

Step 3. You have a choice of two video formats, either AVI or SWF. AVI is a standard video format that most people can easily open however SWF is better if you want to publish your file to a website. SWF is a flash format. Some feel SWF is better for web publication because you don't have to embed it onto your site.

Step 4. Your next step will be to adjust your audio options so that you can either record via your computer's microphone or record using your computer's speakers. This means that if you're recording a game or some program that has sound, the sound will be included in your video. The program's default is to have the sound turned off.

Step 5. You can go ahead and simply click record right now and see what happens. When you're done recording you simply push the stop button and you'll see a prompt on your screen to save the file. However, you may want the CamStudio screen to be minimized so that it isn't included in your video. Scroll down to program options and choose the Minimize program on the start recording option.

Step 6. You're essentially done at this point and may begin recording. I suggest that you give yourself an hour or two to play with the program. You can change how your curser looks. You can pan in and out and even control the speed. You can adjust whether you record a full screen or simply a portion of your screen. You can also add screen annotations and adjust how they look.

CamStudio has a few bugs, it doesn't work in Firefox, but they're working on it and when it comes to opensource screenrecorders, it can't be beat. It's simple and straightforward to use and the results are quality. Download it and give it a shot today, you may find that your next information product is only a few clicks away.

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