{"id":394,"date":"2014-07-13T22:39:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T03:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brainlava.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2014-07-13T22:41:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T03:41:35","slug":"the-screen-recording-experiement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brainlava.com\/admin\/the-screen-recording-experiement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Screen Recording Experiement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a recent conversation with my buddy <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonedmiston.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jason<\/a>, I decided to record a video to give him a quick refresher on how to update his site. In the past I&#8217;ve used Jing but I wanted something that did not have a time limit and had a bit more functionality. So, I decided this was a fine time to try out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsmith.com\/camtasia.html\">Camtasia for Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it might be fun to blog about my experience as I\u00a0tried out the product to make my first Camtasia video. I will admit I don&#8217;t like to read tutorials. I firmly believe that software should be intuitive enough to complete your primary objective without the need of a dense help section.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>7:47 pm<\/strong>: Head over to the\u00a0TechSmith website and download the file<\/li>\n<li><strong>7:55 pm:<\/strong> 180MB file finishes downloading<\/li>\n<li><strong>8:15 pm:<\/strong> Had to uninstall some incompatible QuickTime components which required a restart.<\/li>\n<li><strong>8:30 pm:\u00a0<\/strong>Noticed the Start and Stop recording icon in the task bar. Nice.<\/li>\n<li><strong>9:00 pm:<\/strong> Got my screen set up, did a quick dry run recording and realized that I did not like the way I sounded. Ditched the recording and started a new one with no sound.<\/li>\n<li><strong>9:30 pm:<\/strong> Happy with the screen recording but had a hell of a time figuring out that you had to drag the elements from the effects pane to make them appear on the canvas. Thinking maybe I should have considered watching a tutorial but decided against it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>9:45 pm:\u00a0<\/strong>I see,\u00a0you have to drag the inner box on an annotation to make it expand in one direction. I would rather just have to drag the outside edge of the main box.<\/li>\n<li><strong>10:00 pm:<\/strong> I am exporting my first movie with\u00a014 captions that fade in and out. Not bad for my first time around.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Overall verdict: Pretty good!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think once I get a better set up for recordings I can see myself using this quite a bit for the training videos I send to clients. \u00a0It will be well worth the $99 investment.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I had to share my first quick and dirty\u00a0Camtasia Video. 100% likely to be boring to anyone else except myself and Jason, but thought I should at least share for those that were curious.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0T94wihgqgs\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a recent conversation with my buddy Jason, I decided to record a video to give him a quick refresher on how to update his site. In the past I&#8217;ve used Jing but I wanted something that did not have a time limit and had a bit more functionality. 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