Jing | Add visuals to your online conversations. Beta : Home. Video Tutorials - Changing Line Spacing. How to Master Screencasts in Seven Steps. Making screencasts (also known as "video tutorials") is already easy, and becomes easier with better tools and broadband proliferation. However, no tech is complete without a human who dives in, does experiments, and discerns best practices from the results.
I've made over 200 video tutorials, mostly for the virtual world of Second Life, and I've also done tutorials for stuff like YouTube and Sony Vegas. If a picture's a 1,000 words, then a video is… a LOT more. Through such experience, these are tips 'n' tricks I'm sure you'll find practical and applicable to your further forays into the video fields: 1. Understand audio engineering No, you don't need a degree. In the first place, you don't need an expensive mic. George Lucas was spot on when he reckoned: "Sound is 50 percent of the moviegoing experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see. " 1. 2. 3. 4. 2. 3. 1. And others can help inspire you… 4. 5.
Screen toaster. 12 Screencasting Tools For Creating Video Tutorials. Ever wondered how people show you so clearly what is happening on their computer, like in the Photoshop Video Tutorials we shared with you? Thanks to screencasting software, anyone can do it. So what's stopping you now from making your own how-to videos? Try out one of these 12 tools and get to making your first video! Free AviScreen - As the name would imply, this capture program records the video into AVI files, but can also do BMP photos. CamStudio.org - An open source program for capturing your on-screen video and audio as AVI files. Copernicus - A free program for Macs that focuses heavily on making quick and speedy films by recording the video to your RAM for quicker access. JingProject.com - Beyond recording video, Jing allows you to take a picture of any portion fo your desktop, draw on it, add a message, and immediately upload your media to a free hosting account.
Wink - Screencasting software that focuses on making tutorials with audio and text annotation abilities. Commercial. Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows.