Visual Inspiration

What Screen Recording Software Is the Best?

Posted by tangyi_zhang in December 21, 2010

Screen recording software is built to assist users in making videos of their computer screen by capturing all actions. These actions carry even the cursor movement on the monitor. Most of these products let you tape both picture and audio at the same time. The usual output of these applications is in AVI format. In addition to this, some of these products let you modify the quality of the video. You can also adjust the program if you need to record in full screen, window or in a selected area. These applications are mostly plain and easy to apply. This means that even a newbie can utilize and enjoy the product’s features.

There are scores of free and paid video recording software obtainable today. Here are some details on a few of them. First is the Camstudio. This program is entirely free of charge. It is able to record all display and sound activity on your computer and build video files in AVI format. It also has a built-in SWF converter that can turn those AVI files into Streaming Flash Videos.

Another example of an great screen recorder is DemoCreator. This product is a Windows application that captures everything that is happening on your screen. It is fantastic for making videos for tutorials and presentations. These types of products are really in high demand today because of the increasing number of folks making instructional videos for sites like YouTube. This application doesn’t need the user to be highly knowledgable for him to produce professional looking videos.

DemoCreator’s interface is very easy to follow even for regular users at first. And with its Office ribbon interface people can easily understand and start their recording project in minutes. This product costs $79 during Christmas sales (original cost $99).

All of these programs can be utilized to create demonstration or instructional videos for any software product. Take note though that there are also several other great video recording applications apart from the ones stated here. While not all of them could work to your preference, it is best to have a go and test what you can and then determine what application suits you best.

Power of Video Blogging

Posted by tangyi_zhang in December 7, 2010

If you are on a tight budget but still want to do video marketing, you may consider video blogging. It’s much cheaper. You do not need to spend money on getting domain names and web hosting although it is more advisable to do so once you made money from blogs. You can sign up free at blog sites like WordPress. Video blogging is a much easier and more economical way to make money online.

If done right, your video blogs can be just as influential as website videos. For a start, you can get a laptop with a webcam or a separate webcam if you already have a laptop but is an older version. You can also consider buying a screen recorder at DemoCreator which is now commonly used in video marketing campaigns.

After you have written your articles and inserting all relevant images to your blog, you can start uploading videos directly from your webcam. Alternately you can go to video sites such as Youtube, upload your videos and copy the embedments before pasting in your blog’s html editor.

Video blogging is not really as difficult as what most people think. First of all, you can go to YouTube and look for topics relevant to your blog contents or do a market and keyword research based on what most people want or need. For instance if you are writing about weight loss, you may type in the keywords how to lose weight effectively? Next watch and listen how those people present themselves.

Once you got the genes of how video presentation should be done, go back to read your blog. Break those paragraphs into bullet point forms in your notebook or powerpoint presentation. Then give a brief summary under those bullets.

After doing all those, write a brief introduction of yourself and create a question you think most people will be wondering. If you are writing about weight loss, you can start by asking Have you been trying all means and ways to lose weight? Then you assume them by saying If so, you are not alone before introducing yourself and your product as a solution to their problems.

Once you have written and know what to say, learn to present through the desktop recorder. Keep practising until you got it all right. Once you got everything right, you can save and start uploading your video through those video sites and then to your blog.

Blogs may not look as glamourous as websites but if you can create the same level of personal touch and interconnect with the people by finding out their common problems, pain and giving them appropriate solutions, there is no reason why you cannot convert powerpoint to flash. Later when you have made enough money, you may consider putting up the same videos in websites but with more elaboration.

This is how you create your video blog and why you should consider video blogging since it is much easier as compared to other internet marketing techniques.

How to Record a Screencast on Windows 7

Posted by tangyi_zhang in November 25, 2010

You might want in order to create instructional video to show a friend how to do something in Windows 7, make stunning presentation of your software, or create rich-media presentations for your audience. Creating a screencast usually involves a lot of effort of presenting rich and well organized information and a tool to record, fine-tune and publish your screencast.

Workflow of Recording a Screencast on Windows 7

Write a script. Before you start recording the screencast, figure out what to tell and show, and write down the script.
Practice and memorize. Work through your script and rehearse until you can do it smoothly.
Record and Publish. Get a professional yet easy-to-use screencast recorder for Mac to record videos and sound.

DemoCreator has multifunctional features. With this ideal tool, you can capture your favorite sites easily and edit them on this tool as you like. It’s available for you to partially capture any part of desktop, videos, websites or other pictures on your computer window.

Tool to Capture Screencast

Looking for a professional yet easy-to-use tool to make screencast? I highly recommend Windows 7 screen recorder, which lets you record from desktop, microphone & computer’s audio simultaneously to create a rich and compelling video. Sophisticated editing tools allow you to create incredible screencasts in no time. The finished result is Windows Media movie, ready for publishing to your website or blog. Below is the step by step guide about how to do that.

Is elearning with screencast good to everyone?

Posted by tangyi_zhang in November 3, 2010

Despite a significant amount of publicity about the teaching of technology such as e-learning, there is no doubt not yet to reach their potential. Although the most important benefits of e-learning, cost and flexibility to remain very attractive, most people will not continue to this training was suspended.

While traditional methods of learning are useful, they become a thing of the past. The process of learning has begun to overshadow the traditional methods of learning. Integrated with these traditional methods, e-learning has become the preferred method of teaching in a number of different scenarios.

What is eLearning?

E-learning is a general term that refers to the formation of any kind supplied by a single computer, using devices such as CD-ROMs, mobile phones, digital television, Internet, screencast and WANs. In many cases, learning is an effective and personal training at their own pace.

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Collection of Dofollow Social Bookmarking Sites

Posted by tangyi_zhang in April 26, 2010

I don’t like do duplicate thing but get addict sharing things with others, so social bookmarking sites become one of my favorite place to go. You know how great and pleased am I tell people what I’m doing when I submit my article. It’s out of range of my job and work. More precisely, sharing thing is fantastic. No matter you use these sites to attract traffic, make friends or just for fun. They do offer a great place to communicate with people around the world.

The list is in PR order, but not that accurately.

http://digg.com/
http://delicious.com/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
http://mashable.com/
http://www.reddit.com/
http://www.propeller.com/
http://faves.com/
http://www.folkd.com/
http://www.blinklist.com/
http://www.propeller.com/
http://tumblr.com
http://www.simpy.com/
http://www.blinklist.com/
http://www.connotea.org/
http://claimid.com/
http://www.spurl.net/
http://www.gabbr.com
http://linkatopia.com/
http://buzzup.com/
http://www.stumpedia.com/
http://web2list.com/
http://www.hotklix.com/
http://searchles.com/
http://www.jumptags.com/
http://www.a1-webmarks.com/
http://www.oyax.com/
http://www.stylid.org/
http://www.mylinkvault.com/
http://www.bookfizz.com/
http://www.totalpad.com/
http://www.cadillactight.net/
http://www.googletop.net/