One cool feature my version of Camtasia has is the ability to include a shot from your web cam in the screen capture. So like in this demo of animoto, there I am in the bottom right.

http://videoproductiontips.com/video-editing/using-animoto-demonstration/#more-2915

I just know people love looking at my face! I rolled my hair and put on make-up and EVERYTHING! Can’t be scaring people now!

Lorraine

Make sure that they can see the highlights in your eyes. The intimate close up builds trust.

You can upload from any avi file into Camtasia and it will default to be before the Camtasia screen capture portion. You can move it where you want, but I would leave it at the front.

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Glad you like the Amazon S3 and EZS3. I was totally lost just trying to use s3 by itself. I think you would need to know several computer languages to be able to make sense of it. But with EZS3, it’s just like a simple ftp layout and you drag and drop!

I am with you on Camtasia. Screen capture is indeed awesome, but compared to a standard video editing program, it is durn near impossible to make basic edits in that program. Whenever I use camtasia, I make sure to record it in such a way that MINIMAL editing is needed. It is just not precise at all!

So many web video “gurus” talk as if camtasia is the end all and be all in video editing. I have had readers contact me thinking camtasia is the best program to edit their cooking show! I felt so sorry for them. Camtasia’s strong point is its ability to capture your computer screen. That is something you can not do in a standard video editing program, like Final Cut. But when it comes to basic editing, Camtasia can not do even 1/100th of what Final Cut can do. I like camtasia, don’t get me wrong, but it is NOT just a basic video editing program at all. It is a screen capture program. Bear mind that it takes some special coding to make a stable screen capture possible. That in and of itself is quite a trick, but if you want to edit video taken with a video camera, camtasia is essentially worthless and I think most people do not understand that.
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Lorraine

So i guess i will have to break up Camtasias features and find software to match each. EZS3 really seems to simplify the uploading and embedding into HTML part