There are basically five different types of videos that are used online today for getting different types of traffic. If you have a Flip or Kodak Zi8 Video Camera and Camtasia you could be making all five. While Camtasia has been around since 2002, the new mini camcorders are pretty new to the scene. The [...]

One of the most important steps in building your web business is to have a list. The best list is of your buyers and the second best is a list of prospects. And while I know it takes some work at both building and keeping your list current, it is worthwhile. Let me tell you [...]

The Camtasia Survival Guide Gold is the latest video program from Jim Edwards. Now Jim has been using Camtasia since 2002 so he does know his way around the software. And while I don’t always agree with his techniques, you can learn from what he does. His latest selling process at Easy How to Videos [...]

A while back my partner told me he was talking to Michael Rasmussen about how Michael made his movies. Most of his videos are done using PowerPoint and Michael said he never used the Camtasia Plugin to PowerPoint to record the video. His reason was that the audio quality of the recording was too poor. [...]

One of the easiest ways of getting traffic to your websites is to put videos on social media sites, like http://YahooVideo.com,  http://MetaCafe.com, http://Viddler.com and others. For videos the best site to use is http://YouTube. And since Google owns YouTube your videos can easily show up in Google searches. Think that Google doesn’t love video? Consider [...]

This last week I spent six days in a workshop and I had a chance to talk to others who make videos online. As you might know, I’ve been making full motion video since 1992, digital video since 1997 and screen capture videos since 2002. And one of the things I see is a number [...]

Today TechSmith released their latest version of Camtasia Studio 7. Known during the test phase cs7, this is an incredible change that can only help you make better and faster screen capture/screencast videos. I’ve been using this software for sometime and I’m currently making videos, both PowerPoint slide types and screen captures. The reason I’ve [...]

Have you noticed how many people post videos in the high definition (HD) format? It’s that long narrow window… basically it’s a 16:9 ratio. In the days before having HD we used the old standard screen ratio of 4:3… something like our older TVs used. Now, here the question for you. We know that today’s [...]

This is my first blog post as The Multimedia Guy and I thought I’d give you a little history why I’ve started this blog…. This blog is for PC users who want to make videos on their computers. I got started back doing analog videos in 1992. Now believe me, there are some great advantages working with digital [...]