Okay, everybody already have seen this video, but you’ll have to admit this a good one 🙂 Just for the pleasure of your eyes, it’s now shared here on vimeo.
By the way, does anybody knows who is the company who made that great animation ?
It’s really a nice one to keep in mind as an example for some of our client works.
“A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration.” (Source : wikipedia)
… And it’s incredibly useful to share information,tutorials and to make trainings. I assume some of you already did screencasts, but just in case here are the few tips I can share. All you need is a computer, a microphone, a few additionnal softwares and a plan of what you’d like to say.
Software (all of them are free tools).
I personnaly recommend and use Camstudio : http://camstudio.org/
Camstudio is a pretty old software with a crappy interface, but it’s free and it just works. It also record your voice during the presentation.
Other software you might like to check out : http://www.jingproject.com/
Top 7 screencasting Tips and tricks
Final editing
If you need to make transitions with titles, Windows Movie Maker will be absolutely perfect for that (OK, it’s not great, but it works, and it’s free on our machines ^_^). Just drag and drop your sequences and make sur to insert titles. And then upload (Idex, Opex, the web …), share and publicize your video !
Should you have done screencast in the past, feel free to share your best practices and recommendations !
We just had a request to draft a few bullets about how to write on a wordpress plateform. Probably nothing new for the people coming in here, but do not hesitate to share it with your colleagues if they have a questions about how to post on the disruption blog, Hypertext or other local blogs running on WordPress.
Bonus
I’ve added a couple of basic recommandations on writing on blogs. Very very basic. But might reassure people lost with the idea of writing on a blog for the first time.
General considerations
I just found this small video during the lunch which I found quite relevant if you observe it on a peer media perspective. This video could be a good and funny explanation of why peer media are becoming so important today – because consumer wants to talk, and to be listened.
The Break-Up’ – soon available on www.bringtheloveback.com
– is about the relationship between an advertiser and a consumer.
They’ve agreed to meet in a restaurant. The man’s feeling perfectly
happy, until the woman makes a painful announcement: she wants a
divorce. In the course of their conversation she makes it clear to him
why she is leaving him. And he makes it very clear that he doesn’t have
an empathic bone in his body. At the end of the movie the woman walks
away disappointed but determined. The advertiser stays behind alone.
It’s a Microsoft video however >_<