_ Author Debra Dalgleish Posted on ApCategories Excel training In the poll below, please pick the features that help make the video better. Here is the revised pivot chart video, hosted on Screencast. Here is the original pivot chart video, hosted on YouTube:

What do you think? Do any of the added features help? Please let me know in the comments, or in the features poll at the end of this blog post. To test my new skills, I updated a short pivot chart video that I posted recently, by adding a title clip, transition, zooms, and a couple of callouts.īelow, you can compare the original video with the updated version. Of course, there are many features that I haven’t explored, so when today’s Camtasia Studio newsletter arrived, I followed a couple of the links to their online tutorials. That surrounds the pointer with a bright yellow circle, so it’s easier for viewers to follow what I’m doing. I’m currently using Camtasia Studio 7, and use a few of its great features, like cursor highlighting. Tags: Camtasia Studio, Dr.A few years ago, the nice people at TechSmith gave me a licence for Camtasia Studio, and I use it to make my Excel video tutorials. Diane hamilton, Media, Social media, Technology by dianehamilton. For an example of these packages used together, click here. Camtasia will capture not only sound but can show your curser movement to explain directions in a way that is more effective to the visual and aural learner. I teach a lot of online courses and find that this type of presentation is a great way to reach students who prefer more than simply reading directions on a screen. For some information about Camtasia and its use, click here. The software is simple to use and you can save it in different formats that are easy to upload to Youtube. All that is required is to create a PowerPoint presentation as you normally would, then use Camtasia to record the voice over portion as if you were giving the presentation to a live audience. I personally use Camtasia and PowerPoint combined to create a lot of my presentations for my students. Diane: How do you make those presentation videos that you put into your classrooms and here on your blog?

Using camtasia