Learning to use flickr
8:03 pm on the 15th of February, 2007I’ve been wanting to practise more with screen capture software recently, I have a copy of Camtasia which I have used a little in the past and last weekend my dad (just back from trekking in Morocco, now golfing in Thailand - spot the new retiree) said he wanted to know how to put photos on the web so he can share them with people. So I set to work putting together two very basic tutorials on using flickr.
You can see them on youtube now:
The second one is very grainy for some reason, the source flv file is fine, I had the same problem on google video so if anyone has any bright ideas about why or an alternative way of hosting videos like these then could you let me know. I could host them here but I’d rapidly run out of bandwidth and webspace.
They follow hot on the heels of Andrew Brown’s excellent screencasts on keeping up with blogs and not missing blog conversations among other things. Andrew’s work has prompted me to download a trial copy of Adobe Captivate which I’ve yet to use properly, but I’m put off by the US$600 price-tag.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:31 pm on the 16th of February, 2007
I like the videos a lot. I’m big fan of Flickr.
One thing which would bring more clarity to the YouTube videos would be zooming in on parts of the screen. There’s a video about that here: http://video.techsmith.com/camtasia/latest/edu/showme/enu/cs_showme.html?movie=4
Warm regards,
- Troy Stein, Camtasia Product Manager
February 16th, 2007 at 3:41 pm on the 16th of February, 2007
great videos! If you are in education (which you are!) you can get Captivate for around £129 - I l just like the look and feel of Captivate’s text & highlights.
there is a feeby called ‘wink’ (from http://www.debugmode.com/wink) which does the same thing as Camtasia and Captivate [although Troy would clearly disagree with his vested interest
], but it isn’t as elegant as either Camtasia or Captivate?
February 17th, 2007 at 6:40 pm on the 17th of February, 2007
Great work Stuart. I will be passing on these links to staff!
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