My First Video Tutorial using Camtasia

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So I recently got Camtasia Studio and got a fire up my ass to make video tutorials. I swear I hit record 20 times before I finally got a video I was satisfied with.

Anyways, I am posting this to get your opinions on the video. Not so much the content or subject, but the video itself. Maybe some tips I could use for marketing strategies to make my videos sell themselves better. Maybe point me to some resources on camtasia and making better videos. I also just used the html embed and param codes right into the html portion of my post. I used swf at 400x300 for the video. I tried to find a plugin but I was having a hard time finding a good one for embedding flash videos. I really like the menu on the movie though. The black bar with the play and scroll, ect, so I don't want a plugin that will change that. Just something that will automatically put the codes in for me, and I just have to point to the video and title it.

For those interested, the video tutorial is on Tube Automator. Tube Automator is a software that makes creating YouTube accounts easier. Then you use all of those accounts to "fake" comments and ratings on your own videos. Doing that boosts your videos to the main pages of YouTube. That helps get tons more traffic. I did buy Tube Automator, and it was worth every penny.

But please check out my video and give me tips on how I can improve and make better videos in the future. Also drop a comment if you would ;)
Shudogg Dot Com - Make Money Online Blogging

(no this is not a spam attempt, I am really just starting at videos and would like tips and suggestions to help my movies sell themselves)
 


To be honest the video is a bit slow, but other than that I think you have done a good job.

Depending on who your audience is, you can skip a lot of the initial setup and what not.

Keep sticking with it.
 
yeah the small thin video was a problem... looked for a full screen option but I was not able to please my senses. :(

Good job though, keep up the good work.
 
Yeah, my next video I will look through the settings in camtasia and see if I can find how to allow full screen. It was a 250+ mb avi file, converted to swf for blogs down to like 25mb at 400x318. I will make a few like 5 second test videos of various sizes. I need to find out the max width I can use for the video to fit into my blog without going over into the sidebar.

In the embed code I changed the size, but they video didnt change size, it just had black areas around it to fill the gap. I also changed it to allow full screen in the embed code, but I still couldn't get it to go full screen. A few times of testing options and I should have those two things figured out by the time I do another real video.

I also want to take my blogs logo, and resize it to be the watermark on my videos. Maybe and intro with sound effect and saying something like "Brought to you by Shudogg Dot Com".

As for the lag between video/audio I am not sure. I could try AVI mux to resync them but the audio matches up for the first portion, then it gets off. It may be because I had too many apps going in the background. Next time I will have a freshly restarted pc, and have everything closed except camtasia so it gets all the system resources. Hopefully that will take care of the lag.

Originally the video was for YouTube... but it got deleted before it got its first view. Apparently any filename, title, description with "Tube Automator" in it is on an auto detect or something lol.

Thanks for the kind critisicm, coming from WF thats rare ;) lol
 
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