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New Features in ScreenToaster

Mar 25th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Screentoaster, a great tool for creating screencasts, has added some new features. I haven’t had a chance to test these out yet, but here’s what the email said.

1. Upload your videos to YouTube in HD
2. Download in .mov for video editing, Audio now supported for downloaded files
3. Beta Test our recorder API
Let your users publish videos directly on your blog, forum, website or extranet.
Ideal for collaborative projects, professional tutorials, users’ support and feedback management, bug tracking and reporting.

What changed since February :
- New categories and subcategories
- Four levels of privacy
- Direct upload to Google Video for featured videos
- Download in .swf file formats
- Record from external VNC servers
- Accelerated or slow-motion playback / Pauses during recording
- Spread on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Digg
- Bookmark it on Delicious, Stumble Upon, Yahoo Buzz and Google Bookmark
- Send your video by mail
- Suggested videos on the video pages
- Branded profiles
- Search filters: “most commented”, by “language”…
- Custom RSS feeds

Logging in to iCONN – a ScreenToaster Screencast

Mar 9th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Steve Cauffman from the CT State Library put together this great screencast using the free tool ScreenToaster. Note he took advantage of Screentoaster’s captioning feature to make the video more accessible.

ScreenToaster is one of several tools we covered in a recent class on Screencasting.

Capture Fox – Firefox add-on for Screencasting

Feb 11th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Today I’m playing with Capture Fox, another screencasting tool. This one is a free add-on for Firefox.  Like Screen Toaster, it’s very intuitive and has just a few simple settings.

Some features:

  • Records the action from your Firefox screen only or from your whole desktop.
  • Adjust the size of your Firefox screen to adjust the recording area.
  • Records audio.
  • Option to record in Low,  Medium or High quality video.
  • Saves video to your hard drive as an .avi file. Files can easily be edited with MS MovieMaker or other video editing software. (more…)

ScreenToaster – Screencasting, free, quick, easy

Feb 10th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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ScreenToaster is a new (and free) browser-based screencasting tool. I tested this service when it was in beta last fall and was impressed with it then. I’m even more impressed now.

Some of the features:

  • Records action anywhere on your computer screen, whether in the browser or on your desktop.
  • Records full screen or a user defined rectangular area – easy to adjust the area.
  • Allows for insertion of a small video recording from your webcam if you want to have your smiling face shown narrating. I didn’t try this.
  • The audio quality is terrific and it’s easy to test your sound level before you start recording. (more…)