Author Archives: Josh Holnagel

About Josh Holnagel

Josh Holnagel is an Instructional Designer on the User Assistance team at TechSmith.
He likes to play golf, also makes art, and hates to travel - seriously.
You can follow him at @hohoholnagel

Snagit: The Very Basics

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We’d like to think that Snagit is pretty easy to use. For some, however, installing and exploring any new software can be intimidating and confusing. The new Snagit Basics video series is geared toward the inexperienced computer user.  In these five short videos, we cover the bare essentials – everything from locating Snagit on your Windows PC to sending pictures and videos via email. Each video is a step-by-step walkthrough set a comfortably slow pace, perfect for learning Snagit from scratch Continue reading

Updating Images and Clips in Camtasia Studio 8

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Today, I’m here to bring you another feedback success story. You asked for the ability to swap out media on the timeline, and we delivered. As of version 8.0.4, Camtasia Studio gives you the ability to update media on the timeline -- which is useful if you need to make quick wholesale swaps or update content in old projects. It's also useful if you accidentally move or rename a media file that the timeline is trying to reference. Check out the short video (3:07) below to see how it easy it can Continue reading

Camtasia Studio 8: Use Grouping to Cover up a Mistake

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The user assistance team at TechSmith probably wishes I would just shut up about grouping. Every chance I get I champion the benefits of grouping to my fellow instructional designers, customers, and now you, faithful blog readers. Not a chance – its far too functional of a feature to keep all to myself. In this latest installment of illustrated examples, I use a little grouping magic to cover up a small mistake in a TechSmith Blog video project. Check out the video below (3:23) to see me Continue reading

ScreenDraw: Whiteboarding with Camtasia Studio

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  At a conference I attended this summer, a few math teachers were discussing their options for recording hand-written lessons. I asked if they had tried using ScreenDraw, a live annotation tool built into the Camtasia Studio recorder. Most of them didn’t even know it was there – and I wondered how many other users had yet to discover it! The short video below provides some popular use cases for ScreenDraw as well as instructions for setting it up. A couple of notes before you Continue reading

Camtasia Studio 8: New Grouping Tutorials

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If you've yet to use the new grouping feature in Camtasia Studio 8, you might be missing out. It’s truly one of the most helpful tools for effective timeline organization. To demonstrate grouping’s usefulness, I present you with Introduction to Grouping (2:08) – a basic grouping walkthrough. Give it a watch and see how grouping can be a great addition to your workflow. Once you have a handle on the basics, check out Applying Animations Across a Series of Clips (4:04) – an advanced Continue reading

Camtasia Studio 8: Full Captions Series is Live

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Adding captions is a great way to increase the accessibility of your videos. Many rely on captions, including those with hearing impairments, non-native English speakers, and even those not able to play external audio. But did you know that captioning your videos also makes them searchable? Or that you can export your captions for translation or other uses? The captions editor in Camtasia Studio 8 is rather robust. To help users with this, we created a full series of tutorials to help you with Continue reading

Easy Methods for Creating Caption Tracks in Camtasia Studio 8

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Have you been looking for a (mostly) automated way to create caption tracks for your videos? In an effort to get you right into it, we’ve created a pair of video tutorials that outline popular captioning methods. The first is called “Speech-to-Text” and it works in tandem with the Windows voice recognition feature to generate text from your video narration. To learn more, watch this short tutorial: Can't see the video? Watch it on YouTube. The second method is for those of you that Continue reading