Camtasia and Screencasting

Camtasia was an interesting program. It seemed to work in a very intuitive fashion (which is rare) and the tutorials that they provide are actually helpful. That much impressed me.
The process of doing the screen casting was about what I expected, but it did take time. The first thing that took a while was looking through the five or six tutorials that seemed interesting. I'm glad I did, but it still took time.
The process of setting up the training and having everything ready wasn't too bad, but I did end up needing to re-do a little bit. That is a bit tricky. I must say that I didn't attempt to narrate while working through the tutorial. I can see how that would be possible, but you'd really have to be able to multi-task your brain to be able to pull it off.
My part was the recording of the original video, and I put a few callout (arrows) in the one video also. I started putting titles into the same video, and I split the video where the titles would go, but after seeing the result, I'm not sure if the final project will have titles or not. Oh well.
The one surprise was that moving the project from my computer to one of my team member's was actually pretty tricky. It wasn't the program's fault, either. The program has a mechanism for saving the files as a zip, and it seemed to work just as advertised. The problem was that sending a 20, 30 or 40 meg file was making my computer (or something) unhappy. I'm pretty sure that my school (FC not IUPUI) email would have rejected or eaten files of that size, and it probably would have turned up its nose at a zip attachment (with good reason). However, the OnCourse messages seemed to be perfectly happy sending the zipped attachments. I suppose that is because some class work might need that capability, this one for example. Who knew?
Well, at any rate, my portion of the tutorial process has been handed off, and the process is moving on to the next phase. I suppose it will be interesting to see how it turns out.