Dirk,
We (Thermwood Corporation) have a fairly substantial library of Camtasia videos posted in authenticated folders and public folders. We offer the videos in the authenticated folders to our customers on a subscription basis and essentially using Screencast.com as a Digital Rights Manager without all of the capabilities of a DRM product.

There are a couple of things that would be extremely helpful and are needed for this to work better for us. One would be to have a method of indexing our accepted and unaccepted invitations. We are manually managing the subscription periods, but the invitations appear to be currently sorted chronologicly or appended as they are accepted. We need to be able to sort this field and it would be much more helpfull if it contained the person's name, since you have that info when they register.

Secondly, I have several authenticated folders. When someone purchases our product we have to send an invitation for each authenticated folder. The folders are quite helpfull at organizing the files into managable chunks, but the adminstration process of sending an invitation or cancelling an invitation is multiplied by the number of folders we are granting access to. For the most part, there are currently five folders that the customer is getting an invite to. We would like to have an authenticated folder with sub-folders. The parent folder would control the authentication.

Third, one of the reasons this is important is that we are going to be promoting our videos and changing our subscription period and pricing. One of our public videos has been viewed nearly 4,000 times. I do expect our sales to increase with our new offer, maybe not to 4,000 times each, but it is certainly possible. Thus, we need further assistance in being able to manage our subscribers and reduce the administrative steps to grant them access.

Your help and response would be appreciated.

Dennis L. Englert
Manager of Product Training
Thermwood Corporation

In regards to search engine visibility, I think the ideal scenario would be to add the functionality of search engine visibility, however have the feature turned off by default and have a check box to turn it on per video.

Not sure if this is feasible, or if this could indeed be managed this way, but thought I'd offer my 2 cents!

Keep up the good work!
-jeff

@Dennis - Thank you very much for the feedback. I like your invitation management suggestions and I want you and others to know that we are getting ready to take a look at better organization of folders and playlists, which should address your second point. I'll keep you posted as we progress.

@Jeff - Thanks as well. I'm also hoping that we can implement something along these lines, as I think it does make sense.

Keep the feedback coming!

Dirk

It would be reat to be able to issue specific passwords for individuals so we can control viewing at an indivudal level and trun content off and on for each individual. Thanks for a great product - I love screencast and its sharing capabilities and I am sure it will get even better

Make an option for uploading a public "version" of each original kept
just like it is now. No changes, just add a public area.

The largest upload bill goes to the lucky popular winner who should be
more than able to pay for the exposure with increased business.

If you have the biggest house in the neighborhood, who gets the biggest
electric bill? Okay then.

Screencast.com is a great platform to run online training from, and I see that other people are already doing this too. It would add value to me if Screencast.com provided the complete training solution - all except developing the content in the first place of course!

I'd like to see....
- Individual login names / passwords for secure content
- Date of last login by name
- Which videos have been viewed by name
- Training duration / availability control
- Payment taking facilities: 1) full payment and 2) monthly subscription

I hope this is of value to your product design phase.

Make the best even better!

Kim Kendall
Kendall-IT ACT! Specialists

Kim - I second all of your recommendations. Not having them means I cannot leverage and control participation or learning outcomes. Thanks for your suggestions! Andre

@thriftgirl62 - I like the concept of a "public area" in the sense that it represents a broader collection of content made intentionally public by content owners - a kind of community area if you will. That's an intriguing idea...thank you!

@Kim and @Andre - Thank you for the feedback. These are all great ideas, some of which we are actively researching for future release. We've heard a handful of users request some method of revenue generation, but it's not as widely requested as I would have thought, given the economic times we're living in. I'd be interested to hear from more people on the subject of content monetization.

Dirk Frazier

A couple of enhancements that are very useful:

I would like to hide any additional content on screencast next to the video. Viewers should have a seamless video experience without the need to explore other functionalies such as toolbars, download buttons etc. if not particularly requested.

A few things I would like to see:

- LDAP authentication so if someone has built a website with authentication and they are embedding the content for subscribers then they don't have to have another username / password combo.
- If you allow indexing then I would make it off by default with the ability to enable indexing per video / folder. For us, all of the content we store and plan to store is private and we don't want it indexed.

Thank you!
Bob Penland

I would like to see a multi-user managed account similar to lynda.com. As an IT staff member in a college, I still have to upload all our instructors videos in order to protect the security and integrity our account's content. Being able to give customized access per instructor would really be beneficial for users.
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I believe being discoverable through search-engines should be a choice for account holders. As for us in the education side, we would prefer our content not to be indexed.

Guys, Jing is great!

However, as of this morning, things are really slow loading on Screencast.com's side.

Any ideas?

Dirk,

Just got started with Camtasia and Screencast this week and I'm awed by the possibilities.

With regard to monitization I see 2 basic models:
1) provide an Application Programming Interface (API) to enable your paying customers to control the viewer's experience. i.e. The end-user visits _my_ website, makes whatever financial arrangements are required there, and based on that are able to view the videos to which they are entitled. The content would be embedded in my webpage and would be seamlessly controlled by the API.

2) Because the above is not for everyone, method 2 provides a 'lite' version whereby the viewer would pay Screencast a customer-defined amount for the content view and Screencast would handle the financial transaction. The funds, less Screencast fees could be wired to the customer's bank account a la Paypal.

My sense is that there'll be a long line at your door when you provide a pay-per-view capability.

Although I currently have a free account, I'd like to see more stats about how many views per video, along with the name and IP address of each viewer.

Keep up the great work!

Mark Zipkin

I have screencast pro and I wish I had done a bit more investigation before I went down this road.

It seems like the features of screenflow do not provide the functions a B2B customer will need, like branding on a play-list page- or better restriction control by user and most importantly an upload api.

Screencast.com is for a slightly competent domestic user with a hobby website.

Hi Dirk,
Better support for monitization (as suggested by Dennis, Kim and Mark) would be great.
It would open Camtasia to the commercial e-learing market.
Currently I'm hesitating to invest in Camtasia and screencam.com because of lack of features in this area.
Could you give an update about your plans in this area?
Thanks,
Thomas

ps: It took me quite a while before finding this blog-item. I ran through all help functions and made several google-searches and was about to give this up. Many interested preople might have missed this blog-item. This might explain the relatively low response.

I too am looking to create pay-per-view or pay-per-download videos and host them somewhere, with the hosting provider also handing all the payments etc.

Basically I want to create training videos, upload them somewhere, advertise them myself on my own website, and have the income sent to me via paypal, minus charges. The less I have to handle myself the better.

I am glad to see that the development of the Screencast it works fine. The best way to find if everything is OK is to ask users. If any bug is found, it will be reported and you will have the full information about your product and how this product works for the clients. Best regards, Daniel rca ieftin

I am planning to launch with a friend a similar application but the development of a tool like this one is very difficult. I will return here because I think I will find some valuable data to make my project viable.

Very simple but very catchy as well, it is good to know that you know how to draw your viewers. Can check mine see what can do to my site.
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I too love the product but as a consultant/trainer, I need to be able to create great content and then be able to set up a shopping cart. I would be all over this product if I could integrate it with some sort of payment process system.

It would be reat to be able to issue specific passwords for individuals so we can control viewing at an indivudal level and trun content off and on for each individual. Thanks for a great product - I love screencast and its sharing capabilities and I am sure it will get even better....

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I would like to see a multi-user managed account similar to lynda.com. As an IT staff member in a college, I still have to upload all our instructors videos in order to protect the security and integrity our account's content. Being able to give customized access per instructor would really be beneficial for users.

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