I wanted to share an updated video with everyone about some fundamentals of screencasting. Here at TechSmith, especially in the training department, we make a lot of screencasts.

Its been a goal of ours to share more of what we do and how we do it. This 3:25 minute video is an introductory look at how to improve your screencasts. In particular, this video goes through the basics of preparation, including scripting, story boarding, and more.

We'd love to hear if you have any tips that you use to make your screencasts better.

Some of you may have already noticed that on Screencast.com we have video tutorials. We try to create tutorials on functions and features that will help you out if you get a little confused or aren't sure of what to do. We also try to point out some of the things you may not know are possible.

If you haven't seen them yet, there are couple ways to find them. When you signed up for an account you could choose to get the Screencast.com Tips emails.

Didn't get those or missed it when you were signing up? Go to your Account and click on Tips and Tricks: Manage Subscription. Check out this quick how to video (15 sec. no audio):

See we even make tutorials about getting tutorials.

Don't want to mess with email - well you can see all of the training videos here: http://www.screencast.com/t/oUKFzJH6dSn. You can even subscribe to the RSS feed to be notified when we add new content.

We'll also post them to the blog. But due to some size constraints, the version you see here will be smaller than the ones in the training folder. But either way you still get the same content.

What Kind of Content is available?
Most of the tutorials are about using Screencast.com, but a few of them are about making better screencasts. These are things that we find a lot of people struggle with - us included. So we're taking what we learn and are trying to share them.

For instance - getting good quality audio that sounds really good is tough. To help we created a video about getting better audio: http://www.screencast.com/t/ee7qBLFUBv

Now the best part is- we're not done making tutorials. If there's something that you want to learn how to do with Screencast.com or there's a general topic that you're interested in that is related to screencasting, let us know. I can't guarantee that every suggestion will get a video, but we look at each suggestion and do what we can to help.