You must have seen many videos demonstrating how to use a particular software. These videos are created by actually capturing the screenshots of the computer screen activity. Such a video, which shows the screenshots of the computer screen activity, is known as the screencast.
Screencasts are used, now a days, for various purposes. Chief among them are for the preparation of the training videos and presentations. These videos can also be combined with the voice to make them more lively. These training videos help to demonstrate your products to your clients and customers before or after the purchase.
But, how do you create a screencast? This is a fairly simple task. All that you require to create a screencast is a PC screen capturing software. This software has various tools to capture the onscreen activities. There are various free as well as commercial screen capturing software available in the market today, for capturing the screen activities and creating your own screencasts. The best free screencast software available are the Camstudio and the Jing, while the Adobe Captivate and the Allcapture are the best among the commercial ones.
The formats in which these screencasts are recorded are mostly .AVI. But these avi files can then be converted to other formats such as the flash .swf, .exe, pdf, dvd, vcd, flv etc. The screencasts that you create can be edited and combined with other videos, audios and screencasts to create a complete video. The video editing software such as the microsoft’s movie maker, which comes free alongwith the Windows operating system, is sufficient to create such a video. However, before creating a complete video it is better to plan the whole production systematically, and arrange each activity in the form of the story board. Each scene must be shot as per the story board and then edited to get the whole movie.
Screencasts or the videos created by combining the screencasts can then be distributed to your customers or clients. This can be done by upload and embedding the sales demonstrations or the training materials to your own website or uploading to a video distribution site such as youtube. You can also create Cds or DVDs and send them to your clients. You can even allow your clients and customers to subscribe to your Rss feed and distribute your videos in the form of videopodcasts or vidcasts.
For creating your own screencasts or videopodcasts you will require a good quality PC.
You can now build your own PC at a reasonable price by assembling the PC components available from Easyasmypc . This will enable you to use any sort of screencast software and create sales and product demonstration videos that can increase the profits for your business.