Posts Tagged ‘enhanced screencast’

Scraster featured on TeleStream’s ScreenFlow blog

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Scraster Professional Screencasting’s founder and head screencaster John Basile was recently featured on Telestream’s ScreenFlow blog called The Screening Room. Since it’s John writing this post, let’s go ahead and switch out of third person and into the first. Done.

The Screening Room has been blogging strong–featuring teasers of upcoming releases, ScreenFlow tips, company news, and user profiles since around the time of their ScreenFlow 2 product launch in the fall of 2009. The folks at Telestream have done a good job of creating a much-needed and much-appreciated community around their popular screencasting software for Mac. (Next on the list: a crowdsourced idea portal for feature requests).

A few weeks ago, I was pleased to get a direct message on Twitter from Lynn Elliot, the main author of The Screening Room blog, which was complimentary of Scraster’s recent professional screencast work. I gladly accepted Lynn’s invitation to contribute to the regular “Meet the Screenflow-er” feature of the blog and was sent the standard Q&A via email. It was fun to share info about Scraster’s workflow and I was able to link to some of our work. There hasn’t been any noticeable swell of web traffic to scraster.com, but the exposure is super and I’m very grateful for it.

There was one question from the Q&A was particularly challenging to answer. It asked, “Do you have a screencast that you’re especially proud of? And why?” I referred to some recent professional screencast work, but also thought hard to word my answer as diplomatically as Screencasts Online producer Don MacAllister did few months back: “That’s a hard one! Each one seems to get better as I get more experienced!” Don said in his Q/A. I suppose this is the case with most creative work. It is certainly the case at Scraster Professional Screencasting, where our work continues to get better and better and we’re continually proud of the quality work we’re selling our clients.

Go to John’s Q/A at The Screening Room blog

Blue box hard sell: If your organization has a web-based product or service that you’d like to demonstrate through the effective medium of professional screencasting, get a free quote from Scraster today. You can also email Scraster at info@scraster.com or ping @scraster on Twitter.

a professional screencast website tour for WorldPoliticsReview.com

Monday, December 7th, 2009
World Politics Review screencast by Scraster Professional Screencasting

Scraster Professional Screencasting recently produced a screencast for World Politics Review, a premium provider of information and analysis on international affairs found online at worldpoliticsreview.com. The general manager at WPR approached Scraster with a familiar problem among paid-content websites: “We have all this great content behind our homepage, but we’re afraid people don’t know it’s there”. It was the objective of WPR to create a site tour that would show off the site, inside and out. WPR wrote most of the screencast script, and Scraster took control from there. The end result is an engaging screencast that servers two main purposes. First, the video is a introduction of WPR to new visitors who are unfamiliar with how to navigate the content-rich free side of the site. As well as giving unsubscribed visitors a cursory tour of the free content, the later part of the WPR screencast invites free users to consider the many benefits of WPR’s premium subscription service, which include a wealth of additional reports, downloads, and other exclusive content.

If you manage subscription-based website or have a premium online product or service that could benefit from a professional screencast like WPR’s, please visit Scraster’s Get a Free Quote page today. You can also email us at info@scraster.com.

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an introduction to tr.im: a professional screencast by Scraster Professional Screencasting

Friday, June 12th, 2009
A Video from Scraster Professional Screencasting

Scraster Professional Screencasting is happy to add the Nambu Network to our roster of happy clients. The Nambu Network is a technology group developing some great software and services concentrating primarily in social media. Their newest service, called tr.im, is a tool for shortening URLS (for Twitter and elsewhere). With an account at tr.im, the user can log in and track their links via a rich set of analytics.

Scraster Professional Screencasting is happy to help the Nambu Network get the word out about tr.im with this overview video, which will live on the tr.im homepage. We’re also looking forward to producing a few more videos for the company’s signature app called Nambu, which is in our opinion the best Twitter client available for Mac. Nambu has changed the way Scraster uses Twitter.

If your organization has an online product or service that could benefit from a professional screencast, we invite you to get a free quote from Scraster Professional Screencasting today at scraster.com/quote. You can also email us at info@scraster.com.

A professional screencast for LiveChime

Monday, May 18th, 2009
A Video from Scraster Professional Screencasting

Scraster Professional Screencasting is pleased to introduce its most recent satisfied client, LiveChime. LiveChime is a Seattle-based start-up that creates an easy way to add live chat to online classified, auctions and marketplaces “to bring you the best buyer-2-seller results on the web”. Scraster bumped into LiveChime’s Erik Bergsagel on Twitter, where Erik asked his tweeps if they knew of any good professional screencasting services. A few tweets and a phone call later, Scraster was on its way to writing, recording, and producing the screencast for LiveChime’s tight Friday deadline. The video was delivered Friday and will be featured on the LiveChime site soon as the beta product gets closer to its official launch.

Working with LiveChime was a pleasure, but perhaps the coolest thing to come from our new business relationship is that Scraster now has a live chat link on each page of its website. LiveChime was as easy as could be to set up, and we’ve already had a trickle of inquiries–one of which led to a close. Although LiveChime is (for now) primarily targeting the online classifieds market, users of all kinds (like Scraster) can register and stick the chat link wherever they’d like. I’d highly recommend the service to anyone looking for a way to increase their accessibility. Visit the LiveChime website at http://livechime.com for more info. If you’d like to learn more about Scraster, and how Scraster helps companies like LiveChime engage, sell, and educate their site visitors, contact us today via our Get a Free Quote page.

Scraster Professional Screencasting: a 3-minute introduction

Friday, December 19th, 2008

When the Scraster Professional Screencasting website was launched, it was missing one crucial element – an enhanced screencast of its own to explain the services of a professional screencasting production shop. So here it is.

“Scraster Professional Screencasting: a 3-minute introduction” was produced in HD for your full-screen viewing pleasure. Its purpose is to inform the viewer about what screencasting is, why a lot of screencasts online are ineffective, and how Scraster Professional Screencasting goes about making a video that’s a cut above. The introduction video is presented here with Scraster’s new customized Blip.tv video player, which we were very happy to find among the mess of web video sharing options available.

Thanks for watching, sharing, Digging, and enjoying the video.

Happy holidays to you from Scraster Professional Screencasting. Let’s go kick some ass in 2009.

Watch a 3-minute introduction to Scraster Professional Screencasting