Episode 144

Tips and Warm Wishes for 2023 (Special Episode)

This is a special episode of the Visual Lounge podcast featuring tips and ideas from a variety of team TechSmith about our products, including Camtasia, Snagit, and Audiate. We discuss topics such as asynchronous communication, connection over perfection, hotkeys, and editing out mistakes. There is also a special opportunity for a few folks - listen for Emmie Musser - who has an exceptional opportunity for the first 5 individuals to follow her instructions.

Find tips including:

  • Keep it up—asynchronous communication is associated with a 29% increase in workplace productivity.
  • Remember it's about connection, not perfection.
  • Set a bigger goal that matters to you, perhaps increasing the number of people you can reach with video or decreasing the number of meetings you need to attend.
  • Use Option-Z to zoom the canvas to 100% and Command-Zero to fit the video into the canvas.
  • Set up hotkeys with Snagit to save time.
  • Use the search in Audiate to find keywords and points in the video that need to be cut.
  • Make big motions with your hands when making mistakes to flag for yourself.
  • Use the pause button while recording in Snagit or Camtasia.
  • Use the Snagit blurring feature to show employees steps without sharing private information.

Wishing all of our listeners the best of the holidays and a wonderful 2023 so that you can level up and continue to make the most of all of your opportunities to use images and videos.

And a special shout out to all of the TechSmithies featured in this episode who answered the call to record themselves and share.

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Discussions about the power of visuals and videos and how to make them even better.

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Matthew Pierce

Matthew Pierce, Learning & Video Ambassador from TechSmith Corporation, has created videos for learning and marketing for over a decade. He is the lead behind TechSmith Academy, a free platform teaching video and image creation for business, which has been used by tens of thousands of users. He is the host of The Visual Lounge Podcast from TechSmith, which streams live on Youtube and LinkedIn weekly. Matthew is a regular speaker at multiple learning and development-focused conferences and is a regular contributor to various training publications. Connect with him on LinkedIn.