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Statistical Computing Seminars
Making Movies for Distribution over the Web

This seminar describes how you can make instructional movies that can be downloaded and viewed over the web based on images from your computer screen. You can see http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/seminars/default.htm for examples of movies we have created.  We use Camtasia Studio 4 created by TechSmith (see www.techsmith.com for more information). 

• View this Seminar as a Movie
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Making Movies for Distribution over the Web
  • Seminar on Making Instructional Movies for Distribution over the Web
  • Quick Start to Making Movies Using Camtasia Studio 2.0
  • Additional Camtasia Preferences for Camtasia Studio 2.0
• Additional Resources
  • Camtasia Studio Technical Resources, including
    • Camtasia Studio Tour from TechSmith
    • Using Camtasia Studio 2 videos from TechSmith
    • Camtasia Studio Documentation
  • Free 30 Day Trial Version of Camtasia Studio
  • If you have interest in making these kinds of movies yourself and want to ask questions, you can either write us at or contact TechSmith at www.techsmith.com .
  • Also, for capturing screen shots, you might try SnagIt (also from TechSmith).  Here are some SnagIt tutorials at http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-snagit.html