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Those of you who have come to know me have probably noticed that I'm a big fan of video training. Personally, I'm a visual learner and can extract much more from an easy to understand screencast as opposed to the written word.
Considering this, I've decided to launch our first ever screencast competition!
Between now and 11:59 PM, January 31 (Central Standard Time), anyone may submit a 20-30 minute screencast related to web development. During the first week of February, I, along with several of my peers, will choose the top five submissions.
How should I know? :) I can tell you this. Your competition will not be as high as you might think. So go ahead and enter! There are a couple of ways that you can improve your chances of being selected.
Not a problem. There are plenty of free resources available.
For a microphone - even a cheap $10 mic will do just fine. For those of you who use Skype - your headset might even do the trick! Use your ears and decide for yourself. :)
Go ahead and get started! Just be sure to send (nettutsblog@gmail.com) the screencast to us by January 31. Good luck!!!
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )Nate January 8th
Awesome.
( )Kevin January 8th
Someone please post a Ruby on Rails Screencast please =)
( )Jeffrey Way January 8th
@Kevin - I agree. That would be nice.
( )John McMullen January 8th
Yay. Sounds like fun. Wait, what am I wasting time HERE for?!?
Hold on, let me clarify, time spent on NETTUTS is never time wasted.
( )Sanid January 8th
dont know maybe i´m gonna do a tutorial on how to make a wordpress theme but dnt know if i got time for that , school
( )Kevin Martin January 8th
Hmm, can you submit more than one screencast?
( )Saro January 8th
Great!
Topic that are usefull to me.
Wordpress, HTML&CSS and other, Joomla, Fast slicing up in Photoshop, Effective and fast basing, Dreamweaver optimal use tricks,…
( )Jeffrey Way January 8th
@Kevin - Yes. But, you can only have one spot in the top five.
( )Brenelz January 8th
Great idea Jeffery! Maybe I’ll do one up….
( )Brenelz January 8th
Suggestions?
( )Vin Thomas January 8th
Only problem with Jing is that it caps you at 5min. There is another product called screenium that I want to check out for mac screencasting.
I hope to enter the contest and win some fat cash!
Thanks!
( )Jeffrey Way January 8th
Off the top of my head, here are a few topics that I would personally like to see (in no specific order):
1) CakePHP training - ideally something aimed at beginners.
2) PSD to WordPress (we’ll be posting a couple video tutorials on this subject in the next month, but we can use more.)
3) SEO Methods
4) Speed Up Your NotePad++ Development
5) jQuery: “Tips and Tricks of the Masters”
6) Practical PHP OOP
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Don’t think that you’ll get a free ticket just by choosing one of these topics. I’m merely stating a few subjects that would appeal to me - as a viewer.
( )Paul January 8th
OMG beginner to advanced OOP (PHP) vid would OWN SO MUCH!
( )Somebody please do this
James January 8th
Looks exciting, if I have time I’m definitely gonna have a go! Awesome idea Jeffrey!
( )Jeffrey Way January 8th
@James - Please do.
My guess is that we’ll receive less than 30 submissions.
…just a guess, though.
( )Rick January 8th
The video has to be an AVI? Are you serious?! I guess that rules out mac users. Besides….what is the size of a 30 min AVI….it’s gotta be HUGE?
( )Sam January 8th
does it have to be 20-30 mins? the screencasts i find the best are generally around 5-10 mins long with some example code/files
( )Rene Merino January 8th
Are Flash website entries accepted?
( )Jeffrey Way January 8th
@Sam - I suppose it doesn’t HAVE to be. But if it isn’t, it better be REALLY good!
( )Rick January 8th
@Sam You’re right on this. Most people can’t handle a 30 min screencast. Lynda.com does a good job at breaking it up like that.
( )MN January 8th
Another alternative to mac screen capturing is Copernicus. A small great app - allthough it doesn’t include voice recording. I guess you could sync that afterwards somehow…
( )Jeffrey Way January 8th
@Rick - That way I can compress the video myself. Submitting a .mov file is fine too.
( )Sam January 8th
cool, already got my idea
( )demogar January 8th
This is a great idea!!
( )I would like to make a screencast using CodeIgniter or CakePHP for beginners combined with jQuery to do some really cool things.. my problem is that I’m not the best English speaker
Rick January 8th
Out of curiosity…those that aren’t chosen…will they still be placed on the site somewhere?
BTW, this is a good idea.
( )Bryce January 8th
I’m thinking of doing a Rails screncast, does anyone have any suggestions on what would be useful for the NETTUTS audience?
( )Erik Reagan January 8th
Can you enter more than one screencast for review?
( )Jeffrey Way January 8th
@Rick - Maybe…maybe. We might do a roundup of the rest. But, there wouldn’t be any reward.
@erik - Yes. But, you can only win one spot.
( )Derek Reynolds January 8th
Any chance there can be a little flexibility with the resolution or ratio? It’s not very wide-screen friendly!
( )M.A.Yoosuf January 8th
its a gifts year of TUTS? soo much of companions, im working on the web site theme, guys make sure to rate my theme.
the first theme you will find in 2 days!
( )Zachary Voase January 8th
I’ll probably do Django for beginners - from installation to your first project (probably a blog). It doesn’t get as much hype as Rails, but it’s still a very powerful framework. Plus, Python’s far easier to get into than Ruby (for beginners).
By the way, what about including a zip file of source code with our screencasts? And some accompanying text?
( )Chris January 8th
I also would LOVE to see a screencast on SEO Methods as well!
I agree with Rick that this is a great idea and making the non-winning screencasts available would also be a great thing to do. I surely hope it happens!
( )Barttos January 9th
@Bryce, maybe building simple homepage? Or building functional portfolio (auto-building of thumbnails, pagination) with sql, admin control panel. You can accent the work with database!
( )This is just idea, maybe not as good as other users need.
Kevin January 9th
@Bryce maybe making a simple “To-Do” application in rails.
( )Alex January 9th
Under Linux eg you can use:
( )* http://www.screentoaster.com/
* http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php
insic January 9th
wow! good luck to everyone who participate
( )Ken January 9th
The link posted for Jing is not correct. Probably best to direct link to http://www.jingproject.com/
Anyway i better get cracking…
( )crysfel January 9th
finally a contest where i can get in!! i will try
( )Melvin Walls January 9th
This sounds like fun. Im most definetely going to enter
( )Glenn @Chromand January 9th
This sounds like a really cool contest. I was thinking about writing some articles for NETTUTS at trying to get a guest spot, but I think I’ll be doing this instead. I just did a PSD to Wordpress project not to long ago, so maybe I’ll to that. And if not something Wordpress oriented, maybe some PHP/OOP/MySQL stuff. or both!
( )Bogdan Popa January 9th
Would an .h264 mp4 encoded video be rejected? xD
( )Nate January 9th
Someone please make a PSD to Wordpress tut!
( )Allan January 9th
Should it be in English? Because I’m half nativ german speaker
(but from Austria) and crossplatform? so everybody can follow it?
cheers Allan
( )Yosy January 9th
Waiting to see the screencasts..
( )and when the plus area of nettuts will be published??
Daniel Apt January 10th
I’m curious, just like Rene Marinono. Are tutorials about Flash allowed?
( )Max January 10th
i might have a try.
( )Barttos January 10th
Daniel Apt, ActionScript tutorial maybe?
( )hubby January 10th
my time to shine
( )Daniel Apt January 11th
@hubby:
sweet 16
Haha,
Ok, I’ll try to make an AS3 tutorial, for beginners
( )Hasan January 11th
Would love to see a tutorial about if you have a photo sharing site, how to add a copyright watermark to the image as it’s uploaded. In HTML, javascript, vbscript or asp or something. not in php because i don’t really use it that much.
Thanks!
( )Sanne January 11th
Maybe I could make a psd to wordpress screencast. But I’m 15 and from the Netherlands so my English is not so good..
( )Ahad January 11th
Ill be throwing up screencasts dedicated to Windows Rails users on a blog type of site in the very near future..
It wont be part of the competition, but ill let you all know so you may learn from it.
Good luck to everyone!
( )Andrea Osborn January 12th
Can someone make a tutorial on how to think like a programmer like with php? This would help to learn how people go about building a program and the thinking proccess that goes into that.
( )Ahad January 13th
@Andrea there are alot of good books out there just for that purpose..try heading to Amazon and searching over there…
( )Andrea Osborn January 13th
I know there are books I just wanna see someone make a screen cast about it
( )Romulo January 13th
Oh god… Unfortunately my English is terrible, otherwise I could make a
( )great tutorial, but ok ;/, lucky for all ;D…
Jash Sayani January 14th
Nice. I thought of 2 topics…. Both are 20 minutes long…
But my exams are on the 24th of Jan, so I will do it on 25th and submit it by 27th…..
( )Oscar Cardoso January 16th
I’ll prepare something really useful for all coders and designers who maybe overwrite a source file…how about a simple screencast of Version Control?
Let’s see how my mexican english and cheap gaming headset can do.
( )Srigi January 16th
I’m soo disapointed, cos I tryed to record screencast today’s whole morning & I have nothing, just 3 mins of material. This is very dificult task. It looks so easy in Jeff’s vids., but believe me, writing tutorials is much easyier.
Also my topic takes, say, 1 hour of the video.
( )If anybody is interested about my result, navigate to:
http://www.ipok.sk/stuff/screencast01
Srigi January 16th
Do anybody have any tip, how to avoid keyboard typing sounds in recordings?
Jeff, your vids. are free of this sound, can you decsribe your recording equipment and arangment?
( )Jeffrey Way January 16th
You can hear the keyboard in my screencast. I know this is a gripe with some people, but I personally don’t mind it.
Your best bet is to keep the mic six inches from your mouth. Then, while editing, run some slight noise removal. Programs like Camtasia have this feature built in.
If you’re recording with the built in microphone - you’ll probably just have to deal with it. …Try this -
1) When you record your screencast, take ten seconds or so at the very beginning and only type.
2) Then, using a program like Camtasia, select this ten second span and choose “Noise Removal”.
3) It will listen for this texture and frequency and remove any occurrences of it in the video.
Hope this helps!
( )Christopher Francis O'Donnell January 16th
I’d really like to see an intermediate Django screencast… There are a few out there, but more can never hurt!
( )Allan January 17th
or you first record your screencast, and then you record the sound… its more work but then you have no typing sound in it
( )Suciu Vlad January 18th
What happend with the subscribers?
( )RoMuLauM January 30th
Unfortunately my English is not very good to make a screencast =/…
but all well, good luck to all and a hug from Brazil here! =D… Jeff,
congratulations, you helped me a lot with the screencasts…
hugs and hello from Brazil! \o/
( )TJ January 30th
This sound likes fun. I’m working on mine right now. Will most definitely submit it either tonight or tomorrow morning.
Good luck to all the other contestants!
And free knowledge for all!
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