So you want to know how to put video on your blog but you don’t want to buy Camtasia.

I received an email today from Lon Naylor – the Camtasia expert from ScreenCastProfits in which he told me about Screen Toaster. Thanks Lon. (He’s one of my Google Friends in the sidebar).

It’s an online service that enables you to record your PC screen (just like Camtasia) and Callouts (just like Camtasia) and Voice Overs (just like Camtasia) but it’s free (unlike Camtasia)

Is it any good? We’re about to find out together.

This was totally off the cuff, no preparation and no prior knowledge of how it works so excuse the “content” or lack thereof!

Initial thoughts?

Good, bit slow on loading but easy to use. Once created easy to add callouts and the screen shot. Easy to embed – just copy the code and paste in to blog post (make sure your in HTML screen and not Visual, in WordPress I mean). The size is just fine for the width of this blog – so any Mandigo users won’t go wrong either.

Give it a try. Just sign up and you can start immediately – you don’t even need to wait for their email to arrive.

Wizzer

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