I hope you all remember the interview of Michael Pick, the light-bulb engineer at Automattic Inc. Today, I present the interview with Ian Ozsvald, a professional screencaster. The professional journey of Ian is pretty interesting and I’m sure the in-depth answers that he has given will surely benefit you in case you are planning to do screencasts professionally or for your own blog.
People who know me personally would know that I’m a firm believer of the fact that videos and screencasts are going to be pretty huge on the internet and that they will play important role in the success of any blog. I was fortunate enough to conduct an e-mail interview with Michael Pick. Michael recently joined Automattic(the company behind WordPress, bbPress, BuddyPress, Akismet etc.) as a LightBulb Engineer (Michael has explained the idea behind this enlightening position in this interview itself) and his job is to create Screencasts for WordPress. Prior to taking up the job at Automattic, Michael used to run Smash Cut Media – where he offered professional screencasting services.
I would like to thank Michael, for taking time from his busy schedule and answering these questions for our readers and I hope that this will encourage more and more people to start screencasts or create videos on their blogs.
1. Which software do you use or recommend for creating screencasts ?
A picture is worth thousands of words and a video is worth ______ words (I leave it up to you to decide that how many words a video is worth). We all know that if we can see that how an action is done then it becomes far simpler to understand things and a person who isn’t sure about something gets more confidence while following the tutorials.
There are many tutorials available on the internet which tell you about various stuff and so is the case with WordPress too.
