VideoCast Your Way with ScreenCast

The updated Screencast.com from TechSmith is a place to upload, organize, and share your high-quality videos, presentations and images. You are in complete control of your content and can decide who can or cannot view it, all in a secure, easy, and highly-dynamic way. Here is what Brad Fallon of FreeLineReport says about Screencast (amongst other things):





Screencast is designed to help you share information in any way you wish:

* Email
* IM
* Your Web page
* Blogs
* iPod-compatible video and audio
* RSS feed
* iTunes

Screencast.com site is integrated with Camtasia Studio to create and post professional-looking presentations. What you see is what your audience will see.

What will all these cost me?

A 60 day free trial gives your 200 MB storage and 1 GB transfer bandwidth. The basic plan comes with a generous allotment of 25 GB storage and 25 transfer bandwidth, which should be enough for most of us, and costs 6.95/month or 69.50/year. With all the tools and amenities built into the service, I consider this a fair price.

How about maintaining the original quality of my video?

Screencast doesn't compress or re-encode your files into a "one-size-fits-all" format. The integrity of your original content is protected, so what you upload is exactly what your viewers see.

Do I control the rights to my content?

Anything you upload to Screencast.com still belongs to you. This also means that you can delete files you've uploaded to make room for something new.

You CAN decide who views your content

Using Screencast.com's permission features, you can decide how secure you want each of your folders:

* Public
* Hidden
* Password
* Authenticated.

Yes, they have stats too

Meaning that you can look up, at any time, how many times a specific file has been viewed and how much bandwidth each file is using. So if you already have your video in different formats you can keep or show only the one that has the best quality and least bandwidth requirement.

Cybercast credit: YouTube