Question about Podcasts and YouTube Video-Productions

[Theo Gottwald]

Does anyone here have experiences about making Podcasts and YouTube Videos?

Is there Freeware usable for this purpose or is commercial software neede.

And what are your recommendations?

[Kent Sarikaya]

Theo, here is a good start for you tube:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/topic.py?topic=10521

Here is a video on what you need to podcast:
http://revision3.com/systm/podcasting

Here is another good link for videocasting:
http://makeinternettv.org/

If you want to record your computer screen while you make a tutorial about an application or process, I highly recommend:
http://www.camstudio.org/   this is freeware
also download the lossless codec from the site.
Record your desktop set at a resolution of 800x600, 10 frames per second should be fast enough.
When finished, use virtual dub to make any edits http://www.virtualdub.org/   this is freeware
then make the final release video encoded with the xvid codec, it will output at 800x600 and look incredible for the files size.
http://www.xvid.org/    this is freeware

Here is a video tutorial about making desktop captures. He does cover the expensive programs and lower cost ones:
http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/sv_dlgn.php?id=/usercontent/FrankieV_457.rar

There are plenty of nice freeware very good programs that you can use.
Let me know of any other questions that might come up, there is a lot to go through in the above, but it will give you a good idea.
If not, ask away will be glad to help!

[Theo Gottwald]

Thnaks, Kent. I'll take a look!