The Blog of Glen Moyes

I've been making video tutorials for Blender since August 2004, and in those years I've found TechSmith's Camtasia Studio to be the best solution, simply because of the quality of the TechSmith Capture Codec (TSCC). The other alternative is CamStudio, an open source app that works really well, but the CamStudio Codec is not as fast as TSCC. On my new system I get 22 fps with CamStudio in a 1024x576 region, whereas with TSCC I can get a solid 30 fps, and it's easier to get the audio and video to sync up properly. After using their 30-day trial, experiencing the performance boost was enough to convince myself to buy Camtasia Studio, until I realized it cost US$300. To my joy, I read today that TechSmith is doing a promotion where you can download their old Camtasia 3, get a software key for free, and later upgrade to Camtasia 5 for US$150 (this is for a limited time). Just download the software: http://download.techsmith.com/camtasiastudio/enu/312/camtasiaf.exe Then fill...

Even though I'm not a student at the university anymore and have now reached the status of alumnus, I'll sneak into the art seminars and and university forums if I fell there's going to be a really worthwhile presentation. A few days ago I was told that Orson Scott Card was going to be speaking at University Forum. It didn't take much to convince myself and a few of my friends to attend the forum. We all wanted to hear him speak, and two of us—myself included— really wanted to ask him some questions. We've both been working our own large projects for a few years or more and even though we've never published a story or finished a film yet, we're both insistent that when the time comes that our studio has the resources to start production on one of these two projects, that we'll already have the story perfected. Neither of us are formally trained in story telling but we talk about it every day, read a lot on the subject, and discuss movies and shows that ...

I decided to start a personal blog since I haven't updated my site in 18 months, and I won't update it until I launch my new site. I don't know when that will be exactly, but it will be after I design the logo for our new studio, create the web design for it, and then use that template for my new site (my new web site will essentially be what the studio employee pages look like). This is also going to be a nice place to put my unofficial (read unprofessional) commentary. It's for friends and family, so enjoy.