Screenflow-This screen-recording software, invaluable for making screencasts, also has a rudimentary editor that allows you to crop and adjust your audio and video, add text with effects, and do basic editing.It also allows you to do the “side-by-side” split-screen recordings that I use here. Call Recorder-This inexpensive plug-in for Macintosh makes recording Skype easy.Since Skype can broadcast a video signal as well as audio, video interviews are as easy as pushing a button. Skype-One of the great inventions of recent years, Skype allows us to connect a virtual phone line over the internet.(Look for more interviews with lots of tips for marketing and distributing your books in the weeks ahead.) If you want to bring the power and immediacy of video to your author blog, here’s the way I do video interviews like the recent ones with Dan Blank and Brian Felsen. Now almost all my interviews are on video, and you can do these interviews, too, with just a little equipment and some practice. Without the time or inclination to do lots of product research or experimentation I simply imitated what I saw other people doing. I had to find a very simple-some might call it primitive-way to make video work for me. There’s no other way to engage your audience as well, and no more engaging way to teach than with video. When you come from a print-oriented world, the move to video might seen strange, frustrating at times, but it can also be very rewarding in the end. Video interviews online are becoming more common, and many bloggers and online content marketers are interested in taking advantage of video for lots of reasons.

Screenflow move clip with time