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Creating a recording account

Creating a recording account - Camtasia Tutorial

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Creating a recording account

Before we begin recording it's a good idea to have a dedicated account that's just set aside for recording your screencast. That way you can have a desktop space that is set up and configured for recording all the time, you can have a nice solid color background, you can have your taskbar hidden with no additional items in it, and you can have your screen set up exactly the way that you want with all the specific recording settings. Now in order to create a new account you do have to have administrative privileges on your computer. So if you don't have administrative privileges, don't worry. Creating a dedicated recording account is not a required step to doing screencasting. It just helps take your screencast to the next level. So if you have administrative access and you want to follow along all you need to do is go down to your Start menu and go over to Control Panels. Now from the Category view all we need to do is click on the link that says Add or remove user accounts. If you're…

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