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Apple-of-my-i.com has put together a video screencast that gives an overview of available Mac screencast tools as well as step-by-step instructions for creating a director’s account at YouTube. The YouTube director’s account offers special placement of uploaded videos and page customization. The screencast begins by giving an overview of YouTube and the advantages it offers as a video host and platform for distributing video. The remainder of the video cover the types of software tools and and needed for creating a typical screencast. The screencast software tools reviewed include:

-Apple’s iMovie and QuickTime for editing and tweaking the screencast.

-ShinyWhiteBox’s screen recording product, iShowU, which will record both audio and video from your Mac computer screen.

-La Chose Interactive’s program DooDim which allows the user to dim or blackout everything on the Mac screen except for the front most program.

-Boinx Software’s MousePosé program which dims the screen and puts a spotlight on the area around the mouse pointer, guiding the audiences attention to an area of interest.

-Flying Meat’s FlySketch program which places its main drawing window above all other windows in the system allowing you to trace, draw over, and highlight just about anything that shows up behind FlySketch, very much like a telestrator.

Apple-of-my-i.com’s screencast has a runtime of 24 minutes and 42 seconds. If you want to skip some of the YouTube information, advance the video to 11:25.

For a reason I have yet to discover, I have had an issue for the past year that when I click a link in Safari to play a QuickTime movie, the QuickTime window appears and I can hear the audio of the movie, but the video doesn’t display. Typically the QuickTime window in Safari looks like the screen capture below with the audio playing , but no visual:

I recently came across the solution to this problem in the Apple.com support forums. By throwing away the file QuickTime plugin.webplugin file and restarting Safari, the problem is solved. Here’s the steps to finding the file and fixing the problem.

The QuickTime plugin.webplugin file is found at the following path: HD/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/plugin.webplugin.

1) Be sure to quit the Safari browser if it is running and then Open your boot drive and double-click the Library folder to open it:

2) Inside the Library folder you will find a folder named Internet Plug-Ins. Select and double-click the folder to open it.

3) Inside the Internet Plug-Ins folder you will find a file named QuickTime plugin.webplugin.

4) Simply drag the QuickTime plugin.webplugin file to the trash and restart Safari. Navigate to the web page with the problem QuickTime movie and it should now display properly.