Descript
A great audio and video editing application that I've come to love and use every day (and night!). It's powered by AI but allows you to edit your podcasts, interviews, courses, videos, social media clips, etc. It offers transcription and text-based editing, text-to-speech, multi-track, multi-camera, and AI features such as Eye Contact (making it look like you're always looking at the camera, not reading off a script or a prompt), Overdub (generate text to speech with your own voice), Re-generate (fix broken down audio or interruptions, mispronunciations and so on, with your own voice, without having to re-record) and much, much more. Check it out!
I have created a Descript Course and this course is also free part of my online membership. See you there!
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Xara Designer Pro X
Absolutely each and every graphic design project I do starts in Xara - whether it's a logo, a website layout, a brochure, some illustration or even a quick sketch or concept - is first drawn in Xara. There are a few different variants and the software has evolved a lot over the years. I've started using it about 20 years or more ago (back when it belonged to Corel and it was called 'Corel Xara'). If you can, I recommend you get 'Xara Designer Pro X' - it has everything and it's so easy to use - sometimes it feels like I'm wearing a glove - it's so easy to design with it.
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Camtasia
The best screen capture tool for PC you could ask for, period. Records your screen smoothly (even from a retina display), and then the editing tools for cutting, moving, splicing your video and audio are fantastic and similar to those found in Adobe's Premiere.
Whether you need it for a quick tutorial, walkthrough or for longer sessions, it works first try and when it comes to exporting, the video size is unbelievably small. Includes YouTube uploader, exporting to local disk and more.
After trying various free and not so free screen capture tools, some of which don't record properly, make the mouse cursor jump or indicate the wrong screen region, don't do audio or work with exotic formats, I've settled on Camtasia.
Camtasia 2021 has lots of great new features. If you have not bought it, you can try it free.
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