May 2025

Can you believe it took almost a month to create this next AI animated avatar video? It did. I wanted to try out Paul Ponna's new TalkingPhotos app. An AI avatar generator with some pretty cool features. Have a look at this next video to see what I did...

AI Animated Avatars Pros & Cons

All in all I would say real positive things about this app. But need more experience with it to think of using it for a customers video, just yet. There are many more pros than cons for this app so I am going to give it a thumbs up with the caveat that you might not always get what you hoped for. On a brighter side the avatar generation is amazing and can only get better. Check it out for yourself here...

I was recalling an incident I had at a company years ago. Long story short is the first thing I did was read the companies mission statement and signed their NDA (non-disclosure agreement). You should know what the company policies are when you work with them. I then proceeded to map out a strategy to fulfill an RFQ (request for quote) to design a new conveyor system for a tier 1 customer.

I explained how I started by deep diving their engineering database to see what information was already there, that would be applicible to the new project. And a VP (vice president) of the company blew up.

This guy got really angry at me for doing a tried and proven engineering method. He thought engineers should NOT be allowed to scutinize knowledge of past engineering. That it would up-end his authority to control the project. How dumb is that?

Anyways, after explaining why he was wrong and how his attitude could ruin the companies trust, he got even madder and said I didn't know what I was talking about. In the end he got fired and I got the RFQ. Which later turned into several follow on projects from the same tier 1 company.

I explained that the mission statement along with the NDA encourages trust between customers and compaines. And they foster internal trust and idea sharing among the staff and especially the engineers. Without that trust customers and staff, especially the engineers, would flee the company like rats from a sinking ship.

So, I researched modern NDA's and mission statements and added them to my own business. Here is the mission statement I came up with.

I also updated my Policies page as well. You can see that here...

HumanPal Episode 4 Revisited features new special effects introduced in Camtasia 2025 My favorite video editor. And oh boy, are they ever way cool. New cursor effects turn boring screen captures into a fun experience. In the past the cursor looked like a small annoying hard to follow thing of neccessity. Now it is a dynamic attention grabbing, fun, easy to follow star of the show. Check out this HumanPal video to see what I mean...

HumanPal Episode 4 Revisited

Cursor effects can be applied to the pointer, left clicks and right clicks. I wanted to explain all of them but that would be a lot to digest all in one blog. So I made this nifty slider below. You can see many of those effects used in the video above. Meanwhile check out the slider images to grasp what I am referring to.

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1. Kinetic Cursor Camtasia 2025 introduces kinetic motion to cursor movement. The pointer tail lags behind the tip when moved, illustrating movement in a forward direction. Combine this with cursor smoothing and all your cursor movements look ideal with no misses or overshoots or shakey mouse, when locating the next click. I this cursor special effect.
2. Burst 1,2,3,4 are new click effects design to show expanding rays of color at the moment the mouse is clicked. There are 4 different options to choose from. Combine this effect with click sound and every click is emphasized visually and audily.
3. Torn Edge is a new border visual effect. You can see it in the video above. In this video the background screen capture clips have the "Torn Edge" effect applied.
4. Properties Panel displays all the different attributes you can adjust. Camtasia 2025 has an abundance of control over all the visual, cursor and audio effects. Combine this with 10 years of experience at video editing and I can make all your videos dazzle with brilliance. Find out how I can make your video...

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