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TechSmith Debuts Screencast.com Video and Multimedia Service for Business and Academic Professionals

Service Designed to Enhance Knowledge Sharing, Training, and Education; Maintains Quality and Formatting of Uploaded Content

Okemos, Michigan – October 17, 2006 - TechSmith Corp., the world's leading provider of screen capture and recording solutions, today announced the general availability of Screencast.com, a Web-based service in its beta stage for business and academic professionals who want to share information, ideas, and knowledge in an engaging online multimedia experience. At Screencast.com, users can watch, share, and upload online video, audio, and multimedia content that retains its original quality, size, dimensions, and professionalism.

“Today’s video-sharing services are primarily entertainment-focused and targeted at a mass consumer audience, while Screencast.com is designed for business and educational professionals,” said Rich Boys, Associate Product Manager, Camtasia Studio and Screencast.com. “Screencast.com addresses a very real market need by providing an affordable, efficient service that allows professionals, regardless of their technical expertise, to deliver multimedia content online about themselves, their companies and products, their expertise, and even their hobbies.”

Screencast.com is also integrated with the newly released Camtasia Studio 4, providing users a direct connection for uploading their screencasts with a single click.

Sample screencasts can be viewed at www.screencast.com.

Screencasts, Videos, Documents, and Images
Anyone can upload and share a wide variety of supporting images and documents along with their videos and screencasts, such as Microsoft Word and Excel documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Adobe PDF files that viewers can download.

Easy to Organize and Share
Content uploaded to Screencast.com can be shared as individual pieces of media or sorted into collections making it easy for users to streamline the viewing experience. Users can make their screencasts and multimedia content available by sharing a URL via email or IM, or embedding HTML code that is automatically generated by Screencast.com to cut and paste into Web pages and Blogs. Viewers can subscribe to specific Screencast.com video and audio content, including Apple iPod®-compatible video and audio, via RSS and iTunes feeds.

Screencast.com users retain complete ownership of their content, can add or remove content at-will, and because Screencast.com doesn’t resize or reformat the user’s content, individuals who watch videos posted on Screencast.com see exactly what was uploaded.

Pricing and Availability
Screencast.com (beta) is available immediately at www.screencast.com. Screencast.com is compatible with Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox 1.5 or higher with JavaScript enabled. A broadband Internet connection and Flash Player 9 is recommended for uploading. A free one-month account is available with 100MB of storage with 1GB of transfer bandwidth. Thereafter, Screencast.com subscriptions can be purchased on a monthly or annual basis based upon storage and bandwidth transfer needs. For complete pricing details, visit www.techsmith.com/screencast/pricing.asp.

About TechSmith Corporation
TechSmith Corporation was founded in 1987 and is located in Okemos, Michigan. TechSmith provides practical business software tools to capture and manipulate images, voice and video from Windows desktops. The company's flagship software packages, SnagIt and Camtasia Studio, enable customers to create visually enhanced content for teaching, training, Web sites, documentation, and business presentations. Morae is the first and only all-digital solution for recording and analyzing human-computer interaction. TechSmith products are used by 98 percent of the Fortune 500. For additional information, visit http://www.techsmith.com.

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TechSmith, Camtasia, SnagIt, Rich Recording Technology (RRT), Morae, EnSharpen, Dubit, and Camtasia Studio are trademarks of TechSmith Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks used in this document are the property of their respective companies.

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