Screencasting on Ubuntu Part 1

In the first of three screencasts we look at some preparation steps to setup an environment for creating quality screencasts on Ubuntu. In the second part we'll look at scripting and recording a screencast and part three will cover video editing and publishing.
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I recently created a couple of screencasts for the Ubuntu-UK LoCo team, of which I am a member. I've been tinkering with screencasting for nearly a year now but only recently has everything come together in such a way that I find it easy to make the screencasts. I've been asked to write a guide showing how I created the screencasts at quickones, and here it is. Before I go into the detail there's some technical things I should outline up front. Various tools and utilities have been suggested to me over the last year and I have discounted many of them for a number of reasons. Hopefully this will explain what those reasons are so that you can understand why I used the tools I did. In a previous blog post I talked about screencasting in general - part 2 of that article is in the works. This post is more technical, showing how to actually do it for real.