Screencasts Best Practices

• You've now made a few screencasts, What best practices have you discovered to get your best results?

After doing a number of screencasts using Camtasia version 5, I found that keeping that a few short clips work better than one long and drawn out screencast. I also find that if you mess up it is easier to just pause and restart your sentence as you can easily cut out your mistake as opposed to starting over. I find rehearsing the screencast prior to recording is also quite helpful. I have also been experiencing problems with my sound that I am still trying to address. The videos playback fine, however it seems the sound distortion occurs when I upload the video to screencast.com. Finally, use your voice. Be wary of the monotone, use as much diction and intonation as possible.