For those who don’t have the money nor the time to invest in an expensive audio editing software, there is a free alternative.

Audacity

This is a great little tool. You can open a MP3 or WAVE file and be able to fine tune and listen to the audio in its entirety. Once you have identified a portion of the audio where there are too much white noise, or even unwanted voices, you can highlight that portion and do a View->selection. This allows you to zoom on in to the area of the selected audio. Then you can select and delete out the unwanted extra noise.

You can do a pretty good audio editing with this free tool. Then once you become good enough, you can graduate into something with better functionalities. But for simple audio editing, this is a wonderful tool!

By the way, this tool works under Windows and MAC.

Audacity

Are you looking for a free tool to create Camtasia videos? SWF? Image capture?

Well, you are in luck. There is a free tool called, The Jing Project, available that does just that. It’s created by the same people who created the Camtasia tool – which is Techsmith.

With this tool, you can create SWF file, which is a Flash format and capturing images. Most of the time, these SWF types of files are embedded inside an html page. It is streaming video meant for the web.

Also, as part of The Jing Project, you are getting a free 2Gb storage in screencast.com. What could be better than that?

Check their FAQ for more information.

There’s also the Camtasia version 3.0, which was free. Techsmith offerred it free last year for a limited time. I don’t think you can get it free anymore as you would have to request an activation key from Techsmith. But I could be wrong.

I have a copy of both tools. I have done screen captures with Camtasia 3 and like it. You can essentially use both tools to do screen capture or just capture the audio stream that is being played on your PC.

Actually, there is another free alternative, called CamStudio. I have not used it at all even though I do have a copy. I heard that there were issues when the SWF is played in FireFox browser. I have also heard that there is a fix for FireFox.

But with Jing, I don’t think you even need to consider CamStudio.

Everybody in the internet marketing world is adding video to their offerings. And video sharing sites such as YouTube attact millions of visitors. Think traffic, think conversion… There are possibilities.

The Jing Project is a good alternative – it’s FREE! Go grab a copy…