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by tvladeck 2638 days ago
Not enough to be the _main_ mode of communication, but definitely an important part of my team’s remote communications. I run www.gradientmetrics.com, and we’re a (very small) distributed team. We often do screencasts with voiceovers to show how we’re thinking of implementing something, what we think the outline of the deliverable should be, etc., etc. This can be _a lot_ easier to do with a video screencast than it is to type out. We typically do this either with a QuickTime screencast or with the person recording a solo Zoom conference with screen share, and uploading to Vimeo. If there was something that cut that workflow down and had some other features, we’d consider it.
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Screencasts for the reasons you give can be very helpful with the right kind of people for this sort of scenario.

I gave up sending them to one person (who sadly needed them the most) as I'd got to the stage of having to ask he view them twice so he didn't mindlessly re-ask the exact same questions that were clearly answered in the video!