screen video capture freeware app
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sigh. I'm using camstudio at the moment. If I shrink the screen capture area small enough and make my app super lightweight it'll capture ok. but now I play back the .swf and it lags :( Anybody know of a freeware screen video capture app better than camstudio? ...Steve
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sigh. I'm using camstudio at the moment. If I shrink the screen capture area small enough and make my app super lightweight it'll capture ok. but now I play back the .swf and it lags :( Anybody know of a freeware screen video capture app better than camstudio? ...Steve
http://www.debugmode.com/wink/[^] might do the trick.
// Steve McLenithan
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http://www.debugmode.com/wink/[^] might do the trick.
// Steve McLenithan
I'll give it a shot. Thanks :)
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sigh. I'm using camstudio at the moment. If I shrink the screen capture area small enough and make my app super lightweight it'll capture ok. but now I play back the .swf and it lags :( Anybody know of a freeware screen video capture app better than camstudio? ...Steve
I've used Auto Screen Recorder Free[^] in the past. It was decent enough for my use!
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I've used Auto Screen Recorder Free[^] in the past. It was decent enough for my use!
Well, the free one won't do audio (I've got a midi app and audio is needed). Well, I'll probably end up buying one. I'm between BSR Screen Recorder 4 and Hypercam 2 The one mentioned above (the DebugMode Wink app) only does still screen captures, (not video), but the annotation capabilities look pretty nice. ...Steve
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Well, the free one won't do audio (I've got a midi app and audio is needed). Well, I'll probably end up buying one. I'm between BSR Screen Recorder 4 and Hypercam 2 The one mentioned above (the DebugMode Wink app) only does still screen captures, (not video), but the annotation capabilities look pretty nice. ...Steve
I don't know what your budget looks like but if you can afford it, Adobe Captivate blows the competition out of the water. It's SWF files are much smaller than the competitions because (among other things) instead of taking 30 frames of you moving your mouse from A,B to C,D; it just takes a single background image and animates a cursor moving between the points at runtime. It also makes it extremely easy to highlight/annotate your actions (defaults for some of this are done automatically), and to adjust the speed/delays for every action without rerecording. If you make cosmetic changes to your app you can just drop new screen shots in without rerecording anything else.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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I don't know what your budget looks like but if you can afford it, Adobe Captivate blows the competition out of the water. It's SWF files are much smaller than the competitions because (among other things) instead of taking 30 frames of you moving your mouse from A,B to C,D; it just takes a single background image and animates a cursor moving between the points at runtime. It also makes it extremely easy to highlight/annotate your actions (defaults for some of this are done automatically), and to adjust the speed/delays for every action without rerecording. If you make cosmetic changes to your app you can just drop new screen shots in without rerecording anything else.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
Well, as I say, audio is important. So far, the captures I've got into .avi files are pretty good. Audio is sync'd well and screen video is smooth. (This is a sort of "piano hero" app so audio and video smoothness is important.) When converted to .swf, however, the audio lags farther and farther behind the video. So I'll probably just embed the .avi into my web pages (plain html). CamStudio is a great app and free. But it creates seperate .wav and .avi (soundless) files that it puts into a .swf. The .swf audio lags too much for me and I can't find any options to fix that. The BSR Screen Capture 4 is a slick app and seems to do better when using the CamStudio codec. It's the one I'm leaning towards. But I haven't looked up price of either the BSR one or HyperCam2 yet :) My budget is whatever I can afford bein' between jobs - not much X| ...Steve http://shazware.com/ditty
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Well, as I say, audio is important. So far, the captures I've got into .avi files are pretty good. Audio is sync'd well and screen video is smooth. (This is a sort of "piano hero" app so audio and video smoothness is important.) When converted to .swf, however, the audio lags farther and farther behind the video. So I'll probably just embed the .avi into my web pages (plain html). CamStudio is a great app and free. But it creates seperate .wav and .avi (soundless) files that it puts into a .swf. The .swf audio lags too much for me and I can't find any options to fix that. The BSR Screen Capture 4 is a slick app and seems to do better when using the CamStudio codec. It's the one I'm leaning towards. But I haven't looked up price of either the BSR one or HyperCam2 yet :) My budget is whatever I can afford bein' between jobs - not much X| ...Steve http://shazware.com/ditty
If you need high precision sync between the audio/video streams Captivate probably isn't the right tool. I've never had sound embedded in anything I created, but the free-form way it handles modifying the playback, combined with it's synthetic keyboard/mouse strokes makes me thing it wouldn't work well. It's great for general purpose apps though.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall