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Anyone out there ever tried creating your own screencasts? If so, what are you using? I've been trying to create some demos using CamStudio to generate an .avi, (uncompressed) and then convert it to .wmv using WM Encoder. I'm not having good luck with the resulting video. (too blurry/blotchy/text disappearing/etc) The C# tutorials here are the type of quality level I'm striving for. (25min video = ~8MB w/sharp, easy to read text) Any video geeks have suggestions on getting the best quality-to-size ratio on a resulting video format? (be it .wmv or some other codec) Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion worked Atlanta Flames games in the 1970s with the splendid Jiggs McDonald. One night, Geoffrion said, "Jiggs, there are only three things to hockey: shooting and skating." McDonald said, "Right, Boomer. And what's the third?" The exasperated Geoffrion replied," Jiggs, that's the three. Shooting. And. Skating." -- modified at 20:15 Wednesday 30th November, 2005
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Anyone out there ever tried creating your own screencasts? If so, what are you using? I've been trying to create some demos using CamStudio to generate an .avi, (uncompressed) and then convert it to .wmv using WM Encoder. I'm not having good luck with the resulting video. (too blurry/blotchy/text disappearing/etc) The C# tutorials here are the type of quality level I'm striving for. (25min video = ~8MB w/sharp, easy to read text) Any video geeks have suggestions on getting the best quality-to-size ratio on a resulting video format? (be it .wmv or some other codec) Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion worked Atlanta Flames games in the 1970s with the splendid Jiggs McDonald. One night, Geoffrion said, "Jiggs, there are only three things to hockey: shooting and skating." McDonald said, "Right, Boomer. And what's the third?" The exasperated Geoffrion replied," Jiggs, that's the three. Shooting. And. Skating." -- modified at 20:15 Wednesday 30th November, 2005
Well, i'm fond of Wink, but it doesn't really do sound yet, so donno of that qualifies. But you can get nice, crisp graphics to show off your program, which is a nice change from the nausea-fest that is Channel9...
You must be careful in the forest Broken glass and rusty nails If you're to bring back something for us I have bullets for sale...
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Well, i'm fond of Wink, but it doesn't really do sound yet, so donno of that qualifies. But you can get nice, crisp graphics to show off your program, which is a nice change from the nausea-fest that is Channel9...
You must be careful in the forest Broken glass and rusty nails If you're to bring back something for us I have bullets for sale...
Yeah, I tried Wink. It's a really nice app, but like you say it doesn't do sound yet. I fiddled around using fddshow to apply some on the fly processing during the encoding of the .wmv file, and I got some of the sharpness in the video back, albeit at a loss of some color, but it's not bad. I'm going to try the .swf recorder in CamStudio and see if I can get any better results. Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion worked Atlanta Flames games in the 1970s with the splendid Jiggs McDonald. One night, Geoffrion said, "Jiggs, there are only three things to hockey: shooting and skating." McDonald said, "Right, Boomer. And what's the third?" The exasperated Geoffrion replied," Jiggs, that's the three. Shooting. And. Skating."
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Anyone out there ever tried creating your own screencasts? If so, what are you using? I've been trying to create some demos using CamStudio to generate an .avi, (uncompressed) and then convert it to .wmv using WM Encoder. I'm not having good luck with the resulting video. (too blurry/blotchy/text disappearing/etc) The C# tutorials here are the type of quality level I'm striving for. (25min video = ~8MB w/sharp, easy to read text) Any video geeks have suggestions on getting the best quality-to-size ratio on a resulting video format? (be it .wmv or some other codec) Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion worked Atlanta Flames games in the 1970s with the splendid Jiggs McDonald. One night, Geoffrion said, "Jiggs, there are only three things to hockey: shooting and skating." McDonald said, "Right, Boomer. And what's the third?" The exasperated Geoffrion replied," Jiggs, that's the three. Shooting. And. Skating." -- modified at 20:15 Wednesday 30th November, 2005
Wink is fine for the occasional use, and you get good stuff to show off. However, there's a macromedia product (the name of which escapes me) which has an impressive feature: adding sensible balloons (sp?) to the action you just did (like "Enter frobnotz", "click OK") - it doesn't make much to much sense for a simple, well designed dialog, but it's great for a more complex UI, as it is much faster to edit orremove, then to add the ones you need. One request, though: - use an off-color color scheme when recording - use a none-default Mouse pointer when recording - use 800x600, so a maximized player on 1024x768 does not need to scale it down Please please please please.
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