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  1. May 16th, 2006, 08:14 AM #1
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    Instruction movies

    Does anybody know a tool / programme to make instruction movies like the VS2005 beginners video’s? Able to capture the screen and sound?
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  2. May 16th, 2006, 01:20 PM #2
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    Re: Instruction movies

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  3. May 16th, 2006, 04:44 PM #3
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    Re: Instruction movies

    Heres a few - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/
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    Re: Instruction movies

    Do you mean an app that will make a video of you moving around the screen and record your voice and such?

    We use MatchWare ScreenCorder 4 - I've not done a lot with it yet...

    www.matchware.net

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    Re: Instruction movies

    Sorry RobDog888, I want to make my own.

    Thanks szlamany, I will take a look at MatchWare ScreenCorder 4.
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    Re: Instruction movies

    Great tool indeed!
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  8. May 23rd, 2006, 08:19 AM #7
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    Re: Instruction movies

    What kind of setting did you use - resolution, frame rates - stuff like that...

    I'm curious.

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    Re: Instruction movies

    I only played with the demo version. In my case high compression is not an issue. I increased the sound quality to 16b stereo and 44k1 sampling rate. I experimented with 22frames a second. When capturing a large area it looks better to export to AVI. However it takes a lot more of diskspace. It is very difficult to give a rule for how many bytes a second for diskspace. It depends on to many factors. The demo allows 45 seconds of recording so a real test can not be done. It looks good and I will use the def version.
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    Re: Instruction movies

    Thanks for the info - keep me posted as you do more.

    I'll do the same when I get back into it as well.

    We are going to use this for both web-demo stuff and also training - so I'll be experimenting with all kinds of output formats and record parameters...

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    Re: Instruction movies

    I will. Thanks.
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    Re: Instruction movies

    Seems i'm too late, i must admit i love SnagIt! V8. Looks nice, feels nice and does have quite a few options.

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    Re: Instruction movies

    Quote Originally Posted by thegreatone
    Seems i'm too late, i must admit i love SnagIt! V8. Looks nice, feels nice and does have quite a few options.

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    Does that record mouse movements and audio as well?

    I thought SnagIt was for screen capture - but still images.

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    Re: Instruction movies

    Quote Originally Posted by szlamany
    Does that record mouse movements and audio as well?

    I thought SnagIt was for screen capture - but still images.
    Yep, it records audio and mouse movements, lovely piece of kit.

    This is one i just made messing around sorry for where it's hosted but i have no webspace. Audio is off, mouse movement is on

    http://rapidshare.de/files/21199662/szlamany.avi.html

    EDIT: Mind the picture names in the file list looks very bad and must admit it's embarrassing as i know you won't believe this, but it's just a nickname i have for a friend of mine, Jane.

    EDIT2: This was actually recorded with my PC under stress while it's defragmenting a rather mucked up hard disk. Downloading a 700Mb file @ 450kbps and of course the usual Fx etc...
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    Re: Instruction movies

    That is very nice - thanks.

    I'll have to compare features - the ScreenCoder is specifically about making video-training - so it's got some neat mouse-star and on-screen text balloons...

    But as I've said, I have not used it much yet (and one of my customers paid for it - so it was free to me!).

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  17. May 24th, 2006, 02:32 AM #15
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    Re: Instruction movies

    Its not to late. I'm very busy with other things at this moment. As far as I can see "SnagIt" doesn't do any audio. I'm not sure which video formats they support.
    "Camtasia", from the same company, however does it all. I have to take a look at it. Thanks.
    Will be continued.
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