Screen Capture

[doug-hines]

I know this isnt really a MEL post, but it's sort of related. I was curious if anyone knew of a software package that would be good at capturing MEL script demonstrations for use in a demo reel.

I saw a demonstration where the capture software zoomed in on a window when the current window changed (which would be cool for demo'ing MEL guis) but I did not see a reference to the software used.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[gmask]

I can't think one specifically but there are screen capture movie recorder programs that will record whatever onscreen to a movie file.

[gmask]

google screen recorder

[joojaa]

snagit, jing, camtasia...

Microsft has one anlso i think...

Personally i use snagit 7.0

[gmask]

Yeah I think I used Snagit in the past for capturing windows for software manual illustrations

[ewerybody]

For serious use, I'd suggest CamStudio. Its Open Source and produces avi videos that you can use in premiere or whatever editing software you'd like. Just record your stuff big and zoom in with the editing program.

For snapshot screencasts I'd use Jing. Easy as bread. and bam! you have your video online. Jing is still free as well.

[joojaa]

Well snagit is exactly like jing (witha lot more goodies like capturing the content of long window taht does not fit teh entire screen for example, and makes avis aswell as flashvideos) but costs 50 bucks though but you can use it free 30 days.

[ironjellyfish]

What about high quality?

[joojaa]

QUOTE(ironjellyfi @ 07/15/09, 09:05 AM) [snapback]311617[/snapback]
What about high quality?

Has nothing to do with your capturing software that is up to the compression scheme you use. All of the applications ive ever used are all capable of not a single lost bit of information. Which is even technically the best you can qualitywise get. (and I do allways capture lossless)

The main problem is that losless video and sound east up quite a bit of harddisk. Even the very good 1:100 compressing schemes available (google for losseless compressors) create huge files. So the number one quality restriction is your hardware's capabilities not the software's themselves. As the speed of your hard disk/ amount fo memory is one of the more limitting factors. Other than that you can capture as much and as big as you like, only limit is your hardware keeping up with the data amount.