How to show Onscreen Shortcuts in Video?

ExcessiveZero

For awhile now I have thought about getting into tutorials one feature I liked that I have seen in others is on the video they have onscreen shortcuts/key presses displayed. I googled around a bit to no avail, My google Fu is clearly weak today.

So I was wondering if anyone here knows what software is about that does that or maybe it's something I need to enable on windows? 

RobeOmega

Found this KeyPose thing.
http://jungsbluth.de/magnus/blog/2008/08/01/keypose-flavour-your-screencasts-with-shortcuts/

I have not tested to see if it works, but it may be a start.

ExcessiveZero

Thanks for the fast reply I gave it a try wasn't quite what I was looking for but it helped point me in the right direction 

http://brookhong.github.io/2014/04/28/keycast-on-windows.html

Ended up just grabbing this and it seems to be what I was after bit more customizable and compact.

notman

I have not seen that before, in a video, but I love the idea of it. I can't stand watching a tutorial, and suddenly something big changes, but the demonstrator does not explain what he just did.

Neox

notman said:

I have not seen that before, in a video, but I love the idea of it. I can't stand watching a tutorial, and suddenly something big changes, but the demonstrator does not explain what he just did.

with custom shortcuts it will not help you at all if you know that Person X pressed ctrl+alt+shift+1 

pior

Thanks for the link @ExcessiveZero! I have been using OSDhotkey in the past but KeycastCOW looks better.

@Neox : true, but at least you can then investigate what the shortcut might be ! I did that a few times after watching videos of people who did have on screen hotkey display and it definitely helped. After all you only have to look it up once - I'd rather do that rather than having to watch someone go into menus over and over again