Screen capture software
polycounter lvl 10
Hey all,
I'm thinking of recording some modelling sessions in zbrush and wanted your recommendations on screen capture software. I'm pretty dumb when it comes to this type of stuff so any help would be great. It doesn't have to be free as long as it's reasonably priced. I wouldn't even consider myself to be at a stage where i should be recording what i do but thought it might be interesting nonetheless.
I'm thinking of recording some modelling sessions in zbrush and wanted your recommendations on screen capture software. I'm pretty dumb when it comes to this type of stuff so any help would be great. It doesn't have to be free as long as it's reasonably priced. I wouldn't even consider myself to be at a stage where i should be recording what i do but thought it might be interesting nonetheless.
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Both of them have free versions so you can try them out first.
Holy crap
Has issues with long recordings though. For short 4-6 min videos it works great.
Licecap
http://www.cockos.com/licecap/
does GIF screen captures for mini animations to post on the forums for example.
Would love to know other alternatives to camstudio, perhaps some screen dump tool that is more reliable ? I too expierenced to many times crashes after a long recording with camstudio. Also it's pretty nasty to setup when you want to record system audio.
http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html?gclid=CISywMaV8qQCFQQ_bAodbClfiA
Ah, I wasn't actually aware of this feature. I found this quick tutorial by Pointpusher explaining how to use it.
http://vimeo.com/16917832
Just wanna ask if there is any similar free screen capture sofware that also capture keyboard shorcut.
sry, what i meant is capture keyboard movement, so any key i press during recording process will be displayed on the recorded video. I've seen many video recorded that way on tutorial video.
Also tries keypose and showoff not working on max
http://sumtips.com/2012/05/show-key-press-mouse-click-on-screen.html
Fraps records raw data,uncompressed.
1 min of fraps could go up to 1 or 2 GB's in size,while camtasia's 1 min would be 300-500 mb.
I beleive that the most tutorials have inserted the "buttons pressed" via overlay layer,by editing the original clip.
anyway, i think keypress detection are very useful for tut vid.
i remember the fist time i switch to blender, watch very basic modeling tutorial on blender even though i'm already know how to model. only to learn what button i need to press on blender to this and that.
i think blender have screen recording with keypress detection on blender itself, so no need to use another program to make blender tutorial.
http://www.hyperionics.com/hc/
ohsoft.net - oCam, Korean alternative - First impression was shareware/adware but turned out to be nice piece of freeware. Works with more codecs than Camstudio, nice Camtasia style recording area/region with a few preset sizes, hot key for starting and stopping of recording. It is quite easy to use without annoying features
Camstudio - free but feels like abandonware [update: and mentioned already]
VirtualDub - yes, it's possible to capture desktop with it too, but not so fluent solution...