Has audio and screen sectioning, and its quick and easy to use. Oh and free.
You can save as mov or upload straight away to the site or youtube.
If that doesnt suit you then you can try http://camstudio.org/ , the free alternative to camtasia - probably not the "best" but I'm not sure why you need the "best" when you're only making 1 vid
I use Camstudio or Fraps depending on what is needed. Then I encode to Xvid in VirtualDub as well. I get a great quality when uploading to Youtube, even with non-HD resolutions.
I have used hypercam 3 beta to record 720p video from a portion of the screen at 30 fps for my reel. I used FFDshow with MJPEG to encode. FFD is hardware accelerated so it encoded in real time and MJPEG is pretty lossless but gives you 10/1 compression ratio.
Fraps has been capturing pretty well followed by VirtualDub to convert it so that Premiere can read it with audio. What a nightmare...
Are there any powerful alternatives to Premiere? Premiere doesn't seem to want me to export any resolution other than it's very specific options like DV 720x480. Does Sony Vegas offer more export options?
Camtasia is a nightmare. Crashes all the time, really slow, some long files have gotten corrupt. I'd stay away from it. I now use Camstudio and it's working great.
TWilson, Vegas has a fantastic export dialog with pretty much any format you can think of, then some. There's lots of options and rendering is pretty speedy as well. It's my primary video editing app now.
Sorry for the bump, but i thought i would just let people know that they can actually do screen capture using virtual dub, you dont need to use something else first.
Only figured it out today and the performance is really impressive.
Just keep in mind that win 7 and vista cant use the gpu accelleration, which is on by default so be sure to turn it off or it wont work.
Sorry for the bump, but i thought i would just let people know that they can actually do screen capture using virtual dub, you dont need to use something else first.
Only figured it out today and the performance is really impressive.
Just keep in mind that win 7 and vista cant use the gpu accelleration, which is on by default so be sure to turn it off or it wont work.
Sorry for the bump (again), just had to say THANK YOU! this was a life saver
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http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
Has audio and screen sectioning, and its quick and easy to use. Oh and free.
You can save as mov or upload straight away to the site or youtube.
If that doesnt suit you then you can try http://camstudio.org/ , the free alternative to camtasia - probably not the "best" but I'm not sure why you need the "best" when you're only making 1 vid
I tried Camtasia out recently, it does not watermark the screen captures on the trial version
And then i encode my videos with virtualdub.
Are there any powerful alternatives to Premiere? Premiere doesn't seem to want me to export any resolution other than it's very specific options like DV 720x480. Does Sony Vegas offer more export options?
just click and go, and finish
Yes. Jing is very nice.
TWilson, Vegas has a fantastic export dialog with pretty much any format you can think of, then some. There's lots of options and rendering is pretty speedy as well. It's my primary video editing app now.
Only figured it out today and the performance is really impressive.
Just keep in mind that win 7 and vista cant use the gpu accelleration, which is on by default so be sure to turn it off or it wont work.
Sorry for the bump (again), just had to say THANK YOU! this was a life saver