Capping, Editing, Converting, and Screen Capping Software Tutorials & Codecs

[joebob8692]

the camsta studio is only a 30 day trial... anyone have a serial for mac??

[Darky10]

can anyone say me what codec i can use for making a .gif?

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okay i think it worked now ^^
you see in my avatar :)

[frenchyskull]

Thank you a lot for those tutorials it helped me so much!

[bobbyrayray]

great profile pic darky 10

[zekuu]

the camsta studio is only a 30 day trial... anyone have a serial for mac??

if you have a mac get screen recorder from appstore :) there is a free version or you can buy the full version.

[Darky10]

great profile pic darky 10

thank you :) self made and self captured, i may make a new one later with some other sexy things

[rufinatti]

for the Mac users out there:

I've found a great program for quickly generating video contact sheets (thumbnails). It's called skreenics and is freeware. You can grab it from this link: http://code.google.com/p/skreenics/

[skyrock75]

Hey nice tuto, thanks for it.
If you want I've got another software for split and join video: Boilsoft Video Splitter & Video Joiner. They are very easy to use.

[dryucu]

i myself can recommend the river past screen recorder. pretty easy stuff.

[Bitz]

You probably figured this out already Ken but in case anyone else comes across it, the secret is to uninstall it, then go back to the NCH (?) site and ask for it again. They let you download it again and you start your trial from Day 1. Even after the trial period it'll let you convert to WMV and avi because they realise so many other free progs already do this.

[rausch22]

Can someone tell me one of these user licenses for Camtasia? I cant read the picture, it's too small

[Bitz]

Ok, a question for all the veterans here. I downloaded prism and finally had some alone time when i could start converting my huge files to a more manageable size. When I opened prism, It is asking for a key as the trial period expired :( Does anyone have a key to share? Or have other conversion software ideas? I have about 100+ videos that I want to start sharing and can't until I get them reduced...

Thanks for your help and guidance. This site is amazing and I cant wait to reach VIP status soon.

Don't fret about it. If you go to uninstall, it'll give the option of downgrading to the free version. (Don't bother with the supoported software option.) They figured there are enough free apps to convert software so they let you carry on switching between avi/flash/wmv. This is the same for all their suite of progs, as far as I know.

By mistake, though, I did a complete uninstall the first time and when I downloaded the programs from them again, they started by trial from Day 1 again. Go figure.

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I can recommend the NCH suite of Videopad Editor, Debut Screen Capture and Prism File Convertor.

They're not perfect, but they're pretty damned close. Videopad has a 'crop' effect you can use on a vid, and you can set it for 3:4 ratio, letting you get rid of the black borders you see so much. Splitting files isn't so good. It can do it with accuracy but seems to throw in a blank frame at the end of every section, which makes it a shit for creating loops.

Debut Screen Capture gives a good quality cap. A 10 minute cap is about 50Mb, and you'll find it saves continuously to disk. One of the downers of Camtasia is that when you hit stop, it can take forever to save a long capture. With Debut, you hit stop and you can hit record again immediately. After a couple of hours of capping, I get the odd Blue sceen of death on my lappy but I think that's more to do with not enough RAM than serious flaws with the program.

Prism file convertor is fast and does what it says on the box. The downside is that for flv's, it loses the keyframes you'll need if you're using VCW.

[mirrorimage]

love all the tutorials here but as a first time capper im having some problems.i think its because the tutorial for camtasia recording is not the same for the version i have.for instance.when i click on the option save to avi.it tells me that i cant.it has to be camrec.i tried capping something last night just to test it,and the vid produced had the area i captured(my cam and strangers cam) but also another small picture of my cam in the corner.is this how a captured video should look before the editing process?

Forgive my stupidity,im just a total novice at this stuff and i want to start capping and sharing.

[cnx1000]

love all the tutorials here but as a first time capper im having some problems.i think its because the tutorial for camtasia recording is not the same for the version i have.for instance.when i click on the option save to avi.it tells me that i cant.it has to be camrec.i tried capping something last night just to test it,and the vid produced had the area i captured(my cam and strangers cam) but also another small picture of my cam in the corner.is this how a captured video should look before the editing process?

Forgive my stupidity,im just a total novice at this stuff and i want to start capping and sharing.

You have an older version of Camtasia ( v 6.0 maybe?) ...you should try using a newer version. i am using V7.1 and it works great but my advice is to record as .camrec even if will take more space on your hdd
and more time to convert ( depends on your computer specs) but the results are much better than recording to .avi

[michaelwoods]

My camtasia fails to record in xvid. Did a quick search and others also seem to have this problem with vista. The other codecs generate huge file sizes. Any suggestions?

[mrbaseball55]

Like cnx1000, just save the file in it's native format and convert it later after you have edited it.