Beth and Phil and All, I've been working with Camtasia to develop some training videos for MOODLE. I like Camtasia, and am in a situation where the cost isn't a factor. I am a bit spoiled, I guess...but I like flash movies. For some unreasonable reason they seem less proprietary than real media ( which I used to use) and offer reasonable quality.
I downloaded Demostudio yesterday but haven't had a chance to work with it yet. If I were diligent I would and then write up a reasonable comparison of the two. And I just watched your Attention Trust screencast and it was fairly smooth for me. Suppose I should look at Camstudio now too. MOODLE videos are at http://treadwell.cce.cornell.edu/moodle_doc/ Paul > Phil, > > Thanks for sharing this information. I've been exploring screencasts > and looking at different software and didn't see this one. Will > definitely try it. > > I used a free program called Camstudio, but it creates in avi and didn't > have good results (screen resolution issues with trying to use it with > moviemaker). There are two commerical programs that create flash movies > -- Camtasia (John Udell uses this one to create his screencasts) and > Captivate. I downloaded the free trial of captivate from Macromedia > which makes flash movies, fairly easy to learn -- but too expensive for > me.($300). I made two screencasts, though, (I should say, sloppy and > choppy screencasts) -- they're here along with my production > notes/learnings. > > Bookmarklet for Tags > http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2005/10/technorati_tag_.html > > Attention Trust Extension Installation > http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2005/10/attention_trust.html > > > I also did a lot of research on other programs, techniques, and examples > and you can find those bookmarks in my delicious account: > > http://del.icio.us/kanter/screencast > > > Who else is doing screencasting? > > Beth > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil > Shapiro > Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 12:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [DDN] demostudio screen tutorial software (windows) reviewed > > > hi everyone - > > this newsforge review about free software named DemoStudio for > windows is very interesting. if you try this software, thanks for > sharing your views (or screencast creations) with the rest of us. i > won't be installing DemoStudio on my windows xp system, as i'm currently > using Camtasio Studio (a commercial > product) and don't want these two programs to interfere with each other. > > here is the opening of the DemoStudio review, along with a link to > the full article. > > > > NewsForge > The Online Newspaper for Linux and Open Source > http://software.newsforge.com/ > Title Flash in a flash with DemoStudio > Date 2005.09.16 11:00 > Author Chris Lynch > Topic > http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/08/177226 > > DemoStudio is a GPL-licensed screen capture application for Microsoft > Windows that can record single screen images, a series of screen images > on a set interval, or screen video and audio. Whilst the screen capture > functionality of DemoStudio amounts to little more than an organised > version of Ctrl-PrintScreen, the audio/video capture functionality is > superb, most notably for the software's ability to create live screen > annotations and to convert its initial AVI format output to Flash. > > Installation of DemoStudio is simple, with a standard Windows installer > provided for the application. After installation, the Recorder > application should be your first point of call. The Recorder can capture > a complete screen or a screen region, which you can select by dragging a > region on screen at the start of the recording. You can control the > initial recording to an impressive degree, managing frame rate and > colour depth as well as controlling the codec that will be used to > encode the output video. One minor gripe about the Recorder is that it > can record only from Windows' primary monitor; if you are running dual > video cards, or a video card with dual outputs, you will be able to > record only from one of your screens. > > <snip) > > Full article at > > http://tinyurl.com/dys8v > > http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/09/08/177226.shtml?tid=131&tid > =75 > > -- > Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro > http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro > http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html > > "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
