David Guest wrote: > Tim Churches wrote: >> Simon James wrote: >> >>> I've come across a lot of screen recorded product demonstrations and >>> tutorials lately and was wondering if anyone had any strong views on which >>> is better. >>> >>> The two contenders seem to be Adobe Captivate and Camtasia Studio. >>> >> I've been using Camtasia and it works very well, is easy to use and has >> lots of features if you want to get fancy. And I just love the hippo in >> a tutu. Oh, wait, that's Fantasia. >> >> Tim "Antonioni" C >> > In the open source world use may use vnc2swf > (http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/) or Tim may prefer the python > version (http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/pyvnc2swf.html) which > will also work on Windows. (I haven't used the latter.) > > I've also used HyperCam on Windows which was quite good but not free.
Alas, the open source solutions (and there are several others, including one which runs in X windows environments) are very fiddly to set up and the results so inferior that I think this is one case in which one should bypass open source solutions and actually pay for some software. I'm not alone in this opinion, it seems: Jon Udell, the noted IT journo who harks back to the days of Byte magazine (remember that) thinks so too: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2004/11/11/primetime.html On that page he does mention Windows Media Encoder, which is free (or installable for free) with Windows XP. I tried it and although it has very few features, it works OK and the movies it produces are small and of high quality. However, you can only view them using Windows, and only a fairly recent version of Windows with every update known to Bill Gates loaded on it - rather a limiting factor. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
