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How do you make the screen capture video tutorials?

Post by jonas » Wed May 03, 2006 3:55 pm

I've been following along with some screen capture videos to start learning ruby on rails. I like the screen captures turned into the tutorial and want to make my own.

What's your favorite screen capturing video making tool?

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Post by snarkout » Wed May 03, 2006 6:34 pm

checkout vnc2swf
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Post by Judland » Wed May 03, 2006 7:59 pm

I use Wink at the office.

It's free and has version for Linux and Microshaft.

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Great, thanks.

Post by jonas » Wed May 03, 2006 9:32 pm

Thanks guys, I'll check it out. I'm trying to tell someone how to add/edit content on their Joomla site from across the country. A movie will be much better for them. They are not up to a VNC install on their own, this should be great.

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dann's tutorials & vmware

Post by treehead » Thu May 04, 2006 7:41 am

;i've been wanting to do this myself for a while now, so i've looked into it a bit. dann wrote an article a while back called "Creating Animated Screenshots on Linux" for linux gazette. there's also "Flash video screen captures with vnc2swf" by rob reilly, and some show notes from episode 87.

;i'd never heard of wink, i'll have to check it out.

;also, vmware has included a recording feature in their latest version of vmware workstation. not free, but as proprietary goes, vmware is top-notch.

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;i'm interested to know whether this includes the capacity to record or insert voiceovers into your recording. i'd also like to know whether it can record formats other than avi.

;speaking of animated screen captures, i think the flash format is ideal for this. for most applications--such as software demonstrations or tutorials--the audience will be on a computer. i like the fact that the vnc2swf captures don't interpolate the pixels on the screen (i.e., make them "fuzzy"), and i like that you can resize the recording window to capture just a portion of the screen.

;i've been mulling over an idea to create an online school for geeks that would teach computer systems engineering, administration, and programming with and for linux and free software. i think flash demos with voiceovers would be its killer app.

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Dan was in Psychology?

Post by jonas » Thu May 04, 2006 11:20 pm

Interesting. I didn't know that. Contrats to Dan for being able to work at what he enjoys, Linux.

I think I'll try the vnc2flash too. That looks even better after reading Dan's article.

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Re: Dan was in Psychology?

Post by treehead » Fri May 05, 2006 5:38 pm

jonas wrote:--Did you come up with the treehead username after you made the icon or before?
;it's a long story. the short answer is: neither.
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Post by DaveQB » Sat May 06, 2006 9:00 am

What do you all think of xvidcap ??
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Post by Jza » Sun May 07, 2006 7:40 pm

DaveQB wrote:What do you all think of xvidcap ??
I've use it, but is pretty slow.
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Post by DaveQB » Mon May 08, 2006 5:14 am

Tried out Wink and it seems to only export to Flash :(
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Post by Judland » Mon May 08, 2006 8:44 am

Yup, Wink makes .swf formatted presentations.

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Post by Patrick » Tue May 16, 2006 11:23 am

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Post by DaveQB » Tue May 16, 2006 4:35 pm

You got istanbul to actually work ?? I apt-get installed ver 0.1.1 on Kubuntu here.

The icon in the tray shows up, but clicking to start recording see'sCPU go to 100% and icon turn to square. Clicking to stop doesnt do a thing and one needs to kill the process. :(

Shame, as it looks great.
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