Computer/Video Gurus

[AggieHunter]

I'm sure most of yall have seen this at some point or another. But lets say you're looking for an online tutorial for some computer program (ie ArcGIS or Photoshop). When you find the tutorial, many times what you see is a persons monitor and every step they did along the way. Like they hit a record button on their computer and it recorded everything on their monitor as they went through the steps.....

How would one go about doing this. Is there something that needs to be downloaded to record, or is there a feature already on most computers that allows you to do this?

[Shadow]

There are a ton of different capture tools on the market for this. Some are flash and some will create avi's etc....

google "computer screen recorder" and you'll get the idea.

A good one to start with is Adobe Captivate http://tryit.adobe.com/us/captivate/?sdid=DYEYJ

[Zen Archery]

I'm sure most of yall have seen this at some point or another. But lets say you're looking for an online tutorial for some computer program (ie ArcGIS or Photoshop). When you find the tutorial, many times what you see is a persons monitor and every step they did along the way. Like they hit a record button on their computer and it recorded everything on their monitor as they went through the steps.....

How would one go about doing this. Is there something that needs to be downloaded to record, or is there a feature already on most computers that allows you to do this?

for apple computers there's a free software called IShowU microsoft I have no idea???

[JLively]

I use Camtasia at work.

http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.as...FQkiagodD3YlCg

A less expensive alternative can be found here.

http://www.camstudiopro.com/

[AggieHunter]

A good one to start with is Adobe Captivate http://tryit.adobe.com/us/captivate/?sdid=DYEYJ

I use Camtasia at work.

http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.as...FQkiagodD3YlCg

Wow... Thought there might be some simple/free stuff out there.

Thanks for the info so far... I'll start to check google.

[rjet]

Just do a print screen and paste it into a word document

[AggieHunter]

Just do a print screen and paste it into a word document

Yeah, but I'm looking to record into video format. And over an extended period of time... Some of which I may not be at the computer.

[JLively]

I usually go for higher quality software for work. There are some free alternatives try these three.

http://wisdom-soft.com/products/auto...order_free.htm

http://camstudio.org/

http://www.nbxsoft.com/screen-recorder.php

[AggieHunter]

Freeware Thats what I'm talkin about.... For what I'm doing I don't need quality. Just something that works.

[wbhinton]

Just do a print screen and paste it into a word document

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but paste it MS Paint and you can crop out what you want and then copy and paste it again.

free, easy and free