Need some "creative help"

Cindy R

Member Location: Louisiana, USA Joined: Feb 27, 2007 16:34 Messages: 124 Offline

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Mar 20, 2011 14:15

I know this will be very elementary to many of you, but I need some direction on how yall create your screen shot video tutorials. I have 2 questions:

1. All of my projects thus far have been importing photos and videos from outside sources so I'm confused on how you create the videos using the information from the screen. I do have a webcam if that is how it is done but don't know how to use it in this type of project.

2. I know many people saw the youtube christmas video that had several titles but was basically "if Facebook was around when Jesus was born". I'd like to create a story video using the Facebook idea that this video used but don't even know where to start. Are there templates out there that would make this easier? Or do I do some kind of screen capture?

Any advice would be helpful. I'm very familiar with PD and use it often, but I just don't get the concept of how to create these projects.

Thanks,
Cindy R

Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Mar 20, 2011 14:29

Hi Cindy,
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/15813.page
might help.
Dafydd

Bubba in TX

Senior Contributor Location: Central Texas Joined: Dec 12, 2009 21:32 Messages: 1332 Offline

Mar 20, 2011 17:12

We use a screen capture program.

I use Microsoft expressions (free but has limitations) and another competing video companies screen capture software. But primarily Microsoft's, because it integrates the audio better if you use it. (voice-over) It has more steps to get to you final video but it is worth it and saves it as a wmv file.

None of them are simple to use,,, there is a learning curve with each of them..

Filename	ScreenCapture_3-20-2011 2.14.54 PM.wmv	Download
Description
Filesize	1099 Kbytes
Downloaded:	623 time(s)

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Cindy R

Member Location: Louisiana, USA Joined: Feb 27, 2007 16:34 Messages: 124 Offline

Mar 21, 2011 06:51

Thanks for the tips! I'll give it a try, but YUCK . . . another "learning curve!"

Cindy