What are you guys using for screen capture?

OnTheWeb1

Contributor Location: Michigan USA Joined: Jan 02, 2009 12:58 Messages: 511 Offline

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Nov 08, 2009 18:15

I'd been using CamStudio, but its unpredicatable/unstable as all get out.

Camtasia is cost prohibitive... ($300)

Snagit looks like it has some basic video capture abilities, but when I customize the codec to get decent screen resolution it cranks out some Giganormous files

I just found out about Jing, but it is limited to 5 minutes even with the pro version, otherwise its pretty cool and has h.264.

What do you guys use for screen scraping video and tutorials?

I'm about to go back to pointing my webcam at the screen. Win8 64-bit Pro Retail
Intel i7-4770
16GB DDR3 1600 8-8-8-24
MSI Z87-G45 Motherboard
ASUS GTX 660 Direct CU II OC 2GB GPU
1 TB RAID 1 (mirrored) Drive Array
Several scratch drives for video, TMP, pagefile.

RobertJ/OZ

Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne Australia Joined: Aug 14, 2006 02:26 Messages: 1209 Offline

Nov 08, 2009 18:33

G'day,

Dafydd, myself and a lot of other users, use ScreenVirtuoso Pro for screen capture, it costs about $39 for the Pro version, try it out, I think you can use it for 30 days before purchasing.

http://www.screenvirtuoso.com/

Robert

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BarryTheCrab

Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Nov 06, 2008 22:18 Messages: 6240 Offline

Nov 08, 2009 20:56

I do not have a separate video card, so I capture with Utipu Tipcam.
Tipcam can hi-lite the cursor, zoom, annotate, record audio, and even get the elusive preview screen for PD.
Records AVI or FLV.
If you have a slower computer ( see my specs) use FLV, and recode using Pazera.
The free version has a watermark, but it's quite small and in the corner and does not get in the way.

http://www.utipu.com/app/download HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
Nvidia GTX 960(4GB)/16GB DDR3/
Canon Vixia HV30/HF-M40/HF-M41/HF-G20/Olympus E-PL5.
Tape capture using 6 VCR, TBC-1000, Elite BVP4+, Sony D8 camcorder with TBC.
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Con_K

Newbie Joined: Feb 10, 2008 19:19 Messages: 31 Offline

Nov 10, 2009 02:03

Hi,

I use Debut Video Capture and it has been stable, is very efficient for file sizes and extremely good quality.

I mainly use it to capture webinars and it has faithfully captured all types of streams and videos.

There are 2 versions - one is free and there is also a Pro version, available at:

http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/

Cheers
Con Windows 7 - i7 860, 8Gb RAM, 2 x 1 TB HDD, GTS 250 1Gb Video