Screen recording software

Hey, does anyone know of a decent program (free if possible) for recording stuff in windows?  I need to record some demos for my mum in case she gets stuck.  Like how to renew the wireless connection and stuff like that 

I downloaded fraps but the UI was so poor I couldn't even get it to start recording (it might have been a bug).

I'm sure there's one popular program, I've seen videos with the same red blink animation when the user clicks the mouse button.

Any ideas?

MS' free utility Windows Media Encoder can record screen activity along w/ sound & saves it as a WMV. Though, you've got to have a degree in Rocket Science to figure it out.

Alternatively, you can use the trial version of SnagIt. It's pretty easy to use.

http://www.techsmith.com/

Site for SnagIt (picture) and Camtasia (video).

I honestly do not get the mentality of someone posting warez here.

I mean, I suppose in China you may think this is acceptable behaviour but for friks sake this is a Microsoft run site - you must understand this is more than frowned on - its straight up theft.

Tensor wrote:

its straight up theft.

It's copyright infringement, not theft.

Oh yeah, well that makes it all right then - forget it.

Detroit Muscle wrote:

Tensor wrote: its straight up theft.

It's copyright infringement, not theft.

IANAL, but technically I don't think it even counts as copyright infringement.

I think the term "unauthorised distribution" or "unlawful distribution" is more accurate.

AviScreen is free, but you can end up with very big AVI files (which you could always convert to DIVX or another format to save space, but that would require another tool).

Captivate, while not free is very good. Bit expensive though.

!Quick Screen Recorder is very cheap.


Try searching alt.comp.freeware. If you can find CamStudio 2.0, that may be for you (it was free and even the source code was available before it was bought by eHelp, became CamStudio 2.1, then RoboHelp, then bought by Macromedia to become Captivate). If you are a registered user of SnapFiles Pro, you can also get it.

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prog_dotnet wrote:

This includes, but is not limited to, child pornography, bestiality incest, illegal drugs, software piracy, and harassment.

Ah, so non-incestral bestiality is okay then?

Now I know why people study "Animal Husbandry" at college..

I just find it odd that someone was hounded off the site for mounting a DOS attack on an open-logon box, and yet hardly anyone blinks when someone uses the site to hawk warez.

Tensor wrote:

I just find it odd that someone was hounded off the site for mounting a DOS attack on an open-logon box, and yet hardly anyone blinks when someone uses the site to hawk warez.

I think its because 90%+ of us are guilty of warezing something in our computing lives.

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"

Tensor wrote:

I just find it odd that someone was hounded off the site for mounting a DOS attack on an open-logon box, and yet hardly anyone blinks when someone uses the site to hawk warez.

I think it's partly because leighsword isn't in here continuously defending her actions as the greatest, most technically accomplished thing she has ever done, while at the same time maintaining it's not against the law or the posted rules of conduct.

But, I suppose W3bbo is right too. Who among us here can truly say they have never pirated software? Very few I would imagine.

Flash Cam allows you to record demonstration or training "movies" using screen captures and outputs to web industry standard streaming flash files that play on almost every browser, including Linux and Mac.

Flash Cam lets you add captions, hilight boxes, images and mp3 recorded audio so you can create corporate product demonstrations, tutorials, eLearning portals or examples. Best of all the process is extremely fast. You can create a movie in under 5 minutes, add voice overs and prompts in 10 and have to streaming on the web in another 5 minutes.

Features:

• Fast and Simple Movie Recording: Just press Print Screen to take each screen capture. Click on the Flash Cam icon to finish.
• Movie Previewing: Just click on the Make button to. Preview using your web browser.
• Quick and Easy Movie Editing: Once you have recorded a movie: Each frame appears as a thumbnail. Double click on a frame to preview it. You can drag and drop the "mouse movements".
• Add or Record Audio (wav/mp3).
• Add Captions. Captions: Add captions to each frame.
• Choose caption background images.
• Choose fade in/fade out transitions.
• Choose font, size and colors.
• Hilight Boxes: Use to bring attention to different areas of a frame.
• Draw coloured transparent boxes.
• Images: Use your own images. Use for splash screens, logos, photos etc.
• MP3 Streaming Audio: Add voice commentry or. Add soundtrack or special effects. Record your own mp3 from a microphone.
• Import wav or mp3 files.
• Simple Movie File Export: Just click on the Movie menu and. Choose Export Flash File (SWF)...
• Streaming or CD Ready: Stream over low bandwidth internet connections. Or distribute movies on CD.
• Customise resolution up to 1024 x 768.

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Tensor wrote:

I honestly do not get the mentality of someone posting warez here.

I mean, I suppose in China you may think this is acceptable behaviour but for friks sake this is a Microsoft run site - you must understand this is more than frowned on - its straight up theft.

I think it's not a shame to me,  Baidu gains from the pirate and became China's biggest Internet search engine, they provides technology for people easier to use their search engine to get illegal softwares, such as MP3 Service,for more see Baidu to appeal Chinese court copyright infringement ruling , the interesting thing is , there is only international corporations(Universal, EMI and Sony BMG) sue Baidu. guess what?Baidu got the government behind them, that's why China always  block their competitor- Google, and most of Chinese college studends are blocked to access Google, the only way to search information from Internet is Baidu(here skiped some small competitors),  do forget to visit the Great Firewall of China.

Alternatively, you could also check out Capture Professional screen capture software to capture images and video from your screen.  There is a 30 -Day trial available which saves to the AVI file format.

-Mark