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Quicktime X, built in Snow Leopard is a convenient tool to produce screencasts !
You're running 10.6 so it's free for you. I guess it won't be hard to record them locally and later integer the videos into the pages with a web based video player (that's what i did) !
I've used it to make basics howtos for my students.
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Yes, a few days ago I published an application for Linux called Screenkey. It's a useful tool to create screencasts, I was inspired by Screenflick for Mac OS and it's based on the key-mon project code.
Here you can watch a demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GqCu0wI-hc
This open source project is hosted on http://launchpad.net/screenkey and anyone is ...
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The best one I've found is Key Status Monitor (KSM). Most other programs only show mouse activity or only keyboard activity, KSM shows both. KSM is an open source GTK+ application used to show live keyboard and mouse status for teaching and screencasts.
you can feed it a ton of different command-line switches for a different display.
For example, using the ...
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1. RecordMyDesktop
You can use RecordMyDesktop which can be setup to capture sound too.
2. Istanbul
Istanbul is a gnome app to record your desktop
3. Screentoaster
You can also use screentoaster which is an online service that is platform independent and relies on java. (It works a treat.)
4. VLC
You can pre-record the sound and then use VLC by going
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What you're looking for is a program called Camouflage. From the home page:
Do you have way too many items on your desktop? Do you hate cleaning up that mess? Camouflage is the right utility for you. It hides all the icons and leaves nothing but the pure wallpaper.
It goes in the menu bar and you can show and hide icons at your will.
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See this post from Lifehacker.com:
Five Best Screencasting Tools.
The three free ones (links and descriptions in link above):
Jing
CamStudio
Screentoaster
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According to GNOME API doc, the gnome-shell (shell-recorder class) screen recorder is basically pipeline all screenshot output to a pipeline which is then encoded by GStreamer.
You can use your dconf-editor application and navigate to org.gnome.shell.recorder, in this schema you will find 3 options:
file-extension - default on my box to webm
framerate - ...
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Closest thing I can find to off the shelf would be Gabby, but that's going to require Roku box(es). The Linux solution you link to illustrates some of the issues you're up against. True plug 'n chug requires all the functionality in those scripts to be incorporated into a DLNA digital media server. I don't see any with that kind of capability. Hmmmmm, ...
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What distro are you using? I've had success with WebCamStudio under Arch combined with the Livestream web-based "studio." It's been a little while since I've used it, though.
http://www.ws4gl.org/
What are you trying to do exactly? ffmpeg compiled with x11grab can record the desktop. I've had limited success pushing that to Ustream, but again it's been a ...
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VH Screen capture was exactly what I wanted. It comes in a bundle with VH Media studio which lets you mix multiple Webcams, with Picture in picture and fade effects, which was great for what I was trying to do.
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There are a number of programs available to help you create a screencast. As nhinkle mentioned, part of the answer depends on if you're going to do a "live" screencast or if you're going to record this and post a video somewhere for later viewing. I have no experience with the former, so I'll speak to the latter.
There are a number of programs out there for ...
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I believe that Screen Watermark should be able to do the thing that you're looking for. It's available in binary form only for Win64, but source code is available and it's Qt-based so should compile and run on most platforms. Here's an overview from their (sparse) documentation:
Screen Watermark is an application that overlays an image over the desktop
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FFmpeg Open source
Copernicus: Freeware, no sound however
A list of screencast software as well as a comparison of screencast software
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Have you tried using the Android emulator that comes with the SDK? If you can get your app running in the emulator on a PC, then you can use any normal PC video capture app to capture the video happening in the emulator.
See How To Use The Android Emulator
There are quite a few questions on here about how to do screen captures on Windows, see a question ...
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I don't have a Mac, but in my Windows copy of Camtasia this is easy. In Camtasia Studio, after adding the clip to the timeline you right-click and select "Clip Speed". Allows you to set the speed as a percentage of original playback time. You have to produce the movie for the change to take effect.
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Your problems may stem from the fact that you're using a live environment in trying to create your screencasts. Recording video of your screen is going to need a pretty decent priority. The constant interrupts while reading from the CD is likely to make any video recording choppy.
In summary, sorry, you're out of luck, and you're not going to get a smooth ...
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I've used DebugMode Wink on Windows before for screencasting. They also have a linux version. I haven't tried it, but if it's like the windows version, it should be pretty easy to use, and is pretty flexible. It outputs to SWF or a series of PNGs.
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Seriously I've used Windows Movie Maker that is on my Win XP machine and I've really liked it, oh and it's free. Just open the video you've made in Win Movie Maker and there's a channel there where you can add your own music or narrate and that's what I've used to put background music on my vids.
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Some audio drivers, especially those installed by default in Vista/7, don't allow you to record Stereo Mix, i.e. your output, so you might need to find and install another driver (after uninstalling the old one). http://www.stereo-mix.com/ links to downloads for common integrated audio solutions.
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Compression is a natural enemy of Text. Particularly if the text is small. As SevenT2 suggested you should increase the size of your text to make it readable after YouTube compresses it.
You will notice that most YouTube videos wisely fill almost the whole screen with large text, to ensure that it is readable.
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A question has been asked about recording desktop software here: http://superuser.com/questions/201/free-desktop-recording-screencasting-on-windows, look if some of them can record a region of a screen, so you can install it on the main computer and record the window where the remote desktop is showing,
Or simply by installing it on the remote computer ...
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RecordTS, from TSFactory, is a RDP client that can record the remote session. It exports them in AVI and SWF (Flash). It's not very cheap unfortunately.
You might want to look at ObserveIT too. The Xpress version is free.
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I looked a little into the specifications and found that …
recordMyDesktop produces files using only open formats. These are theora for video and vorbis for audio, using the ogg container.
So, it's very likely that OpenShot has troubles parsing that container or either of these codecs. I would try and report a bug with OpenShot nonetheless, but if you ...
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This script shows a mock keyboard which will highlight the key as they're pressed. This is a compiled script that will display what key are being pressed. Both should cover your need. FYI, I found them using 'autohotkey show pressed key' since I remembered autohotkey sample showing the first script. Turns out googling 'show pressed key' will do the trick ...
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Ive had really good experience with FFSplit, have been using it since version 0.4 and it gets better all the time. Its primarily a streaming software for twitch.tv and other services the like, however it does have standalone capture functionality. I use it to stream 1080p to twitch all the time. But you can modify the frame rate, bit rate, resolution all ...
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If you're running Windows 7 then FRAPS does a good job. It's made mostly for games, but you can tell it to record the windows desktop. The downside however is that the files are effectively uncompressed and truly massive. 10 minute of video clocks at around 15GB for 1080p at 30 frames/second. So 4 hours would require about 3.6TB of storage.
However it does ...
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Camstudio should be able to produce much smaller videos. It depends on the video codec used.
Jawor's Xvid codec is often recommended.
But with 4 hours you will probably exceed the 2 GB file size limitation.
I suggest to take a look at Open Broadcaster Software.
It's a very powerful open source recording and broadcasting software and uses the highly ...
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As far as the screenshots go, I have never used the full potential of Shutter http://shutter-project.org/ but it seems like you may find it to be a helpful tool.
As far as putting them together, I don't fully understand what you mean by simple animation, but Openshot http://www.openshotvideo.com/ works great (and very easily) for putting images together ...
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This could be recorded with Quicktime X's Screen Capture functionality (built-in to OS X 10.6), while drawing on a document in any image editor with a brush tool and color palette (ex. Photoshop). The author appears to be scrolling down the document during the lesson. After recording, you could then edit the film in iMovie if necessary (for example, to crop ...
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It's not just one software, but using several to get the effect you want. Look into--
good video editing software (camtasia, kdenlive on linux)
prezi
blender or 3d animation software
inkscape or gimp
*these are mostly Free & open source software (FOSS) as I use them myself.
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