I want to start making some video tutorials where parts of the screen are grabbed, animated with highlighting etc…
What are some tools we are using to do this?
I use
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Adobe Captivate
http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/ -
Techsmith Camtasia
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
Free tool:
http://camstudio.org/
long camtasia / soundcard rant
I’d like to play around with some capturing as well, but encounter problems doing so in camtasia, due to my Echo Indigo I/O soundcard.
I can’t set it up in renoise to record the audio in camtasia. I only record silence on the audio front, but the screen is captured fine. The indigo drivers seem program dependent; in that you can’t share the same channels. There also isn’t a ‘mix’ feature/slider in the soundcards virtual console (=soundcards mixer settings). Such a slider would also be helpful when recording its own output in a wave editor…(For example: this is the reason I can’t easily record audio from a youtube video, without resorting to obscure recording alternatives/lot of work)
Airing this problem to the echo-devs they recommended me to check out ‘virtual cable’ ( http://www.ntonyx.com/vac.htm ). This is an app that creates virtual cables to be able to route the audio between applications. Although a little fiddly, it works after some buffer tweaking in the settings…
Problem still is an irritating latency on the line-in front, where I’ve connected a microphone. Whenever I speak, the same words bounce back in the headphones about a second later, fucking everything up in the process.
Basically I’m stuck on how to set up my soundcard & camtasia, so if there are any echo indigo users here that have got this to work, please help!
grts
Rico