[Web4lib] Screen captures to flash

[David Whelan]

I've used Camstudio, which does a good job and is free.  You designate the 
part of your desktop to be recorded and it places it into a video file 
(.avi?).  Then it enables you to convert it over to Flash.  It's a bit 
clunky, but the basics are easy enough to figure out.  I found the video 
files easier to work with than video + audio; I couldn't get the latter's 
file size down small enough, although I'm sure it could be done by someone 
more knowledgeable and patient.

A product not on that list is Adobe's Captivate, which I've heard a lot of 
good things about (http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/).  This 
article in the latest Law Library Journal compares  Captivate and 
Camtasia, another product on the list you linked to ("Tools for Creating 
Video Tutorials" 
http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_llj_v99n04/2007-53.pdf ).

Good luck!  David.

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David P. Whelan
Manager, Legal Information
Great Library
Law Society of Upper Canada
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Toronto, Ontario  M5H 2N6
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I am in the early stages of planning a new project.  What I want to do
is create some flash videos for short little tutorial segments (i.e. how
to take a picture from the Internet, paste it into Word and compress it
so our printers can handle it).  I did a Google search on software to
help me with this, and came across this list:
 
http://www.swftools.com/tools-category.php?cat=929
 
Does anybody have any experience (good or bad) with any of these or
other packages like this?
 
Thomas Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library
 


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