yaniv Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 het there,what is the best way of building web tutorials video, flash or a regular video format (e.g: .wmv, .mpeg, .avi)?thanksyaniv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chocolate570 Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 I suggest you gather all necessary info, like, ALL OF IT, download the free trial of flash for a month, and take all the movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yaniv Posted November 16, 2005 Author Share Posted November 16, 2005 hiim talking about the end-user. what will be more friendly?what will be faster to download? what will support all browsers?and what will be easier for me to build? what tools/programs do i need if i choose to go with a regular video?in the movie i also want to capture the mouse movement (if i click a button)how can this be done?i know its a lot of questions.....but i never done this before and its got to be very proffesionalthanks for your replyyaniv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chocolate570 Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 If you're willing to spend some serious money on this, then you can go buy camtastia studio, which is a program that is like a movie camera for your pc. You can record whatever you're doing and edit and so on.Flash is more user friendly, and all browsers support it(or almost all), but you have to download flash, which most people have. :)Camtastia studio would be much easier to built. You wanna be able to interact with the movie? Then you have to use flash. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yaniv Posted November 17, 2005 Author Share Posted November 17, 2005 hi chocolate570, thanks for your replay,what do you mean " interact with my movie " ?i want to record my voice, capture the screens and the mouse movements.its tutorials for a software that my company developed.so is this can be done with flash?i will open the the software (we developed) and open flash in the background, so it can record everything i do on screen, and it will also record my voice?do you understand what i mean?thankssssssyaniv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LucyS Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 Camtasia Studio is definitely what you're looking for. If you're willing to buy Flash, you may as well buy this - it's not that expensive...It can do a certain amount of interactivity too - quizzing and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohan_har Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 I have Camtasia Studio, it sounds like it was make for what you are doing. It can record the screen, your voice (with a microphone of course) and the sound your computer is outputting. It can also have a live video input eg. digital video camera. Camtasia Studio is about $300 so if you are going to buy it I would think about it first, unless your company is quite big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yaniv Posted November 20, 2005 Author Share Posted November 20, 2005 heyi have the Flash program (but i never used it for such things)i checked Camtasia Studio and it looks like a real cool programis there any way (and hopefully easy) to do what i want with out spending a lot of money?thanksyaniv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snap Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 heyi have the Flash program (but i never used it for such things)i checked Camtasia Studio and it looks like a real cool programis there any way (and hopefully easy) to do what i want with out spending a lot of money?thanksyaniv<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi! I'm not sure but you might be able to use the Fraps program to do this as well,it costs aliot less money i use it to record in the game that i play "Battlefield2" and the sound can be recorded as well! just look up fraps in google! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boen_robot Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Camtasia Studio is truly THE best tool out there and THE easiest. I think there's a trial version of it, so you can just record everything before it expires.Macromedia has an application which uses Flash in order to record and possibly interact with the user. The program is known as Captivate. By "interaction" we mean to make the end-user click on a certain area of the video so something could happen. It's a good thing, but it's not neccesarry you know .By the way, yaniv, would you mind showing us your company's site and possibly the application itself . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agustine Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Use Fraps ! It records things for you and I'm pretty sure it is free. But I may be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boen_robot Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 The free version of FRAPS can only record a video to maximum lenght of 30 seconds. The free AND the comercial version of FRAPS both use a minimal video compression, making the final movie really huge. Even if you can overcome theese difficulties, FRAPS can only record video in full creen applications(games). It's not suitable for making application tutorials if it was even able to do so.[edit] I love SnagIt. It is truly great for making tutorials BUT it's optimized for making screenSHOTS a.k.a. pictures, not videos. In fact, Camtasia Studio and SnagIt are both made by TechSmith, which kind of explains a lot. If looking for screenshots, look no further. SnagIt forever , but for videos... I don't know. I still believe that Camtasia is most appropriate.By the way, yaniv, we're still waiting for a link...[/edit] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miroku Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 The free version of FRAPS can only record a video to maximum lenght of 30 seconds. The free AND the comercial version of FRAPS both use a minimal video compression, making the final movie really huge. Even if you can overcome theese difficulties, FRAPS can only record video in full creen applications(games). It's not suitable for making application tutorials if it was even able to do so.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Try using Snagit! it's a really decent program to use for that stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amorphic8 Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Let me get this right:you've never done this beforeyou want it to be 'very professional'you want it to be 'faster to download'you want it to work in 'all browsers'you want it to be 'hopefully easy'AND you want it to be cheaper than $300?Let me ask: were you able to do this project without re-evaluating your project goals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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