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OT: Video Recording

What's the best program to use to record your PC screen as you perform various operations? **

I'm considering creating a few tutorial videos.

** I hear that camstudio is nice _EXCEPT_ it also installs lots of rogue crap ?? ...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson
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Manycam

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I don't have it but I know someone who does and they like it alot.

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jurb6006

Two nasty questions:

1) Since it s a fact tat there is o such thing as a free lunch, where do they get their funding, and how much malware is in the software package? 2) What abuot screen capture to HD?
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Robert Baer

I looked at their site. They have a limited version that is free and a $25 full featured version. I would expect they try to avoid malware as that is not the way to win friends and influence people.

Dan

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dcaster

ShareX is free/open source

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Have not tried it yet.

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Spehro Pefhany

Just found this one...

...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson

How do you define "malware"? What could they be installing other than the app that *isn't* malware really?

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Rick
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rickman

What i hate is a site that pretends to have , and dozens of "download here" type of buttons, all prominent and non-relevant. Then when you manage to find the correct hidden button, it is NOT the program,but a F-ing DOWNLOADER! And _then_ that damn downloader first nags for 3-8 programs to install,and once in a while one must say "yes" to bypass. Examples like "Free PC check!", "Your PC has 237 errors,fix them NOW!", "Use our MUMBLE toolbar to increase your productivity!",etc ad nauseum.

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Robert Baer

It came highly recommended and I know someone who uses it. I THINK it is al so still installed on my basement PC. I do not just recommend software off the top of my head if I have no experience with it. I don't have much with this, but it did not seem to screw anything up.

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jurb6006

For that I can send you an old copy of Paintshop Pro that doesn't respect a nything. Problem is any screen capture is limited by your screen resolution of course. But the prog is so small that without the help files (which wil l not work in a modern OS anyway) would fit on a floppy disk.

There is one problem with the dumb SOB, it does JPG files but not JPEG, whi ch are the same thing, so you might have to rename some, and it does not ha ndle GIFs. But whaddya want for nothing ?

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jurb6006

I don't know what you do but I do service. There is a site called "electrotanya" that hosts a whole lot of service manuals for free. I am a member but can't do anything there because it is in Serbian or some shit. So I am limited to two downloads a day.

The page to get the print has all kinds of banners n shit. They are made to look like the download link but they are not.

The download link is down in text under the preview and says "processing", which means they are just being a prick making you wait. After like a minute that test changes to "get manual" and THAT is the download link.

Every other thing on there is for different PDF readers n shit, and I am sure each one of them has plenty of toolbars for you so that next time on the web, your browser screen is only an inch high.

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jurb6006

I don't bother with hating sites like these. I just stay the hell away from them. I don't use downloaders. If the program I downloaded can't work without a network connection, it is deleted.

There is *no* program that is so important to have that I should overlook basic security and load malware. In my book malware is any program that I don't want on my computer for any reason.

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Rick
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rickman

Windows Media Encoder is bullshit free. Get it from microsoft.com, but good luck locating it there. Do not get it from another site.

I have version 9 installed, not sure if they updated it or not.

You record your screen activity, then encode it to the bitrate and quality you need to share it.

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Cydrome Leader

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the free version puts a small un-obtrusive title in the lower left corner of the frame...

seems a fair tradeoff for being a free program.

Mark

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makolber

On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 18:12:27 +0000 (UTC), Cydrome Leader Gave us:

Best thing to do is get on youtube and simply watch some "how-to" videos, and when you see one formatted the way you like, contact the maker and ask what was used to make it.

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

Since others have already pointed to some good software, I'll add the Ninite site. It packs most known free software unbundled of crap sometimes one would find silently opted in on installers. They accept suggestions for software to add, which is great.

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asdf

YEs, CNET.. Be careful....

Jamie

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M Philbrook

Sadly, Cnet is not alon. As of today all known free download sites bundle crap with software.

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The only way to avoid getting the PC filled with junk is to download only from each software official site (this applies to drivers too).

...unless is the producer itself that wants to bundle junk with their stuff.

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Luckily Flash is dying fast.

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asdf

Well, all WINDOWS download sites :)

A possible alternative is ninite.com (which downloads from official sites AFAIK).

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John Devereux

Heh, Linux user since 1997 here but sometimes one is forced to use the crappy OS. Luckily a few months ago I got rid of the last native Windows install and now all windows software, when needed, run in a virtualbox machine with no access to important data. The nice side effect is that I can move a VM say from a desktop PC to a laptop to bring it around with me, backup it entirely or clone it before trying software I do not trust, etc. All stuff that Microsoft would never allow.

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asdf

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