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4 Ways to Make Videos from Computer Screen

Making a video from computer screen comes to be popular. We can find incalculable videos on video sharing website like YouTube. The data shows that in January 2008 alone, nearly 79 million users had made over 3 billion video views on YouTube. Lots of users are keen on making software tutorial and sharing them online. Software vendors/providers are making demos from computer screen to initiate the sales cycle and improve marking ROI. Website master are looking for the solution to promote the website features and reduce customer service costs, usually they would record compelling guide demos of the website operations to enhance user experience.
So, do you have an effective way to make video from your computer screen? Here we will discuss 4 ways to make video from computer screen.
1.Record your computer screen with a camera.
This is not a good idea. I saw questions like this for several times on Yahoo! Ask: How to record my computer screen with a camera? I would like to record things happened on my screen with a camera. But the video come out is blurring. To record the computer screen with a camera, you have to settle your camera in the precisely right position in front of your computer screen, and the recording size is just the full screen or part of the screen. It means that you have to sit on an uncomfortable place to do the operation. To tell the truth, it is a thankless task. And the recording quality is hard to be accepted.

2. Record your computer screen with Camstudio.
As a free streaming video software application, it is able to record both screen activity and audio on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).

There are some easy tips to show you to make a recording with Camstudio. (1)Launch Camstudio. To start recording, click the red button. A rectangle will appear for you to select the area you want to record. (2)When you want to stop recording, click the blue stop button. A dialog will appear for you to name and save the file. (3)To pause a recording to adjust your screen, click the pause button. You can resume recording by clicking on the red record button again. (4)To record directly to Flash, simply click the button to toggle the recording mode to Record to SWF. you may proceed in the same way as you record an AVI file. 3. Record your computer screen with DemoCreator

DemoCreator creates the powerful animated software video tutorials and website demos just by three steps: Record, Edit and Publish. Just download DemoCreator and have it installed. Step 1:Set up the recording area and recording mode to record
This allows you to define the area of the screen that you want to record. DemoCreator offers 3 capture area style for you to choose from: Application, Custom Size, and Full Screen. And there are recording mode for you to select: Take Screen Shots or Full Motion Recording. DemoCreator supports the audio recording. You can choose to record narration along with video recording or rerecord the narration after the video recording. After the setting, press the Record button to start your recording.

Step 2: Edit your recording slides (optional)
When finishing the recording, you can go to edit the recording slides. To achieve the result you want. You can add music, narration, annotations, images, interactivities and even animations to enhance your recording, thus making the demos more animated and interactive.

Step 3: Publish as the format you like
Click Publish button to publish the video format you like. This screen recorder enables users to publish the tutorial video for diverse uses, such as SWF for Web sharing, AVI for Youtube, elearning course, Autorun CD, Standalone EXE and E-mailing conveniently. Furthermore, you may export a certain frame as an image.

4. Have Autodemo done it for you.
Demos are online communication tools that help e-businesses showcase the features and functionality of their software applications and websites, most are enhanced videos recorded from screen. Founded in 1998, Autodemo(TM) is the leading developer of software and web demos.Autodemo's clients include Amazon, Cnet Networks, Forbes, Microsoft, NYTimes.com, 3M, Quest Diagnostics and Yahoo!
This company announces that they harness the best technology - Flash - to deliver compelling content to the widest audience possible. Complemented with JavaScript for browser-specific functionality and database driven forms, they provide an elegant and comprehensive solution.
If you are going to make stunning website demos or software demos, and there is enough budget, go and contact Autodemo.
Advantages and Disadvantages:
Obviously, using a camera to make a video from computer screen is not practical.
If you just want to record a simple video from screen, Camstudio is nice for you. The flaw is that the output Flash video is not for further editing. This will cause some inconvenience. For example, a "Redirect to URL" button at the end of the movie is very helpful. You can record a video demonstrating a product or service and then redirect the viewer through your affiliate link so they can immediately buy! This can increase your conversion rate!
DemoCreator is a professional screen recorder, and more a screen recorder. The powerful editing feature makes it easy to make a wonderful demo for website or software. DemoCreator can automatically add annotations (such as highlights and balloons) when recording computer screen. And it also enables users to add more interactive elements to the screen capturing movies manually. You can add the URL you want to redirect at any part of your screen recording. Another shining point is the integration of multiple screen recording scenes, which let you reuse the screen recording projects readily. DemoCreator is a commercial software, but the function and quality of this software do deserve the reasonable price.
Autodemo is the leading developer of software and web demos. You can check the great demos on their website. Contact them and they will work with you on the implementation and distribution of your demo so that it has a good chance of impacting your target audience. The problem could be the money, the time and the way of cooperation.

Posted at 06:10PM Nov 23, 2008 by Chinier Fu in presentation  |  Comments[3]