Screencasting Tips and Tricks
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Record Computer Screen to Flash Movie

When you finish your screen recordings, what format you would like to distribute? This depends on you purpose of your screen recording. If they are software demos that you would like everybody to watch them online, or they are some software tutorials you want them shared on the web, distributing your screen recordings as Flash movies, or we can say publish your screencasts as SWF files with Html page is a good idea. DemoCreator enable you to make clear Flash movies from computer screen, and there is more control over the viewing experience when your screen recordings are played back. We can learn more why publishing Flash movie SWF file for your screen recording.

The Flash movie format SWF (originally standing for "Shockwave Flash", later changed to "Small Web Format") a partially open repository for multimedia and especially for vector graphics. Intended to be small enough for distribution on the web, SWF files can contain animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function.

SWF currently functions as the dominant format for displaying "animated" vector graphics on the Web. The SWF file format delivers vector graphics, text, video, and sound over the Internet and is supported by Adobe Flash Player. From the systematic, Flash Player already reaches over 98% of Internet-enabled desktops and more than 800 million handsets and mobile devices.

Generate SWF files from DemoCreator

1. Preserve the interactive objects

Publishing the screen recordings as Flash movie can preserve the interactive objects you edited in the movies. You can add some interaction buttons (like Stop and Continue) in your recordings to enhance your training effort. At the end of the movie, the SWF files can be set to Loop Demo or Go to URL.

2. Customize the player

There are two built-in players in DemoCreator: Classic style and Active style. You can select to show the player you like or not to show the player, or just show the necessary buttons on the player. Further more, the transparence the player is changeable in DemoCreator.

3. Compression

SWF files published by DemoCreator are compressed by default setting. They are small in size and easy to share to all.

4. For web sharing.

Publishing as a Flash movie and generate Html files to be uploaded to web server can be accessed by web browsers. And you can embed the Flash movie to your web page to play your screencast.

Steps to publish SWF movie

When finishing screen recording, follow steps given below to make a Flash movie using DemoCreator:

1. Click the Publish button on the main menu, and you can see the publish option window.

2. Select Flash, you can add the title and change the publishing directory. And you can choose to publish Html page for you SWF files or not.

3. Click the Publish button, and go to the publishing process.

4. After a few minutes(it depends on the length of recording and your computer), a pop-up dialog window will show you publishing completed and you can view your recording in Flash player or Internet browser.

Now that the Flash movie is generated, you can upload it to web server to play on the web or you can email it to your friends for technical support.

Posted at 11:23PM Jun 01, 2009 by Chinier Fu in Software  |  Comments[30]