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Posted by Graham Davidson
Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points

Can some recommend an Open Source Screencast solution please

Looking for an opensource Screen Capture tool for some tutorials for clients - anyone have any recommendations please

4 Answers

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
9,767 Points

I downloaded 7capture yesterday. It give really good quality screen grabs.

If you want videos...try Fraps. Records in HD.

Graham Davidson
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Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points
Graham Davidson
Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points

Cheers Matthew will give it a whirl

Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer
Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer

Try:

http://camstudio.org/

http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html

http://www.screenr.com/

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

Let me know what you end up going with!

Graham Davidson
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Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points
Graham Davidson
Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points

Hi Ernest

Went with Word in the end :-) wrote out the instructions that I wanted to send to a client for CMS as installing java which most of these need I believe was driving me nuts.

But thank you for the list - much appreciated.

G