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Dewitt Robinson
467 PointsVideo Screen Capture
I am enrolled in the marketing courses under the "Business" section. My personal project is to create a video based course. Does anyone have any recommendations for affordable, user-friendly screen capture tools? Also, any platforms to create user friendly video based courses?
7 Answers
Tessa Davis
4,152 PointsI use screenflow - costs $80 and is ace.
Gareth Redfern
36,217 PointsScreen flow is excellent http://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm
You might want to watch to watch this screencast from Chris Coyier on how he does his screencasts and the tools he uses. I found it really useful.
http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/63-on-screencasting/
Alex Hedley
16,381 PointsI use Screenflow and it's great Checkout @ComboCasting for some great tuts
There is also Camtasia http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html Paid
For Windows - Free Cam Studio http://camstudio.org/
I'm sure the full version of Expression Studio from MS has video capture
You can also get the full version of QuickTime which has added capture options
Dan Gorgone
Treehouse Guest TeacherCamtasia is the one I personally use and recommend. It's great for recording screencasts and provides basic editing tools with a handful of simple FX. Screenflow is very similar from what I understand, too.
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project ReviewerCamtasia is also offered for free on a lot of University websites (if you're a student of course). Just putting it out there.
Dewitt Robinson
467 PointsThank you everyone. I am trying Camtasia.
Dan Gorgone
Treehouse Guest TeacherOne more thing: I wrote a Treehouse blog post about this subject last week, and thought I'd share it here in case you guys wanted to comment and add your own thoughts and suggestions as well. Thanks for sharing your insight, everyone!