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Screen capture software that gives quality results in Vegas or any NLE needed
Hello,
I am in need of a program that can do screen capture for creating software tutorials, or website tutorials – other than Camtasia or SnagIt.
Camtasia and SnagIt do not save the resulting video in a useable format for use in any other NLE. It appears that one is locked into using Camtasia only, as the output from that program cannot be rendered through any other NLE due to apparently very high compression? (or is it a codec issue?)
I have found Adobe Captivate and Microsoft Expressions both save only to their proprietary format (or .flv, in the case of Adobe), which is unreadable by Vegas.
Has anyone managed to solve this dilemma with screen capture software and using Vegas?
Thank you!
Crystal -
15 Replies
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Hypercam2 is free, works under windows 7, 32bits and 64bits and the captured avi (e.g. lagarith lossless) can be used in Vegas.
Theo
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Camtasia is very good to me…. you can set the resolution and you have the codec once the program is installed…. and you can render your video capture once in vegas to any format you like, including HD….
good luck
Enrique Orozco R.
iDEA DigitalVideoStudio -
Interesting. I have Camtasia installed and the exported avi file was horrible in Vegas. Looked great as a stand-alone, but would not render well at all, even in 320x 🙁
Odd… I have had the same problem on 3 different computers. Snagit and Camtasia files refuse to be useful to me. I would if XP is the problem?
I have just installed HyperCam2. I am looking forward to finally having something that works well with Vegas as I keep getting asked to do screencast tutorials, and have had to turn them down due to lack of decent software. I wonder if what I am typing is being recorded… 🙂
Thank you!
Crystal -
Thank you, Theo!
I have the program installed now, but I am very puzzled.
It appears to record something, tells me how many frames, none dropped, but when I click Play nothing happens. And I cannot find a SAVE button. It says it is free to download and the demo version puts a watermark on the AVI, which is fine. But how do I play or save an AVI to even see if this is a program I want to buy?
Since you have used this program, can you enlighten me as to what I am missing? Where does it play? “Save” is not even in the help file.
Thank you!
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‘Since you have used this program, can you enlighten me as to what I am missing? Where does it play? “Save” is not even in the help file.
The latest version of hypercam can be integrated in the toolbar of internet explorer. Then it is free and fully functional (no cross or something like that!).’
I render to the lagarith lossless codec, which works fine in Vegas.Download the lagarith codec:
https://www.free-codecs.com/download_soft.php?d=5303&s=331
After starting Hypercam, you can select a window or an area to capture. Select the filename, framerate and codec you want to use. Give your settings for the audio. Then just press START REC.
A commercial version of hypercam is now also available:
https://www.solveigmm.com/?Products&id=HyperCam
Theo
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Interesting. I have Camtasia installed and the exported avi file was horrible in Vegas. Looked great as a stand-alone, but would not render well at all, even in 320x 🙁
You are obviously doing something wrong. I use Camtasia with Vegas all the time and the results excellent. See for yourself: (watch it in HD on YouTube)
Ultimate S Photo Montage Tab Training
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Camtasia may be in there somewhere for a few seconds, but most of the 1/2 hour was spent on Ultima S creating still photo montages. Did I miss something? Is Camtasia aimed at still photos? I have been assuming that it is a video capture program.
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Did I miss something?
Yes, you missed the fact that the video was captured with Camtasia and that the quality is very good. Sorry if you thought the video was “about” Camtasia, it is not. The original poster was complaining that Camtasia gave very poor output when used with Vegas and I was showing that it certainly does not. All of our VASST tutorials are captured with Camtasia and edited with Vegas Pro.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com -
Hello,
Thank you, I finally figured where my capture was saved, but I had to use Windows Search to find it. It saves automatically to wherevery it wants, not to where I told it to save…and there is no SAVE button.
The instructions here are all that is available on their site or on the program. They do not explain that there is no save button, nor does it say what happens when you click PLAY after recording. So far, I have not gotten any capture to PLAY when I click the play button.But now that I know where to find the file, I can just watch it in Vegas, and it is extremely good, I can zoom in quite nicely, and it renders out perfectly!
The totally free version is on the developers website. The Cnet Version is a demo and slightly older even though it was posted in March this year.
Thank you for Hypercam2!
I can now bid on software tutorial jobs with confidence that they will look great!Sincerely,
Crystal
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