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How to Make Movie of AE Session?
HI,
I need to record the screen of an After Effects sequence I’m working on to serve as an instructional movie. I’ve seen it done here, but have never done it. Would someone recommend the best way to do this?
Thanks for your help,
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
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Look in the sticky at the top of the posts page, or search the COW for “camtasia” or “podcast”.
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Hi Steve,
I searched both “camtasia” and “podcasts,” but got nothing concerning my question. I wasn’t sure of what you meant by “the sticky at the top of the post page.”
Thanks,
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
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At the top of the main page for the AE COW, there should be a little box with 2 sticky posts, one of which is “common after effects questions” …?
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The “sticky” at the top of the page is the little green/grey (maybe I am colorblind…) box with the highlighted text that says “Common After Effects Questions…”
Camtasia is a program that will do screen captures. It’s pretty intuitive if you’ve worked with NLE applications; it mimics their UI’s to an extent – drop and drag kind of stuff. You can also do simple animations to highlight or call out portions of the screen that you might want to call attention to.
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Thanks for the help. Is there a Mac based alternative to Camtasia?
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
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Camtasia is great software for capturing screens and exporting them to a
movie in lots of different formats. Camtasia Studio also lets you edit your video, zoom in an out of sections, add captions etc from within Camtasia itself. It’s not free though but I would say definitely worth it if you’re planning to do alot of tutorials. A freeware software called Camstudio: https://www.camstudio.org/ is also available, this is pretty good for free software but your going to have to edit your finished tutorial in a NLE or even in After Effects itself. Camtasia Studio is available here:https://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp?CMP=KgoogleCShome
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Not sure about a Mac-based solution. We capture using camtasia on the PC and export it as a quicktime file, then edit on our FCP stations.
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A Macintosh alternative is Screen Record:
https://www.macgold.co.uk/products/10555.shtml
Or Screenography:
https://www.verticalmoon.com/products/screenography/screenography.htm
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I’ve always been partial to Snapz Pro myself, just a loyal Ambrosia SW fan =)
https://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA
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