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Need help with a novelty effect
Hello Guys,
I recently saw a demo of a Training Video, where the guys were green-screened,into, and walking around the computer-screen of the program that they were talking about ( it may have been total training video ). They are walking around the menu’s etc. I think it’s a sensational effect !! ( my opinion ).I would like to green-screen myself into my own backgrounds ( screen-shots, say of AE, OR whatever ).
I don’t need help with the green-screening, but only with how to capture my screens.For a ” STILL-CAPTURE ” I tried the PRT/SCN OR SYSRQ button.
Nothing happened. So how do I capture my screen ?For ” MOVING-CAPTURES ” (like when instructional-videos show you the clicking on of menu’s etc ) – how do you do that ? Do you ” film ” the on-screen movements with a camera ? That’s all that I can think of !!
Hope I have explained my questions properly. Thanks for listening, and for any help on stills or moving captures.
Steve
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5 Replies
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Probably found my own answer-Adobe Captivate. Don’t know if it exports as an AVI or MPEG, as I don’t want to interact with the internet, and all that stuff.
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Camstudio can capture your screen into AVI or flash (It’s free), there is also Camtasia that is suppposed to be the best….both of these two also capture sound. I am playing around with Camstudio at the moment, as I plan to do some video podcasts and tutorials in the future.
Mark
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Thanks Mark, I will go try your suggestions.
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I’m probably more of a beginner with AE than you are so I can’t offer any direct help concerning AE and this effect you’re talking about but I can offer some information.
Once you’ve hit print screen the image is saved to your system clip board, just like when you copy and paste something. If you open up a simple image program such as MS paint and hit paste, the image you took will be pasted onto the ‘canvas’ and you can then save it as various forms of image files.
For recording what you see on your monitor I’m almost certain some of the video editing programs have the feature built in to them but I’m not sure on that. However there are numerous ways to record what happens on your screen. There are programs such as fraps which although are designed for games, will record your desktop or another program because that’s what they do. But the way that I record what’s on my screen is a bit long winded and probably seems excessive but it’s what I have to do considering all the particulars.
The method I use is using the ‘clone’ feature on nvida graphics cards (ATI is possible too), this means your pc literally clones what goes down the monitor cable and sends it via the TV-out function found on a variety of graphics cards. This is then sent to a TV-in port using an s-video/composite cable, then you need a program such as iuVCR to receive the signal and record the digital quality footage either compressed or uncompressed depending on your particular situation (my situation was that I wanted to record high quality game footage without CPU lag [uncompressed]).
Now this method isn’t for everyone, and like I said I’m sure some of the video editing programs have this function built in, or there is an easy way, but like I said my situation warranted the method I used.
Hope some of this helped and or someone else can come along and make it a lot more easier for you ;p
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Thanks somethinggrandom,
Gosh, it was fascinating to read your thread. Very clever stuff, that you do -way outa my league. However, I thank you for your time and effort, in responding.
Please have a great day.
With best regards.
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