Video Tutorials

[Mylenium]

The overlays are realtime and can be toggled in most softwares. You can even assign realtime zooming in some apps to better focus on small inputs. I do my voiceovers post-recording, but if you are a native speaker and have ascript at hand that gives you exact timing, you could do it whil recording. It’s entirely up to you.

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[Mstleger]

Thanks. Is there a way to toggle the overlays in AE? What software do you use to capture the screen action itself?

[Dwaynne]

Camtasia from Techsmith is always good. I know Adobe/MAcromedia had an app that could do it…Captivate, I think (used to be RoboDemo)? https://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/

I’ve heard of TurboDemo and !Quick as well. do a Google search for screen recording. The good

[Steven J casey]

If I remember correctly, Camtasia actually creates an .avi movie of your screen. Captivate takes snapshots everytime you click or type and upon completion you get sort of a powerpoint layout of each screen shot. After finetuning your presentation Captivate will automatically tween the mouse movements, etc. and output as .swf (or other options as well) Both have advantages in how they work so you really should try the demos to see which you prefer.

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[Michael Aikens]

Steven is right.

I use both at work. Both have different intents, both are good within those respects.

For you–> camtasia is the absolute best decision. It does make an avi which can be later compressed. The pointer circle is a selectable option (in both). It does a MUCH better job of reproducing your desktop goings on…b/c thats what its made to do. (lynda.com uses it for all their tuts)

Captivate is much better for demos w/ text and selectable options such as “next” buttons….it outputs to swf, windows projector, etc…just not as good for what I think youre wanting to do

[Mstleger]

Thanks, all. I’ll look into both packages, and of course, I’ll post links to the finished tutorial! The first tutorial will be for roto and paint, because it’s the spackle that fills the seams in vfx work. That, and there are not a whole lot of in-depth tutorials that detail the many approaches to manual matte creation.

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

I record my audio first, and then I use Camtasia to capture the video. It does a good job – I have no complaints.

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