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bStro wrote on 1/4/2008, 10:09 AM
You could see if Techsmith is still giving away an old version of Camtasia Studio.

Rob
jvincent wrote on 1/4/2008, 11:51 AM
Hi Rob,
Thaks a lot, offer expires January 7th !!!.
TGS wrote on 1/4/2008, 12:58 PM
Just be aware, it records .avi UNcompressed. If you set it to full frame rate (30fps is as close as you can get to 29.97) it will eat lots of harddrive space. Uncompressed is about 90 + Gigabytes per hour
Although, somebody else said you could also use mp4, but that option didn't come up for me.
bStro wrote on 1/4/2008, 4:22 PM
Tools > Options > Streams tab

Uncheck "Auto configure"

Click "Video Setup" and choose a different compressor.

Rob
Jeff_Smith wrote on 1/4/2008, 7:09 PM
A comment on the download page says that the free version 3 freezes up on his dual core PC, I did quick test and it seems to work fine. You can then get half price on the current version5, seems like a great deal. Anyone had any problems with the free version?
TomE wrote on 1/4/2008, 10:07 PM
Another way to grab video off your screen is if you have a dual head card with a video out (S Video) I hook it into my Canopus ADVC 300 and then to my Camcorder Via firewire and record onto DV tape. You can get pretty decent results depending on your card. (not suggesting you do this but you could grab 3d stuff from a first person shooter game for instance -- cheap 3d backgrounds for you to chroma key over just for laughs)


TGS wrote on 1/4/2008, 10:53 PM
The options available to me from the 'streams' tab are:

Cinepak codec by Radius
Helix 1420 YUV Codec
Intel Indeo(R) Video R3.2
Intel Indeo (R) Video 4.5
Intel IYUV codec
Microsoft Video 1
Indeo video 5.10
VP60 Simple Profile
VP61 Advanced Profile
VP62 Heightened Sharpness Profile
DebugMode FWVFWC (internal use)
CineForm HD Codec V2.5
Helix YV12 YUV Codec
TechSmith Screen Capture Codec
DivX 6.8 Codec (2 Logical CPUs)
Full Frames (Uncompressed)

The DivX codec was another new install freebie mentioned here a couple of weeks back.
I couldn't tell you what most of those codecs listed above mean. I recognize from 'DebugMode' on down

Apparently, the TechSmith Screen Capture is compressed, but it still took 1 1/2 Gigabytes to film a 30 fps exact window sized Utube video lasting 6 minutes

The Camtasia (TechSmith Screen Capture) looks fine and grabbed the audio from my soundcard too. I only plan to convert it to mpeg or wmv anyway, so the initial recording is erased afterwards. I was also able to edit it in Vegas.

I haven't tried recording full screen yet, but the window size recording worked really good on my AMD dual core.
alfredsvideo wrote on 1/4/2008, 11:50 PM
Slightly OT, but I downloaded a later dated version of Google Earth. It was BZXD.exe and my computer crashes on program start-up each time. I haven't bothered with my older version for some time, so I don't know whether it also would have caused a crash. Any ideas?
Udi wrote on 1/5/2008, 12:38 AM
You can try AviScreen
http://www.bobyte.com/AviScreen/index.asp

It works fine for me.

Udi
jvincent wrote on 1/5/2008, 2:58 AM
Many thanks to all for these informations
LReavis wrote on 1/5/2008, 11:15 AM
can google earth captures be used legally?
bStro wrote on 1/5/2008, 11:33 AM
I Googled "google earth copyright" and the first result was this:

"You can personally use an image from the application (for example on your website, on a blog or in a word document) as long as you preserve the copyrights and attributions including the Google logo attribution. However, you cannot sell these to others, provide them as part of a service, or use them in a commercial product such as a book or TV show without first getting a rights clearance from Google."

The page has a link to a form for requesting permission for commercial use. I've no idea if there are any fees involved.

Rob
jvincent wrote on 1/7/2008, 4:21 AM
All that is very complex, because i don't think Google is the owner of the pics, images come from institutes like NASA. Google is the program Google Earth owner but not the pics owner.
Warren Hedges wrote on 1/10/2008, 1:49 AM
try WorldWind from NASA. AFAIK the images are royalty free and it comes with "movie recorder" plugin where you can animate movement and record it as a series of still images

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
daryl wrote on 1/10/2008, 8:13 AM
I tried all of the above, each had quirks. Now I simply shoot the monitor with my camera, quick, easy, smooth.
LReavis wrote on 1/10/2008, 1:23 PM
I, too, use Worldwind; all the images are from NASA and may be used freely, but only if proper attribution is included (no problem). However, the images are not nearly as sharp as those that now are in Google Earth (I think they get the sharp images from the EU satelite - perhaps the US satelite photos are intentionally blurry, for security purposes - but I'm not certain about that). I tried their animation plugin a year or so ago, but didn't have great luck; can't remember the details.

I capture moving images using Camtasia; if you do that, you'll need a steady hand as you rotate/move the images with the mouse.