Richard, you sure about that, this from Hyperionics own site about Hypercam:

"Please note that HyperCam is not intended for re-recording of other video clips from the screen (e.g. playing in Media Player, RealVideo, QuickTime etc.), but rather for creating regular software presentations, tutorial, demos etc. If you still want to try it for re-recording other movie clips, . . ."

What do you think? What does "not intednded" really mean here? Copyright safeguarding OR a physical thing?

Grazie

Hi Grazie. I originally bought hypercam to capture some screen activity for a training video. However I have also used it successfully to capture Media Player visualizations at full DV resolution, and have used these captured files in some music videos (not commercially released and I don't know the copyright position for this situation).

Sometimes there are issues with the video overlay and you capture just a black or purple screen instead of what you want, but you can fix this by changing the amount of hardware acceleration used by Media Player for video playback. (I forget where the adjustment is but it is easy to find.)

So, to answer your question, "not intended" is probably just meant to protect Hyperion in the event that someone tries to sue them for selling a product that can be used to capture copyright material from the screen (like streaming video). It's definitely not a physical limitation.

Richard

Thanks for clearing that up Richard.

I want to make motion screen grabs of me drawing within PsP - worked well with the now out of date Tech Smith product and IMHO & just on principle I'm really aint gonna spend £220 plus taxes on that s/w .. ah .. no! Especially when it is being sold academically for around 1/4 the price!

I would need to install on my machine which is NOT EVER connected to the Internet - Would you see me having any registration difficulties not being connected to the Internet?

So, Richard you can capture screen activity? Excellent! Good price too! Now THAT'S what I like to see!

Grazie :)

Hi Grazie. The registration is by email, but it's not linked to the PC hardware or anything, so it's easy to transfer the code to another computer.

With hypercam, there are limitations on what you can capture, and these are related to your screen resolution and how fast your PC is. Basically, the larger the area you want to grab, the less frames per second you can get without dropped frames. Another factor is the capture codec. You can specify any codec that is installed on your system, but some are "faster" than others. For example, RGB formats work better than YUV presumably because they don't have to do so much processing.

Anyway, you can download the program as a demo and try it our for free. If it works for you, it is pretty cheap to register. Make sure to play around with the different codecs (including uncompressed) and compare the quality of the captured images.

Richard

Richard, thank you for your time - Grazie