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If you need a software to record your computer screen but don't want to pay for it, you should try Screenr! It is a very neat application and most importantly its free!!!
I found online course about (recording a screencast | creating online videos | screencasting) using screenr, if anyone’s been wondering what’s one of the best ways to screencast, then check out the new training series on www.youtube.com/mycsula.
Thanks for the tip on the new software.
Hi and thanks a lot for this post.
One question though... Does Screencast.com embedding display Web 2.0 buttons like 'share this video... on Twitter, Delicious, etc?
Hmm, I don't think so, but now that I think of it, I'm not sure. I think you can just upload your Jing videos to youtube for those options. That's what I would do instead of using screencast.com
This is a great post! I have a question. I have been able to use Jing and Screencaster to embed my video, and the quality is great...
However, Once I scale down my video to fit in my layout the video control buttons along the bottom are very small since they scale also (The play button, full screen button, etc become too small for people to easily see and be able to use)
In your example the video is scaled down but the controls are still big. How can I do this?
Thanks again for the great post!
I like using both YouTube and the Internet Archive for uploading my screencasts. Youtube for discoverability and the Internet Archive for free hosting of media files at any file size.
For example, here is a recent screencast of mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
(click on HQ to see this screencast large size)
and on the Internet Archive as a 100 MB QuickTime file
http://tinyurl.com/yajkpap
I'm starting a video screencast blog to teach HTML and web coding skills. I'm using amazon's S3 service to host my videos (in case I get a large amount of traffic some day). I'm on a mac and purchase a license for ScreenFlow... which is great! I embed the videos with the longtail flash video embedder (which allows me to easily embed their ad network in my videos for income).
The part I'm stuck on is deciding what size to record the videos in... and what is the best way to export them to a nice high quality format. I want FLV so anyone can view the videos without special plugins... but deciding the width and height in pixels and resizing/exporting to a nice resolution.
Nice article. I got a lot from it... I wish there was more information out there about recording and producing screencasts.
Ben, for HD you need to record in 1280 x 720 pixels. Then when you embed it, try embedding at half that size, keeping the proportions. Did you search my site for other info I've written on HD videos? If not, do that.
This was a really useful post with sufficient detail to make me want to sign up after checking it out. I went for the Prp version. I liked that you neither simplified nor overhyped what Jing can do.
nice post, i didn't know there was a place to have HD screencasts, so this is an eyeopener for me, i can imagine all the problems with screen sizes and bandwidth, but for important videos it could be worth it.
By the way, I didn't mention this in the post, but Youtube is also offering higher quality videos, similar (but not exactly) HD. If you click the Youtube link that I pasted above, you'll see the high quality version (it only plays on Youtube's site). Apparently the high quality format is experimental or beta. You can't automatically make the videos you upload look high quality. Youtube chooses. However, if you add fmt=18 after the youtube video address, you can see the high quality.
Here's a post with more information on Youtube and the high quality.
Even with the high quality, the screencasts are still unwatchable. I haven't even mentioned the larger problem with HD formats -- file size. If you're on a slow bandwidth, it doesn't stream seamlessly. I'm on 5MB down and 2MB up broadband, and the high quality version constantly stops to buffer or catch up.