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Movie creation utility...

Klerman Gutierrez

2004-06-02, 3:31 pm

Hello,

Time ago I used a microsoft's utility that came with my msdn's cds that was
able to create a movie with the activity in the computer's monitor. Once the
program started, I was able to record all what happened in my monitor as a
movie file.
Can anyone tell me what the name of that utility was, and perhaps the year
in that microsoft's delivered this program with the msdn subscription ?.

TVMIA,
Klerman

Ronny Ong

2004-06-02, 10:31 pm

It was probably Microsoft Camcorder, which came with Office 2000 (under the
VALUEADD directory of the CD).

Microsoft Camcorder was a nice freebie toy, but it had problems with certain
video drivers. Today, you should use Windows Media Encoder. This is a free
download from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/wi...er/default.aspx

I refer people to this tool all the time, and they quickly come back and try
to tell me that there's no such screen capture tool in it. Yes, there is,
but it's not a separate shortcut. You have to launch "Windows Media Encoder"
(under Start > Programs > Windows Media) and on the "New Session" dialog,
there is a Wizard named "Capture Screen."

There are also some popular 3rd party equivalents like Camtasia, but
Camtasia isn't free.

If you are creating tutorials/demos, you really need to check out Wink. It
is freeware which can capture screens as Flash-based animations, which are
very small. It's also easier to add notes on top of the screen captures than
with video formats which require full-fledged video editing tools.

"Klerman Gutierrez" <klerman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Time ago I used a microsoft's utility that came with my msdn's cds that
> was
> able to create a movie with the activity in the computer's monitor. Once
> the
> program started, I was able to record all what happened in my monitor as a
> movie file.
> Can anyone tell me what the name of that utility was, and perhaps the year
> in that microsoft's delivered this program with the msdn subscription ?.

William Stacey [MVP]

2004-06-02, 11:31 pm

wink? link? Could not find.

--
William Stacey, MVP

"Ronny Ong" <ronnyong@killspam-bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> It was probably Microsoft Camcorder, which came with Office 2000 (under
the
> VALUEADD directory of the CD).
>
> Microsoft Camcorder was a nice freebie toy, but it had problems with
certain
> video drivers. Today, you should use Windows Media Encoder. This is a free
> download from:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/wi...er/default.aspx
>
> I refer people to this tool all the time, and they quickly come back and
try
> to tell me that there's no such screen capture tool in it. Yes, there is,
> but it's not a separate shortcut. You have to launch "Windows Media
Encoder"
> (under Start > Programs > Windows Media) and on the "New Session" dialog,
> there is a Wizard named "Capture Screen."
>
> There are also some popular 3rd party equivalents like Camtasia, but
> Camtasia isn't free.
>
> If you are creating tutorials/demos, you really need to check out Wink. It
> is freeware which can capture screens as Flash-based animations, which are
> very small. It's also easier to add notes on top of the screen captures
than
> with video formats which require full-fledged video editing tools.
>
>
> "Klerman Gutierrez" <klerman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23Wq2otMSEHA.1764@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
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>
>

Ronny Ong

2004-06-03, 3:31 am

Whoops, copied it to my clipboard but forgot the most important step...

http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

"William Stacey [MVP]" <staceywREMOVE@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:OASEJ6QSEHA.1348@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> wink? link? Could not find.

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