Andreas Raab wrote:
Just a quick question: I know some of you have made videos of Squeak and I'd like to give that a shot myself (via Vimeo etc). What software do you use to create such videos? I'm in particular interested in anything that works on PCs and where you can do voice-overs afterwards (I'm not good at doing and talking at the same time when I need to concentrate ;-)
I use CamStudio for capturing video and the regular Windows Movie Maker for assembling a finished product at whatever resoolution the online service recommends. It is better to capture at a higher or equal resolution to what the finished product will be and downsize it if necessary in the export from Movie Maker. I believe that to syncronize the voice audio in Movie Maker, it may be better to record it in one long take. You may have to fiddle with that a bit. It is definitely better to capture video with a dual core CPU so that the capture process only minimally affects the playing process.
The book "The Art of Machinima" by Paul Marino recommends FRAPS for capturing video, Windows Movie Maker for editing, and VirtualDub for any final format conversion. I believe that there is an online forum for Mahinima that probably has more information, and this has been discussed in the forums for CMU's Alice too, although the 2.2 version of Alice has video capture built in.
Cheers, Dave
2009/7/26 David Faught dave.faught@gmail.com:
I use CamStudio for capturing video and the regular Windows Movie Maker for assembling a finished product at whatever resoolution the online service recommends. It is better to capture at a higher or equal resolution to what the finished product will be and downsize it if necessary in the export from Movie Maker. I believe that to syncronize the voice audio in Movie Maker, it may be better to record it in one long take. You may have to fiddle with that a bit. It is definitely better to capture video with a dual core CPU so that the capture process only minimally affects the playing process.
It's also possible to properly mix audio with http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ . It's a great tool!
By the way, Andreas, CamStudio supports screen captions and you might not have to talk at all! =)
Ian.
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