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Re: Mini CCCs 182

OriginalGriff6-Jun-20 19:49

OriginalGriff

6-Jun-20 19:49

SPOKE?

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Re: Mini CCCs 182

Tim Deveaux6-Jun-20 20:19

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6-Jun-20 20:19

nope

Re: Mini CCCs 182

Greg Utas6-Jun-20 23:29

Greg Utas

6-Jun-20 23:29

(SNAIL) = NAILS?

Tim Deveaux7-Jun-20 1:29

7-Jun-20 1:29

yep

User 110609797-Jun-20 1:40

User 11060979

7-Jun-20 1:40

Why? I still don't get this stuff Sigh | :sigh:

It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question

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Greg Utas7-Jun-20 1:44

Greg Utas

7-Jun-20 1:44

Cryptic crossword[^]

User 110609797-Jun-20 1:48

User 11060979

7-Jun-20 1:48

Yes, yes I know about that. But for me "unicellular organisms" all this is still always very difficult Laugh | :laugh:

It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question

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Tim Deveaux7-Jun-20 1:54

7-Jun-20 1:54

'slowpoke' was intended to mean SNAIL, with 'performance' as an anagram indicator, so Spikes == NAILS

User 110609797-Jun-20 1:58

User 11060979

7-Jun-20 1:58

Thank you very much.

It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question

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Greg Utas7-Jun-20 2:00

Greg Utas

7-Jun-20 2:00

I just figured spikes = nails, which slowpokes confirmed Big Grin | :-D

Screen Capture to Video File

C-P-User-36-Jun-20 6:09

C-P-User-3

6-Jun-20 6:09

I am trying to record some screens, with mouse movements and keyboard input, and microphone input, as in "...Put the cursor here like this and enter xxxxxxx yyyyyy like that, and then move the cursor over here, and click the zzzzzzz button..."

The freeware I have encountered so far has been a major impediment. I (naively) thought it would be a few clicks and go. My education continues.

[[[[...Opinions // Suggestions // Advice...]]]] are welcome.

I have tried these with these recorders with these results...

OBS Studio
Won't execute (Windows 7)

FlashBack Express
Records, an interface I can (barely) handle, and I like it, but it gives blurry results

Debut Video Capture
Non-commercial use only; this probably won't work, and I don't want to find out later.

ShareX
So far the best as far as a resulting image that the user can see and understand; stupendsously complicated, but I'm barely making it work; but I'm worried about keeping stuff here at home; the thing is just so complicated that it is honestly scaring me.

Screencast-O-Matic
Requires internet connection; and that's a major stopping point

Apowersoft Free Online Screen Recorder
Also requires the internet; not acceptable

Amarnath S6-Jun-20 6:39

Amarnath S

6-Jun-20 6:39

I use Streamlabs OBS[^], which is built on top of OBS Studio.

Not sure whether it works on Win 7, though. I am on Windows 10.

Jacquers6-Jun-20 23:22

Jacquers

6-Jun-20 23:22

This one looks nice: Free Screen Recorder - Bandicam

jmussetter23-Jun-20 14:45

jmussetter

23-Jun-20 14:45

My younger daughter uses Bandicam, on a lower powered laptop. She learned of it from a lot of youtubers using it. Seems to work fine for that kind of thing and is popular.

Nelek7-Jun-20 0:34

Nelek

7-Jun-20 0:34

I use the Free Screen Recording Software from eLecta Live[^] (mine is v1.2, not sure if there is a new one)

Pluses:
- Successfully used in Win7 and Win10.
- Only 15 Mb installer
- Very easy to use, intuitive settings
- It makes the video and you can record the systems sound and / or your microphon, you configure the area to get recorded.
- You can record from Webcam
- You can set a watermark
- Works offline
- Good quality video in *avi format (minus as well, I listed it below too)

Negative points:
- Not many options (but at least what it is there works good)
- Only one output format --> *.avi, 1 hour session is around 2 Gbs (you have to convert it later to mp4 or reduce the fps in the avi format)
- The keyboard shortcuts don't always work (so I stop it with the mouse and cut the last 2 seconds when converting the fps)
- You can't show the key presses in the video (some other software I tested showed the key strokes as text in the right side, but I didn't like the rest, so I kept using electa)

EDIT: I have seen that the key press info is important for you.
The name of the one I checked where keyboard presses are listed is ashampoo snap 9 (they now offer v11), you have to register and they give you a limited free version. You need internet from time to time beacuse they check the license periodically. But... as I say, although they offer more options, I didn't like the result and I kept using electa.

M.D.V.

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RedDk7-Jun-20 7:18

RedDk

7-Jun-20 7:18

What do you consider free? It usually costs something to get something for free.

Kent Sharkey7-Jun-20 10:29

Kent Sharkey

7-Jun-20 10:29

Not that I've tried it for that scenario, but how close does the XBox Game recorder come? How to record your Windows PC screen using Xbox Game Bar - The Verge[^]

TTFN - Kent

Member 90287608-Jun-20 22:37

Member 9028760

8-Jun-20 22:37

I tried Xbox game recorder screen capture but it is useless for Windows software because when a popup window appears it does not get recorded because you can only record one window.

DerekT-P7-Jun-20 11:50

DerekT-P

7-Jun-20 11:50

I've used TechSmith's Jing tool for screen capture for a long time, and it includes video capture (with mic input) as well. Screen capture includes the option to draw, highlight and annotate screen captures, and integrates with screencast.com to upload screenshots for sharing (as an option), or to save or copy to clipboard. It's free and reliable... BUT it is now being replaced by a new tool from TechSmith[^]

The old version of Jing is still available on the above page though, and the description of the new tool suggests it does at least everything Jing does.

Jing runs the whole time with a small, discrete orange semi-circle docked to any edge of your screen; mouse over it and you get a simple graphical menu.

Kiriander7-Jun-20 22:44

Kiriander

7-Jun-20 22:44

If it doesn't have to be a video but can be a slide show with where to click, psr.exe built-in. Videos are a PITA to follow anyway.
Otherwise, your graphics card's software suite should be able to do the trick. I know that GeForce Experience records, among other things, the desktop (if you allow), I'm rather sure AMD got something similar. No idea about Intel's gaming ambitions though (desktop recording is oddly enough often associated with gaming).

rbocquier8-Jun-20 0:36

rbocquier

8-Jun-20 0:36

What about a paid program you may already have?

I recently learned that PowerPoint was doing this pretty well

PhilipOakley8-Jun-20 1:04

PhilipOakley

8-Jun-20 1:04

As a complementary bit of software, you could consider Vidrio [^] which combines your web cam with your main screen's background so that you can point directly at whatever part of the screen image you want to indicate. Works well for conferencing as well. Cool | :cool:

rnbergren8-Jun-20 2:42

rnbergren

8-Jun-20 2:42

I have always used Windows Media Encoder. It just seems to work.

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