…once you activate it, it not only records all your clicks, etc., but also whatever appears on the monitor thoughout the session, which you can then save as a file for playback later or to be used as an attachment?
Example.
I am at my desktop and start this recording program.
I go to the web and to SDMB, then to GQ, open a new thread type it all up and now close the program and email you an attachment of all this important stuff. You open it and play it like a video tape.
(My actual application would be even less complex than this.)
I got a feeling this is a very dumb question, but I hope someone answers it, anyway.
I’m hoping for a something simple that wouldn’t involve burning a CD or DVD.
You can do this, it is fairly easy with the software but the file size gets big really fast. If you compress the format a lot (shrink it) it looks blurry and generally like crap.
If you just want to occasionally do this now and then it’s not worth the effort, but as far as lightweight online training movies go, the best way to do this is to use Flash. I re-did some training movies for a place once; the Flash movies had all the same content, yet ended up around <5% of the file size that the previous avi’s were. A 4-meg avi ended up as a 150K Flash object; a 13-meg avi film ended up as a 550K Flash object. And the Flash movies all had been separated into topical sections and had a set of (titled) buttons for jumping directly to any section you wanted, and the Flash movies still looked far nicer on-screen as well.
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Snagit is a screen capture utility that will also capture movies.
Same vendor makes a more powerful product call camtasia.
Snagit is probably the best screen capture utilty and camtasia is a very good screen movie capture utility if the features of Snagit are not good enough.
There’s a free program, Wink, that’s made for this purpose. Instead of recording an actual video (which will usually end up huge), Wink “fakes” the process by taking a screenshot every time something is typed or clicked on. Then it uses Flash to recreate mouse motions and keyboard input, resulting in a pretty small file that is nonetheless good enough for many situations.
Oh, and it automatically creates the Flash animation/viewer for you once you’re done recording.
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I was wondereing this myself a few weeks ago. I was clicking on a bunch of winemaking sites and not bookmarking anything. I thought, “Wouldn’t it be cool if I could just replay the last web session back again instead of plowing through the history folder…” I figured there’s no way in heck such a program exists.
Guess I was wrong.
