Making Screen-Capture PC Videos

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      • Here’s the deal: the place I work at (a small ERP software reseller/developer) has asked me to figure out how to make screen capture+sound videos. They already have a bunch of such “demo” videos from the company they resell for on their website, but they want to make some videos of their own products also.
        —My own (home) computer has a videocard that already has video in/out (RCA jacks) full motion/still capture, and some basic recording software included that saves to a few different formats at various rates of compression. I’ve never used any of it before at all, but it appears as though everything I need to do this is all there. The video recorder can capture (narrative) audio through the mic jack or line-in jack. The Gods smile upon me today. :smiley:
        —I have assumed I’d take my PC to work, and use it there to capture the video outputs of a computer on-site. My question is, all of the computers there appear to be pretty generic systems. They do have a couple laptops on-site, one of the laptops is the one they normally use for running the interactive online demos (I -think- this is through Genesys, I don’t know what connection that system requires as a feed), if that’s any help. They asked me about this today as I was leaving so I have not looked at any of the computers there yet, but what can I do if none of the office PC’s have a video-out except for the regular monitor?
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What are the sources of these screen captures?

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      • The video source (into my computer’s RCA-in) has to be the monitor/display output of another computer (theirs) runing their software. The videocard I have in my PC has RCA in/out jacks, and does video capture. I dunno if any of their computers have a RF-out or not. I’m wondering what to do if none of theirs have any RF-output available…
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Screen capture is pretty easy, just pushing <Print Screen> does it. Where does the voice come from?

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Note: the board is really screwy tonight.
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      • Not a still image: a digital video, in .avi, mpeg-1 or mpeg-2 format. The voice is recorded as the sound to the video.
  • They want to make a .wmf file, a video/movie, for Windows Media Player. So when you watch this video, you see a computer screen demonstrating the software (with the cursor moving around on it doing stuff), and you hear a voice explaining what’s going on as it happens. A full-motion video, not a “print screen”, get it?
  • My videocard has RCA in/out jacks, for recording off an RF source, such as a normal video feed. And I can record the narrative through the mic jack of the sound card. What I am wondering is, how else can I record their screen signal if none of their computers has an RCA or otherwise adaptable video-out jack? I know there are lots of “video editing” add-on adaptors, but all that I find only allow importing video into the computer, not exporting it to a TV/rf signal.
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    So, if you wanted to watch your PC’s output on a television, but your videocard didn’t have a TV/RF output jack, how else could you do it?
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- - - DougC - - -, I tried to get this post out earlier but the hamsters didn’t wanna watch any movies earlier… Hope they’ve rested their eyes by now…

Very doable, even if the comps at work do not have any video out. Basically you need to 1. Capture the video on screen, as the video plays (like a video print screen). 2. Dub any audio track on top of the video. Atleast that’s what I understand you want to do.

For 1., use one of these :

http://www.virtualdub.org/

For 2., you’ll need to merge the audio with the video. I recall using Xing MPEG Encoder for that.

Have a look at those, If you can’t figure it I’ll give more details. My net’s too slow to do a detailed search right now, but I just thought I’d get you on track to begin with…