What software used to make Video Tutorials

Will one of the more experienced amongst us please respond to this
query with which software they had the best results with making
video / audio tutorials?
I did use Camtasia Studio and it works pretty well. I did not have
very much success with the quality of the audio, but it was probably
my lack of experience with it, or perhaps even the quality of my head-
set. I did find that a real low-cost headset couldn't be used at
all. I couldn't get distinguishable volume out of it, for some
reason. It is extremely easy to use, however. I would rather spend
whatever time I need to, to learn a program, if the end result will be
a more substantial video. Also, what file format, would you recommend
to save the video file as?
Thanks in advance,
Benjamin Halpin

 

Why do you feel the need to talk at all? I prefer educational video
where dialog boxes convey what needs to be conveyed. This forces me to
watch closer and what I don't get I just keep rewinding until I do.

 

Is that how you prefer to learn about sex too? By watching videos?
There is oral sex where you just simply talk about it, and written
where you read about it, and video where you just watch it.
And just like CAD, no learning from actually doing it.

 

More useless nonsense from the Half Nutz Putz. Perhaps a name change
is in order.

Suggest:

Numb Nutz Putz.

 

"make the video interesting" "I find myself losing interest quickly."
- Jon Banquer- Aug 3, 2006

 

wrote:

http://www.camstudio.org/ This works well, and will output directly to swf if
you want.

I prefer to output a raw AVI file, then edit it with something like
http://www.virtualdub.org/ You can then re-render the whole thing to XVID to
compress it.

You might try recording the sound AFTERWARDS, and dubbing it in (with
virtualdub) after editing your AVI file. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
something like this would work well.

Every bit of what is used is free.

 

CamStudio is excellent, check out also http://www.uvnc.com/screenrecorder/index.html
which is based on CamStudio. And for finnish guys out there, you can
get the translation pack from my site: www.markkulehtola.net

 

Benjamin,

Most of us here at SW use Camtasia. I agree that audio can be one of
the trickiest parts and getting it clean and consistent (correct db)
is not easy.

First tip, and most obvious, is to pick a room that is quiet with
little back ground noise. Second is to make sure that that your
computer is the same - use a laptop for instance with little fan
noise.

I clean up all my audio with two programs that I've come to know and
love: SoundForgeXP and Adobe Audition. Each has noise cleaning
filters as well as normalizing that are pretty sophisticated and can
eliminate mic pops, clicks, filter out hum and other background noise
etc. I'm using more of Audition these days since my SoundForge is
older version and out of date and is not compatible with much other
than .wav files - but I do miss some cool things with SoundForgeXP.

Find yourself a good audio editing program and it should take care of
the deficiencies of a live voiceover.

Regards

Mark

 

I was thinking HalfPutz.
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And use battery to make sure your fan doesn't go crazy because you're
charging it. And if you're really like to get more professional, get a
decent microphone. Laptop's built in one isn't propably the best one.

Audacity is also a good and free choice.

 

Thank you all, Gentlemen.
Mr Biasotti, I do have Audition floating around somewhere, I will
fiddle with that as well. I appreciate your response.
Benjamin Halpin

 

There's also an intersting product out from TechSmith also called Jing
Project
http://www.jingproject.com/
It creates a .swf file that you can do screen captures and embed. It's
doesn't have as much as Camtasia but it's nice for quick screen grabs.

Josh
www.solidsmack.com

 

Hmm,.. it's a fun, easy to install and quick little tool,... it's very
nice!

http://www.screencast.com/users/zxys/folders/Jing/media/581716bb-6d0f-401c-ab54-0acb44697432
http://www.screencast.com/users/zxys/folders/Jing/media/d109eb32-6df4-4736-850a-ba639299c221

...

 

Thank you again, Gentlemen, that is the cleverest little program I
have seen in awhile. Very effective presentation, to show progress on
a project!
Benjamin Halpin