http://www.directoratnight.com/2006/02/27/screen-capture/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:53:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.directoratnight.com/2006/02/27/screen-capture/#comment-332 Mark Jackson Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:40:04 +0000 http://www.directoratnight.com/2006/02/27/screen-capture/#comment-332 Sreen capture is a great way to show other people waht is going on on your screen. You can capture whole screenshots or partial screen shots. I have been developing this to introduce video to my customers by taking things one step further and displaying moving screen shots or video of the actual screen. This is great for training purposes and showcaseing products on your website. With the explosion in video on the web with sites such as mysapce and utube (wonder why Google bought them???) surfers will come to expect video on your website. Over the coming years you will be left behind if you dont have video on your site. Now to get into putting video on your site can be expensive. There are two routes to rake. 1) Get someone to do if proffesionally. This will cost at a minimum $1000 to start, not cheap. The big boys can afford this but for most website owners this is too expensive. 2) Do it yourself. It is not as hard as it seems. There are lots of products out there that will do the job. The problem is you have to master all the bells and whistles. Camtasia is the market leader in this type of product and costs $300. It takes a little while to figure it out but once you have a handle on things its pretty staright forward. There is a much simpler version out there called Camstudio which is an old stripped out version that will allow you to put your toe in the water for less than $20. It does not have all the bells na dwhistles of Camtasia but ot does prodcue qulaity videos that you can upload to your website. Once you are happy that video is going to qork for you then you can purchase the full version from Camtasia. you can see the budget version here <a href="http://www.topdog-reviews.com/camtasia.htm" title="Camstudio" rel="nofollow"> Sreen capture is a great way to show other people waht is going on on your screen. You can capture whole screenshots or partial screen shots. I have been developing this to introduce video to my customers by taking things one step further and displaying moving screen shots or video of the actual screen. This is great for training purposes and showcaseing products on your website. With the explosion in video on the web with sites such as mysapce and utube (wonder why Google bought them???) surfers will come to expect video on your website. Over the coming years you will be left behind if you dont have video on your site. Now to get into putting video on your site can be expensive. There are two routes to rake.
1) Get someone to do if proffesionally. This will cost at a minimum $1000 to start, not cheap. The big boys can afford this but for most website owners this is too expensive.
2) Do it yourself. It is not as hard as it seems. There are lots of products out there that will do the job. The problem is you have to master all the bells and whistles. Camtasia is the market leader in this type of product and costs $300. It takes a little while to figure it out but once you have a handle on things its pretty staright forward. There is a much simpler version out there called Camstudio which is an old stripped out version that will allow you to put your toe in the water for less than $20. It does not have all the bells na dwhistles of Camtasia but ot does prodcue qulaity videos that you can upload to your website. Once you are happy that video is going to qork for you then you can purchase the full version from Camtasia.
you can see the budget version here

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