What is Screen Casting... ?
You might be aware of what is a "Screen Shot". It is a single picture of the screen of your computer.
But in contrast to it "Screen Casting" is a digital video recording that captures actions taking place on a computer desktop. Screen casting normally contains voice over narration.
Thus it becomes a very useful methodology and a procedure in many scenarios to gain higher productivity. Following lists some common and useful instances of screen casting.
1. To provide answers to some common asked questions of your employers
2. To hire the companys' new hires effectively and free up your time.
3. It is a very productive method to make a software or a product demo
4. To provide clear feedback
5. To create video tutorials
Have you ever wondered how to do this... ?? that is... how to show what's clearly happening on your computer screen...? Thanks to Screencasting Software anybody can do it now.
There are a plenty of screen casting tools. Below lists few
1. Adobe Captive
- quite expensive
- it takes longer time to work with this tool
- not advisable for beginners
2. Camtasia Studio
- not free
- but a powerful PC only software
- not recommanded for beginners
3. Screenr
- web based, java tool, thus no installation
- need internet connection
- slow to use
- it doesn't let webcam to record
4. Jing
- same as Screenr
- only publishes videos in .swf format
- produced .swf videos cannot be converted to mp4 even with file-conversoin utilities
5. SnagIt
- overcome the frustrations of Jing
- can record for as long as you want
6. Screemcast-O-Matic(SOM)
- free
- ease of use
- records your webcam as well as your screen
- Java applet available which needs no implementation
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