Digital Publishing & Automation » screencast http://blogs.webworks.com/mcdow Can you deliver your information to your users? Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:51:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Screen Capture Programs http://blogs.webworks.com/mcdow/2008/08/15/screen-capture-programs/ http://blogs.webworks.com/mcdow/2008/08/15/screen-capture-programs/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:36:23 +0000 Tony McDow http://innerblogs.webworks.com/mcdow/?p=23 At a recent WebWorks.com Open House, a discussion about good tools for capturing computer screens came up and I recalled that I had actually done quite a bit of research and experimentation with these types of tools. I also had put together a short write-up on my company’s internal wiki about the topic. Now I realize that others might find this information useful, so I have made it available on our main wiki site. wiki.webworks.com.

In a nutshell, here were my findings.

Best in Class for:

Static Screen Capture

    TechSmith’s: Snag It

Dynamic Screen Capture (category 1)

    Blue Berry’s: FlashBack

    Category 1: focuses on routine training and recording tasks where there are minimum requirements for modifying the resulting output

Dynamic Screen Capture (category 2)

    TechSmith’s: Camtasia

    Category 2: focuses on special applications requiring post editing, scaling, and the remixing of audio and video

Light-weight Static and Dynamic Screen Capture

    From the TechSmith folks: Jing
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