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Have you ever wondered how do people make screen capture videos on Youtube? You may think that it needs many expensive video editing tools and softwares. You will be surprised to find out that you can also make screen capture videos with relative ease by using FREE open source software called ‘Camstudio’. Camstudio is very small 1.2 MB software which uses minimum of PC resources. In this article, I will show you how you can use camstudio to make great screen capture videos in minutes, without any knowledge of extensive video editing. I have also added video of ‘How to screen capture using Camstudio’ with Camstudio for more details!
Open Camstudio. Navigate through different menu and buttons. Most basic ones are Record, Pause and Stop. (Check out video for more details.)
Camstudio can store the video either in SWF (Flash file) or AVI file. Click on SWF button to switch between AVI and SWF. I prefer to store screen capture videos as AVI, as it is easy to play in media players in computer.
You can choose region to screen capture, can have fixed region or can also capture entire computer screen.
You can enable or disable audio capturing as well from Options menu. There are many more options you can configure.
To configure video, go to options and Video options. Here you can configure which video compressor, camstudio should use. If you are not sure about it, you can leave it to default setting which is ‘Microsoft Video 1’.
There are many more options, you can navigate and check them out. However, for simple video capturing, you don’t have to know all of them. Simply, start recording and Stop whenever you are done. (You can pause along the way, if the video is too long, to reduce the size of video file). When you stop, it will ask for location where you want to save file.
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huggingthecoast said
on 6/26/2008 This will be very useful to me!
L1onherd said
on 6/25/2008 Great video!
coachmac4 said
on 6/25/2008 This is beyond me--but you make it sound so easy! Thanks 5 stars!
Hapworth said
on 6/24/2008 This is great.
imagery said
on 6/24/2008 I didn't realize this was a freebie. I used to use Camtasia all the time. Thanks.