Best screen capture program

I just purchased Adobe CS4 Master Collection and I am wondering if it includes any programs that could capture still screen shots. I could always use Windows 7's snipping tool but does CS4 have anything better?

You can hit "Print Screen" then open Photoshop and File>New, accept default values that it gives you and Edit>Paste. This will give you a 72dpi screen image of whatever your monitor's resolution is set to.

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How do I connect two video cameras to my computer have them both show up on the desktop at the same time so I can see and capture both images using a screen capture program?

Hello,
I am a teacher and want to make some videos to post online for my class. I would like to have it set up so that I have a powerpoint presentation going, a video camera pointing at a piece of paper I can write on and another video camera pointing at me. How do I do this? I have seen several solutions but they seem to be for switching between videos whereas I want both video images to be on at the same time.
Also, is there a screen capture program you would recommend?

Go to System Preferences - Sharing and change the computer name there. You can also, optionally, change the name of your hard drive to further clarify the origin of your backups. Click once on the "Macintosh HD" on your desktop, then click its name to allow you to edit it.
Matt

Screen Capture program for 9.2.2?

Is there a screen capture program for 9.2.2?
I need to take pictures of files on my desktop

ShiftCommand3 for a picture of the entire screen
ShiftCommand4 to cursor select what portion of the screen to take a picture.
 Cheers, Tom

Screen Capture Program Run Off of a Flash Drive

I am looking for a screen capture program that I would either be able to run off of a flashdrive, or something that I can easily move from computer to computer whenever I need it.
I do high end video work for a University and I am constantly being asked to do screen captures of a computer that is part of a technology demonstration. I love the features that Snap Pro X has, but the limitations of being able to only install on a HD with a running copy of OSX, and not being able to easily change the registered computer makes it to much for the hassle. Likewise, free apps like Jing work great, but are not easy to integrate into a FCP project.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I believe that for most apps, you can just copy the .app file from /Applications/ to wherever you want-it may break some updating functionality, but that's the only way to have it in a different location.
Good luck!
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Best video capturing program until FCP5 is released?

This question is for the videoguys out there
I bought an intel imac and was relying on FCP5 but now I realize it is not universal until march. I have tons of video to capture from mini DV and I want to have it all captured and ready for editing in FCP5 when it is available. I want to make sure it captures in the right AVI format for FCP5. What is the best video capturing program to use in the mean time until FCP5 is released?

I thought about imovie but I am not familar with the different formats imovie can capture in. I need a compatiable format for FCP5

Screen Capture Program

The MS problem recorder won't work since we need actual video not just stills. The other issue is the problem recorder is disabled through a GPO I believe in compliance with our HIPPA policies (hospital).

Hello world!
I am looking for a light-weight screen capture program to assist in trouble-shooting. While there are tons of options out there I am trying to find one that allows me to set it to launch when a preset EXE starts and closes / renders the video once the EXE closes. The other thing is it needs to run as silently as possible. I am aware of VLC but their current solution crashes way too often and leaves corrupt MP4 files all over the place. I will also note that I have been given a decent budget to use of this project so if it is some what pricey that may be okay.
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Best screen capture for using with premiere elements?

i have been scouring the net to figure out how to get better results than what i'm getting with the camstudio (love the program, and it looks great until i pull it into premiere). I have read that it can be a codec issue or an fps issue, but before i follow those trails, i was wondering if there is a screen capture software that works well with premiere, without a lot of hassle. (not necessarily free, just reliable and hassle free with good quality in premiere elements) Anyone have experience with this?
thanks in advance!

Steve Grisetti wrote:
Well, we've used Camtasia and Adobe's Captivate to make tutorials for http://www.muvipix.com. They're both excellent, and I've never had a problem with either.
Chuck Engels is really the expert on both those program though. You can find him on the Muvipix forum daily.
Steve.
Would you please provide an update to the process of screen capture? What does muvipix.com and lynda.com use? I'm considering a project where my granddaughters create a couple of training videos for kids. It's a dream, but might work!
Thanks.
Bill

No screen capture program in CC?

I realize there are a ton of programs out there with varrying degrees of usefulness for this sort of thing. But I would expect such a comprehensive toolset as creative cloud would have some way of recording my desktop/other adobe programs. I work in marketing for a software company, so the vast majority of video done by us, is from the software itself. I hate having to rely on 3rd party programs and freeware video converters to do this. I understand captivate has this ability..... but for some reason is not included in the package. I also understand there was an Ideas post, where this topic was voted on. However I do not have the necessary perms to access that page.
If anyone is aware of a change, or could perhaps point me in a direction where my cries will be more usefulI, that would be appreciated. I guess I should also mention the reason I want adobe CC to support screen capture natively is because I love the entire CC package to death! the developers at adobe, could run circles around any of these compettitors (techsmith for example) in my opinion.

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform for feature requests
Otherwise, some links I've saved from various Premiere forums
Here are some Screen Capture Notes/Problems
NOTE - do NOT use a Variable Frame Rate capture setting !!!
Free Open Source software http://camstudio.org/
-use with Lossless Lagarith http://forums.adobe.com/thread/875797
http://www.pixelmetrics.com/
Some of these notes are for Premiere Elements, but may help with PPro
Fraps & Elements http://forums.adobe.com/thread/967201
-and Elements preset http://forums.adobe.com/thread/943772
-and more Elements http://forums.adobe.com/thread/871095
Camtasia http://forums.adobe.com/thread/836800
-and Lagarith Codec http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1287577
-and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/775288
-and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/453044
-and http://forums.adobe.com/message/3202148
Techsmith codec http://forums.adobe.com/message/3692768
-and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1046914?tstart=0
BB Flashback http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1074014
XSplit recorder http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1160940
Elgato http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1163126 w/picture
Dxtory http://forums.adobe.com/message/5172056
Bandicam read #10 http://forums.adobe.com/thread/954394

What is best screen capture for video to be edited in FCP?

Hello:
I need to add some video from a client's website to include in a video being edited in ye olde FCP 7.
The rest of the video is ProRes 422.
Is there a screen capture software package that can capture in a compatible format and be high resolution enough?
I have looked at ScreenFlow and Camtasia for Mac but they don't have much info on their sites about video specs.
Client wants to capture a webcast and show the video in context of the website it plays on.
I could just shoot the screen with my HD camera but I'm hoping there is something better out there.
Oh - and yes... I have thought of cheating it.... superimposing the original video into a screen grab of the website but the client doesn't have the original video.
Thanks for any info.

I've been using Camtasia recently and there's a 30 day trial
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html?gclid=Cj0KEQjw6J2eBRCpqaW0857k9p4BEiQAWar YbCmQ3HIjSWIUtIo6lldJhPTa488h8EmZlSh6hpLHdHIaAqYQ8P8HAQ
And you can record the entire screen or choose just a smaller area. Great for capturing video on a website

What Screen capture programs work well for streaming?

i have tried a recommended program called ManyCam and it works.. i can stream and in HD. my issues are with the lack of audio options with this program.
For example. i want to be able to have a game running.. music through WMP and have mic available on a PTT.
With Many cam it seems like this software wasnt set up with streaming in mind as its only audio functions supported are for mic inputs and it will
NOT register music playing through the speakers.
unlike AFMLE open brodcaster has the option to select a mic and play audio to the stream that is playing through my default audio device. which is awesome except its lacking in other features. and it is still using manycam.
So... how can i get AFLME to register my default audio device through manycam..
or... what other capture programs are supported by AFMLE (ive tried searching but i keep getting webcam results and posts on how to capture other peoples streaming content.. lol.. frustrating

Hi, I am new to flash media encoder. I have ManyCam on my mac, however, when I downloaded flash media encoder 3.2 I could not get it to recognize my manycam. Can you tell me what to do?

Best screen capture resolution for FCP

I'm making some tutorials of various computer software.
I'm going to edit them with FCP.
I'm using the MAC built in SHIFT-COMMAND - 3 or 4
in order to snap stills off my screen, and then
import into Final Cut Pro to edit the tutorials with.
The stills, once in the timeline, look pretty fuzzy and
unuseable.
What have others used in terms of resolution, format and such in order to end up with captures off your screen that you'll bring into FCP that end up looking good if you're
going to end up going to video or DVD?
I also have SNAP PRO X to work with, but I still haven't
found the right format or resolution to get around this problem.
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Without going into DPI (which is really meaningless in FCP land...as has been argued again and again and again...although if you MUST apply a value just stick in 72, but really it has no effect) the pixel dimensions of stills to import for FCP FULL FRAME are 720x534. Because stills have square pixels and FCP uses rectangular ones. If you want to do any movement on the stills, just increase the dimensions PROPORTIONALLY. 2x would be 1440 x 1064.
Oh, and as for the blurry issue:
#2 Playback is blurry
Shane's Stock Answer #2:
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL NTSC MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
1. Disable overlays on the canvas
2. Make sure you've rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787
DV footage requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or NTSC monitor routed thru your camera or deck.
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Screen Capture Program using Adobe Air,Java and Merapi

Project Link
http://code.google.com/p/merapi-examples/source/browse/#svn/trunk/screencapture
i have done some modifiaction in the above project.
from Java Part of the project i am Converting captured image to byte
array or file Stream and that byte array or stream is recieved in flex...but unable to form the
captured image.
please help me

Screen sharing is not currently supported in AIR.
Please vote for adding screen sharing support in a future AIR release here:
http://ideas.adobe.com/ct/ct_a_view_idea.bix?c=9D564F43-979A-4E35-AA21-85A61B6AB8DE&idea_i d=EED6CF9A-5C13-4A4E-9DD1-6A3FB56FBCDF
Thanks,
Chris Thilgen
AIR Engineering

Screen capture program in Leopard?

Hello,
Do Leopard come with software to record your screen?
If not, can anyone recommend anything for Macs?
Lindsay

If you just want a still picture, use shift⌘4 for a specific area, or shift⌘3 for the whole screen.
For video, see here.
Good luck!

FMEL - What Screen Cap Program Can Capture in Fullscreen for Fullscreen Applications?

I have tried 6 screen cap programs: VH, Uscreen, CamStudio, UltraVNC...etc, and none are able to capture any program that I use in fullscreen, whether it is a 3D game or a fullscreen slideshow.
Does anyone know of a (preferably free) screen capture program that works for Windows 7 and can capture 3D fullscreen applications? If there is nothing for free, then any premium recommendations would be appreciated.
I just could not find a program that worked, so I am just wondering if there is a tried and proven program out there.
Thanks!

I believe there is only one program (besides getting a capture card) that does this, it does however cost money (It's called DXtory, not sure on it's reliability as I have never used it myself.. It may also not work with everything..
Only way of doing this guaranteed to work is through capture cards, but if you want decent resolutions with that then you gotta be prepared to shell out quite a bit of money unfortunately.
edit: let me add, I have not used dxtory so I can not tell you how/if this would work with FME for example, but I have heard from other people that dxtory would be an alternative for fullscreen.. however that program also has the ability to record to harddrive and I am unsure if that's the only way (like fraps) or if it can output to a virtual webcam as well... I just don't know...
edit2: ok seems like there is a trial for the program, and it also does allow you to output it into a virtual webcam (trial has a watermark) so you Can use it for FME.. You should check it out, it costs 3600 yen so that's like $45

Change Default Screen Capture Format from PNG to JPG

I'm running Mac OS 10.4.8 on a G5 Duo Core (Power PC). Up until about 10.4.1, my screen captures (Apple-Shift-4) would result in a PDF file. Then they started coming out as PNG files. I would strongly prefer that they default to jpg files, since I typically change the PNG files to JPG.
Can anyone tell me how to change the default for screen captures from PNG format to jpg format?
I have tried to use the process described at http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/131 but this does not change the default format for screen captures. I've also discussed this issue with Apple online help, but they were not able to change the default format either.
Any suggestions?

Download and use Screenshots Preference Pane:
http://www.ego-systems.com/Products/screenshotsprefpane.html
It's free and easy, gives you about a dozen options on how to save the shot and allows you to change where it's saved to.
I also use Capture Me:
http://www.chimoosoft.com/captureme.html
Best screen capture utility I've tried, you can save each screen shot in any format you want or have it go. It also works as a great picture sticky because the windows floats above other windows. It's also free,
Kevin
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