Jon Udell's latest experimentation with screencasting has inspired me to take up trying again with SB
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Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment: Jon Udell has been pioneering what he calls "screencasting," an unusual sort of online journalism that involves taking over your browser screen with screengrabs and animations while he narrates via the audio track. It always seemed mildly interesting to me as a way to do technology demos and product walkthroughs and the like; but with this piece, Udell has taken the form to a higher level, and shown us that it's something weird and wonderful -- and unique to our new Web world.
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Free -- for generating wmf: Windows Media Encoder
practical hints
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O'Reilly Network: Movies of Software: But while commercial products such as Camtasia, Qarbon, and Captivate can produce well-compressed and progressively-downloadable .SWF files, I've yet to discover a workable free alternative.
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O'Reilly Network: Movies of Software: So for now, the best platform for spontaneous user-initiated recording of screen videos appears to be Windows. Microsoft's Windows Media Encoder 9 is a free download, and it does everything you need: captures a window or specified rectangle of the screen, with audio, and produces a compact WMV file that can be progressively downloaded and viewed in Windows Media Player.
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O'Reilly Network: Movies of Software: How did I capture Windows Media Encoder in the act of capturing the browser-based demo? The outermost layer, not shown, is Camtasia Studio watching Windows Media Encoder watching the browser. Whew! A veritable hall of mirrors.
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