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Rowduk
Rowduk
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May 10, 2017
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Program Tutorials - What screen capture program do you recommend?

  • May 10, 2017
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Hello everyone,

I'm looking for some recommendations for a screen capturing program.

The only requirements are:

  • It captures the screen in a high quality.
  • Can be imported into Premiere.

Some "nice-to-haves" options would be:

  • Low cost
  • Able to high the mouse courser within the screen capture program (saving my time in editing).
  • Able to choose the area to record.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Sean

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Correct answer Meg The Dog

I believe a popular Screen Capture program on the PC side is Camtasia:

Camtasia | Screen Recording & Video Editing

MtD

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weslod
Participant
April 8, 2018

Another good program is Debut by NCH.

You can set your frame rate, screen size, format. Very good program.

Just go to www.nchsoftware.com and look for "Debut".

Mike

yairb999
yairb999
Inspiring
May 11, 2017

Take a look at OBS Studio. It's free:

https://obsproject.com/

    Roei Tzoref
    Roei Tzoref
    Legend
    May 10, 2017

    I have been looking for a screencast software for windows for a while and eventuall decided to got with Icecream screen recorder it's lightweight, no unnecessary features. Camtasia was way too much for me but many professionals use it on Windows.

    icecream is not perfect, there is still no ability to set a custom frame rate and the software will record at 20-25 frame rate. at full resolution it will won't even be full number. and it will produce a variable frame rate file that you would want to change to constant using Handbrake if you do intend to use the audio and have it synced properly in premiere or after effects. but for recording tutorials and creating GIF's for interface explanations like I do here in the forums it's quite nice.

      M
      Meg The Dog
      Inspiring
      May 10, 2017

      If Mac based, take a look at Screenflow:

      Screen Recording, Screencasting and Video Editing Software &#x7c Telestream ScreenFlow &#x7c Overview

      MtD

        Rowduk
        RowdukAuthor
        Participant
        May 10, 2017

        Rats, I'm on PC!

        Thank you for the suggestion!

        Horshack
        Horshack
        Legend
        May 10, 2017

        Microsoft Expression Encoder 4. It includes an excellent screen capture utility and is free. The output of the screen capture utility is a very small proprietary file, which can then be encoded into a variable-frame rate Windows media file. You can then convert that variable-frame rate file into a constant-frame rate file (that Premiere supports) via Handbrake - I posted a Handbrake preset for this conversion here: Re: Converting VFR to CFR with HandBrake

        Also, I recommend ZoomIt from Microsoft - it's a free utility that adds some features helpful for presentations and screen casting, including zooming and drawing. You can download it here: ZoomIt

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