Screen Video Recording

[crazychicken]

I wrote a plugin for maya that draws little spheres as markers once in a while. I would like to record my plugin "running" and hence drawing and deleting little spheres in my scene (the same as if i were doing stuff in maya myself). I tried to use some screen recording software but it seemed to be too slow to keep up.

Does anyone know of a good screen video capture program? (usually used to make tutorials and such I suppose)

Thanks!

Dave

 

[mechBgon]

Windows Media Encoder 9 Series is a freebie which can do screencapture, you might try that out.

 

[Barfo]

Camtasia is a bit expensive, but has a 30 day trial.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Windows Media Encoder 9 Series is a freebie which can do screencapture, you might try that out.

:thumbsup: WME9 works quite well for this.

I s'pose one problem may be required processing power. Running Maya plus plugins and on-the-fly compressing a screen capture at decent bitrate/resolution might require a good bit of power. You might try lowering your screen's resolution before starting.

 

[crazychicken]

I ended up writing doing the screen capture from the c++ code itself so I had complete control over when I got the frames. Annoying to do once, but very helpful for future jobs like this.

 

[Sondra]

I think Techsmith is still giving away Camtasia 3 (an old version) free. Here's a link I just found:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2...tasia-studio-download/