Make a Flash Guide Video by Desktop Capture

Please show me how, do not tell me how. This becomes more and more popular. Do you want to show your website or product in a live way? Making a Flash guide video to show your website or software products can be a good idea.

A guide video is more than thousands of words! How to make a guide video from your desktop recording? Using a camera or camcorder to record your desktop operation? But the recording result proves that it is not practical. The quality of the recorded video is too bad to accept.

A desktop recording application like DemoCreator works. There are two types of desktop capture. Static - consider as screenshots, and video – so-called screencasts. DemoCreator can create videos by desktop capture, and it enable users to export images from videos. This desktop recorder capture the desktop activity to mirror all of your operating such as mouse movements and keystrokes. After recording can add some tips to highlight the important actions in your recording. There are various objects for you to decorate your recording. Furthermore, the narration from microphone is available to enhance the guide video. Finally you can publish the video as Flash movie and share on line. As you know, the SWF format is of small size and good for Web transmission. With the streaming feature, the Flash movie publish by this desktop recorder can play instantly when your hit open the movie page. See the video demo >>

1. Setting the capture mode and record

There are 3 capture modes to be selected: Application region, Custom region and Full screen. Now we select application region to capture a running application on your desktop, and select record mode (Take screen shots, Full moiton, and Manual are available options), then click Record button to start recording.

• Application Mode: Capture the window of the specific application which is running.
• Custom Size Mode: Capture a customized rectangular area on your desktop.
• Full Screen Mode: Capture the entire desktop screen.

2. Edit and enhance the guide tutorial

Once the recording is finished. DemoCreator will import the record video slides automatically. You can add interactive elements like callouts, notes, animations to enhance the selected slides. The recording slides are easy to edit. You can insert the new slides or delete unwanted slides, or record the necessary slides. Furthermore, you can reuse some other projects and import them to the current project.

3. Add sound to the tutorial

Click Audio button and enter the Audio Editor. There you can edit the recorded audio. And also you can rerecord your audio and view the playing slide at the same time. Beside, there is a new feature for you to import existing audio file to the recorded video.

4. Publish the flash movie

Click “Publish” button and we can see the publish menu. Select publish to Flash movie, LMS, auto-run CD, standalone EXE, or Email. With various advantages, SWF is the most popular format to publish your screen recording.

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