Problem doing Screen Captures on animation intensive software

How many fps do you want? That spec would be a good way to filter. Hypercam
has a box to fill in the capture/playback fps, but I've never been able to
get more than 15 fps work (havent played with it in detal tho)

Vishal
http://www.blog.vishaliyer.com

Tricia (Bluesky Consult) writes:

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> Hello everyone,
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> I need your help finding some decent screen capture software that
> doesn't drop frames when recording animation intensive software.
>
> I'm having problems with software like flash as well as proprietary
> software.
>
> Thanks
> Trish
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I have not yet tried it, but a colleague just sent this to me:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/ (free/open source)

Also, I have used Camtasia in the past to capture animated screen grabs of a
3D modelling application. I believe the FPS was around 15 (?), but adequate
nonetheless.

On 7/13/05, Tricia (Bluesky Consult) <tricia at blueskyconsult.com> wrote:
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> I've tried that one, and it's dropping frames with what I'm trying to
> record.
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> Just found one called Capture Cam Pro and that ones appears to be doing
> the job!
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> Regards
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> Tricia
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> From: devesh jagatram [mailto:devesh.jagatram at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 3:22 PM
> To: Tricia (Bluesky Consult)
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> Subject: Re: [ID Discuss] Problem doing Screen Captures on animation
> intensive software
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> you can try techsmith's camtasia studio. it captures screens very
> effectively.
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> regards
>
> devesh
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> On 7/13/05, Tricia (Bluesky Consult) <tricia at blueskyconsult.com> wrote:
>
> [Please voluntarily trim replies to include only relevant quoted
> material.]
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I need your help finding some decent screen capture software that
> doesn't drop frames when recording animation intensive software.
>
> I'm having problems with software like flash as well as proprietary
> software.
>
> Thanks
> Trish
>
>
>
>
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Some alternatives to think about:
- slowing down the actual program (should be doable in Flash if you
have sources, for example)
- capturing the video using an external device

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