HQ Video Screen Capture

[Andrew Allsbury]

In a few weeks we will be shooting some training videos that will require video screen captures off of a PC. In your experiences what is the best software to do this? Thanks!

[Nick Shaw]

For the training videos I recorded for The Foundry for STORM I avoided using software screen recording altogether and used an Blackmagic DVI extender to convert the DVI output of the computer into HD-SDI, and captured that into the edit suite. That way the machine was free to run the software at full speed, without the overhead of recording software.

[Björn Benckert]

In a few weeks we will be shooting some training videos that will require video screen captures off of a PC. In your experiences what is the best software to do this? Thanks!

A mac and quicktime player. :)

[John Saunders]

For the training videos I recorded for The Foundry for STORM I avoided using software screen recording altogether and used an Blackmagic DVI extender to convert the DVI output of the computer into HD-SDI, and captured that into the edit suite. That way the machine was free to run the software at full speed, without the overhead of recording software.

+1 Thats the way we have done it and it works really well.

[Andrew Allsbury]

Interesting, thanks guys, has anyone used Adobe Captivate?

[Chuck Z]

I know Camtasia is very popular...