Good screen capture tool for a pc?

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jman15

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I am looking to find a screen capture program for my pc. On my mac I use quicktime which is AWESOME. It creates nice small effective files. I have tried using screen capture software on my computer but the file for a 5 minute file is almost a gigabyte. Anyone have any ideas?
 
Isn't there something better? I don't get it. A 24 second file was 100 MB that is ridiculous. I do a 20 minute file on my mac and it is 80mb with quick time. How am I supposed to make videos of decent size that can be uploaded to you tube?
 
jman15 said:
Isn't there something better? I don't get it. A 24 second file was 100 MB that is ridiculous. I do a 20 minute file on my mac and it is 80mb with quick time. How am I supposed to make videos of decent size that can be uploaded to you tube?
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Load them in to Movie Maker or some other video editing software then export as an .avi file. The raw file you get from FRAPs or any other is always giant and uncompressed. Exporting it and encoding it in to a smaller file is easy and doesn't take very long. All my Youtube videos are recorded with FRAPS, put in Movie Maker, then exported as a .avi file and uploaded.
 
Denther said:
Load them in to Movie Maker or some other video editing software then export as an .avi file. The raw file you get from FRAPs or any other is always giant and uncompressed. Exporting it and encoding it in to a smaller file is easy and doesn't take very long. All my Youtube videos are recorded with FRAPS, put in Movie Maker, then exported as a .avi file and uploaded.
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Awesome, thanks so much for the info. As usual you guys rock.
 
avi is a very poor quality. Ya might as well use one of the others and record in avi or what ever in the first place. Takes time to re-encode from one to the other.
 
Instead of re-encoding, use My Screen Recorder and have it saved directly as a AVI, WMV, MP4, or FLV file. Small file sizes and excellent quality video.
 
So I checked out Camtasia and by reducing the FPS from 200 to 20 I get very nicely sized files and it auto converts to AVI. Not when I make a 20 minute video via Camtasia it is only like 400mb instead of several gigabytes. Any way to upload this file to You tube which has a 100mb limit?
 
You could try Camtasia for Mac by TechSmith its a great piece of software has many editing features for creating on screen video tutorials
 
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