So I’m not even going to mention Youtube, although if you’d like to see mine at Youtube you are welcome.
Here are some not so well known and therefore not as crowded. Some take material other than videos, like music and documents. Some hold contests for you.
It is rare to find a free screen video recorder so I thought I’d share this discovery with you. You can compare it with Camstudio.
This is what Tip Cam says about itself.
Interestingly, the web site explains a few things you can record on your computer, one of which is to record a You Tube video. I’d never thought of this as an option in order to download You Tube videos.
I’ve been attempting to embed a video tutorial for a couple of days but each time I tried the formatting of the blog got broken up. After some research, here is what I discovered.
You do it differently depending upon whether you have a wordpress.com blog or a wordpress.org one.
For Word Press.org (this type) you get the embed code from Youtube of the tutorial you wish to display. You go to Users> Profile on your Word press dashboard. You unclick ‘Use visual editor’ You paste the embed code into your post. After completing any other video embedding go back to Users>Profile and click on ‘Use Visual editor’ again.
You cannot Edit any of these posts later.
For WordPress.com try this.
Get the URL link to the video. Paste the following into your post.
[ youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=_dIya1aJJKA]
Alter to suit the video you want to display.
I have been struggling along trying to make the best of free software to make a decent video tutorial using a screen capture utility.
I use CamStudio which is free and a microphone attached to my sound card. The microphone I began with was something I bought years ago and it just didn’t give a good enough sound output, but I practiced with it anyway. I have now bought a new microphone which is also one to plug into my sound card, with a headset. It is slightly better. It is not radio quality. Some people who are using camcorders, video recorders and so on, plug a radio standard microphone into their recorders, not the sound card.
With CamStudio, I set the region to pan over a specified area of the screen. Capturing the full screen produces a video that no-one can see.
I muck around on the computer talking about the tutorial I’m making. The first one was simply about how to download psp tubes into PSP and how to make an avatar out of a tube and then how to make that an image with a transparent background.
After I have made the video which is in AVI format, I open Windows Movie Maker, which comes with Windows XP 2. I import the video I have made, fiddle around with it: that’s called editing, and save the movie as a .wmv file. There is no free software that I can find that will convert that to SWF or FLA, which are better formats because they keep the size of the movie more stable.
I then save that to my computer (takes an age) and those files are huge and upload them to YouTube and Idea 22. You can see the one I’ve done at YouTube, but the one at Idea 22 is currently being improved with the new microphone. Look back later!
Another method of saving the movie is to save to the DVD drive with a DVD recordable disk. Make sure you get the correct format here too. +R type is what my computer requires, but my other computer requires -R. This is for newer computers.
