gHacks technology news » camstudio http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Easy Screen Recording with Tip Cam http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/18/easy-screen-recording-with-tip-cam/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/18/easy-screen-recording-with-tip-cam/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:53:41 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3840 I have been using and reviewing several screen recording applications in the past years including Camtasia Studio and Camstudio but I never came upon a software that was easier to use. Tip Cam is a free screen recording software that records the full desktop or parts of it and saves the output in flash video format which is the most common video format on the Internet these days.

It comes with a few settings, quality settings for instance, but those are really only a few when compared to the screen recording applications mentioned above. You basically pick the size of the recording area from several available ones. They are divided into so called Zoom Levels and those that resize the desktop and the default one which records the complete desktop.

We all know that a larger area will increase the size of the video tremendously. The Zoom Levels that are available are 640×480, 800×600 and 1024×768. They appear as a green box that can be moved across the screen before starting the recording.

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The compression setting has a huge impact on the quality of the recording. The default, lower quality, reduces the file size but is problematic with text and tiny objects if you do a full screen recording. The high quality compression creates a clear image that is good to read. Voice can be recorded as well by using a microphone that is connected to the computer.

The output will be created as flv files that can be uploaded to Youtube for instance or the service that the developers of Tip Cam offer their users. Tip Cam is excellent for users that want to create a quick recording without having to worry about complicated settings and options.

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