Balesio, developers of Turbodemo, have introduced a new screencasting software called AllCapture 2.0 that provides a pretty solid post-production environment for editing your screencast recordings.
If you have ever worked with Adobe Flash (the authoring environment, not the Flash player), you know that Flash uses the concept of a visual timeline to show the content of a movie over time in layers and frames.
You can turn-off layers to hide some object (like an image or sound clip) from stage, group similar layers in folders, extend the display length by adding new keyframes, tweak animation and more.
[Screen capture of AllCapture Screencast Software - Notice the TimeLine]
AllCapture frame-by-frame screencast editor is something like Adobe Flash tailored for screencasting. Objects (sounds, images, text captions) are arranged as layers which can be further grouped into folders. Even the Timeline layout in AllCapture 2.0 is remarkably similar to that of Flash authoring tool.
When you record a new desktop movie in AllCapture, it's added as to the Film layer while the mouse or cursor movements go in a separate layer. This is such an excellent feature because you can visually select and disable the mouse cursor in frames. Every single frame that has motion or animation is shown with a black solid dot making it extremely easy for educators and trainers to polish their screencasts and trim the boring parts.
And like Windows Movie maker or other video editing software, you may add transitions and video effects between individual frames to make your screencasts look more professional.
A 30 second 640x480 video recording of a web browsing session resulted in a 7 MB MPG file. Not bad. The software costs around $129. [Don't have the budget, try Jing from TechSmith.]
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Reader Comments
Didn't try this. By the looks of it, it's like RoboDemo..just another linear screenshot-by-screenshot tool. The real stuff is Camtasia and it's peerless as of today in the field of non-linear dynamic smooth motion screecasting.
Written on 1/8/07 4:24 PM
Robodemo is long replaced by Adobe Captivate and not sure if it's a a linear screenshot tool anymore [I am a beta user of Adobe Captivate 3 which was launched just yesterday]
The big difference between Camtasia and AllCapture is that the latter gives you control over mouse movements per frame, something not possible in Camtasia since it blends the mouse cursor in the actual screenshot itself.
On the other hand, AllCapture keeps the mouse in a separate layer giving users lot of control. I would somehow compare this with Qarbon Viewletbuilder 5.
Written on 1/8/07 5:17 PM