Other freebie recorders are safe but intimidating (OBS: ) Linux-only (SimpleScreenRecorder: or “freemium” (marketing-speak for “not actually free”). CamStudio is a junk-offender, and oCam bundles the Trojan ‘BRTSvc’ in its installer. Top tools are expensive (Camtasia costs £), while free stuff is a minefield. If I were to record the problem in action – along with associated error messages, settings, and futile efforts to fix it – then I could post it online and get people’s advice.įastStone Capture’s program window is diminutive – I’ve got bigger frown-linesįinding good screen-recording software was its own adventure. The task was triggered by my perpetual frustration over my computer’s failure to connect to the Windows Store. So let me talk myself back into it by telling you, in words, how I created my own screencast. I’m talking myself out of a job here, aren’t I? Tech tips and PC problems are much easier to explain through screenshots than words, and a screencast – basically a video screenshot – epitomises the ‘show, don’t tell’ rule of explaining things. If a picture speaks a thousand words, a video speaks at least, oh, two and a half million. After running out of words to express her tech woes, Jane Hoskyn shuts up and works out how to…
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