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A great deal of companies need promotional and instructional videos created for their software applications, web applications, web stores and other computer-platform products.
There's a growing need for video producers to "shoot" action contained within a computer monitor. This presents a new set of challenges for traditional camera-based acquisition.
It wasn't too long ago that the simplest solution for video producers was to run a VGA signal from their computer through a box that converted the signal to the proper video format and into a video camera or tape deck. Then, you'd have to ingest the footage and bring it back into the computer system to edit it.
Today, there are several software solutions that can directly capture display output, keeping the whole process internal and quite simple. In fact, for many instructional video producers, you could get away with never owning a camcorder by simply "shooting" the computer display output with these screen capture software tools. So let's get down to the basics and show you how to get that website or computer application out of your machine into your next vi…
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