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Ask YC: Recommendations on how to make demo video (60 sec tour) for our starup?
Are there any (free) products on the web that help make demo videos? We want to make a 60 second tour for our startup, and were wondering if people had any good recomendations. Just need to show the screen and capture mouse movements/changes with some voiceover or text.
Any ideas?
- jakewolf 19y agoCamtasia is easy to use. http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
- ardit33 19y agoI have used it before, and Camtasia is really good. It exports video in a bunch of formats (flash is one of them) plus it has a 30 days no limitation trial.
- thomasswift 19y agoishowu for the mac is pretty cheap. i am afraid there aren't too many free options that are easy to use. there is http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ i've used it before, but honestly spending a few bucks in this department will save you time in the long haul. there was some sort of hack with using yui as a guided tour a few weeks back, sorry no link. applying a voiceover could be a problem though.
- shafqat 19y agoi heard there is an inbuilt product for the mac that does this. you said ishowu is 'pretty cheap', so I imagine that isnt it? thanks for everyone's help!
- thomasswift 19y ago$30.
- bprater 19y agoGet a good mike. Might be the most important thing you do to create a good vid.
- twak 19y agohttp://amazon.decenturl.com/samson-audio-c01u-condenser http://amazon.decenturl.com/samson-audio-c01u-condenser is the kind of thing you'll be wanting
- jakewolf 19y agoI've heard good things about that one, but ended up with a Blue Snowball which also works well. Love using with with skype and speakers for a truly hands and headset free talking experience.
- jcl 19y agoFree, open-source screen capture program for Windows: http://camstudio.org/ http://camstudio.org/ I've used a suspiciously similar-looking program called DemoStudio in the past and I found it fairly easy to use.
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- wehriam 19y agoI use a $40 Logitech headset, Screenography for OSX, and iMovie.
- paul9290 19y agoYes - I suggest showing if it makes sense - how it affects a user when using it. This will garner you a larger audience, then step 1, step 2, etc Like Speeddate's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJnXORCW1Vg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJnXORCW1Vg)vid. This is something we did for our startup and it has worked well!
- iamelgringo 19y agoI know that VMWare workstation has a "capture movie" setting. It's pretty handy to be able to have the functionality outside of the OS, so you can use any OS you want.
- webwright 19y agoWhile you're asking about tools, I gotta link to these guys: http://www.commoncraft.com/ http://www.commoncraft.com/ They do some pretty kickass "screencasts". ;-)
- earle 19y agoemail ijustine :)
- spif 19y agoWhy don't you watch the peepcode screencast, it's only 9 bucks but very worth it. He explains how to use iMovie, iShowU and Omnigraffle for creating them. The link is https://peepcode.com/products/screencasting-on-the-mac https://peepcode.com/products/screencasting-on-the-mac (BTW I don't know or am affiliated with the top funky guy, just a fan of their peepcode screencasts)
- clm9779 19y agowww.jing.com Its free, not the best but super super easy to use. You can make up to a 5 min video, while talking people through it.