Re: Lotus Screen Cam

[Susan Heathfield <s -dot- heathfield -at- tsc -dot- techsmith -dot- com>]

John Prince asked:

" Is anyone using Lotus Screen Cam to make short software demos that can be
run from a WinHelp file? (demonstrating how to perform tasks in the
software) I looked into this product and MacroMedia Director, and Director
is much more complicated...

Dear Group:

I'm sorry I'm a few days behind in my email. I'd like to suggest John look 
into our products at TechSmith. We are the developers of SnagIt which many 
of you on the list use. We introduced the new version of our new product, 
Camtasia, on June 8. It does what John needs.

Camtasia is a screen camcorder and video production tool. The Camtasia 
suite of tools makes it easy to record, broadcast, edit and publish high 
fidelity, compressed videos of onscreen activity for computer based 
training, technical support solutions, product demonstrations, sales 
presentations and more. For those of you who looked at the product after we 
introduced it at Comdex, you will be interested to know the newest version 
has some new features.

For example, Camtasia 2.0 supplies Live Output which lets users send a live 
broadcast of desktop activity over the Internet, in real-time. You can use 
the Quick Capture function to enhance the quality of your movie, speed up 
the frame rate for the pointer, and thus make cursor movements less choppy 
on slower systems; and you can convert a Camtasia movie, with the Pack and 
Show feature, into an executable file which, because of improved 
compression, sends a smaller attachment through e-mail.

www.techsmith.com

Regards,

Susan



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Camtasia makes videos of desktop activities.
SnagIt provides multimedia screen capture.