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Instead of giving another episode of my amazing “Journey For the Perfect Screen Recorder” series, I’d thought to give just the result of my success. The program that I have found is My Podcast Recorder by Deskshare. This video is a Counter Strike Source Custom Skin Tutorial. Now, instead of giving you the Youtube link(It still exists), I will try something new and give you the link to the Vimeo video as it is a much higher quality than the standard YouTube.

Hope you like it and I really hope this goes on Smokey’s refrigerator. Or on the right side under his Spray Tag Tutorial.

Day 2

So in a random forum that I found while I was searching about my problem on Google, this person had the same synchronization problem as me. Instead of getting any answers, he says he found a program called CamStudio, so I went ahead and I downloaded the program but just to be safe, I downloaded another screen recorder programs as well.

ZD Soft screen recorder worked wonders……the first time. The second time I tried it, it wouldn’t actually record so I was stuck with Camstudio. I tried Camstudio to record a tutorial, A CS:S (Counter Strike: Source) Custom Skin tutorial to be exact. After recording, I went ahead and played the file. The problem with this screen recorder was, it didn’t seem to hold up when there were too many graphics on the screen. I guess that’s what you get with a freeware program. For example when I tried going on [http://www.fpsbanana.com] and then playing it back, my voice sounded really fuzzy. When I was on Google it was perfect, but now I’m just still trying to find a decent screen recorder. I might go back to the “ZD Soft Screen Recorder” and try to get that working again.

Until then, you’ll have to wait till next week for me to bring you some news.

• Camstudio - http://www.camstudio.org
• ZD Soft Screen Recorder[Not Freeware but free download] - http://www.zdsoft.com/screen-recorder/

For the past few days, I have been annoyed by the constant bugs in screen recorders so I’m going to blog about my troubles. It isn’t that original but here it goes.

Day 1
Smokestorm recommended me to Hypercam. I’ve known it for quite some time but haven’t tried it until now. When I went to try it, it worked pretty well until I looked deeper into the video. It seemed like the audio had a liking to always go out of sync, usually 30 seconds off which is bad. I googled this situation in hopes of finding a solution to the problem but I didn’t find a solution however I did find another program that was called “Cam Studio,” so stay tuned!

As I make you wait for the next part of this amazing series to come here’s some more stuff to get you interested. What I was trying to do with Hypercam was pretty much make a whole series of videos.
Mostly recording flash games because you really can’t do much with Hypercam.

Some of the few games I was trying to do were:

• Fishy/Fishy Classic (http://www.xgenstudios.com)
• Generic Defense Game[Ultimate Defense, Ultimate Survival, Ninja Storm] (http://www.kongregate.com)

It turns out that “Generic Defense Game” worked pretty good in terms of Hypercam working with it. There were some synchronization problems with it in the middle but it all worked at the end. It sucks though because I never got around to uploading it and I recently deleted it from my computer. Once I do find a good screen recorder, I’ll be sure to get that going again. As for the Fishy video I was going to do. I found that I not only had problems with the audio and the video synchronizing but I sounded really nervous. Well, I can’t be mad about that. I still need to be open and more confident in talking to people through video.

Recently, I also tried to do a tutorial of sorts for CS:S (Also With a screen recorder). More on that after i get that to work also. I also hope to get that tutorial (once its done) to get on the right of the page under Smoky’s Spray Tag Tutorial. Well that’s it for me today wait till tomorrow to get the second part of my “Journey For The Perfect Screen Recorder”

Wanna Get Hypercam? - http://www.hypercam.com