Record desktop Activity: Take Screenshots orFull Motion RecordingThere are two recording modes in DemoCreator: Take screenshots and Fullmotion recording. What recording mode you need? It depends on whatactivity on the screen you want to record. For standard application, Takescreenshots recording is nice. For really changes on screen, full motionrecording is better option.
Take screenshots:



This recording mode works great at recording standard application like MS Word, Excel orInternet Explorer, where there’s not a lot of animationand moving images. This mode will do very little impact on your PCsperformance. With this option, you can select to record more actions like cursormovement and keystroke and edit them later. Furthermore, you can generateAuto-text and mouseclick animations to illustrate your screen recording.

The recording movie is divided as multiple slides, and slidesare generated based on the mouse clicks and keystrokes. Basically, one mouseclick or a series of keystrokes generates a slide. So each slide lasts only afew seconds. You can click and drag and edit various objects for your recording.You can adjust the length of the slide and its show order andedit it in the time line, but it may cause some synchronization problem betweenvideo and audio. It is recommended that you record the audio with the audioeditor after editing the slides and there is no more adjusting to the time line.If there is no audio in the recording, it is free to adjust the editing objectsand the time line.

Full motion recording:


Full motion recording will record thereally changes on your screen. It records the onscreen changes even youdon’t move your mouse or there is no keystroke. So it can be used to record someplaying animation movie (SWF, FLV, AVI) and some actions like dragging andscrolling on screen. It records a few screenshots in a second and combines themas a movie. The default recording setting is 25 FPS(Frame per Second) . Record alarge area with full motion recording mode need to collect a lot of data and itconsume much resource of the computer. If the computer can not support that highFPS, the FPS will be lowered automatically. So to improve the recording effect,you can do some settings to optimize the computer performance.If you are going to capture full motion video, disable yourcomputer's hardware acceleration beforehand. That will make your computer runsmore smoothly in recording. There is a screencast to show you how to disablehardware acceleration:

A basic rule is that if there are many screen actions likedragging and scrolling, or there is animation movie on the desktop, Full motionrecording is better option to show your recording. But if you want a smallerstreaming movie and more auto-generated editing objects to decorate your screenrecording, Take screenshots recording mode can fit your needs better. To showthe necessary actions like dragging and scrolling actions but also reduce thefile size, you can combine the two recording modes together with the Importproject feature.

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