A question about the making of tutorials

NullUnit

If you are making a tutorial for HF and the project you are working on is slowing your computer down to a crawl, then doesn't that disrupt the screen capture software (such as camtasia)?

spydurhank

Camtasia will take up more resources than HF so Camtasia will slow down HF performance during screen capture. 

NullUnit

But, you guys don't have the experience of the screen capture software dropping frames or whole seconds of footage if the HF project is really taking up resources?
@spydurhank Camtasia will not give up its resources to HF?

AxelWilkinson

Sometimes the framerate of the screencap won't quite keep up with the screen.  For example, even after preview rendering the timeline, the playback of the viewer in the screencap might not be as smooth as you would hope.  In those cases, I usually render out the video, and then comp it over the screencapped viewer to accurately represent what I was seeing in person.
Other than realtime playback of the viewer, though, I've never had a real issue with the smoothness of the capture.

NullUnit

Ok, thanks! Atomic particles tutorial coming soon...

StormyKnight

Experiment 19?

NullUnit

 

Experiment 19?

Hehe, this will be experiment 20.
P.s. Sorry I'vre been lagging on answering your questions. I will soon. Work has been crazy again.

Andy001z

Hi guys and girls, anyone using any free tools for tutorial capture? I can put together the post bits but the capture needs to be smoothish.

Thanks

Triem23

@Andy001z BB Flashback Express for free?

http://www.flashbackrecorder.com/express

dagaffer

I get frustrated that all the resources are not supplied for the tutorial take the one with the man in the copter sure the obj may not be available but the shot of the actors running across the roof and the background would be a great help in the learning process

SimonKJones

@Andy001z - if you have a modern NVIDIA video card you can use their own built-in Shadowplay. That's what I use these days for making the HitFilm tutes.

FRAPS isn't free but it is super cheap.

NormanPCN

OBS is free. I installed the new multi-platform version and checked it out a little. It seems simple enough to use.

https://obsproject.com/

"Window" capture mode did not work with the Hitfilm window. Desktop capture or Game capture work fine. I used the x264 encoder options.

OBS can capture constant framerate, for good editing.

 

 

StephansBilderwelt

I am using Quicktime, like it a lot. 

SteveKarstensen

For my last tutorial, I used VLC for my screen captures:

www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html