Creating a video of your desktop

[mcquiggd]

Camtasia is good (although the default TSCC codec used doesnt work on PocketPC's sadly).

[xoggoth]

You might find something on here. They are the leading manufacturers of educational whiteboards. Went to a demo once and was impressed. Lots of features including recording and playback. Seem to recall you can save the recording in standard formats. You don't actually need a whiteboard to run the software which is available as a free download as they get their dosh from selling the whiteboards.

http://www.smarttech.com/support/software/index.asp

[JohnBradbury]

Camtasia Studio

Without doubt the best tool on the market for motion screen capture is Camtasia Studio: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

You can record everything and save into various formats including .swf .mpg .avi etc....

[PerlOfWisdom]

Set up a cine camera pointing at your screen. When the film is developed you can send it away to be converted into a video. Then you'll need a TV card for your PC and plug the video recorder into the ariel socket and play the video into your PC. Then you can burn it to DVD (if you have a DVD writer).

[Ardesco]

There is a program called Fraps (http://www.fraps.com/) that is used a lot by people who play FPS games. I belive it can record a demo of anything and convert it to windows media player format. Might be worth a look if you are looking for a freebie app.

[Joe Black]

Thanks guys (and girls?), will have a look at them all, particularly VMWare since I have a recent[ish] copy.

If I can get this done them some poor sods alternative (a powerpoint presentation) will be consigned to history...

[xondo]

I use a program called SnagIT. You can edit after the rcording.

[ladymuck]

macromedia captivate (used to be called robodemo)

[madhippy]

Including the cursor?

yup - just checked ... version 5.5 needed ...

[expat]

I tend to use vmware for dev/test environments - latest version lets you record vids ...

Including the cursor?

[madhippy]

I tend to use vmware for dev/test environments - latest version lets you record vids ...

[Joe Black]

I would like to create a video, (training film/demo if you like) showing how to use a particular program/web-app, i.e. record what you might show to someone if they asked "give me a demo of how the system works", and then you set about clicking things, entering stuff etc, i.e. exactly what that person would see on screen, but recorded as a movie which I could then edit.

I have lots of tools for editing videos etc, but can anyone recommend something which I can use to record it in the first place?