What tools do people use to make programming tutorial videos?

Question

I'm wanting to make some yee-run-o'-the-mill tutorial videos about some programming concepts and stuff i've been doing. Nothing special ... lots of peeps been doing it.

What tools are people using to record and edit these videos? What resolutions, fonts, and sizes do people generally use?

The only tool I've had experience with is Camtasia - and i didn't mind it. But i've seen vid's (or live demo's) where people zoom in to code sections.. how do they do that? For final editing, do most people just do some simple power point presentation with some video snippets mashed in.

Answer 1

Camtasia allows you to zoom, IIRC - you can either let it work it out for you, or explicitly say when and where you want it to zoom.

Answer 2

For zooming in it could be ZoomIt.

And I severely hope no-one would regard PowerPoint as a video editing tool.

Answer 3

There are loads of tips on ShowMeDo for all aspects of screen-casting

Answer 4

CamStudio, which is free. http://camstudio.org/

Answer 5

If you have a Mac, QuickTime comes with a screen- and audio-recording tool builtin. And it also comes with iMovie, which you can use to edit the resulting video and splice in some other stuff.

Answer 6

• CamTasia - That can zoom in on areas, either automatically, or you can choose. You should read the tutorial
• BBFlashback. Great for putting pauses in videos, waiting for user interaction (click this button to move to the next stage).

CamTasia can do the pauses like BBFlashback, but its not as well done.

BBFlashback can't do the zooming like CamTasia.

A free version of BBFlashback (Express) is also available, which is limited compared to the full version.

I think CamTasia is also available for the Mac.

Answer 7

Working off a Mac, Screenflow works pretty well.