Screen recording is not very clear

Question

Hello everyone,

I am using Windows Media Encoder 9 on Windows Vista + VSTS 2008 + C#. And I find the recorded video quality is not very good, the major issue is the details are not clear enough -- for example, when list a folder in explorer containing a lot of files (file names are not very clear), when quickly scroll-up/scroll-down a folder, the file names are not displayed immediately, but displayed gradually. I am using full screen recording (CBR) mode.

Here is my recorded video. Any advice how to improve quality?

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=jrp73s&s=5

thanks in advance, George

Answer 1

My first bit of advice would be to remember that the video you linked to, is being displayed at a much smaller resolution then whet you have on screen. That much change in resolution is why you see distortion. It's similar in comparison to displaying a movie formated for a television (692x288 on the first video I grabbed) and playing it on your computer (1440x900 here) the movie gets distorted because it has to be stretched substantially when blown-up to fill my screen. In this case it's the same thing reversed where your video at a higher resolution is being distorted (shrunk) to fit the space provided.

Answer 2

Use a product that was made for screen casting. There are a few but the most popular these days appears to be Camtasia.

They have a demo so you've nothing to lose by trying it.