![]() ![]() You can’t simply drag videos into FlashBack from the Windows Explorer. This is particularly useful when creating software demos in which you want everything to look as slick as possible.Ĭreating a movie from a number of separately recorded clips is unnecessarily difficult, however. If you happen to have made a recording in which your mouse pointer moves irregularly around the screen you can tell FlashBack to get rid of all the irrelevant movements by making the pointer move smoothly between two critical points (say a button click and a menu selection). I also like FlashBack’s easy mouse-cursor smoothing tool. For example, you could select one or more frames and then delete them or crop them (that is, delete the frames on either side of the selection). Its editing timeline shows each individually captured ‘frame’ and you can edit these one by one. An area in which BB FlashBack is stronger is in precise frame-based editing. Suffice to say, the Camtasia editor is vastly more powerful in almost every respect. I won’t go into any more detail on the editing. FlashBack also has rather basic annotations (unlike Camtasia, arrows and boxes cannot be ‘animated’ – just ‘faded in’) and it has just three simple transitions: cross-fade, fade-through-white and fade-through-black (Camtasia has 30 transitions as standard including fancy effects such as page-turns, a rotating cube and Venetian blinds). For example, the editor provides just one video track (plus various audio and ‘objects’ tracks) and all video clips must be placed sequentially on this track (in Camtasia, the number of video tracks, which can be placed one under the other, is theoretically unlimited). However, by comparison with some other competing products, such as TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio 8, BB FlashBack suffers from a number of limitations. When you want to blend one clip into another you can add a transition to create a fade effect.Īll of which may sound pretty good. You can also import previously FlashBack recordings or audio and video clips in standard formats such as. And you can add text and annotations such as arrows and ‘speech bubbles’. You may optionally add effects to highlight the mouse or mouse clicks. For example, a magnifying tool lets you increase the size of a selected circle as though a hand magnifier had been placed over it. There are several other ways of drawing attention to specific areas on screen. Unfortunately once applied you can’t resize the zoom area using the interactive box on screen, though you can do so by editing numeric fields in a dialog box. Then you click a button to apply the effects. To do that you just draw a box on screen to indicate which bit of the screen needs to be zoomed or panned to. You can also add zooms and pans to focus in on specific parts of the recording. Here you can cut out any mistakes, then add captions and annotations such as boxes and arrows. Once you’ve saved the recording, it is loaded into the FlashBack Player editing environment. You can optionally make recordings with or without sound and you can even record from a webcam. Alternatively you can select a specific window or record from a rectangular area drawn on screen with a mouse. The BB FlashBack recorder lets you record your entire screen or (on a multi-monitor system) from one or more monitors simultaneously. If you prefer the appearance and layout of earlier versions of FlashBack (light colour scheme, timeline at top of the screen), tough luck – there is no way of customising the user interface to adopt the old look.īefore doing anything else you need to record one or more clips from which the final movie will be assembled. Not only does this have a new carbon-grey colour scheme but it also places the timeline at the bottom of the workspace (just like most other video editing applications) rather than at the top as it did before. If you’ve used previous versions of BB Flashback the first thing you’ll notice about this new release is the redesigned user interface. If you are a Windows user, the recently-released BB FlashBack Pro 5 could have everything you need to take you from recording to editing to rendering. Maybe you want to publish software courses on YouTube or on an eLearning site such as Udemy or FutureLearn? Maybe you need to record simple tutorials for the benefit of the people in your company or to make software demos and promotional material? For all of the above, you will need a screen recording tool and, ideally, an editing environment for putting the finishing touches to your videos. These days, it seems that just about every computer user need s to make some screencasts at one time or another. ![]()
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