How Do You Make a Video For YouTube?

[snowmanrene]

higher quality when recording = possible laggy gameplay = bigger file.

[sceneguy]

i use the hauppauge colossus to record.

no lag while gaming and can capture UPTO 1080i h264 ON-THE-FLY!

in hd720, 10min video already encoded takes about 300mb.

[Ladybbird1]

For a screenshot the easiest method is to just press CTRL and PrintScreen together... then open Paint and just press CTRL and V together. Then edit the pic or just save it. Simpelz!.... p.s. I love Redheads!

AS for making Youlube vids... I have tried but they always failed at about 75% of the upload!

OK that should be simple,...... for most LOL. But when I press CTRL and PrintScreen together, what happens/will I see on my screen...
and do I continue to press both down when I open Paint.

How do I open paint? Ive never used that before and I have Vista.

After paint is open and I press CTRL and V together, what happens then, is that it? or does the screenshot appear?

Thanks so much for your help and excuse me for being a DUH on this

[Ladybbird1]

Great help from you guys and as soon as I have the time I will start experimenting to see if your suggestions work, but could you answer these questions please;

when I press CTRL and PrintScreen together, what happens/will I see on my screen...
and do I continue to press both down when I open Paint.

How do I open paint? Ive never used that before and I have Vista.

After paint is open and I press CTRL and V together, what happens then, is that it? or does the screenshot appear?

Thanks in advance

[RT]

Click the Print button only, that will capture the entire desktop, go to Paint/photoshop, click CTRL+V and the screenshot will get paste on it, then you can edit/crop/add text...etc.

[CloudShadow]

Or you could just use windows vista's inbuilt snipping tool. That'll let you take a snapshot of any part of your screen.

Press start and search for 'snipping tool'

[Ladybbird1]

Click the Print button only, that will capture the entire desktop, go to Paint/photoshop, click CTRL+V and the screenshot will get paste on it, then you can edit/crop/add text...etc.

Much easier for me to understand, thanks so much!

---------- Post added at 03:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:20 PM ----------

Or you could just use windows vista's inbuilt snipping tool. That'll let you take a snapshot of any part of your screen.

Press start and search for 'snipping tool'

That is soooooooo cool, you are bril, so much quicker and easier. Thanks a bunch!

---------- Post added 5th Apr 2012 at 10:59 AM ---------- Previous post was 4th Apr 2012 at 03:21 PM ----------

This will give you a laugh, I did my first screenshot yesterday, it was something important for my site's server so I did it in a bit of a rush using Vistas Snipping Tool...........and I was so pleased with myself,,,,,until I posted it on the ticket to the server

I had cut off the bottom of what I was trying to send

Never mind I will keep practising. I promise I will try to improve......under your guidance.

[hulkman]

Print Screen can be used by any one and simple option. If you want to capture particular area, you can use Duckcapture . Its an easy tool if you can set it sparing few mins.

For recording screen, You need a HQ mic(microphone) and Camtasia (On-screen Recorder -the best).

P.s: if you dont have a good mic, you can use the mic of android phone if you own. I use my android phone to record voice mobiles got best quality. The App is use in Android is "DroidCam" .

[JGM]

+1 for Fraps, great little app

Not used Camtasia yet but I intend on doing

If you want to make screen shots of video files then I recommend VideoThumbnails Maker by Scorp, superb piece of software.

JGM.

[traxport121]

If you have windows7 try Snipping Tool for screenshots and try Windows Movie Maker (you may have to download this from Windows live Installer) to combine them and make them in a form of video

Best Luck !