Here’s a quick video showing how to obtain pan and zoom effects with CamStudio.
Panning is built into CamStudio, but zooming isn’t (yet!) so in the meantime, I used a freeware third-party application called Magnifying Glass which you can get from http://www.workerscollection.com










21 responses so far ↓
1 marykay // Sep 14, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Howdy!
As of 11am EST, I am a new CamStudio user! In fact, I have never used a screen capture program before. I am very impressed with the program, and very grateful it is available at no cost.
I quickly made my first tutorial with audio, instructing a user on how to format a floppy (archaic stuff, I know). I couldn’t figure out how to make my video smaller. I found your tutorial and really found it useful. I am currently downloading VirtualDub to try it out. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
2 Dai // Sep 15, 2007 at 11:07 am
Hi Nick
tried the magnifier but can’t get it to work for me for some reason. All I get is a grey square with pink border stuck in the top left hand corner of my screen. It may have something to do with the error dialog box when I run it not sure. Just wondering if anyone else is having any problems with it as it seems like a good little program to use with camstudio.
it would be nice if the sizer program you found on sourcforge and this magnifyer could be incorporated into camstudio even better if some of the code from vitualdub could be used to create a built in editor. Like you say it is finding programmers to do this stuff. just my thoughts on the subject.
3 ghosty1212 // Sep 19, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Hey Dai,
I’ve encountered the same problem, and I’m trying to find a way around it. I’ll take a video in both Vista and XP, if I come up with an answer. In the mean time, Nick, have you found out about how to make it work with Linux without Wine? I’ve been trying to get CamStudio to run on the Linux kernel, Xubuntu 7.04. If I find out how, I’ll post it.
Thanks again for making such a great product. =D
4 Dai // Sep 21, 2007 at 7:33 pm
I think others have tried camstudio and wine but with out much success. would be nice if it would run in wine.
5 ghosty1212 // Sep 22, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Dang. I should try making it run in Wine then…. Once my older comp is up and running with more RAM. lol
6 Turin // Oct 7, 2007 at 7:27 am
i have a doubt, and i haven’t been able to find the right place to ask you this.
I’m building an Usability Evaluation application, and i need to capture video of the screen. i found CamStudio and it’s exactly what i need, but i really need to know if it’s there anyway of controlling it from the command line in winXP. as for now i ude the sendkeys methods in c# to emulate commands such as alt+F+R to start recording and such, but i need to know if there’s anyway to do this, and also change the parameters of the options with the command line.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance and keep the good work.
7 JimmyRcom // Oct 16, 2007 at 12:44 am
just use zoomit, it’s a tiny prog, download it directly from microsoft’s site. It has multicolor drawing and other nifty features.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/zoomit.mspx
8 JimmyRcom // Oct 16, 2007 at 12:47 am
This one is multi-OS http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60638
9 AldenP // Nov 11, 2007 at 12:14 am
Hi,
Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but I’m having some trouble recording footage from the open-source application Blender (www.blender.org). I’m guessing the problem is it runs on OpenGL. Everything recorded in the OpenGL view is all pixelly and updates later than it should. Is there any kind of solution for this?
10 drs // Feb 20, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Hi,
I recently tried the SysInternals Zoomit and it also works. It did not work in a some codecs, but it does work with the CamStudio codec. A neat thing is that it allows you to draw on the screen.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx
-David
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Hmm… Is that a shell or a different Os?
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15 JKEngineer // Nov 22, 2008 at 2:59 am
I just found another magnifier that I tested with CamStudio 2.5. It is called OneLoupe and is available at: http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/OneLoupe&language=english
It seems to work very well overall although there are some interferences with CamStudio. If CamStudio is not recording, then OneLoupe uses the arrow keys to size the magnified window, and the number keys (at the top, not the side) to set the level of magnification. These don’t seem to work if a recording is going on. However, you can preset them before recording and they will be remembered.
The program does not need to be installed and is said to run from a USB key. It is only 24KB!!
I also had to use the F9 key to stop recording, since I could not bring the CamStudio window back.
16 Nick // Nov 22, 2008 at 10:20 am
@JKEngineer
Thanks for the link, I’ll check it out.
Cheers
Nick
17 fro // Dec 13, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I use XP accessibility magnifier. You can move it around. I normally capture DVD resolution and start the magnifier and set into a corner if I think that the text or something will be to small.
This is also available in Vista.
They also have a keyboard if you want to demonstrate key function on the keyboard.
You can have all that open before you video capture and just move it into you capture area, and move away when you don’t need it.
18 John Perez // Jan 8, 2009 at 5:10 am
I’m trying to capture Google Earth flying into a destination and the video ends up stuttering with judder. I want my “fly-in” to be smooth. Can I achieve this? Thanks, John in Orlando
19 labib123 // Mar 23, 2009 at 12:53 am
I have problem with my camstudio microphone when i play a .avi file when i see the audio its at the wrong place
20 labib123 // Mar 23, 2009 at 12:54 am
Hi i wanted to say you can zoom in with mac by pressing APPLE button and moveing your mous it will zooom
21 labib123 // Mar 23, 2009 at 12:56 am
instead of zoomers why dont you download
Camtasia 6 or
AVI ZOOMER
AVI ZOOMER u can upload avi and press zoom in and out
search on google
Or camtasia 6 it has a zoom or pan FEATURE
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