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
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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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