Screencast

I'm not having much luck making my first screencast. Contrary to 
appearances this isn't a misplaced bug report. I'm just trying to get a 
recommendation on a screencaster that will work for me.

I've worked with videos before on Fedora I started with files from my 
video camera, edited them with Pitivi and watched them with videos. I 
have all the codecs loaded and I've tried out my F31 by playing some of 
my prior videos with Videos. Everything works fine.

The two screencasters I could find were Peek and Vokoscreen. I installed 
them both with no problems. Peek doesn't do full screen or audio and I 
need both. Vokoscreen seemed to work and when I played back the file I 
got the audio, but the screen was just black. I tried a couple different 
File formats with no success.

For prior occasions I set up my video camera on a tripod in front of my 
screen with a microphone connected to the camera. That was awkward since 
I had to work in a dark room and the camera was in front of the screen. 
It worked though the video quality was less than optimal.

I need to create another training video and thought I would try out a 
screencaster. Does anyone here happen to know of a screencaster that 
does full screen, audio, and works good? This won't be on a website. The 
trainees will watch the video on a nice big television; so I use the 
video file formats and associated codecs.

Have a Great Day!

Pat	(tablepc)

[Ryan Walter]

I always recommend ( OBS) open broadcaster studio for any recording on Linux ( or windows) needs, you can have a source be your desktop and overlay and external video sources like a camera or webcam if that is your content style.

-------- Original Message --------
On Nov 17, 2019, 12:59 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> I'm not having much luck making my first screencast. Contrary to
> appearances this isn't a misplaced bug report. I'm just trying to get a
> recommendation on a screencaster that will work for me.
>
> I've worked with videos before on Fedora I started with files from my
> video camera, edited them with Pitivi and watched them with videos. I
> have all the codecs loaded and I've tried out my F31 by playing some of
> my prior videos with Videos. Everything works fine.
>
> The two screencasters I could find were Peek and Vokoscreen. I installed
> them both with no problems. Peek doesn't do full screen or audio and I
> need both. Vokoscreen seemed to work and when I played back the file I
> got the audio, but the screen was just black. I tried a couple different
> File formats with no success.
>
> For prior occasions I set up my video camera on a tripod in front of my
> screen with a microphone connected to the camera. That was awkward since
> I had to work in a dark room and the camera was in front of the screen.
> It worked though the video quality was less than optimal.
>
> I need to create another training video and thought I would try out a
> screencaster. Does anyone here happen to know of a screencaster that
> does full screen, audio, and works good? This won't be on a website. The
> trainees will watch the video on a nice big television; so I use the
> video file formats and associated codecs.
>
> Have a Great Day!
>
> Pat (tablepc)
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[Paul Frields]

Also, if you're just trying to grab screencast of your Fedora desktop,
you can use Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R to start a recording, and then the same
keys to stop. The resulting video in .webm format will be in your
~/Videos/ folder.

Paul

On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 2:07 PM Ryan Walter  wrote:
> I always recommend ( OBS) open broadcaster studio for any recording on Linux ( or windows) needs, you can have a source be your desktop and overlay and external video sources like a camera or webcam if that is your content style.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> On Nov 17, 2019, 12:59 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> > I'm not having much luck making my first screencast. Contrary to
> > appearances this isn't a misplaced bug report. I'm just trying to get a
> > recommendation on a screencaster that will work for me.
> >
> > I've worked with videos before on Fedora I started with files from my
> > video camera, edited them with Pitivi and watched them with videos. I
> > have all the codecs loaded and I've tried out my F31 by playing some of
> > my prior videos with Videos. Everything works fine.
> >
> > The two screencasters I could find were Peek and Vokoscreen. I installed
> > them both with no problems. Peek doesn't do full screen or audio and I
> > need both. Vokoscreen seemed to work and when I played back the file I
> > got the audio, but the screen was just black. I tried a couple different
> > File formats with no success.
> >
> > For prior occasions I set up my video camera on a tripod in front of my
> > screen with a microphone connected to the camera. That was awkward since
> > I had to work in a dark room and the camera was in front of the screen.
> > It worked though the video quality was less than optimal.
> >
> > I need to create another training video and thought I would try out a
> > screencaster. Does anyone here happen to know of a screencaster that
> > does full screen, audio, and works good? This won't be on a website. The
> > trainees will watch the video on a nice big television; so I use the
> > video file formats and associated codecs.
> >
> > Have a Great Day!
> >
> > Pat (tablepc)
> > _______________________________________________
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[Gregory Lee Bartholomew]

The built-in screencast recorder has worked well for me as well. Beware though
that you will need to use the "gsettings" command to update the value of "max-
screencast-length" or else the video will automatically stop after only 30
seconds.

Also, if you want audio, you'd probably have to record that separately somehow
and use something to merge the audio and video files into one recording. e.g.:

https://superuser.com/questions/277642/how-to-merge-audio-and-video-file-in-...

When using the i3 window manager, I wrote a custom script and mapped it to a
hotkey. Let me know if you'd be interested in that script and I can post it
here.

On Sun, 2019-11-17 at 15:27 -0500, Paul Frields wrote:
> Also, if you're just trying to grab screencast of your Fedora desktop,
> you can use Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R to start a recording, and then the same
> keys to stop. The resulting video in .webm format will be in your
> ~/Videos/ folder.
>
> Paul
>
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 2:07 PM Ryan Walter  wrote:
> > I always recommend ( OBS) open broadcaster studio for any recording on Linux ( or windows) needs, you can have a source be your desktop and overlay and external video sources like a camera or webcam if that is your content style.
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > On Nov 17, 2019, 12:59 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> > > I'm not having much luck making my first screencast. Contrary to
> > > appearances this isn't a misplaced bug report. I'm just trying to get a
> > > recommendation on a screencaster that will work for me.
> > >
> > > I've worked with videos before on Fedora I started with files from my
> > > video camera, edited them with Pitivi and watched them with videos. I
> > > have all the codecs loaded and I've tried out my F31 by playing some of
> > > my prior videos with Videos. Everything works fine.
> > >
> > > The two screencasters I could find were Peek and Vokoscreen. I installed
> > > them both with no problems. Peek doesn't do full screen or audio and I
> > > need both. Vokoscreen seemed to work and when I played back the file I
> > > got the audio, but the screen was just black. I tried a couple different
> > > File formats with no success.
> > >
> > > For prior occasions I set up my video camera on a tripod in front of my
> > > screen with a microphone connected to the camera. That was awkward since
> > > I had to work in a dark room and the camera was in front of the screen.
> > > It worked though the video quality was less than optimal.
> > >
> > > I need to create another training video and thought I would try out a
> > > screencaster. Does anyone here happen to know of a screencaster that
> > > does full screen, audio, and works good? This won't be on a website. The
> > > trainees will watch the video on a nice big television; so I use the
> > > video file formats and associated codecs.
> > >
> > > Have a Great Day!
> > >
> > > Pat (tablepc)
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Fedora Magazine mailing list -- [e-mail]
> > > To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]
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> >
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