My Screen Recorder Pro: Converting AVI Files

Converting AVI Files

WMV Conversion

My Screen Recorder Pro's Conversion Wizard allows you to convert your AVI screen recordings to WMV format for easy sharing. You can choose between two categories.

1. Profiles for Desktop Viewing: My Screen Recorder Pro provides two profiles for Desktop Viewing.  The Screen and Voice (High Quality) profile gives the best output in terms of quality. You can also choose to save your recordings in the Screen and Voice (Standard Quality) profile that gives smaller recording size.
2. Profiles for Streaming: If you want to share your recordings with a wide audience, you can distribute your recordings on your website by uploading them to your web server or a streaming server like Video Desk. You can choose from two profiles for streaming, depending upon the bandwidth available to your audience.
   1. Screen and Voice (100 kbps)
   2. Screen and Voice (200 kbps)

You need to find out the bandwidth available to the majority of your audience and then select one of the two profiles. The 100 kbps is the minimum speed required by your audience to view your presentation over the internet. It is recommended that you choose Screen and Voice (100 kbps) since it can be viewed by a larger audience.

The quality of videos saved in web streaming profiles is not as good as the ones saved in the profiles for desktop viewing. However, the size is small allowing them to be streamed from your web site easily.

Read the article: Create Screen Recordings For Web Streaming

Web streaming your screen recordings using a Streaming server like Video Desk allows you track your audience and does not require the viewer to download the entire presentation. This process basically involves two steps:

1. Convert your screen recordings to Windows Media Format.
2. Publish the recording to your website or streaming server.

To convert your AVI screen recordings to WMV format:

1. On the Tools menu, click Convert.
2. Click Next on the welcome screen of the Conversion Wizard.
3. Click Add to add the AVI  files you want to convert. You can specify the output folder by clicking on Browse.
4. To remove a file from the list, click Remove.
5. If one or more files are selected in the File List of My Screen Recorder Pro then they are automatically added.
6. Click Next.
7. If you want to resize the video then select Resize Video option.
8. To preserve the aspect ratio of the resized video, click Resize Type. Select the Preserve Aspect Ratio.
9. Specify the width and height of the resized video.
10. Click Next.
11. If you want to create an HTML with converted video embedded in it, then check Embed video into a HTML File option. You can customize the HTML page by changing the alignment of the recording on the page, whether to start playing it automatically, and whether to show the player controls (Play, Stop, etc.).
12. Depending upon your distribution requirements, select the appropriate option for the Profiles Folder and the Profile Name.
13. Click Next.
14. In the Video Information window, specify video information like the Title, Author, Copyright and Description. This information will be displayed during playback with a media player. This information is optional. 
15. Click Next to start the conversion process.

Note: You need to have Windows Media Player 9 and DirectX 8.0 or higher for Windows 2000 or older operating systems if you want to playback of WMV and WMA files. To download, Windows Media Player 9 or higher go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx?displang=en&qstechnology=

To download DirectX 8.0 or higher, use the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2DA43D38-DB71-4C1B-BC6A-9B6652CD92A3&displaylang=en

SWF Conversion

My Screen Recorder Pro also allows you to convert your screen recordings to Shockwave Flash (SWF) format for easy playback on multiple platforms.

To convert your AVI screen recordings to SWF flash format:

1. On the Tools menu, click Convert.
2. Click Next on the welcome screen of the Conversion Wizard.
3. Click Add to add the AVI  files you want to convert. You can specify the output folder by clicking on Browse.
4. To remove a file from the list, click Remove.
5. If one or more files are selected in the File List of My Screen Recorder Pro then they are automatically added.
6. Click Next.
7. If you want to resize the video then select Resize Video option.
8. To preserve the aspect ratio of the resized video, click Resize Type. Select the Preserve aspect ratio. Click Ok.
9. Specify the width and height of the resized video.
10. If you want to create an HTML with converted video embedded in it, then check Embed video into a HTML File option. Additionally you can customize the HTML page. You can choose Play controls alignment as Top or Bottom.
11. Click Next to start the conversion process.

Note: Due to limitation on SWF length, AVI files with more than 16,000 frames will be segmented into different SWF file after every 15,600 frames.

AVI Conversion

My Screen Recorder Pro also allows you to resize your AVI screen recordings and create AVI files with new dimensions while retaining much of the clarity of the original. This feature can be used to convert full desktop screen recordings to AVI files having dimensions required for burning onto a DVD or VCD.

To resize your AVI screen recordings:

1. On the Tools menu, click Convert.
2. Click Next on the welcome screen of the Conversion Wizard.
3. Click Add to add the AVI files you want to convert. You can specify the output folder by clicking on Browse.
4. To remove a file from the list, click Remove.
5. If one or more files are selected in the File List of My Screen Recorder Pro then they are automatically added.
6. Click Next.
7. Select the Resize Video option if not already selected.
8. Specify the width and height of the resized video.
9. To preserve the aspect ratio of the resized video, click Resize Type. Select the Preserve Aspect Ratio.
10. If you want to create an HTML with converted video embedded in it, then check Embed video into a HTML File option. You can select whether to have the video start playing automatically when the page loads, and whether to show the player's controls (Play, Stop, etc.).
11. Click Next to start the conversion process.

Note: Resize facility is not available in Win98.