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My Screen Recorder Pro
v2.67
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Creating Screen Recordings For Web
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Making a demo by capturing your screen activity is
the first step towards communicating with your audience. Making these
presentations easily accessible is the next step, perhaps as important
as making the demo itself. |
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With My Screen Recorder Pro,
you can make great
screen recordings and
distribute them in a
variety of ways.
One unique way is to
prepare your screen
recordings for
distribution on the
Internet. |
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My Screen Recorder Pro has a Publishing Wizard that
simplifies the process of creating and distributing screen recordings down to
two steps. |
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Converting screen recordings into a format suitable for streaming. |
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Publishing
these
recordings
to a streaming server. |
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This article guides you
through the process. |
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Creating a Screen Recording in a Format Suitable For
Streaming |
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After making a
good screen recording in AVI,
My Screen Recorder Pro
can convert it into a
format suitable for use
on a website. Windows Media Format (WMV)
is an excellent choice
for web streaming
because of its high quality and small file size. With the conversion wizard in My Screen Recorder Pro, you can convert your
original AVI screen recordings
into WMV files, tailor-made for web streaming,
with just a few clicks.
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When performing the conversion to WMV
for Internet streaming,
there are two custom profiles
available: |
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Screen and voice (100 Kbps)
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Screen and voice (200 kbps) |
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You need to find out the
bandwidth available to
the majority of your
audience and then select
one of the two profiles.
The number in kbps is
the minimum speed
required by your
audience to view your
presentation over the
Internet. |
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If you don't know the
bandwidth available to
your audience, choose Screen and Voice (100
kbps) since it can be viewed by a larger audience. |
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To convert an AVI screen recording to WMV for
streaming: |
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On the
Tools
menu, click on
Convert. |
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Click on
Next
on the Welcome Screen. |
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Click on
Add
and browse to the AVI screen recording file that you want to convert and
publish. |
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From the
Output
format, select
WMV. |
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Select
the
Output
folder
in which you want to save the converted file
from the
dropdown
list. Click on
New Folder
Shortcut
to make a
new folder. It is a good idea to make a new
folder for all the files you wish to stream so you can easily access them while
publishing. |
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Click on
Next. |
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In the
Output Video Properties screen, you can choose to resize the video during
conversion. Resizing the video to a lower width and height results in
significantly smaller file size without a noticeable reduction in video quality. The conversion wizard applies advanced resizing methods to retain the video
quality. |
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Select the
Keep source video dimensions
option if you do not want to resize the video. |
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To resize the video, select the
Resize video
option. From the
Video Dimension
dropdown, select a standard dimension or select
Custom
to specify a dimension of your choice. |
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By default, the conversion wizard stretches the source video into the converted video's dimension. If the two dimensions do not have the same aspect ratio then the converted video may appear distorted after resizing. In this case, you can change
the Resize Type. Click Resize Type, select the Preserve
aspect ratio option and click OK. Click Next. |
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You can
create a
HTML page
with the
screen
recording
embedded in
it. This is
optional. Click
Next. |
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Select
Profiles for Streaming
from the
Profiles
folder
dropdown and then select the Profile that best matches the bandwidth of your
audience from the
Profile
name
dropdown. |
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Click on
Next. |
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Specify
Video Information
such as
Title,
Author,
Copyright
and
Description. This step is optional. The information you
specify will be displayed during playback in a media player. Click on
Next
to start
the
conversion
process. |
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Publishing Media Files to a Web Server or an FTP Server |
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You can publish your screen recordings through a
streaming server like
Video Desk, which will stream
the recordings to your viewers. A streaming server is a good choice when you
want to track viewers but don't want them to download your original
presentation.
Streaming also lets
playback start almost
immediately. If you want your recordings to be downloadable, you can choose to
publish them on your web server. |
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For recordings that you intend to stream, record
only the application you are demonstrating, instead of
the entire desktop. This will reduce the
size of the screen recordings so
your viewers can easily see the presentation over the Internet. If you have to
record the entire desktop,
consider recording at a
low screen
resolution so the presentation can be easily viewed without using scroll bars. |
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To publish your screen recordings: |
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On the
Tools
menu, click on
Publish. |
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The welcome
screen of
the Media
File
Publishing
Wizard displays information on how to set up a free trial
account on Video
Desk. You can sign up for the free trial if you plan to use a streaming server. Click on
Next. |
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Click
Add
and navigate to the location where you have stored your WMV screen recordings. Click on
Next. |
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In Step 2, specify the FTP or streaming
server details. If you are working behind a proxy server, click on
Configure Proxy Server
and set up your proxy settings. |
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Click on
Next
to start the publishing process. |
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It is as simple as that!
Once your screen
recordings are
published, you can
advertise the links to your viewers. Making and distributing presentations was never this
easy. |
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