desktop capture

[Thomas Milne]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Thomas Milne wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Lennart Sorensen
>>> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 06:56:05PM -0500, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a solid desktop capture app for Linux, the open source one I
>>>>> found are pretty crap, some don't work, one of them had ugly artifacts.
>>>>
>>>> Capture what?
>>>>
>>>> For images I like ksnapshot.  Works rather well I find.
>>>
>>> I like ksnapshot, I think it's cool, however I wanted to capture
>>> video, like a screen cast =)
>>>
>>> http://media.rubyonrails.org/video/rails_blog_2.mov
>>
>> Hey, that turned out pretty good.
>>
>> It looks like you're working on a Mac...
>
> Thomas, Oppss that's not me! I forgot to add that I am trying to do
> something like the linked screen-cast. It looks like all the cool screen
> cast are done using a Mac? I came across a screen-cast (once) and it looked
> like it was done on Linux....ha!
>
> Actually since we last talked, I got better at producing my own screen
> captures, the quality is very nice, but you do notice some aliasing if
> you're trying to capture 1600x1200, goes away if you zoom in on a smaller
> window or area.
>
> I found using xwininfo to get the geometry helps, but you still need to
> adjust the values. It seems ffmpeg clips the input window and it likes value
> as multiple of 2.
>
> I am not looking for a good video editor: Live, Kino and Cinelerra, KDEnlive
> look like good possibilities.  Do you know of any others? I want to be able
> to insert separate audio tracks easily to do voice overs.

I've always found Avidemux very easy to use for editing, I'm not sure
how/if it lets you dub in your own audio.

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