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Dave Taylor of AskDaveTaylor.com demonstrates how easy it is to use Screen Recording Suite -- http://www.screenrecord.net/ -- to capture and simultaneously narrate what you're doing on your Windows PC, then upload the resultant video to YouTube. Competitors in this space include the considerably more expensive Camtasia.
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hi this is Dave Taylor and I want to
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give you a quick demo of screen
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recording suite and I gotta say for
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recording what's going on on your
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computer screen it's pretty darn easy so
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let's go ahead and launch it and I've
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obviously already installed the program
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which includes adding a video driver
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because it needs to be able to capture
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things now here we go here's the main
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menu and as you can see if you really
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want to just jump in and get going it's
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as easy as clicking the start button but
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I'll suggest there are two options that
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you need to adjust and or at least look
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at so let's start with options
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and the first one is as you're seeing
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the cursor has a little yellow circle
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around it as I'm moving around I think
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it's really good on screen captures
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because it helps people see where the
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cursor is if you don't like that you can
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turn that off here with show Mouse
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hotspot or alternatively if you do like
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it but you wish it was bigger you can
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also adjust it with the radius size and
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you can make it bigger smaller whatever
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the other thing I think it's important
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for you to go and check actually well
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let's change one thing here
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okay so I know what function keys what
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the other thing that I think it's
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important to check is your input device
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and it's a little confusing because
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that's under video file this is where
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you can change your output format and
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such I'm going to leave it as a wvm WMV
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file because it works fine but here you
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can make sure it's a system sound or
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microphone and here's what I've found is
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if I do both system sound and microphone
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this third option then I get a sort of
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weird Echo thing and it's distracting
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when I'm recording so I use just
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microphone and seems to work great so
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there are other options I'll let you
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explore them
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so here we are and I'm just going to do
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a real quick little demo and hopefully
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I'll be able to record within a
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recording we'll see how that works so
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I'm going to push start
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and it gives me a heads up on what's
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about to happen and as soon as I'm ready
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then I can do this and say go
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and so now I'm recording and I can say
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for example so here's how you use Google
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Drive once it's installed on your
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desktop you double click to open things
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and there it is and here are the files
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that I have that are part of Google's
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new Google drive system and that's all
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there is to it it's pretty easy and you
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can just close it and use it as like any
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other folder on your computer
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so now I've made that little tiny demo
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video and I want to stop so I push F7
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and now it's finished the recording so I
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can play the recording to preview it but
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what I'm going to do instead I'm going
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to show you real quick I'm going to just
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close this and it's like okay we're good
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so now I'm going to go into my web
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browser
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and I'm going to go to YouTube and
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you're going to this is cool hold on and
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I'm going to go to upload
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and excuse me what I want to show you is
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that I can directly upload the file that
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was just recorded
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so
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if it lets me do this here we go
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so I go to my documents
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I go to screen recording suite and I'm
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noticing my computer slowing down I
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think it's getting confused and I can
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just pick the recording
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and open it
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and as you can see it directly uploads
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to YouTube so in terms of recording and
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just getting a quick demo out there or
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showing tech support or showing your
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friends or your mom here's how to do it
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Mom it's super easy it really couldn't
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be any easier so while this uploads I'm
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going to go ahead and wrap up and if you
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have any other questions or if you're
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just looking for good technical
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information I encourage you of course to
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check out askdavetaylor.com thanks a lot
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