Flash Demo Builder allows you to take a screen capture easily. The resulting screen capture may include the full motion recording, mouse cursor movement, etc depending on the settings you supplied.
Recording Mode
There are two different recording mode.
| · | Manual |
This recording mode will only take a screen capture whenever you press a PrintScreen or other designated keyboard button. It will not insert an auto caption, mouse click highlight and mouse movement. This mode is useful if you need to take screenshot(s) that does not require you to show the mouse or keyboard operation.
| · | Automatic |
This recording mode will automatically take a screenshot, insert auto caption, mouse click highlight and mouse movement depending on any keyboard and mouse activity. You can still do a manual screenshot by pressing the PrintScreen or other designated keyboard button. This is very useful to speed up the creation of a software demonstration that require you to show mouse clicking, mouse movement, etc. You can customize the automatic mode to enable/disable auto caption, mouse click highlight, etc by clicking the Edit button next to the automatic capturing style or you can simply select three provided presets.
| · | Demonstration |
When choosing this preset, a mouse movement, auto caption and mouse click highlight will be added. This is suitable for making a demonstration of a software operation.
| · | Training |
A training mode will automatically add a click boxes with failure/success and hint captions. When you choose this preset, for each mouse click activity a hint caption will show asking viewer to click on the same mouse location. When they make a mistake a failure caption will show up and they needs to redo the operation until they get it right, the success caption will show up and the presentation will continue. This is very useful to conduct an e-learning to teach how operate a software.
| · | Assessment |
An assessment mode will automatically add a click boxes with failure/success but without hint caption and mouse movement. When you choose this preset, for each mouse click activity, viewer is expected to click on the same location without any hint caption. When they make a mistake or a correct answer a failure/success caption will show up and the presentation will continue. This is useful to conduct an e-learning examination to assess someone's knowledge in how to operate a software.
You can further customize each of the three modes above by clicking on Edit button next to the combobox.
Recording Area
| · | Fullscreen |
Record the whole screen
| · | Application window |
Record an application window area
| · | Custom area |
Record a custom area
Screen Resolution
You can use this to change the desktop resolution before the capturing takes places. It is very handy to use a smaller screen resolution if your desired published output is small. Because when you resize a full screen capture in high desktop resolution into small published output, all the text and buttons will be very small making it hard to read. By changing into a small desktop resolution, Microsoft Windows will automatically make all button and text much bigger, thus the resized capture result will still show a clear button and text.
When you select anything other than "Do not modify", your monitor will switch into the desired resolution as soon as you start capturing and will be restored when you finish capturing.
Note that sometimes the desired resolution is not supported by your monitor. In this case, the closest resolution will be automatically chosen.
Sounds an visual settings
Color style
To choose the recording color style. The color style includes the auto caption, success and failure captions color.
Click Edit next to color style listbox to customize the font settings and color for auto caption, success and failure captions.
Record mouse click sound
To record the mouse click sound
Record keystrokes sound
To record the keyboard typing sound when doing full motion recording on a keyboard typing operation
Hear camera sounds during recording
To hear camera snapshot sounds during recording
Hide system tray icon
To show/hide recording system tray icon. When the icon is hidden you need to press Ctrl + End or your designated button to end the capturing session.