Screencast-O-Matic - service to create screencasts in two clicks

Screencast - a video of what is happening on the screen, often accompanied by audio or text comments, explaining the action. Most often used to demonstrate the capabilities of the program or service, create training videos, demonstrations of computer problems and methods for solving them. There are many programs to record screencasts, but most of them are paid or difficult to master. We want to introduce you to a simple way to record such viderolik effortlessly.

Screencast-O-Matic - an online service to capture screen content that runs right in your browser. Thus, you can use this service, regardless of the operating system, the main thing that your browser supports Java.

Record screencast very simple. On the service's main page, click Start Recording button, and then agree to launch a Java applet. The result is top of all the windows a special frame, indicating the boundaries of the capture and control panel with buttons. You can resize the frame as simple dragging the borders, and selecting one of the presets.

Video recording starts after pressing the red button. It is possible to record voice comments with a microphone or video from a webcam. It is possible to put the recording on pause and resume, but the video should not exceed 15 minutes. To stop recording, press the button Done and you will be prompted to save the video on the server service (registration required), on YouTube or on the computer's hard drive.

Test video recorded in the writing of this post you can see here. Note that the effect of selection cursor is added during recording, and all clicks highlighted in blue, which makes what is happening on the screen is still clear without any comments.

Screencast-O-Matic It is an excellent tool to capture what is happening on the screen. Simple, easy to use, works on any operating system, it may be useful to you if necessary demonstrate a computer problem, to create video tutorials or functions of any program or service. Deserved place in selected tabs.

Screencast-O-Matic