Basic Help Needed Here...

I'm no stranger to the land of Shoestring budgets. The screen recorder in Lectora is Ok but as Ben stated Captivate will be much better. knowing you don't have much budget I would suggest a couple of nice pieces of freeware that can help you out.

For screen recording there are two options

Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ this is a Captivate look alike which runs very nice

Jing - www.techsmith.com this is the freeware version of Camtasia. It has all the features of Camtasia but it has a recording limit of 5 minutes, for screen catpures that should be plenty of time.

Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ freeware audio recording software, this is much better than the audio package included in Lectora.

good luck and keep your questions coming

MarionTrainworks said:Reading through other entries, I'm a bit intimidated. Is there a "remedial" forum for people like me? I'm part of a "shoestring budget" government county agency and we've purchased our first license of Lectora (Pro, v.9, sp1) to embark on getting our computer trainings available online for folks...customized db training, that kind of thing. I've been through the online fundamental training and have started to experiment--now have 3 questions (since many of our needs involve screen recording, they all pertain to that): (1) I've been trying to get a recording of simply opening up the shortcut for said db for starters. I was able to open the shortcut fine (and record it) when I didn't have any of the extras selected (like minimize camera upon capturing, mouse click sounds); once I selected some of the extras, I couldn't get the shortcut to open at all; now when de-selecting the "extras", it doesn't want to open again--even without those selected. What do I need to do for this to work? (2) Is there a way to totally stop the capturing without hitting the stop button and having it "render" out? I tried the Escape key, which didn't work...does anything just cancel it and let you start over? (3) How do I get to where I can edit the video (like delete parts of clips that I don't want)? We have Pinnacle Studio Plus at home and render avi's/dvd's for our own use, so I'm no stranger to that type of editing...am just wondering if there's any way to do that kind of thing with Lectora screen recordings...?? Thanks for any help...and patience with me as I start at square one here...--Darcie