I want to make some instructional Youtube Videos. I see these all over the place where its the person's computer screen on the video and you follow them through the instruction. here are a few examples http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45A2KdTOL5k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My5UaJCNeE8&feature=player_embedded#! so I want to be able to add/record voice and also to make annotations. So please suggest some good/most popular software.
Camtasia Studio is probably one of the better softwares and it is pretty easy to use. I have also seen alot of youtube user's, using this program to do their videos as well. You should check it out.
Camista and the software from Adobe cast a few hundred dollars. Im looking for something a bit more reasonably priced.
www.camstudio.org I actually prefer it to Camtasia. And guess what? ... it's free and open source For editing/compressing, have a look at www.virtualdub.org (also free).
You may try this Video Editor, it's a nice video editing software that can help you edit, join, split, trim, crop, convert and cut video, my friends recommend it to me, it's easy to use and works pretty well for me, it embeds many special effects. I had made a video with it and the video got award, that's pretty cool. Here is the free download link. http://www.avs-video-editor.org/ Hope it helps. Contact me if you have any other question.
I agree. One spot of caution, though... Make sure you adjust your preferences before you record to avoid a HUGE video. I created an entire tutorial, then realized after the fact that it was like 1.5GB... Not really good for streaming.
I use Camtasia so far to create instructional videos for my library as I am working part time in my university instructional services division. Those videos are used in teaching student how to use certain software or databases. It works well for me and easy for anyone to pick up the skill.
The same to you, I made the first Introductional video with Camtasia, really a powerful tool. This is my video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mJEHnSuS78
I'd like to recommend HD video editor to you, I always use it to edit video and make funny video for uploading to Youtube, it's easy to use and the quality is awesome, you can crop, cut, join, edit video with it easily. It also embeds many special effects, you can even add text to video or add background music, that's pretty cool. It worth a try
You can use Camtasia Studio as they are offering for free and that too logo free version.Other alternatives you can try are Robodemo Adobe Captivate Fraps
Use Camtasia Studio or the free version Jing Project. Jing is great if the videos are shorter in length.