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How do you capture streaming video?

Jun 16, 2008 12:26 PM

I'm trying to capture/record a real time web conference with streaming video coming in from everybody's webcams, but all of the video boxes are just being recorded with a single image.

I called adobe support and they looked into it and told me that there is some overlaying application that blocks you from recording streaming video like this, but there is a way to remove the application. He said that neither he or is supervisor know how to do it, but that I should post this forum and some technical support person would get back to me.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated, I need to get this figured out this week for some important stuff at work.

Thanks
10696 Views   6 Replies   Latest reply: madunge-7lukcV, Oct 12, 2011 10:11 AM
 
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  • Captiv8r
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    1. Captiv8r,
    Jun 16, 2008 5:23 PM   in reply to Shockley7
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    Welcome to our community, Alex

    You might give Fraps or Applian a try.

    Click here to visit the Fraps site
    Click here to visit the Applian site

    Cheers... Rick
     
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  • Shockley7
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    2. Shockley7,
    Jun 17, 2008 9:19 AM   in reply to Shockley7
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    Thanks RIck.

    The technical support person for captivate said that there is a way to record the live video with captivate, I just need to find a way to remove the overlaying application that prevents it. Is this true, or do did I just waste $700 on a software that wont do what I need it to?
     
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    3. Captiv8r,
    Jun 17, 2008 10:28 AM   in reply to Shockley7
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    Hi again

    Hmmm, well I'm aware that Captivate can do Full Motion recording. Normally you tap the F9 key to start it and F10 to stop. But I've never known it to work anything near what I would call flawlessly. The end result is nearly always less than satisfactory.

    Captivate is a terrific product for what it does. Unfortunately, Full Motion capture has never been its strong point.

    Cheers... Rick
     
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    4. Newsgroup_User,
    Jun 17, 2008 1:15 PM   in reply to Shockley7
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    > The technical support person for captivate said that there is a way to
    > record
    > the live video with captivate, I just need to find a way to remove the
    > overlaying application that prevents it. Is this true, or do did I just
    > waste
    > $700 on a software that wont do what I need it to?
    >

    Often you flat cannot record playing video - you might capture a black
    rectangle instead of the video you want. This is dependant upon how the
    video is playing, as often the video plays played on a special overlay that
    is 'above' everything else in the window (super-simplification!!).

    When you can capture the video, you will rarely get a high-quality capture
    as doing so is very processor intensive. And if your video is streaming, you
    are asking a lot of your computer to complete all the tasks required to
    download, decode, display and then capture and resave the video. Captivate
    is really not a tool designed for this. People seem to have better luck with
    Camtasia.

    Steve


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    5. M_Anand,
    Jul 7, 2010 5:06 AM   in reply to Shockley7
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    Hi Shockley 7,

     

    How long( in duration) would be your video?

     

    -Manish

    blogs.adobe.com/captivate

     
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  • madunge-7lukcV
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    6. madunge-7lukcV,
    Oct 12, 2011 10:11 AM   in reply to Shockley7
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    Try using "debut video capture" it will record whatever is on your screen seamlessly ,adobe will turn your videos into still screen shots.

     
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