Camtasia Studio

Camtasia Studio

http://www.techsmith.com

A fantastic tool for capturing your computer screen and anything that is on it.  Camtasia Studio even has a plug in for PowerPoint so you can record your presentations without leaving PowerPoint.  Add annotations, zoom in on the screen and export your finished product to a lot of different video formats including MPEG 4.  Rumors have it that a MAC version will be released sometime this year.

Camtasia Studio also integrates with Camtasia Relay, a lecture capture system for a really cool system for capturing and publishing presentations.  Educational pricing makes this tool a must have for educators building fully online courses and tutorials.

Camtasia Relay

Camtasia Relay was released in October 2008 as a lecture capture system with both Mac and PC clients.  Relay is client-server based.  The client records the lecture, then uploads it to the Relay server. Read more

ePresence - Webcast system - open source

ePresence is an enterprise level webcast or lecture capture system.  It is listed as open source.  You can download the source code etc.  They now offer packages ready to go that you can buy along with support to get you up and going.  ePresence captures video, audio, and slides.  Does the indexing and archiving and outputs to many popular media formats.  

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