Christmas is coming. “Please show me how, do not tell me how” becomes more and more popular. Do you want to show your website or product in a fashion way in this golden season? This article describes how to make a Flash guide video for your website or software products in minutes.

“A guide video is more than thousands of words!” How to make a video tutorial for your website? Use a camera to record your website operation? Maybe it’s not a bad idea! But putting a camera in front of your computer is not the best way to show your website with the following 3 reasons.
1. The camera can not record the screen precisely.
2. It is difficult for you to edit or add some instructions or narrations to the video.
3. The video file(AVI) is too big for web sharing and transmission.

Maybe you need an application to record your screen, not a camera! Screen recording software can help you to record the screen to mirror all of your operations by recording mouse movements and keystrokes with the screenshots. Even you can add some tips to highlight the important functions in your recording. Furthermore, the narration from microphone is available to enhance the guide video. Finally you can publish the video as Flash movie and share with the website users. As you know, the SWF format has small size and is good for network transmission.

The following is a guide of how to create a website guide video by recording the computer screen in minutes. It may take you a moment to load the Flash movie. Your patience would be appreciated.


1. Setting the capture mode and record
There are 3 capture modes to be selected: Application region, Custom region and Full screen. Now we select application mode to record the Microsoft Outlook, guiding others to create an account in Microsoft Outlook. Click “Record” button to start recording.

Application Mode: Capture the window of the specific application which is running.
Custom Size Mode: Capture a customized rectangular area on your desktop.
Full Screen Mode: Capture the entire screen.

2. Edit and Enhance the tutorial
Once the recording is finished. DemoCreator will import the slides automatically. You can add some interactive elements like callouts, notes, animations to enhance the selected slides. The recording slides are easy to edit. You can insert the new slides or delete unwanted slides, or rerecord the necessary slides. Furthermore, you can reuse some other projects and import them to the current project.


3. Add sound to the tutorial
Click “Audio” button and enter the Audio Timeline Editor. You can edit the audio by cutting, inserting and deleting. And also you can view the slide at the same time when editing the audio. Furthermore, you can record the sound when recording the screen or rerecord the audio after your screen recording.


4. Publish the flash movie
Click “Publish” button and we can see the publish menu. Select publish to Flash movie, LMS, auto-run CD, standalone EXE, or Email. With various advantages, SWF is the most popular format to publish your screen recording.

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