Amiga Visual Recording Software?

Hello all,

I was wondering if there is any software available, for visually recording what you do on your Amiga? There is software available for the PC which allows you to visually record, for example. installation of a network printer as a movie file, so that you can then send it to another user so that they can see how its done.

I was thinking of Hollywood, but am not sure if that would do what I want to do. Does it have Amiga sound in to record voice audio, so for example I can narrate the sequence?

Cheers

Mikey C

@Mikey_C

Hollywood isn't a video editor but you can embed animations and audio into presentations.

I presume that you want to do video tutorials for AmigaONE software/hardware.

I emailed Jamie Krueger about two years ago regarding the same thing after watching the Amiwest webcast. He said that ideally you need a way the save the contents of the frame buffer to disc to produce video.
I don't think he had any time to investigate how to impliment it though.

Another option is VGA capture card so you record the output of the AmigaOne straight into a PC. When I looked these things weren't cheap, but if you user group plan to make a lot of vids then people might pay into a bounty.

Also with WinUAE you can produce AVI files of what you emulate.

@Mikey_C

I have been asking for software for Amiga that is similar, but records all user events that can be 'played' by other users.

A lot of games have this to show how to play a game, unfortunately it is next to impossible to record other application events.

This is a fantastic opportunity to create user manuals, demos, tutorials etc and should be available for Amiga.

New users come to Amiga using WinUAE and Amikit, but dont now what all the software does !

Recording user actions would be much smaller than AVI, and also introduce automation for repetitive tasks.

If someone does have the talent to create such software, im sure recording to AVI wont be a problem.

WinUAE saves as AVI

@Mikey_C

My "New" radeon 9250 has a tv out, I wonder if I could record it on my DVD/VHS recorder?

Heck, I wonder if I would get any output at all?

Still it's worth a try, I suppose. Anyone tried TV-Out on an AmigaOne?

@Swoop

It will work up to point where AmigaOS takes over, i.e. you can only see Uboot on the TV.

DVI support should be 4.1 though and that can be fed into HDMI capable hardware.