FlashBack 5

[Pages:177]FlashBack 5

User Guide

? Blueberry Software

Contents

Introducing FlashBack ................................................................................. 6

System Requirements ................................................................................... 7

Software Requirements and Restrictions ................................................................... 7 Hardware Requirements .............................................................................................. 8

Licensing ........................................................................................................ 9

Support......................................................................................................... 10

Contacting Support..................................................................................................... 10 Troubleshooting FAQ ................................................................................................. 10 Reporting Problems .................................................................................................... 13 Checking for Updates to FlashBack .......................................................................... 13

Buying FlashBack ....................................................................................... 15

Buying a Licence ......................................................................................................... 15 Questions or Problems with licence keys .................................................................. 16 Resellers ....................................................................................................................... 17

Getting Started ............................................................................................ 18

FlashBack Basics ......................................................................................................... 18 Recording movies ........................................................................................................ 20 Playing back movies.................................................................................................... 21 Sharing and Exporting movies .................................................................................. 22

Using FlashBack.......................................................................................... 24

The Recorder ............................................................................................................... 24 Recorder Windows.................................................................................................. 24 The Recorder Main Window ............................................................................. 24 The Recorder Main Menu.................................................................................. 25 The movie file sub-menu .................................................................................... 25 The Recorder Options window .......................................................................... 26 Customising delays ............................................................................................. 27 Adding a Marker while recording..................................................................... 28 Using Recorder when it is minimized ............................................................... 30 Recorder Features................................................................................................... 31 About Recorder features .................................................................................... 31 Recording windows and regions ........................................................................ 32 Recording multi monitor systems...................................................................... 33 Recording Webcam Video.................................................................................. 33 Record modes ...................................................................................................... 34 Recording Sound ..................................................................................................... 36 Troubleshooting Sound Recording.................................................................... 37

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Problems recording the Microphone ................................................................ 37 Problems recording PC Sounds......................................................................... 38 Problems with Audio-Video synchronization................................................... 40 Capturing Keystrokes............................................................................................. 40 Limiting the movie file size..................................................................................... 42 Defining and using hotkeys .................................................................................... 43 Troubleshooting video recording........................................................................... 43 Scheduled Recording .............................................................................................. 45 Record-time Notes................................................................................................... 46 Windows display options ........................................................................................ 47 The Player .................................................................................................................... 48 The Player window ................................................................................................. 48 The Timeline and Frame bar ................................................................................. 50 Webcam / Picture-in-Picture Video ...................................................................... 53 The Central Toolbar ............................................................................................... 55 The Classic Toolbar ................................................................................................ 57 The File Toolbar.................................................................................................. 57 The Edit toolbar .................................................................................................. 57 The Effects toolbar.............................................................................................. 58 The View toolbar................................................................................................. 58 The Sound toolbar .............................................................................................. 59 The Objects Toolbar ........................................................................................... 61 The Player Main Menu........................................................................................... 62 The File menu ...................................................................................................... 62 The Edit menu ..................................................................................................... 63 The Insert menu .................................................................................................. 65 The View menu.................................................................................................... 66 The Movie menu.................................................................................................. 68 The Sound menu ................................................................................................. 70 The Effects menu ................................................................................................ 71 The Tools menu ................................................................................................... 72 The Actions menu ............................................................................................... 73 The Help menu .................................................................................................... 75 Viewing key presses ................................................................................................ 76 Viewing key presses ............................................................................................ 76 The key logging window ..................................................................................... 76 The KeyBar ......................................................................................................... 78 Other Player features ............................................................................................. 80 The Player Options window............................................................................... 80 Converting AVI files to FlashBack movies ....................................................... 81 Command-line options ....................................................................................... 82 Sharing Movies............................................................................................................ 83 Sharing Movies with FlashBack Connect ............................................................. 83 Sharing Movies with FlashBack Connect ......................................................... 83 Managing Movies at ..................................................... 85 FlashBack Connect - Things you should know ................................................ 89

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Sharing Movies with YouTube .............................................................................. 90 Uploading to FTP and FileCopy ............................................................................ 91 Creating upload profiles......................................................................................... 92 Sharing screenshots ................................................................................................ 93 Exporting Movies ........................................................................................................ 94 About exporting movies.......................................................................................... 94 Comparison of Export formats .............................................................................. 97 Exporting to Flash................................................................................................... 98

Exporting to Flash format.................................................................................. 98 Flash export options............................................................................................ 99 Selecting between Flash Video (FLV) and Standard Flash (SWF) .............. 102 Adjusting the quality and file size of Flash exports ....................................... 103 Customising the Flash playback controls ....................................................... 105 How Flash exports use HTML files................................................................. 105 Files generated by Flash exports ..................................................................... 106 Flash Player Version Compatibility ................................................................ 108 Displaying Flash Exports on a webpage ......................................................... 108 Flash Player Security Warnings ...................................................................... 112 Exporting to AVI................................................................................................... 113 Exporting to AVI format.................................................................................. 113 About AVI codecs ............................................................................................. 114 Exporting to QuickTime....................................................................................... 115 Exporting to QuickTime (H264)...................................................................... 115 Displaying a QuickTime movie in a web page ............................................... 117 Exporting to Windows Media Video (WMV)..................................................... 117 Exporting to MPEG4 ............................................................................................ 119 Exporting to GIF................................................................................................... 120 Exporting to standalone EXE .............................................................................. 121 Exporting to MS Powerpoint ............................................................................... 122 Sound export options ............................................................................................ 123 Batch Exporting .................................................................................................... 123 Editing Movies........................................................................................................... 124 Working with Frames........................................................................................... 124 About frames ..................................................................................................... 124 Selecting frames ................................................................................................ 125 Inserting and deleting frames .......................................................................... 127 Merging Frames ................................................................................................ 128 Cropping frames ............................................................................................... 128 Frame rates........................................................................................................ 129 Removing Inactive Sections ................................................................................. 129 Annotating Movies .................................................................................................... 130 Adding Text boxes................................................................................................. 130 The Text Box properties window......................................................................... 132 Adding Images....................................................................................................... 133 Adding Highlights ................................................................................................. 135 Adding Buttons...................................................................................................... 137

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Adding Arrows ...................................................................................................... 138 Adding a Watermark............................................................................................ 140 Adding a Blur Effect ............................................................................................. 140 Inserting Video Files ............................................................................................. 140 Adding Pauses ....................................................................................................... 141 Displaying Invisible Keystrokes........................................................................... 142 Using Markers in movies...................................................................................... 143 Reusing objects with the Gallery ......................................................................... 144

Using the Gallery .............................................................................................. 144 Adding Effects to Movies.......................................................................................... 145

Zoom-Pan Effects.................................................................................................. 145 About Zoom-Pan Effects .................................................................................. 145

Cropping and Autoscrolling................................................................................. 148 About cropping ................................................................................................. 148

Transitions ............................................................................................................. 149 Start and End Titles.............................................................................................. 150 Magnifier effects.................................................................................................... 151 The Mouse Cursor .................................................................................................... 152 Highlighting the mouse cursor............................................................................. 152 Smoothing mouse movements .............................................................................. 152 Hiding the mouse cursor ...................................................................................... 153 Mouse action animations ...................................................................................... 153 Putting the mouse in front or behind other objects ........................................... 156 Re-recording the mouse cursor............................................................................ 156 Working with Sound................................................................................................. 158 Adding and Recording Sound into a Movie ....................................................... 158 The Sound Options Window ................................................................................ 160 Sound Synchronisation Problems........................................................................ 161 Changing the Volume of a Track or Clip ........................................................... 162 Removing Noise ..................................................................................................... 162 Fading Sounds In or Out ...................................................................................... 163 Volume Level Processing...................................................................................... 163 Editing Sound ........................................................................................................ 164

Sound Editing Basics ........................................................................................ 164 Merging and Splitting Clips and Tracks ........................................................ 167 Sound Editing Operations................................................................................ 169 More About Selecting Sound and Frames ...................................................... 171 Using FlashBack from the Command Line ............................................................ 172 Using FlashBack from the Command Line ........................................................ 172 Password Protecting Movies .................................................................................... 174 Password Protecting Movies ................................................................................ 174 Localization Features................................................................................................ 175 Localizing FlashBack Movies............................................................................... 175

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Introducing FlashBack

FlashBack is a screen recorder - it makes movies of what you see on your PC screen.

Easy Recording With only a few clicks of the mouse FlashBack can record everything that happens on your Windows desktop. It can also record PC sounds or a commentary if you have a microphone connected. If you have a webcam connected to your PC, FlashBack can record from that as well, to give you 'picture in picture' movies. For more details see FlashBack basics

Powerful Editing Features (Pro and Plus editions only) FlashBack comes with a powerful editor application that you can use to add annotations and sound to your movies. For more details see About editing movies

Easy Sharing FlashBack makes it easy to share your movies with FlashBack Connect and YouTube. For more details see Sharing Movies

Publish to Popular Formats Movies can be exported to Flash, QuickTime (H264), Windows Media Video (WMV), MPEG4, AVI, GIF, MS Powerpoint or standalone EXE format, so that they can be viewed by virtually anyone with a PC or Internet Browser. For more details see About Exporting Movies.

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System Requirements

Software Requirements and Restrictions

FlashBack runs on Windows XP and newer. 32 and 64 bit versions supported. The capture driver (not required for recording, but may give better performance on older PCs) is certified for 32 and 64 bit versions of XP and Vista. It has been tested but not certified on Windows 2000, 2003, 7 and 8.

Windows 2000 Users need to apply a hotfix to Windows before FlashBack will run. Go to and click 'View and Request Hotfix Downloads' near the top of the page to request the hotfix from Microsoft.

Known Issue with Windows 8 When recording Windows 8, on a touch device, touches are not recorded and highlighted in the movie like mouse clicks.

Terminal Sessions FlashBack can record in a terminal session, but Capture Driver record mode cannot be used.

Export to Windows Media Video (WMV) Windows Media Player 9 or newer needs to be installed in order to export to WMV format.

Export to QuickTime QuickTime 7 or newer needs to be installed in order to export to QuickTime format.

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Export to MS Powerpoint

MS Office 2000 or newer (including PowerPoint) must be installed in order to export to PowerPoint format.

Hardware Requirements

Processor speed: 500Mhz minimum, 1Ghz recommended Memory: 256Mb RAM minimum, 512Mb RAM recommended but when opening FBR files of 1Gb or more we recommend a minimum of 2Gb RAM Display: Super VGA (800x600) or higher resolution Graphics card: 8Mb video memory required, 64Mb and above recommended

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