- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/XP/2003/Vista
- Date added: March 02, 2009
- Total Downloads: 22,643
- Downloads last week: 123
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 20 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jessica Dolcourt on December 11, 2008
TipCam got the basics of screen recording right with its medium-glossy freeware beta, and it has a few tricks all its own. You'll be able to start, pause, delete, and preview your screencasts from the small recording controls window, even draw on annotations while you record. Brilliantly, if you press the hot key to zoom in, the zoom window will follow your mouse until or unless you lock it in place. Unfortunately, the TipCam control panel doesn't do so well. If you're not careful, it might inadvertently star in your screencast. After you become familiar with the icons, it's best two switch to mini mode.
You can configure TipCam to capture your audio recordings, as well. While there's no post-production studio for cleaning up audio if you mess up, you can rerecord your narrative with the voice-over tool. It's not perfect, but it's better than having to rerecord takes. A separate audio track would be ideal.
TipCam's best surprises let you record remote screens using a VNC server, and deliver uploads to UtipU.com, to YouTube (you can set this as a default), or as a private link that will load in your default e-mail client. If only TipCam would get some post-production tools, it could take on its better-established competition.
Publisher's description
From uTipu :Free screencast recorder for Windows. Record your screen and voice in a flash video (FLV format) and share it instantly at uTIPu.com or via e-mail. It's easy to use and has many features: fixed and auto-panned zooming, real-time encoding, voice-over and annotation. Optimize video quality and size for embedding into blog, vlog and wiki pages. It can even record activities on a remote computer via the built-in VNC support. In version 2.2 the default for Select Window is now to zoom in and center on the selected window.
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In version 2.2 the default for Select Window is now to zoom in and center on the selected window.
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Version: TipCam 2.2
Pros: Records well and i never saw the video go choppy. Also greys out passwords and your desktop so people cant see your private stuff! There are a ton of features that are benifitial... And the best thing ITS FREE!!!
Cons: MMMM, it did have one major flaw, when I shut it down my CPU and RAM usage went up the wall and i was getting choppy feedback fromt the mouse. And it didnt restore my desktop... only happened once though so it might have just been a fluke.
Summary: I wanted to be able to record WoW for my guild site... For those newbies!! Well it crashed on me! Havent tried it since!
Over-All: A great program that shows promise!
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Version: TipCam 2.2
"Caused My Monitor To Go Into Sleep Mode"
Pros: This is easy to use and I love that it could zoom in.
Cons: Suddenly caused my monitor to go into sleepmode anytime I hit the record button.
Summary: It's ok, just not sure why all of a sudden it was incompatible with my PC. I uninstalled and fresh installed and yet the problem was still there. I had updated my drivers as well and still clueless as to why it wasn't functioning correctly.
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Version: TipCam 2.2
"Could See its use, just didnt do what I needed"
Pros: Seems to me it would be a great tool for building tutorials and the such or perhaps letting your IT Guy know exactlly what is going on....
Cons: It didnt do what I needed which is record full screen apps for a software presentation...Had issues with the Mirage Driver included with the pacage also.
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