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PicNTell: a camcorder metaphor for screen recording

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PicNTell is a new technique for generating compelling screencasts where users can quickly record desktop activities and generate videos that are embeddable on popular video sharing distributions such as YouTube®. While standard video editing and screen capture tools are useful for some editing tasks, they have two main drawbacks: (1) they require users to import and organize media in a separate interface, and (2) they do not support natural (or camcorder-like) screen recording, and instead usually require the user to define a specific region or window to record. In this paper we review current screen recording use, and present the PicNTell system, pilot studies, and a new six degree-of-freedom tracker we are developing in response to our findings.

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    MM '08: Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Multimedia
    October 2008
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    ISBN:9781605583037
    DOI:10.1145/1459359
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    1. multimedia recording and playback
    2. natural input
    3. screencasting

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