FlashBack 5

1 FlashBack 5. User Guide Blueberry Software Contents Introducing FlashBack .. 6. System Requirements .. 7. Software Requirements and Restrictions .. 7. Hardware Requirements .. 8. Licensing .. 9. 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.

2 The Recorder .. 24. Recorder 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 33. Record modes .. 34. Recording Sound .. 36. Troubleshooting Sound 37. 2 FlashBack 5 User Guide Problems recording the Microphone .. 37. Problems recording PC Sounds.

3 38. Problems with Audio-Video 40. Capturing Keystrokes .. 40. Limiting the movie file 42. Defining and using hotkeys .. 43. Troubleshooting video 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 57. The Edit toolbar .. 57. The Effects 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.

4 63. The Insert menu .. 65. The View 66. The Movie 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.

5 89. FlashBack 5 User Guide 3. 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 98. Exporting to Flash format .. 98. Flash export 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.

6 108. Displaying Flash Exports on a webpage .. 108. Flash Player Security Warnings .. 112. Exporting to 113. Exporting to AVI format .. 113. About AVI codecs .. 114. Exporting to 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.

7 125. Inserting and deleting frames .. 127. Merging Frames .. 128. Cropping frames .. 128. Frame rates .. 129. Removing Inactive Sections .. 129. Annotating Movies .. 130. Adding Text 130. The Text Box properties 132. Adding Images .. 133. Adding Highlights .. 135. Adding 137. 4 FlashBack 5 User Guide Adding Arrows .. 138. Adding a Watermark .. 140. Adding a Blur Effect .. 140. Inserting Video Files .. 140. Adding Pauses .. 141. Displaying Invisible 142. Using Markers in movies .. 143. Reusing objects with the Gallery .. 144. Using the Gallery .. 144. Adding Effects to 145. Zoom-Pan Effects.

8 145. About Zoom-Pan Effects .. 145. Cropping and 148. About cropping .. 148. Transitions .. 149. Start and End Titles .. 150. Magnifier 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 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.

9 162. 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 175. Localizing FlashBack 175. FlashBack 5 User Guide 5. Introducing FlashBack FlashBack is a screen recorder - it makes movies of what you see on your PC screen.

10 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.