How-to video: Making a shiny button

[Bob Hahn]

You're not wrong - it looks great, I love watching the way people go about things and picking up tips.

I might make a few myself in the future. What programs do you use to record?

Thanks, Merlinski.

I used Windows Media Encoder (it's free.) I recorded at 800x600. What I do though is I have an 800x600 shape as my desktop wallpaper and I resized Xara to cover that 800x600 block. That way, I don't need to change my screen resolution.

I use the Screen Capture wizard in Media Encoder to set things up, but before I start, I go to 'Properties' and to the 'Compression' tab and edit the Video Codec from Video 9 Screen to Video 9.

Then I upload the video as is to YouTube.

-Bob.