HyperCam is a

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ing program made and created by Hyperionics and Solveig Multimedia. It captures the action from a

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screen and saves it to an AVI (

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d) or WMV (

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) or ASF (

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) movie file. HyperCam will also record all sound output, and sound from the system microphone can also be recorded.

Features

HyperCam is primarily intended for creating software presentations, tutorials, demonstrations, walkthroughs, and other various tasks the user wants to demonstrate. The latest versions also capture overlay video and can re-record movies and video clips (e.g. recording videos playing in

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, etc.). Beginning with version 3.0, HyperCam also includes a built-in editor for trimming and merging captured AVI, WMV, ASF files. The unregistered versions of HyperCam 1, HyperCam 2 and HyperCam 3 apply a

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to the upper-left corner of each recorded file and will ask the user to register on every startup. Base registration, which costs $39.95, will eliminate this watermark. Hyperionics has now made HyperCam 2 a permanent free download for "worldwide use".

Presence in Internet culture

In the early days of

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, HyperCam 2's unregistered version became widely used among amateur videographers due to it being free and having a significantly small watermark. This has caused it to become popular as a representation of YouTube's past, with "Unregistered HyperCam 2" becoming a staple in nostalgia-based internet culture. HyperCam 2 also made an appearance on Reddit's social experiment,

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in April of 2017.

References

External links

HyperCam 6 Official site

HyperCam 2 Official site

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Features

Presence in Internet culture

See also

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