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. Hypercam 2 watermark

The unregistered versions of HyperCam 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. In April 2004, HyperCam 2 was released. In April 2009, Solveig Multimedia released HyperCam 3. In May 2010, Hyperionics published an update that made HyperCam 2 available completely free for "world-wide use", removing the digital watermark.

References

External links

HyperCam 6 Official site

Features

See also

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