On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:02:45 -0700, Bill in Co wrote:
(Coming into this a bit late, so I might have missed something).
I was going to suggest another video converter (to mp4), but did you check
out some of the screencasting software listings mentioned below? And some
of them have direct mp4 output, it seems (Open Broadcaster Software and
Screen O Matic):
https://www.nextofwindows.com/6-best...ls-for-windows
I covered both of them in my post earlier on this topic, where my list
seems extensive based on the responses so far, but where I'm not sure of
all the shenanigans that each software tries to pull on unsuspecting users.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.comp.freeware/PmJ0dn3gots
Where, for example, Screenomatic has both a watermark & 15-minute limit.
All the work, IMHO, of this freeware, is going to be in finding the last
crippled of the freeware (and the ones with the fewest shenanigans).
There is only one way to tell which have the fewest shenanigans though.
J. P. Gilliver brought up a good point in that the free screen recorders
don't always save videos in the format you want them to, where Mayayana
brought up a good point that those he tested were limited in some way as to
their output (AVI, for example).
While conversion has its own additional problem sets, I looked up the
converter programs so as to add value to this conversation, where the ones
I found to be good are listed below, with the latest tested URLs as of
today.
o *ShotCut* freeware pretty much handles everything fantastically
https://www.shotcutapp.com/download/
o *Handbrake* freeware is cross platform compatible
https://handbrake.fr/
o *Super* freeware used to be the best (but get the older versions!)
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/SUPER/old-versions (no longer there)
o Others are *VirtualDub, AviDemux, AviSynth, oxelon, totallyfreeconverter*, etc.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdub/files/virtualdub-win/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/avidemux/files/latest/download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/avisynth2/files/latest/download
http://www.oxelon.com/media_converter.html
https://sourceforge.net/projects/oxelonmediaconv/files/oxelonmediaconv/oxelonplugins/oxelonplugins.exe/download
http://www.sabsoft.com/TotallyFreeConverter.htm
o US/Euro patents expired on ffmpeg so it may also come in handy.
https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html
Since the immense cost of freeware is in all the efforts to find the best
ones, my vote, from experience using only "some" of those above, is
Shotcut.
Once you've used Shotcut, you'll never want to use Pinnacle Studios, for
example, IMHO.