The video posted in this sub was made by me, using a program called FastStone Capture and it works really well (and I've tried a lot of them). It only cost a few bucks and is worth it.
Use this to capture a single scrolling screenshot. I've gone upto 30,000 pixels (height wise).
http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm
30 day free trial but you can pirate it too. Pretty easy.
A nifty tool, but nothing that FastStone Capture cannot do.
And it still has a lot of bugs. Wondering if I should report them all here or fill them separate on Bugzilla.
Hmm, I don't use an all in one. I use FastStone Capture for the screen recording, then Adobe Premier for the editing. FastStone is a powerful little tool for 20 bucks though. http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm
FastStone Capture is the smallest, hassle free screen capture tool you can find. It can capture scrolling windows/web pages and allows you to easily save them as PDF files. It doesn't do a entire website though, you have to do it page by page.
I have struggled with this in the past and finally settled upon an affordable workflow. This video on customizing Blender was shot using the method I describe.
The biggest problem is the video encoder. There is CamStudio, which is the 900lb Gorilla, but it is stupid expensive and the results are rather varied. Microsoft has a wonderful Encoder in the Expressions package, but again, it's at least 100$, plus you need Expressions to use it! It's a shame too, as the results are simply amazing and quite small. There are some free options out there, but every single one gave me rather poor results. Then there is FRAPS, but that isn't actually screen capturing, its capturing the render state of your video card and recreating the results to video, so it's 3D only.
In the end, I went with FastStone capture, a program I already owned and didn't realize it did video capture. Not only does it do video capture, but it does it at an extremely high quality and in a small file size. 1080p comes in at about 20mb per minute, maybe even a little bit less. They have a free trial available, but if you go ahead and purchase, its like 20$ and it's actually an amazing all around program to start with.
After that, for post editing, like adding captions, resizing, transitions, whatever, I use a combination of Windows Live Movie Maker, which is actually a remarkably capable application, especially considering it's price ( free ). If I need something a bit more advanced, I use Blender as a NLE. Many people don't realize that Blender has this ability. The only downside is, it makes your files BIG, stupid big. But then, if your end result is uploading to YouTube or Vimeo... who cares, let them worry about the encoding.
I've always really enjoyed FastStone Capture but there is a fee for a lifetime license. It includes scrolling capture, basic video capture, some great simple drawing tools that I use when PhotoShop is overkill, and more. I bought it ages ago so I haven't bothered to look at what is out there for freeware nowadays.
Here's some I've used that increased my productivity quite a bit while at work.
Basecamp This is my main business tool. Really only use the "to do" section. Basically what we need to do, who is doing it, and my instructions, their questions.
Habit List. My latest app. I use it to schedule tasks that need to be done each day or sections of the businesses I need to work on.
Brain.fm It works. When I need to get something done. Write an article. Spec out a project then I put in the earphones and listen to some brain.fm intense music. I just use a phone browser and their website, no app. It has a dual effect, I focus and people don't disturb me cause I have headphones in.
Faststone. http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm I use this everyday on my PC = screen capture and edit. Simple, easy to use. Visuals instructions for all my to dos for programmers and contractors. Haven't found a good OSX screen capture and edit program, would appreciate any suggestions.
Slack In business I tend to do one on one stuff and I'm the ring leader, so Basecamp works. I also run a skateboard association and Slack is brilliant. For groups collaborating, this is the communication tool. Though they won't let the non profit skaters get free commercial version because the government does not classify us as a charity (small gripe).
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com Use my phone browser to go to her website and listen with headphones in the morning and do one of her mediations. She has basic ones and you can progress from there. I have tried lots of apps but no one does mindfulness like Tara.
"FastStone Capture" I use it everyday, best $20.00 I ever spent.
FastStone Capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool and screen video recorder. It allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular / freehand / fixed regions as well as scrolling windows / web pages. It also allows you to record all screen activities including onscreen changes, speech from microphone, mouse movements and clicks into highly compressed video files. You can choose to send captures to editor, file, clipboard, printer, email, Word / PowerPoint document or upload them to your website. Editing tools include annotating (texts, arrowed lines, highlights), resizing, cropping, sharpening, watermarking, applying edge effects and many more. Other features include image scanning, global hotkeys, automatic filename generation, support for external editors, a color picker, a screen magnifier, a screen crosshair and a screen ruler.
I always used a little piece of shareware called FastStone Screen Capture. I bought a lifetime license for $20 several years ago and it has really been worth the money. Nowadays though, it's become a little less necessary with Firefox's "screenshot --fullpage" command and the snipping utility in recent versions of Windows. I still use it quite a bit though since it's already paid for and has some nice extra features and is in many ways superior.
>Am I going to have to learn how to crop and use imgur?
~~yeah, you will! Use normal PrtScn or try Faststone Capture. Free, small and simple.~~
~~Imgur is also really simple, you dont need an account, and i think it has built in cropping tools.~~
edit: Nevermind
it does seem its a new rare, wiki doesnt have an entry. how'd you find it so quick?
(Edit: Well, this is for windows, so you are out of luck with this)
FastStone Capture has a tool that can screenshot any scroll area in whole. It's a trial version if you simply download it, so you can try any function I guess.
Faststone Capture can do arrows, callouts, and highlights. However, it's screen capture software, so you'd be taking a screenshot of your images and then doctoring them up. Then you'd have an edited image to insert in a document and so on. It works for those applications, but it might not be exactly what you're looking for.