What is the best way to create an animation? (to send to a client)

john_smith077

Hello

What is the best way to create a good quality animation - to send to a client?

Background:
I have created my parts and I have mated them successfully in Onshape. I would now like to create a reasonably high resolution animation to send to a client. It doesn't need a sound track. Possibly an animated GIF would do the job. I can get the parts to animate by pressing the Play button on the slider.

BUT: 
a) When it animates in this way, there is no anti-aliasing so the images are quite course.
b) Either way, can you recommend what the best (low cost) way to do screen capture would be.  

Many thanks

J

EDIT: It sounds like "Licecap" could be useful, but how do I run an animation in high quality mode - i.e. with anti-aliasing?

viru

@john_smith077 , You can use Camtasia Studio which will be helpful to create professional quality videos with powerful screen recording and video editing tools.The app provides you with the tools to record your computer screen and then edit those recordings into professional videos. Camtasia Studio also then allows you to share them directly from within the app to YouTube, Google Drive and Screen cast. Camtasia Studio provides a nice feature set inside a fluid interface, which you will find easy to navigate. The app allows you to record either the screen or a PowerPoint presentation. Once recorded, you can make use of the vast tool set to finalize your video and make it complete. This tools include: multiple transition options, voice narration, zoom and pan effects, cursor effects, captions and more.

You can also use
- http://recordit.co/
- https://screentogif.codeplex.com/
- http://gifrecorder.com/help/help.htm?http://gifrecorder.com/help/gif_screen_recorder.htm
- https://gyazo.com

Here's a previous thread on this:
 https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/242/best-way-to-record-gif-video-of-using-onshape

john_smith077

Thanks - Camtasia is probably overkill for what I need just now (plus not cheap at $299.00 for a single user).

Meanwhile I have experimented with LICEcap which is a bit basic but does a good job as far as it goes. 

My main problem though is to create the original frames of animation themselves. I guess one option is to manually drag the parts backwards an forwards with the screencapture tool (e.g. LICEcap) running. However it looks a bit amateur - for one thing as soon as you click on the part you want to animate you get the orange colour of selection. For another it's then rather hard to drag at an even speed... 

adam_mercier

Check out open broadcaster software, its quite good and free.
You can set it up to record only some part of a window if you like
Exemple :
https://www.facebook.com/bzhwindtalker/videos/10153951055954617/

3dcad

As we are cadding on browser why wouldn't screen capture: http://www.apowersoft.com/free-online-screen-recorder
I don't have much experience with this but those few times when I have needed this tool it's been more than enough.

For actual animation I would suggest something like simlab composer: http://www.simlab-soft.com/3d-products/simlab-composer-main.aspx

steve_cohen

On a mac, you can just type shift-command-5 to record a .mov file from the screen.  Alternatively, use Quick Time

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208721

This saves in .mov format, so you need to convert if you want something else.

Ste_Wilson

OBS Studio might also be usefull.  Free and available as a portable app, so no admin rights needed to install.
https://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/obs-studio-portable