Over the past few weeks, I’ve begun falling in love with the other video website, Metacafe. They are fast becoming a superior alternative to YouTube and in my personal opinion they’ve done this with a couple of factors, but specifically with their Producer Rewards program.

Producer Rewards offers anyone(with approval) the ability to make money from the videos they submit. You must of course have rights to the video and it must fall within their terms of content. Some people have taken off with this and are making tens of thousands of dollars. Many are legitimant home videos of people doing stunts, card tricks and god knows whatever else.

These videos however have included hundreds of easy windows tips and tricks as well. One individual, named “Maverick” has made thousands just off of showing an individual how to “Create a Windows Icon” or “Create a Shortcut to Shutdown Your System”. Very readily available things on the web, but each easier to see through video. So, I thought, I can do better then this guy, I know tons of Windows secrets, one problem…no video camera, as this is how a majority of these videos have been shot.

That’s where Camstudio comes in. Camstudio is not the only freely available on-screen recording utility, but it is most definitely the best. Here is a quick excerpt from their website about what it can do and what you may want to do with it:

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

Here are just a few ways you can use this software:

* You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
* Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
* You can create video tutorials for school or college class
* You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people
* You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
* You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them

You also have the ability to record the entire screen, a particular region or a fixed region of your size choice.

So, have a hidden Windows, IE, Firefox, Internet tutorial you’d like to show to the world, while making a little money on the side…Well, this is your chance. Sign-up for a Metacafe account, download Camstudio, and record away.

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