How to Create Animated Gif Using Camtasia Studio

Have you ever seen moving pictures online and wondered how they are made? Heres how to make a basic GIF picture with Camtasia Studio.

 

What is Camtasia Studio?

Camtasia Studio is an advanced screen video recorder from TechSmith® which has edit, produce, and many more options to enhance your video, all in one program. One of the producing options in this program is GIF for a recorded video, which we will be learning about.

 

How to start

Well first of all, download Camtasia Studio 7.0. There is a 30-day trial version that you can use but also i give out the full version registration code, so download one of these programs and install it on your PC. After you open Camtasia Studio, getting to know your interface would be helpful in the long road, but it’s not necessary.

 

Recording your video

Notice when you first open the program, a window pops up showing 4 options, one being “Record the Screen.” I have illustrated it here:

Or you can click on “Record the Screen” in the task list of the interface.

 

The next step is self-explanatory, you choose the area you want to record or you choose the whole screen, depends on what you want, then start recording after the 3-second countdown. Stop by pushing F10 or the “Stop” button

Producing it into a GIF animation

After you finish recording your video, a preview appears and in the corner there are 3 options:
Save and Edit, Delete, and Produce.

Click on Produce, save your video, and choose “Custom Production Settings” from the drop-down list and click “Next”.

Then comes the Output format screen, which has lots of formats, GIF being one of them, choose it:

Then click Next on all the following screens, as they are not necessary. You may edit some forms for modified animations but I won’t go there. (On the last form is the name of the video so you should change that.) After clicking Finish on the last screen, it will start converting.

 

Now this will take some time depending on the length of the video (40 seconds is more than enough). Lagging occurs when the video exceeds 35-40 seconds.And you are done! Your video is now gonna play in picture format, so you can send it to your cell-phone, upload it to your website in the format of a picture!

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Geogebra - Dynamic Mathematics for Everyone

GeoGebra is an interactive geometry, algebra, and calculus application, intended for teachers and students. Most parts of GeoGebra are free software. GeoGebra is written in Java and thus available for multiple platforms.

Its creator, Markus Hohenwarter, started the project in 2001 at the University of Salzburg, continuing it at Florida Atlantic University (2006–2008), Florida State University (2008–2009), and now at the University of Linz together with the help of open-source developers and translators all over the world. Currently, the lead developer of GeoGebra is Michael Borcherds, a secondary maths teacher.

After a successful Kickstarter campaign, GeoGebra plans to expand their offerings to include an iPad and Android version.

GeoGebra is dynamic geometry software. Constructions can be made with points, vectors, segments, lines, polygons, conic sections, inequalities, implicit polynomials and functions. All of them can be changed dynamically afterwards. Elements can be entered and modified directly on screen, or through the Input Bar. GeoGebra has the ability to use variables for numbers, vectors and points, find derivatives and integrals of functions and has a full complement of commands like Root or Extremum. Teachers and students can use GeoGebra to make conjectures and prove geometric theorems.

Most parts of the GeoGebra program are licensed under GPL and CC-BY-SA, making them free software. However some parts, including the Windows and Mac installers, have a license which forbids commercial use and are therefore not free software.

Download Free Software geogebra here.  And GeoGebraTube is the official repository of GeoGebra constructions and GeoGebra related resources.

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OpenRocket 12.03-an Open Source model rocket simulator

OpenRocket is a free, fully featured model rocket simulator that allows you to design and simulate your rockets before actually building and flying them.
OpenRocket features a full six-degree of-freedom simulation, realistic wind modeling, a multitude of different components including free-form fins and canted fins, clustering and staging. Read more about its features and see screenshots.

OpenRocket is an Open Source project licensed under the GNU GPL. This means that the software is free to use for whatever purposes, and the source code is also available for studying and extending.

Features
General:

• Fully cross-platform, written in Java
• Fully documented simulation methods
• Open Source, source code available under the GNU GPL

User interface:

• Easy-to-use user interface for rocket design
• Real-time view of CG and CP position
• Real-time flight altitude, velocity and acceleration information from a continuous simulation performed in the background
• Zoomable schematic view of rocket from the side or rear, with rotation around the center axis

Design:

• A multitude of available components to choose from
• Trapezoidal, elliptical and free-form fins supported
• Support for canted fins (roll stabilization)
• Staging and clustering support
• Automatic calculation of component mass and CG based on shape and density
• Ability to override mass and CG of components or stages separately

Simulation and analysis:

• Full six degree of freedom simulation
• Rocket stability computed using extended Barrowman method
• Realistic wind modeling
• Analysis of the effect of separate components on the stability, drag and roll characteristics of the rocket
• Fully configurable plotting, with various preset configurations
• Simulation data can be exported to CSV files for further analysis
• Simulation listeners allowing custom-made code to interact with the rocket during flight simulation

Download openRocket 12.03

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Download MotionBuilder Personal Learning Edition 7.0

Autodesk gives industry professionals and those interested in real-time character animation an opportunity to explore all aspects of this award-winning technology while developing new skills. This special version of Autodesk MotionBuilder provides free access to the software, with no time limit, for non-commercial use.

Available for the Windows? XP Professional and Mac OS? X operating systems.
Autodesk MotionBuilder Personal Learning Edition offers almost every feature found in the full

commercial version of Autodesk MotionBuilder including:
Advanced real-time technology
Unique Story Timeline performance environment
Auto rigging, motion editing, motion layering, storytelling tools, and numerous other features for animating your characters
The ability to import and export FBL files to and from Maya Personal Learning Edition software.


Download MotionBuilder Personal Learning Edition 7.0 here

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