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1. 184 Exporting to MPEG4 185 Exporting to standalone EXE 186 Exporting to MS PowerPoint 187 Sound export options 187 Batch Exporting 188 Uploading Movies 189 How to Upload a Movie 189 Uploading to FTP and FileCopy 190 Creating upload profiles
2. 62 How to zoom out from a previous zoom in 63 Using Autoscroll 64 How to add a cropping rectangle 65 How to remove a cropping rectangle 65 How to add an autoscroll 65 How to remove an autoscroll 65 Recording from the Webcam 65 How to record the webcam whilst you record the screen 66 How to record the webcam only 67 How to insert a WebCam recording
3. 138 Working with frames 138 BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 6 Annotating Movies 143 Zoom Pan Effects 152 Cropping and Autoscrolling 154 The Mouse Cursor 155 Removing Inactive Sections 159 Using Markers in movies 160 Inserting Video Files 161 Pauses
4. 81 Resellers 81 BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 5 Getting Started 82 BB FlashBack Basics 82 The Recorder 82 The Player 82 To get started 83 Recording movies 84 To view the movie 84 Playing back movies
5. 161 Start and End Titles 162 Displaying Invisible Keystrokes 163 Exporting movies 164 File formats 164 Comparison of Export formats 166 Exporting to Flash format 167 Exporting to QuickTime H264 179 Exporting to Windows Media Video WMV 181 Exporting to AVI format 183 About AVI codecs
6. 114 The Timeline and Frame bar 116 Webcam Picture in Picture Video 118 The Player Toolbars 119 The Player Main Menu 121 Viewing key presses 132 Other Player Features 135 Converting AVI files to FlashBack movies 136 Command line options 137 Editing Movies 138 About editing movies
7. 38 Deleting Sound 39 How to delete a whole clip 39 How to delete a section of a clip 39 How to delete sound and frames at the same time 39 How to delete a track 40 Inserting Silence 40 How to add silence to a clip 40 How to insert silence and frames together 42 Editing Sound and Video Together 44 How to edit sound without affecting video
8. 102 Defining and using hotkeys 103 Customising delays 103 Recording Webcam Video 103 Record modes and performance 105 Troubleshooting video recording 106 Recording Sound 108 Troubleshooting Sound Recording 109 Scheduled Recording 113 The Player 114 The Player window
9. 85 From The Welcome Window 85 Playing a movie from Recorder 85 Sharing movies 86 Uploading to a Video Hosting Site 86 Exporting Movies 86 Using BB FlashBack 89 Recorder Windows 89 The Recorder Main Window 89 The Recorder main menu 90 The movie file sub menu
10. 92 The Recorder Options window 94 Adding a Marker while recording 95 Using Recorder when it is minimized 96 Recorder Features 97 About Recorder features 97 Recording windows and regions 98 Recording multi monitor systems 99 Windows display options 99 Capturing Keystrokes 101 Limiting the movie file size
11. 69 How to edit the WebCam recording 69 How to move or resize the WebCam recording 69 Adding Watermarks 70 How to add a watermark 70 Inserting A Video File 70 How to insert video 71 Scheduled Recording 72 How to schedule a recording 72 Cursor Highlighting 73 How to highlight the cursor
12. 36 How to select multiple clips 36 How to select a section of a clip 36 How to move a clip 36 How to select or de select a track 37 How to select multiple tracks 37 Changing Volume and Muting 37 How to mute a track 37 How to change the volume of a track 38 How to mute a clip 38 How to change the volume of a clip
13. 23 Publishing your movie 25 Exporting your movie 26 Uploading to YouTube for easy sharing 29 Section 2 34 How To Guides 35 Working with Frames 35 How to delete frames 35 How to insert frames 35 Tracks and Clips 36 How to select a clip
14. 209 How to report a problem to Blueberry 209 Checking for Updates to BB FlashBack 210 How to check for updates to BB FlashBack 210 Automatic check for updates 210 BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 8 Section 1 Quick Start Guide BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 9 Quick Start Guide Follow this guide to record edit and publish your first BB FlashBack movie in three simple steps Recording A Movie First you need to make a recording which you can edit and publish How to make your first recording Here you will use BB FlashBack Recorder to record a movie which you can then edit in BB FlashBack Player 1 Open the BB FlashBack Pro 3 Recorder from the windows start menu 2 On the welcome screen click Record a new movie BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 10 3 Set the recording options and click the record button BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 11 4 In the options the Record Region was selected so set the size and position of the region and click Record 5 Click the stop button to end recording BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 12 6 C
15. 74 Section 3 76 Introducing BB FlashBack Pro Edition 77 Contacting Blueberry 78 System Requirements 79 Software Requirements 79 Hardware Requirements 79 Buying BB FlashBack 80 Buying a licence 80 Problems with licence keys 81 I purchased online but I didn t receive the email containing licence keys 81 I m having problems entering the key into BB FlashBack 81 Other help with key related problems
16. 44 How to edit sound and affect the video 44 Removing Background Noise 45 How to remove noise from a clip 45 Fading a Clip In and Out 46 How to fade a clip in and out 46 Adding Sound 47 How to add an existing sound file 47 BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 4 How to record a sound clip 48 Adding Text and Images Highlights Arrows and Buttons 48 How to add text to a movie 48 How to add an ima
17. How to edit the properties of a highlight There are a number of ways to show the highlight properties window for a particular highlight Double click the highlighted area itself or Right click the highlight in the movie area and select Properties BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 148 Highlights can also be layered in front of or behind other elements on the screen by right clicking over a highlight and selecting the bring forwards and send backwards type options from the menu How to move a highlight The highlight appears by default at the top left of the recorded screen Click the highlight and hold the mouse button down to drag it anywhere in the movie area Alternatively the Position tab of the Image Insert properties window allows you to enter the co ordinates of the top left corner of the highlight How to resize a highlight Put the cursor at the edge of the highlight It will turn into a resize cursor and you can click and drag to resize the highlight Alternatively click the Position tab in the Image Insert window and entering the width and height of the highlight in pixels How to change how long the highlight is displayed for You can either Change the duration in the Highlight properties window or In the framebar click and drag the icons that signify the start and end frames of the highlight you have to click and hold down for a second then drag How to delete a highlight 1 Select the
18. How to add an autoscroll 1 Click Effects 2 Go to the Autoscroll Cropping Rectangle submenu 3 Click Mouse In Centre Or Click Mouse Near Centre How to remove an autoscroll 1 Click Effects 2 Go to the Autoscroll Cropping Rectangle submenu 3 Click None Recording From Webcam You can record a webcam whilst you record the screen or record only the webcam See Video BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 66 How to record the webcam whilst you record the screen 1 From the BB FlashBack recorder tick Record Webcam Or From the BB FlashBack recorder click Tools gt Options in the menu then click Webcam tick Capture Video From Webcam and click OK Or From the BB FlashBack player click Tools gt Recording Options in the menu then click Webcam tick Capture Video From Webcam and click OK 2 Select the webcam to record with 3 Click BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 67 Please note if you tick Show Webcam Window While Recording it will display the webcam video on screen while recording The webcam video will be part of the recording and cannot be moved and resized in BB FlashBack player How to record the webcam only 1 From the BB FlashBack recorder click Tools gt Options in the menu then click Webcam and tick Capture Video From Webcam Or From the BB FlashBack player click Tools gt Recording Options in the menu then click Webcam and tick Capture Video From Webcam 2 Tick Record Only From Webcam
19. Select this to record a commentary from an attached microphone Use the Level slider and volume indicator on the right of the BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 193 window to ensure that your microphone is connected and picking up sound correctly If BB FlashBack does not detect a suitable microphone source attached to your selected sound device this option will not be enabled PC Sounds Select this option to record what you hear in your PC speakers A typical sound device e g a sound card will have a number of sources available for recording Click the Select Sources button to see the sources that play through your PC speakers You can select which sources to record and adjust their relative volumes with the mini sliders Use the level meters to the right of the Window to make sure BB FlashBack can hear the sound ok for recording Other Sounds Use this to select a sound source that usually does not play back through your PC speakers Selecting a sound format Selecting different sound formats will vary the quality of the recording and the amount of space it occupies in the movie file You need to select Sampling rate in Khz The higher the rate the better the sound quality but the more file space the sound track occupies Stereo Mono Stereo will give better sound quality than mono but also produce larger movie files MP3 compression This option should always be selected unless you a
20. MPEG4 This format can also achieve low filesize with good quality though it will probably not compress video as well as QuickTime and WMV By default Windows Media Player can not play back MPEG4 format video files so this format may not be a good choice if you will distribute the video to Windows PCs However the format is supported by Apple Mac OS X and the iPhone iPad and video capable iPods Standalone EXE BB FlashBack can export your movie as an executable file EXE file that plays the movie when opened It has configurable playback controls lossless quality images and can achieve very small file size The EXE file will only play back on Windows PCs EXE and Flash formats are the only formats that support interactive elements like click to continue textboxes and buttons BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 165 AVI A very popular file format for displaying movies However exporting to AVI can be complicated for less technical users because you need to pick a codec to encode the movie The image quality and file size is very dependent on the codec used If a PC doesn t have the codec you used to encode it it may not be able to play back the AVI file and the codecs you can guarantee are installed on all Windows PCs may not give good results MS PowerPoint PPT BB FlashBack can save you movie as a PowerPoint file with the movie embedded in the first slide You need MS Office 2000 or newer including PowerPoint
21. BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 163 To change the position of the text or image When BB FlashBack adds titles with text and images it creates the text or image by adding a standard textbox or image object to the movie You will see these at the start or end of the movie Change the position of the text or image by clicking and dragging the textbox or image object as you normally would To change the size of the image See the help for To change the position of the text or image Change the size of the image object added by BB FlashBack when it created the titles To change anything else Select Start End Titles from the Effects menu or click the button on the toolbar and change the title properties You can always alter the titles by editing the image textbox pause and highlight objects added by BB FlashBack to the start or end of the movie However for things like altering the duration of the movie it is much easier to use the Titles properties window Displaying invisible keystrokes Some keypresses such as function keys or the Insert Delete Home and End keys often do not produce visible output If you want the user to know when these invisible keys are being pressed BB FlashBack can automatically create textboxes to show them How to show invisible keystrokes 1 Select Show Invisible Keystrokes from the Effects gt Display Invisible Keystrokes menu 2 Set properties for the textboxes that will show the keystrokes Th
22. 191 Working with Sound 192 Adding and Recording Sound into a Movie 192 The Sound Options Window 193 Sound Synchronisation Problems 194 Changing the Volume of a Track or Clip 194 Removing Noise 195 Fading Sounds In or Out 195 Volume Level Processing 195 Editing Sound 196 Merging and Splitting Clips and Tracks 199 Sou
23. BB FlashBack v3 User Manual and How To Guide Blueberry Software BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 2 BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 3 Contents Section 1 8 Quick Start Guide 9 Recording a movie 9 How to make your first recording 9 Editing your movie 12 The toolbar 13 Editing frames 15 Annotating the movie 17 Using zoom pan cropping and autoscroll
24. Highlights Arrows and Buttons How to add text to a movie 1 Select the frame where you want to insert the textbox 2 Click on the toolbar Or Click Insert gt Text in the menu BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 49 3 Set the properties of your textbox BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 50 4 Set the appearance of the textbox 5 Click OK How to add an image to a movie 1 Select the frame where you want to insert the image 2 Click on the toolbar Or Click Insert gt Image in the menu 3 Click Load Image 4 Browse to the image select it and click Open BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 51 5 Set the properties of your image 6 Click OK How to add a highlight to your movie 1 Select the frame where you want to insert the highlight 2 Click on the toolbar Or Click Insert gt Highlight in the menu BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 52 3 Set the properties of the highlight 4 Click OK BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 53 How to insert an arrow 1 Select the frame where you want to insert the arrow 2 Click on the toolbar Or Click Insert gt Arrow in the menu 3 Set the properties of the arrow BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 54 4 Set the appearance of the arrow 5 Click OK How to add a button 1 Select the frame where you want to insert the button 2 Click on the toolbar Or Click Insert gt Button in the menu BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 55 3
25. If you want a response to your report include your email address The wizard will send an email directly to our technical support team Details of your PC specification are attached but this does NOT contain any personal information just a description of your PC hardware BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 108 Recording sound While recording Windows desktop activity BB FlashBack can also record sound via a microphone attached to your PC This soundtrack is saved into the movie file How to turn on sound recording You can check the Record sound box on the Recorder main window or on the Sound tab of the Recorder Options window The recorder main window gives you access to the main settings while the Sound tab of the Recorder Options window enables access to more advanced settings The Sound Device BB FlashBack will choose the default sound device automatically For most PCs this is sufficient but for those with more than one sound card you may need to select a non default device Go to the Sound tab of the Options window and select the device The Sound Source Microphone Select this to record a commentary from an attached microphone Use the Level slider and volume indicator on the right of the window to ensure that your microphone is connected and picking up sound correctly If BB FlashBack does not detect a suitable microphone source attached to your selected sound device this option will not be enabled PC Speakers Select thi
26. To learn more see Editing Movies Annotates movies with text and images You can add textboxes images highlights or buttons to movies To learn more see Adding text boxes Adding images Adding highlights and Adding buttons BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 83 Adds effects You can add zoom and pan type effects to have the movie focus in on an area of the screen Exports to other file formats When you re done and want to show other PC users your movies you can export to a number of file formats See Exporting movies To get started You can record a movie using BB FlashBack Recorder See Recording movies Once you have recorded a movie you can view and edit it using BB FlashBack Player See Playing back movies When you want to share the movie with other PC users BB FlashBack Player gives you the option of exporting it into a number of file formats See Exporting movies BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 84 Recording Movies With only a few clicks of the mouse BB FlashBack can start to record everything that happens on your Windows desktop Select whether you want to record the full screen or just a region or window Choose a sound source and webcam and click the button and BB FlashBack records your desktop When you re finished click the button and the recording is saved to a file you can open in BB FlashBack Player to edit annotate and save in a standard video format To view the movie For help on viewing your mo
27. You can click either the framebar or the timeline to define the range in this way Click the start or end frame in the range and while holding the mouse button down drag the cursor across the framebar or timeline to define the range BB FlashBack shows the selected frames in red BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 140 You can include selections in the framebar and soundtracks so an edit operation acts on the same range across multiple sound tracks and the movie frames If your movie includes webcam video you can also include or exclude that from the selection by clicking the webcam header See More about selecting sound and frames How to move the start or end of a range Keeping the Shift key pressed down click on a frame in the Frame bar again If the frame you clicked is nearer the start of the range than the end BB FlashBack will now make the range start at that frame Conversely if the frame you clicked is nearer to the end of the range BB FlashBack will now make the range end at that frame By keeping the Shift key pressed down and clicking on the Frame bar you can change the start and end frames of the range How to quickly view the start and end frames of a range By holding down the Ctrl key and pressing the left and right arrow keys the current frame will switch between the start and end of the range As usual the current frame is highlighted in red on the frame bar and shown in the movie area This can be useful when mergi
28. button to the BB FlashBack clipboard Select an object by clicking it in the movie area Paste Object Pastes any previously Copied object into the current frame Object Properties Edits properties of the currently selected textbox or image Delete Object Deletes the currently selected textbox or image Delete WebCam Video Removes the WebCam video stream from the movie Edit ZoomPan Shows the ZoomPan properties dialog on which you can edit the transition speed Enabled if a zoompan object is created in the selected frame Delete ZoomPan Deletes the zoompan Enabled if a zoompan object is created in the selected frame Pause Graphic Check this item to have a pause graphic displayed whenever the movie reaches a pause point at a textbox or image The sub items allow you to specify the graphic used and where it is positioned Set Pause Graphics allows you to select a graphic file that will be displayed whenever the movie is paused during playback Set Default Pause Graphics sets the pause graphic back to the default supplied with BB FlashBack Set Pause Graphics Position BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 123 allows you to set the position that the pause graphic will appear in Markers Current Markers list is a list of all of the markers in the movie Selecting a marker from this list will jump straight to that frame Delete shows a sub menu containing the names of each of the markers in the current movie To delete
29. for some movies reducing the number of colours can result in a file size reduction Preload you can set how much of the Flash movie should be downloaded before playback starts automatically The default is to have the movie only start when it calculates that playback will be able to proceed to the end if the current download rate is maintained Security Tab BB FlashBack can set Flash exports to expire at a certain date or require a password for viewing These options only work for exports to a single SWF file There are also options to prevent the exported Flash movie from being embedded in third party webpages See Restricting third party use of Flash exports BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 170 Selecting between Flash Video FLV and Standard Flash SWF There are two basic types of Flash export Flash Video FLV and Standard Flash SWF The best one to select will depend on the movie you are exporting How to select Flash Video FLV or Standard Flash SWF Select the Video Quality tab on the Flash Export Options window and then select the export type Advantages of FLV Handles moving video better FLV should create a smaller file than SWF if your movie contains moving video Also moving objects will not leave trails behind them which can be the case with SWF movies Has no restriction on length SWF has a limit on the number of frames it can contain in one movie BB FlashBack will automatically reduce the frame
30. the new sound is added as a new clip in a new track If you recorded sound with your movie this sound will appear as a single clip in a track called main track The clip will have the same length as the movie Note stereo tracks are shown as one waveform rather than two images for the two separate channels The track plays back in stereo but for the purposes of editing and visualisation it is shown as one image and edits apply to both left and right channels Moving a clip At the start and end of each clip are drag handles Move the start point of a clip in the movie by clicking either handle and dragging to the left or right This enables you to position sound effects or sections of speech exactly in sync with the video Selecting Sound Select part of a clip by clicking in the clip and dragging to mark an area in red Select the entire clip by clicking its handle Select more than one clip by holding down shift while clicking clip handles Only adjacent clips can be selected at once Select a track by clicking its header The header will turn red when selected BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 198 BB FlashBack allows you to select the same time period in a number of sound tracks and the movie frames so you can perform operations on all of them at once Changing the volume of sounds How to change the volume of a part of a clip 1 Click and drag to select part of a clip 2 Use the volume adjustment control in the toolbar
31. to add text sound edit frames etc as normal Note the compression used in FlashBack movie files is optimised for recording normal Windows applications not moving video If you convert an AVI of a TV show for example the resulting FlashBack movie file will probably be much larger than the original AVI Note this function is only tested and supported for AVI files encoded using these codecs Full frames uncompressed Huffyuv DivX 3 amp 5 MS Video 1 Techsmith Screen Capture To convert an AVI file to a FlashBack movie file 1 In Player select Convert AVI file to FlashBack movie from the Tools menu 2 Set the AVI filename field to the AVI file that you want to edit in BB FlashBack BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 137 3 Set the FlashBack filename field to the name of the FlashBack file you want to create 4 Check the Open movie after conversion checkbox if you want to open the converted movie for editing straight after the conversion has completed Command line options The player can be invoked from the command line as follows Flashback Player exe option lt movie name gt Here option is facultative and movie name is necessary If no option is provided the movie is simply played You can specify one of the following options e open for edit f export to SWF v export to AVI or help display a list of available options BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 138 Editing Movies Ab
32. to export to this format I want to send it to other BB FlashBack BB FlashBack Express or BB TestAssistant users Just send them the FlashBack Movie file FBR file created by BB FlashBack they will be able to play it and the FlashBack file is often smaller than other formats I want to display the movie on a webpage Flash QuickTime and WMV formats can all be embedded on webpages I want to include the movie on a CD Try exporting to Flash QuickTime WMV and EXE formats The format that gives best image quality at lowest file size may depend on the content of your movie EXE format often gives smallest file sizes if normal Windows applications are recorded If your movie contains moving video or lots of photographic images Flash QuickTime and WMV formats may produce smaller exports BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 166 Comparison of export formats AVI WMV QuickTime EXE MPEG4 Flash SWF Flash FLV Quality Depends on codec read more High High Lossless High Lossless or JPG High Filesize Depends on codec read more Good Good Depends on recording Good Depends on recording Good Can contain interactive elements Embed in Webpage Compatible on a wide range of PCs Depends on codec read more Requires QuickTime or 3rd party software to be installed Requires QuickTime or 3rd party software to be install
33. 3 Press the delete key on the keyboard Or Click on the toolbar Or Click Edit gt Delete Frame s in the menu 4 Click OK How to insert frames 1 Select the point where you wish to insert the frames 2 Click on the toolbar Or Click Edit gt Insert Frame s in the menu 3 Enter the number of frames you wish to insert 4 Click OK How to crop a movie 1 Select the frame where you want to movie to begin 2 Click and drag across the framebar until you reach the frame where you want the movie to end 3 Click on the toolbar Or Click Edit gt Crop Frame s in the menu 4 Click OK to confirm the edit BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 17 Annotating the movie You can add text images and other objects to a movie How to add text to a movie 1 Select the frame where you want to insert the textbox 2 Click on the toolbar Or Click Insert gt Text in the menu 3 Set the properties of your textbox BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 18 4 Set the appearance of the textbox BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 19 5 You can create and edit styles to use with textboxes throughout a movie BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 20 6 When you are creating a textbox you can set the size and position Alternatively once the textbox has been created you can click and drag in the view screen to manually resize and move it BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 21 7 You can create a transition to fade the tex
34. 3rd party codecs Technical Note BB FlashBack MPEG4 exports use MPEG4 ASP simple profile level 1 encoding for video and AAC for audio in an MP4 container Optimizing the Export for an Apple Device BB FlashBack allows you to optimize the dimensions of the export for an Apple device iPad iPhone iPod You can select a category of device in the Optimize for device setting on the MPEG4 export options window and dimensions will be set accordingly If you export larger or smaller than the recommended dimensions the video file will still play back ok on the Apple device but it will be scaled to the display size There is usually nothing to be gained by exporting larger than the display size but the file size will be larger Exporting at dimensions much smaller than the display size can result in reduced quality Using the Optimize for device setting means that you will not be creating unnecessarily large or reduced quality export files BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 186 How to export a movie to MPEG4 format 1 On the Player main menu select the Export to MPEG4 item on the File menu Or Click the Export button on the File toolbar and select MPEG4 format 2 On the dialog that appears set options for video and audio quality 3 Click OK to save the movie to an mp4 file Exporting to standalone EXE BB FlashBack can export your movie to an executable file that runs under most versions of Microsoft Windows To view it all a user need do
35. Adding and Recording Sound into a Movie for more help Turn on the Record Webcam setting to record from attached webcams See Recording Webcam Video Turn on the Minimize to tray floating controls while recording setting to minimise Recorder while it is recording Select between minimizing to the icon tray or to floating controls by using the settings in the Tools menu BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 90 The Recorder main menu Show the Recorder main menu by minimizing Recorder to the icon tray and clicking the icon or minimizing it to floating controls and clicking the button From this menu you can show the recording options window record a new movie create a report or play your recently recorded movies When you are recording a movie this menu can be used to pause or stop recording The menu items from top to bottom Recently recorded movie list This list is always at the top of the menu It shows the names of the previous ten movie files that you have created Each file has a pop out menu that contains a number of options to enable you to play edit or re record it For more help see The movie file sub menu Play Displays a file selection dialog then starts up BB FlashBack Player to show the selected movie Record Starts a recording immediately using the current settings Options Shows the The Recorder Options window Pause only enabled while recording Pauses recording Add Marker only enabled while recording A
36. FlashBack Pro User Guide 25 Please note the zoom will remain in the movie until the end or another zoom effect is created How to crop a movie and use the autoscroll 1 First add a cropping rectangle to the movie Click on the toolbar Or Click Effects gt Set Cropping Rectangle in the menu 2 Then add the autoscroll effect Click Effects 3 Go to the Autoscroll Cropping Rectangle submenu 4 Click Mouse In Centre Or Click Mouse Near Centre The cropping rectangle can be resized in the view screen When you export the movie only the area within the cropping rectangle will be exported The cropping rectangle will follow the mouse cursor as it moves across the screen when the autoscroll is set If zoom and pan effects are being used a zoom in or pan will only show sections within the cropping rectangle Publishing Your Movie When you have finished editing the movie it can be exported in a variety of formats and can be uploaded to YouTube BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 26 Exporting your movie Here I will demonstrate how to export the movie to Flash 1 Click on the toolbar Or Click File gt Export in the menu 2 Select the Flash export format 3 Click OK BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 27 4 Set the Flash Export Options 5 Click Export 6 Choose where to save the exported files and click Save Three files are exported and you can choose view the export once completed To view the movie in a web brow
37. FlashBack allows you to select a number of clips and tracks and merge them together into one A single clip can be split into two or three clips allowing you to position and change the volume of each piece of sound separately Merging Clips Select more than one clip by holding down the Shift key and clicking on their handles Only adjacent clips can be selected The selected clips will be shown in red Merge the clips by clicking the Merge Clip button in the toolbar or selecting Merge Clips from the Sound menu Merging Tracks Merge tracks to move all their clips into one track How to merge tracks 1 Select a track by right clicking the track header on the left of the Player The header will turn red to indicate selection 2 Select all the tracks you want to merge 3 Right click the header of one of the selected tracks and click Merge Tracks from its menu or click the Merge Tracks button on the toolbar BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 200 Note You can only merge tracks when the clips would not overlap when the tracks are combined into one Splitting a Clip BB FlashBack lets you split clips into multiple clips so you can position and change the volume of each piece of sound separately How to split a clip into two 1 Select the point at which you want to split the clip 2 Click the Split Clip toolbar button or select the Split Clip item from the Sound menu How to split a clip into three with the selection as the
38. Volume Increase the volume of the selected sound Decrease Sound Volume Decrease the volume of the selected sound Volume Level Processing Two functions to equalize volume in a movie Make multiple clips have the same loudness normalization Even out the volume in a clip Compression Remove Noise Removes background noise from the audio Fade Clip In Out Fades the volume of the selected clip in and or out Split Sound Clip Split the clip into 2 or 3 clips at the selected point Merge Sound Clips Merge selected clips into one Merge Sound Tracks Merge selected tracks Copy Sound Copy selected sound Cut Sound Cut selected sound Paste Sound Paste sound Sound Options Sets the default playback device and how MP3 sounds are edited and exported BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 128 The Effects menu Apply ZoomPan and Cropping Effects ZoomPan and Cropping effects can either be unapplied so you can edit them or applied so you can see how they change the appearance of the movie Add ZoomPan Adds a ZoomPan effect to the current frame Set Cropping Rectangle Allows the user to position and resize the cropping rectangle Play in Cropping Rectangle Restricts movie play back to only show what is within the cropping rectangle Make Cropping Permanent Permanently alters the movie so that it only contains what is within the current cropping rectangle Highlight Cursor Set the mous
39. WMV files intended to be streamed over the internet or are targeting older PCs and devices Usually a variable bit rate will result in higher quality Bitrate The bitrate determines the quality of the movie the higher the bitrate the better the quality It can be useful in controlling the export of files intended to be streamed over the internet Note If your export has choppy playback or you see the video sticking and not playing smoothly and you are exporting with variable bitrate unchecked i e using constant bitrate try increasing the bitrate decreasing the quality or both Audio Tab Codec As for the video options Windows Media Audio series 9 codecs should give the best results The older codecs are provided in case you encounter problems when playing back the movie on PCs with older versions of Windows Media Player See WMV compatibility with older PCs for more details Format The sound format is a combination of the sampling rate and whether it is in mono or stereo The higher the sampling rate the better the quality but the larger the exported movie file Selecting mono instead of stereo will decrease the movie size but only include one channel of sound instead of two Passes As with the video settings 2 passes generally results in better quality but takes longer to export Variable bit rate As for the video settings using variable bit rate will result in higher quality for most purpo
40. You can enter javascript that will be executed when the button is clicked Note that the javascript will not be executed when playing the movie in BB FlashBack Player It is only executed by the Flash export of the movie There is a 400 character limit for the javascript code but if you need to execute something more complex than this will allow you can make calls to functions in the webpage that embeds the Flash export How to change how long the button is displayed for You can either Change the duration in the Button properties window or In the framebar click and drag the icons that signify the start and end frames of a button you have to click and hold down for a second then drag Adding Arrows BB FlashBack can add Arrows to the movie to help focus attention on a detail How to add an Arrow 1 Select the frame where you want to add an arrow 2 On the Player main menu select Arrow from the Insert menu or BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 150 On the Player toolbar click the Arrow button Changing the Arrow appearance To change the properties of an Arrow you can either Double click the Arrow or Right click the Arrow and select Properties In the Arrow properties window you will see these tabs Properties Settings here enable you to change The shape at the start and end of the arrow The width of the tail and head Its opacity How long it is displayed for Appeara
41. and you can edit this to change the number of frames of animation speed of animation and the transparent colour in the image files The file holds a number of numeric values that relate to the various mouse action animations You can change these values to change the animation Here is a sample set of lines from custom cfg that control the left button down animation Comments on how you could change the value are on the right LeftMouseDownDoDraw 1 Change this value to 0 to not include this particular animation left button down in the movie no animation will be displayed LeftMouseDownImagesCount 3 Change this to add more frames of animation or have less Remember if you changed this value to 4 for example you would need to add an extra image file LeftMouseDown4 bmp LeftMouseDownDuration 500 The time in milliseconds that each frame of the animation is displayed for LeftMouseDownOffsetFromCursorHotspotX 12 These two values specify the position of the hotspot in the image the position of the end of the cursor To locate the animation exactly over the end of the mouse cursor you may need to change these values LeftMouseDownOffsetFromCursorHotspotY 12 LeftMouseDownTransparentColor 0x00FF00FF The colour in the image that will be made BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 159 transparent when it is overlaid on top of the movie Putting the mouse in front or behind other objects By default the mouse cursor
42. arrow at the right of the button Whatever you select becomes the default for next time 3 Enter your login details BB FlashBack needs these to upload the movie to your account It ll remember them for next time 4 Enter some information about your movie i The title and description you enter here will be seen by users that view your movie on the web site ii Tags are used to help searching Give your movie tags relevant to its content iii Some sites allow you to make the movie private which means it will only be visible to users you specify When BB FlashBack has finished uploading the movie it ll give you a web address URL Open that to see the movie on the video hosting site Note some sites can take minutes to process the video During that time if you open the URL you may see a page saying the video is unavailable Note movies displayed on video hosting sites can t have interactive elements like click to continue textboxes and buttons If you want users to see those you need to export to Flash SWF and upload the exported files to your webserver See Displaying a Flash export on a webpage for more help BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 190 Uploading to FTP and FileCopy In addition to uploading to public video sharing sites BB FlashBack also enables you to upload movies to FTP servers and to a location on your PC or LAN Uploading to an FTP server On the Upload button in the Player taskbar select Upload to FTP The o
43. as hiss or mains hum from a sound track How to remove noise 1 Select a sound clip or track 2 Select Remove Noise from the Sound menu or the right click menu for the clip or track 3 Set the noise removal parameters The higher the Strength setting the more noise is removed but higher values will adversely affect sound quality you will need to find the right balance between noise removal and sound quality The remove musical artefacts setting removes distortion added by the noise removal process You would normally want this set on but turning it off can improve quality in some situations Fading sounds in or out BB FlashBack can fade a sound clip in and out How to fade a clip in or out 1 Select the sound clip you want to fade 2 Select Fade clip in out from the Sound menu or the right click menu for that clip 3 Set the duration of the fade in and out Volume level processing BB FlashBack can process audio to reduce the problems caused by having widely varying volume levels within a movie BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 196 There are two functions Compression This equalizes volume within a clip reducing the difference between loud and quiet sounds It boosts the level of quiet sounds and reduces the level of loud sounds Normalization The adjusts the volume of loud sounds in a number of clips to give them all the same loudness the volume of the loudest sound in the clip It is best use
44. been exported BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 61 Creating Pan and Zoom Effects You can zoom into a movie Whilst the movie is zoomed in you can add a pan effect or zoom out See Video How to zoom in 1 Select the frame where you want to add the zoom in 2 Click on the toolbar Or Click Effects gt Add ZoomPan in the menu 3 Set the properties of the zoom BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 62 Set the size and position of the zoom 4 Click OK How to pan while zoomed in 1 Select the frame where you want to add the pan 2 Click on the toolbar Or Click Effects gt Add ZoomPan in the menu BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 63 3 Set the properties of the pan 4 Click OK Click and drag the zoom pan to set the pan destination How to zoom out from a previous zoom in 1 Select the frame where you want to add the zoom out 2 Click on the toolbar Or Click Effects gt Add ZoomPan in the menu BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 64 3 Set the zoom to show the whole movie 4 Click OK Using Autoscroll You can crop the movie to a smaller size and add an autoscroll effect to still show all of the action See Video BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 65 How to add a cropping rectangle 1 Click on the toolbar Or Click Effects gt Set Cropping Rectangle in the menu How to remove a cropping rectangle 1 Click on the toolbar Or Click Effects gt Set Cropping Rectangle in the menu
45. below for more details 3 Give the export file a name and click Save to create the export file Setting QuickTime Video Quality and File Size There are a number of settings you can use to adjust the video quality Better video quality generally means larger file size Frame Rate A higher frame rate means smoother motion but larger file sizes Set the Frame Rate on the Frame Rate tab of the QuickTime Export Options window Key Frame Rate More key frames usually mean better quality but also mean larger file sizes Set the Key Frame Rate on the Frame Rate tab of the QuickTime Export Options window Quality Set a higher value for higher quality video with less artefacts and larger file sizes Set the Quality on the Video Quality tab of the QuickTime Export Options window Single Multi Pass Using multi pass encoding will give higher quality results but will take longer Select single or multi pass encoding on the Video Quality tab of the QuickTime Export Options window BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 180 Data Rate A higher data rate or bitrate generally means better quality but larger files The data rate needs to take into account how the movie will be viewed if the movie will be streamed over the internet the data rate should be lower than if it will be played from a CD or hard drive Finding the best data rate for your movie will take some experimentation so you may want to leave it on the automat
46. centre clip 1 Select a section of sound 2 Click the Split Clip toolbar button or select the Split Clip item from the Sound menu The selected section becomes a clip Sound editing operations Copying Cutting and Pasting Sound BB FlashBack allows you to copy and cut sound from a clip then paste it into another clip or a new track How to copy and paste sound Select some sound in a clip then use either the Copy or Cut buttons in the Sound toolbar or the Copy and Cut items on the Sound menu To paste the sound into an existing track select a point in the track and click the Paste button in the Sound toolbar or the Paste item in the Sound menu To paste the sound into a new track make sure you have no selection in a track when you click Paste a new track will be created to hold the pasted clip BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 201 Note these functions do not use the normal Windows clipboard sound is copied to and pasted from a special sound clipboard only available to BB FlashBack Inserting Silence BB FlashBack enables you to insert silence into sound tracks You can optionally insert blank frames at the same time Select a point in the track and use the Insert button on the Edit toolbar or the Insert Frames Silence item on the Edit menu Note you can set the length of the silence inserted by selecting a period then using the Insert Silence function the silence length will default to the selection duration Note if fra
47. change the colour depth of the exported movie 1 Go to the More tab in the Flash export options window 2 Select a colour depth from the Colour depth drop down list export the movie and see whether this results in a reduced file size Customising the Flash playback controls BB FlashBack is installed with 3 different styles of playback controls If you want a different look or added functionality and have Flash authoring skills you can specify an SWF to use in place of the supplied templates on the Playback Controls tab of the Flash Export options window BB FlashBack is installed with FLA source files AS ActionScript files and FLP project files for the 3 included playback control templates in an SWFControlBars folder in the application install folder These files should be modified to produce the customisations you need For each of the three templates there are 3 FLA and SWF files e g for the metallic template DefaultControlBar fla swf multiple SWF export toolbar and movie in separate SWF files or FLV export Uses ActionScript 2 DefaultControlBarSingle fla swf single SWF export playback controls and movie in the same SWF file ActionScript 2 DefaultControlBar3 fla swf FLV export when the movie contains interactive objects like click to continue textboxes Uses ActionScript3 BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 173 How Flash exports use HTML files When BB FlashBack exports to Flash it generate
48. corrupted install of the Capture Driver which can be reinstalled through a repair program included with BB FlashBack Please browse to your BB FlashBack installation directory and run the file FlashbackDriverInstaller exe From this program you can select Uninstall BB Capture Driver and then Install BB Capture Driver to reinstall the driver correctly BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 206 I m trying to record a DVD or video clip but it fails or the results are poor Take a look at the page Troubleshooting video recording What affects the file size of my final movie file The file size of your FBR movie file is determined more by the content of your movie rather than it s duration in time A long movie showing only a static desktop is likely to be much smaller in size than a short movie containing numerous graphics and photos Material which will boost movie size considerably includes photos custom Windows wallpaper website images animations scrolling windows and Windows graphics effects In BB FlashBack you can switch off graphical wallpaper and Windows graphics effects automatically while recording These options can be found in the Recorder Options dialog Graphics tab A soundtrack will also raise the final size of your movie To reduce the size added by a soundtrack you should enable the MP3 Compression in the sound recording options Recorder Options gt Sound tab and import MP3 rather than WAV files when adding sounds in the
49. edit the properties of a text box There are a number of ways to show the Text Box properties window for a particular text box Double click the text box itself in the movie area or Click the text box in the movie area A blue line will appear around the box to indicate it is selected Then either select Text box properties from the Edit menu or click the button on the Edit toolbar or Double click on the frame in the Frame bar that contains the image to indicate the appearance of that text box Once the Text Box properties window is visible the text content and style can be altered For more help on this window see The Text Box properties window Changing text box duration Text boxes only appear in the movie for a set length of time the duration that was set in step 3 above on the Text box properties window In the Frame bar you will see an image in the frame where you added the text box and an image in the frame where it is hidden These mark the start and end of its appearance in the movie You can change its duration by setting it in the Text box properties window or by clicking and dragging the icons in the frame bar you have to click hold for a second and then drag How to move a text box With the mouse over the text box in the BB FlashBack Player movie area hold down the left mouse button The cursor will turn into a shape and keeping the left mouse button held down you can drag the text box arou
50. file BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 103 Defining and using hotkeys BB FlashBack Recorder will let you define a hotkey combination This has two uses During recording pressing the hotkey will cause the recording pop up window to appear From this window you can stop pause or restart the recording While BB FlashBack Recorder is running in the system tray but not recording pressing the hotkey will cause the Recorder options window to appear To define a hotkey 1 Open the Recorder options window 2 Select the Hotkeys tab 3 Put the cursor in the Hotkey field and press the key combination that you want to assign to the hotkey The Hotkey field will display the combination 4 Click OK BB FlashBack Recorder will now respond to that hotkey Customising delays There are two customisable delays that can be set on the BB FlashBack Recorder options window 1 the delay between clicking a button or menu item on BB FlashBack recorder to record and the actual start of recording 2 If you have selected to change the screen display mode during recording BB FlashBack can insert a delay between this change and the start of recording During both of these delays a small initialising window is shown To change the customisable delays 1 Open the Recorder options window and then select the Misc tab 2 To set delay 1 change the value in the Delay before recording field To set delay 2 change the value in the Delay afte
51. framebar as showing a magnified portion of the timeline Because each frame lasts only a short period of time 1 25th second by default the Frame bar will typically only show a small portion of your movie Clicking on the Timeline selects a point in time and the frame at that point The Frame bar will automatically scroll to show the selected frame which is displayed in red For more help on selecting frames using the Frame bar see Selecting frames For more help with frames see Working with frames More about the frame bar Shown below is a portion of a Frame bar and Timeline The Timeline is marked in seconds The frame bar is drawn in a number of strips to show Zoom Pan effects mouse clicks and keys pressed in a particular frame BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 117 How to show or hide the Frame bar and Timeline 1 On the Player menu bar select View 2 Check or uncheck the menu items for Timeline and Frame bar to show or hide those items Viewing Objects When you add an object like a textbox or image to the movie a bar in the Objects section represents it In the above a textbox appears then an image The length of the bar represents the duration of the object Double click the bar to open the Properties window for that object Click and drag the bar to change the point in the movie where it appears Click and drag the end of the bar to change its duration Viewing Zoom Pan effects The example image above shows a Zoom
52. it ll remember them for next time When the upload finishes you ll get a web address you can easily send to someone When they open it in a browser they ll see a web page displaying the movie See Uploading Movies for more help Exporting movies If you want non FlashBack users to see a movie you ve created you ll need to export it Here are the file formats BB FlashBack can export to Flash Flash is the easiest format to embed in a webpage It includes full playback controls A very high gt 95 of PC and Mac users should be able to view movies in this format Flash and EXE formats are the only formats that support interactive elements like click to continue textboxes and buttons To learn more see Exporting to Flash format BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 87 QuickTime H264 QuickTime uses advanced compression to achieve a good balance of quality and file size QuickTime movies can be embedded in webpages and streamed to viewers They will play back in all Mac s but only PCs that have QuickTime or iTunes installed You need QuickTime 7 or later installed to export to QuickTime format To learn more see Exporting to QuickTime H264 Windows Media Video WMV As with QuickTime you can achieve good quality and file size with this format and WMV movies can be embedded in Web pages WMV files should play back on virtually all PCs but generally not on Macs You need Windows Media Player 9 or newer to export to WMV format To learn mo
53. movie at any frame by adding a Pause object A Pause object will pause playback for a set period of time or until the mouse is clicked Sounds do not play while the movie is paused How to add a pause object 1 Select the frame you want to add the pause to 2 In the Insert menu select Pause How to change the settings of a Pause Object Double click the pause object icon in the framebar to show its settings window Pausing while a textbox image or other object is displayed In the Duration settings for a textbox image or other in movie object you can set the movie to pause while the object is displayed This will create a pause object in the same frame as the in movie object You can set the duration of this pause either from the Duration settings of the in movie object it was created by or by double clicking the pause object icon in the framebar Note Other objects that start in the same frame will be unable to set their duration they will take the same duration as the object with the linked pause object Displaying a Click to continue image while the movie is paused If you select the Pause until mouse clicked option for the pause you can also select the Show paused graphic while movie is paused The default pause graphic BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 162 appears in the top left corner of the movie and says Paused click to continue See the help below if you want to change the appearance or position of the pause g
54. of the green rectangle in any frame changes the view for all frames affected by that Zoom Pan effect you don t need to find the frame where you originally added the effect in order to change it How to delete a zoom pan effect 1 Find the Zoom Pan effect in the framebar The easy way to do this is by selecting the effect in the Jump To control on the toolbars to jump straight to its frame You should see something like this in the framebar The icon indicates the start frame of the transition where the Zoom Pan starts The icon indicates the end frame of the transition where the Zoom Pan ends 2 Right click the icon and select Delete Zoom Pan or Click the Delete Zoom Pan button in the toolbar Changing the transition speed for a Zoom Pan effect Find the Zoom Pan effect in the framebar The easy way to do this is by selecting the effect in the Jump To control on the toolbars to jump straight to its frame You should see something like this in the framebar The icon indicates the start frame of the transition where the Zoom Pan starts The icon indicates the end frame of the transition where the Zoom Pan ends BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 154 Drag either the icons in the framebar to move the start and end of the transition or Double click the icon to see the Zoom Pan effect properties window How to zoom back out When you add a Zoom Pan effect this changes the view for all subsequent frames in the movie If
55. or right click the clip and select Volume Up or Volume Down from the menu Note BB FlashBack will make your selection into a new clip and change its volume This means you can easily make further changes to that same selection later How to change the volume of an entire clip 1 Click the handle of a clip to select it the clip will be drawn with a red background 2 Use the volume adjustment control in the toolbar or Right click the clip and select Volume Up or Volume Down from the menu How to change the volume of an entire track Right click the track name and select the Volume Up or Volume Down items Muting Sounds Mute and unmute sound with the Mute toggle button Muted clips are shown in grey How to mute part of a clip 1 Click and drag to select part of a clip 2 Click the Mute button in the toolbar or Right click the clip and select Mute from its menu Note BB FlashBack will make your selection into a new clip and mute that This means you can easily unmute that same selection later How to mute or unmute a clip 1 Click the handle of a clip to select it the clip will be drawn with a red background 2 Click the Mute button in the toolbar to mute or unmute it or Right click the clip and select Mute from its menu BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 199 How to mute or unmute an entire track Right click the track name and select the Mute item from its menu Merging and splitting clips and tracks BB
56. same period is selected in all tracks or the framebar in the selected state So if you clicked the Sound Effects track header a period of sound would be selected corresponding to the already selected frames So the same period is selected in both the framebar and the sound track Using the Lock option to always include a bar track in selections If you want to always include or exclude a bar track from selections you can use the lock unlock toggle button to set this In the image below both tracks are unlocked If I make a selection in one the same period will not be selected in the other Click the button to fix the selection state of the track framebar It will change to an icon to show that the state is locked BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 203 Using BB FlashBack from the Command Line BB FlashBack is installed with a program FBCmd exe that enables recording and exporting from the command line Usage FBCmd exe action options Actions start Start recording stop Stop recording save config Overwrite FBCmd configuration with current command line options export configs filePath Export configuration files to the filePath folder configuration files are FBCmd Recorder xml options for the recording process FBCmd ExportWMV xml options for export to WMV FBCmd ExportFlash xml options for export to Flash FBCmd ExportAVI xml options for export to AVI You can use these XML f
57. the KeyLog window which shows all key strokes recorded in the movie KeyBar mode Selects between 2 modes of displaying the keystrokes Raw shows every keystroke in the frame it occurred Sentence groups keystrokes together as words Movie Size The sub items on this menu item control the displayed size of the movie By default a movie will be displayed at 100 the original size It can be shown at a smaller size by selecting an option of less than 100 Other shows a dialog box where you can enter any percentage size for the movie to be displayed at Fit Movie to Window Select this option to increase or decrease the size of the movie to fit into the BB FlashBack Player window as it is currently sized Fit Window to Movie Select this option to increase or decrease the size of the BB FlashBack Player window so that it fits to the current size of the movie Full Screen Selecting this option to have the movie area occupy the entire Windows desktop with the toolbar positioned above it All other parts of the Player interface are hidden Full Screen View Sets which parts of the user interface will be visible in Fullscreen mode By default only the timeline is visible By checking items in this submenu you can make the framebar and toolbars visible Auto scroll There are 3 options in the Auto Scroll submenu Select None to turn Auto scrolling off If the movie is larger than the movie area you may need to scr
58. the button on the floating controls 3 Select Options 4 Select the Display tab 5 Check the Switch off Windows graphic Effects checkbox BB FlashBack will turn off graphic effects when recording To set the background bitmap to a single colour or only show window borders when resizing check the relevant boxes BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 101 Capturing keystrokes BB FlashBack can capture keystrokes during recording and display them in the Player application during playback This can show the viewer actions performed by the user at record time such as pressing of function keys which would not be obviously apparent by just viewing the movie Because this feature could inadvertently display the characters used in a password by default BB FlashBack can blank out these password characters with asterisks Note BB FlashBack cannot asterisk out passwords entered into password fields in web pages or in Remote Desktop sessions The characters are saved into the keystroke log and can be seen in the KeyLog viewer in BB FlashBack Player How to switch on keystroke recording 1 In the Recorder Options window go to the Keystrokes tab 2 Check or uncheck the Capture Keystrokes box accordingly 3 Use the Replace Password Characters checkbox to hide or show password characters when keystrokes are captured For help on viewing keystrokes during playback see Viewing key presses BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 102 Limiting the mov
59. the viewing experience for your audience BB FlashBack can add playback controls to exported Flash movies This allows the viewer to pause rewind adjust the volume and navigate to different areas of the movie with a media player type interface BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 169 You can select one of the pre defined playback control bars that come with BB FlashBack and decide which controls to include on the toolbar If you have SWF authoring software and a good knowledge of Flash you may want to see Custom Flash playback controls for information on how to use your own playback controls HTML Templates Tab When exporting to Flash BB FlashBack creates an HTML file that you should open to view the Flash movie It has the same name as the Flash SWF file If you want to change the default HTML generated BB FlashBack lets you create HTML templates to enable this See How Flash exports use HTML files for more help SWF File Generation Tab When exporting as an SWF file you can either have the movie and playback controls in the same SWF or separate SWFs Having them in the same SWF means the movie is easier to embed in documents such as a PDF file Having them in separate files means you can have download on demand type functionality where you embed the movie in a webpage but the movie only downloads when it is clicked See Files generated by Flash exports for more help More Tab Show or Hide the mouse cursor Colour format
60. to eliminate typing errors Other help with key related problems If you are still having difficulty receiving or entering your licence key please email keys bbsoftware co uk or contact your reseller with details of the problem Resellers We have registered resellers in countries across the globe If you prefer to use a reseller rather than buying from Blueberry direct go to our online resellers list BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 82 Getting Started BB FlashBack Basics There are two separate applications in BB FlashBack the Recorder and the Player The Recorder Records your desktop It records what happens on your Windows desktop and saves this as a FlashBack movie file To learn more see Recording movies Records Sound It also records sound either the PC sounds or a commentary if you have a microphone connected If you re running Windows Vista you can record a commentary and PC sounds at the same time To learn more see Working with Sound Records Webcam video If you have a webcam connected BB FlashBack can record from that as well to show it picture in picture in the final movie To learn more see Recording webcam video The Player Plays back movies It lets you play back edit and add things to FlashBack movies and save them as movie files that can be played by all PC users To learn more see Playing back movies Edits movies You can edit out mistakes or add pauses with the frame editing functions
61. to save the movie to another file name BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 93 Delete Choose this option to delete the selected movie file and remove it from the recently recorded movies list Explore Choose this option to open the folder containing the selected movie file in Windows Explorer Copy file path to clipboard Copies the full path and name of the movie file as text into the clipboard BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 94 The Recorder options window Use this window to adjust recording settings such as display options sound webcam and other more advanced options These settings will be used the next time you select Quick Record or Record The Record Wizard will take these settings as its defaults More settings are available on the Recorder Options window than in the Record Wizard To show the Recorder Options window From the Recorder main menu select Options or On the Recorder main window select Options from the Tools menu The recorder options window contains the following tabs Display Use this to set the Windows display settings during recording and how BB FlashBack windows appear during recording and in the final movie For more help see Windows display options Sound Use this tab to select when sound will be recorded and the format and compression that will be used Webcam Select whether to record video from an attached webcam and the device and format used For more help see Recording Web
62. twice BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 81 Problems with licence keys I purchased online but I didn t receive the email containing licence keys When you register with Blueberry it is essential that you provide a valid email address We need this address to send you your registration licence keys to activate the product If you purchased BB FlashBack directly from Blueberry not from a reseller your licence keys are always available for viewing on our website Login at http www bbsoftware co uk then click the Your Account button in the Welcome box on the right hand side of the page You will see a page showing details of your account Now click View licence keys you ve already purchased at the top of the page Also please note that despite our best efforts to prevent it our mails may be caught by anti spam software you are running If you are expecting licence key information from Blueberry and it hasn t arrived be sure to check your junk mail folder I m having problems entering the key into BB FlashBack To enter the licence key in BB FlashBack start either the Player or Recorder program and select the Enter View Licence Key item from the Help menu in Player or the main menu in Recorder In the next window enter the Licence Key and Owner Name exactly as they appear in the email from Blueberry or on our web site and click OK We advise that you cut and paste the Licence Key and Owner Name values into the relevant fields
63. 3 Click Record The recording will be restricted to the area of the selected window Note if you move the selected window the recorded area will not move with it unless you turn on the Track window position while recording setting on the Advanced tab of the Options window If you resize the selected window during recording the size of the movie does not change from its initial dimensions How to record a region 1 Select Region in the Record setting on the Recorder main window 2 When prompted size and position the red frame then click Record The recording will be restricted to the area inside the purple frame Note the size and position of the recorder frame window cannot be changed during recording BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 99 Recording multi monitor systems If you are running BB FlashBack on a multi monitor system it allows you to record from multiple monitors into one movie Note capture driver record mode can only record from the primary monitor If you select to record One or more monitors in the Record setting on the main window before recording starts you ll be prompted to select the monitors to be recorded If you select to record a window or region it can span multiple monitors Areas that fall outside of all monitors will be blacked out in the recording Windows display options BB FlashBack can change Windows display settings while recording Changing the settings may improve performance w
64. And Not The Screen 3 Click OK BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 68 4 Select the webcam to record with 5 Click Note The Record webcam only function will create an FLV file instead of an FBR file BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 69 How to insert a WebCam recording 1 Select the frame where you want to insert the WebCam recording 2 Click Insert gt WebCam Picture In Picture Video in the menu 3 Click From FLV Video File Or Click From AVI WMV Video File 4 Browse to the recording select it and click Open How to edit the WebCam recording 1 Select only the WebCam track header and click on the toolbar Or Double click the WebCam image in the movie 2 Set the WebCam video properties 3 Click OK How to move or resize the WebCam recording 1 Click and drag to move and resize the WebCam recording BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 70 Adding Watermarks You can add a watermark to on a movie See Video How to add a watermark 1 Click on the toolbar Or Click Insert gt Watermark in the menu 2 Click Load Image 3 Browse to the image select it and click Open 4 Set the properties of the watermark 5 Click OK Inserting a Video File You can insert video files into your movie BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 71 See Video How to insert video 1 Select the frame where you want to insert the video 2 Click in the toolbar Or Click Insert gt Video File in the menu 3 B
65. Back beyond the 30 day evaluation period you must purchase a licence key You can do this either online or by phone Buying a licence 1 Start BB FlashBack If you haven t already entered a licence key you will see a window that gives you the option to Buy BB FlashBack Select that option Or use the menu item Buy BB FlashBack Pro in the Help menu in Player or the main menu in Recorder 2 Buy a licence When the online store page opens in your web browser follow the instructions to buy a licence key It will be emailed to the address you register with so make sure this is your real email address 3 Type the key into BB FlashBack When you receive the key you need to enter it into BB FlashBack There are two ways to do this If you ve not already entered a licence key you will see a window that gives you the option to Enter Your Licence Key Select this option and enter the key and owner name into the window that appears next The owner name is case sensitive Select the Enter View Your Licence Key item from the Help menu in the Player or the main menu in the Recorder Enter the key and owner name into the window that appears next The owner name is case sensitive Once you ve entered the licence it takes effect immediately Note This process can be performed from either Player or Recorder Entering the key once from either application licences BB FlashBack as a whole the process does not need to be performed
66. Frame bar that contains the icon to indicate the appearance of that image The Image properties window allows you to change Size and Position The image can be sized as required to stretch or shrink the original image Opacity Sets the opacity of the entire image Transparent colour You can select to have one colour in the image as transparent i e that colour will not be drawn and the movie area below will be visible through that pixels of the image that contain the colour The 24 bit PNG and 32 bit ARGB BMP image formats can include alpha channel transparency information so you can select to use that instead of setting a transparent colour Duration of display The image can either be displayed for a set period of time or the movie can pause when it is displayed Transitions Have the image fade in and out by setting the duration of its transitions How to move an image With the mouse over the image box in the movie area hold down the left mouse button The Cursor will turn into a shape and you can drag the text box around the movie area to a new position Alternatively the position can be set via the Image properties dialog How to change how long the image is displayed for You can either Change the duration in the Image properties window or In the framebar click and drag the icons that signify the start and end frames of an image you have to click and hold down for a second then drag How to de
67. Pan effect A Zoom Pan effect looks like this in the framebar See Zoom Pan Effects to learn more about this feature Viewing mouse activity The middle slice of the frame bar shows mouse activity If the frames in this bar are coloured blue this means that the mouse cursor is hidden in these frames For more on hiding the mouse see Hiding the mouse cursor The position of the dot is an indicator of where the mouse pointer is in the frame The colour of the dot indicates whether it was moved or clicked Gray The mouse was not moved Black The mouse was moved Red The mouse was clicked BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 118 Viewing key presses See the help topic Viewing key presses for more information on this feature Webcam Picture in Picture Video BB FlashBack can show picture in picture video within the main screen recording You can record an attached webcam while recording the screen and this webcam video will appear picture in picture when you open the recording in BB FlashBack Player Or you can import an FLV AVI or WMV video file to be used as picture in picture video For more help on recording webcam video see Recording webcam video How to import a video file as picture in picture video 1 Select the frame where you want the video to start 2 Select an item in the WebCam Picture in Picture Video submenu of the Insert menu 3 Select a video file It will be imported as picture in picture video at the cur
68. Player application File sizes vary considerably when exporting to another non FBR format Flash format is often smaller than AVI although the codec selected when exporting to AVI is a major factor in determining the file size When I replay my movie graphics or text are not displayed correctly or missing altogether If you are using a computer with more than one graphics card you should go to the Windows control panel gt display gt settings tab gt advanced and switch the primary graphics card to your other video card If you are recording moving video or animation you should use MPEG mode rather than GDI or Capture driver modes I cannot hear any sound when replaying my movie The first thing is to test whether sound is working in general on your computer Try playing a sound file if you can t hear the music file play then your system probably hasn t got sound correctly configured If you are using your PC microphone to try and record sound a good test is to run the standard Windows Sound Recorder program to try and record and replay a test If you cannot hear the test it is likely that your PC is not correctly configured to use the microphone as a sound recording source You may need to change the sound source or increase its volume BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 207 Do this via the Edit Audio Properties menu item in the Windows Sound Recorder Select the correct sound device for sound recording and ensure that the v
69. Set the properties of the button BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 56 4 Set the appearance of the button 5 Click OK BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 57 Tips For Better Performance Recording You can improve your screen recordings by changing the recorder settings You can increase the frame rate of the recording and change the recording type See Video How to change the recorder settings 1 From the BB FlashBack recorder click Tools gt Options in the menu and click Record Mode Performance Or From the BB FlashBack player click Tools gt Recording Options in the menu and click Record Mode Performance BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 58 2 Change the recorder settings 3 Click OK For further guidance please see the article at http www bbsoftware co uk BBFlashBack Support UserGuides recording video aspx BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 59 Saving Your Recordings As Flash You can export your movie as a Flash file or other types of video formats See Video How to export as Flash 1 Click on the toolbar Or Click File gt Export in the menu 2 Select the Flash option 3 Click OK BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 60 4 Select or change the Flash Export Options 5 Click Export 6 Choose where to save the exported files and click Save Three files are exported and you can choose view the export once completed To view the movie in a web browser ensure that you open the html file that has
70. Speakers option The coloured level indicator on the right should move when sounds are played back through the PC speakers or headphones If indicator does not move your sound recording settings need to be changed see step 2 below Make sure the stereo mix or wave sources are selected Click the Select sounds to mix button on the Sound step or tab This displays the PC Sound Sources window which shows the sources selected for recording Make sure the stereo mix and wave sources are selected and their volume sliders set to the right Check whether BB FlashBack is now recording PC sounds correctly by playing back sounds and watching the level indicator If it moves sounds will be recorded If not try step 3 below Note some PCs required you to select the Stereo Mix source using a program that is installed with the sound drivers BB Flashback cannot do it You will find the sound utility program in the Windows Control Panel and it should have a name like SoundMax or SigmaTel Audio Try other sources In some PCs the correct sound source is not visible in the PC Sound Sources window On the Sound step tab again select the Other Sources radio button and select Stereo mix or wave try both from the drop down list if available Again test by playing sounds and watching the level indicator on the BB FlashBack sound setup window Update the drivers for your sound card Updating or reinstalling sound card drive
71. WF file read information from URL parameters as described below Using URL parameters to jump to a frame in the movie and change other settings Instead of specifying Flashvars in HTML you can pass parameters listed above directly in URLs for example http mydomain com path movie html startingPlaybackMode 0 Note Values of URL parameters override values of Flashvars with the same names if the latter are present In addition when changing settings in this way you can use the startFrame parameter This parameter defines a specific frame from which playback should start The feature is supported by all playback modes So to start a movie from the 70th frame you would use an URL similar to this one http mydomain com path movie html startingPlaybackMode 0 amp startFrame 70 BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 178 Restricting third party use of Flash exports If you put your Flash movies into webpages hosted on the internet it is possible for third parties to seamlessly embed your Flash movies in their webpages without your consent You may want to prevent this so the Secure Domains and Secure Code settings can be used to restrict how the exported Flash file can be played back from third party domains webpages and other Flash files The controls are found on the More tab in the Flash Export Options dialog The SecureDomains List The Secure Domains list determines which domains in addition to the same domain as the SWF file itself c
72. a marker select it from this sub menu The Insert menu FlashBack Movie Inserts a FlashBack FBR file movie at the current frame Text Adds a text box which will appear at the currently selected frame Marker Adds a marker to the current frame Image Adds an image to the current frame Arrow Inserts an arrow into the current frame Button Adds a button to the current frame Highlight Adds a highlight to the current frame Sound Adds a sound file as a new track starting at the current frame Watermark Adds a watermark image to the movie Pause Adds a pause to the current frame WebCam Picture in picture video Allows you to import an FLV AVI or WMV movie file as a picture in picture or WebCam video Video File Inserts a video file into the movie starting at the current frame Mouse Clicks Inserts a mouse click event at the selected frame BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 124 The View menu Timeline Shows or hides the Timeline Frame bar Shows or hides the Frame bar Status bar Shows or hides the Status bar Toolbars There are 4 sub items on this menu item to show or hide the Edit File Player and Clipping toolbars Timeline Units There are 2 sub items on this menu item to select the units displayed in the Timeline seconds or frames Timeline thumbnail Selects the size of the thumbnail movie frame displayed when the mouse is over the timeline or frame bar KeyLog Displays
73. access to some commonly used functions How to show or hide the File toolbar 1 On the Player menu bar select the View menu and the Toolbars item 2 Check or uncheck the File toolbar item to show or hide the File toolbar The Player toolbar The Player toolbar provides one click access to some commonly used functions How to show or hide the Player toolbar 1 On the Player menu bar select the View menu and the Toolbars item 2 Check or uncheck the Player toolbar item to show or hide the Player toolbar The Edit toolbar The Edit toolbar provides one click access to some commonly used functions How to show or hide the Edit toolbar 1 On the Player menu bar select the View menu and the Toolbars item 2 Check or uncheck the Edit toolbar item to show or hide the Edit toolbar The Effects toolbar The Effects toolbar provides one click access to some of the effects functions How to show or hide the Effects toolbar 1 On the Player menu bar select the View menu and the Toolbars item BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 120 2 Check or uncheck the Effects item to show or hide the Effects toolbar The View toolbar The View toolbar provides one click access to some of the view functions How to show or hide the View toolbar 1 On the Player menu bar select the View menu and the Toolbars item 2 Check or uncheck the View item to show or hide the View toolbar The Sound toolbar The Sound toolbar provides one click access to some s
74. alse sets toolbar visibility topToolbar true or false sets toolbar location bottom for false top for true showFullScreen true or false sets visibility of the full screen button notScaleInFullScreen true or false sets whether the movie is scaled in the full screen mode autoHide true or false if set to true the toolbar will automatically hide itself showAutoHide true or false sets visibility of the auto hide button showTimer true or false sets visibility of the time elapsed duration display showTimeline true or false sets visibility of the timeline showNextButton true or false sets visibility of the next frame button This parameter is ignored in the case of FLV movies showPrevButton true or false sets visibility of the previous frame button This parameter is ignored in the case of FLV movies showFBLogo true or false sets visibility of the BB FlashBack logo button that shows a dropdown menu with a link to the BB FlashBack website showVolumeBar true or false sets visibility of the volume button fileName string the file name of the movie that must be displayed and controlled by the toolbar SWF For example test swf or test flv showPausedOverlay true or false indicates whether user has chosen to have the Pause symbol shown when the movie is paused BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 177 pau
75. an host a Flash movie that embeds your exported movie It does not affect how HTML files can display the movie If the secure domains list is empty then your export can only be loaded and played by SWFs in the same domain The SecureCode The Secure Code further restricts how your Flash exports can be replayed by third party SWF and HTML files by requiring a parameter to be passed to the movie object before playback For example if you export a movie with the Secure Code set to 123 you will need to do one of two things to enable playback When playing the movie from another SWF file you need actionscript of the form exportedmovie V erifySecurityCode 123 exportedmovie play When embedding the movie in HTML you should pass the secure code as a parameter called specialcode like this lt object gt lt param name FLASHVARS value specialcode 123 gt lt object gt or lt embed flashvars specialcode 123 gt Flash Player Security Warnings When you open a Flash export on your local hard drive to review it and use a function in the movie that opens a webpage like a Button with an Open URL action or the menu items under the BB FlashBack logo button in the playback controls you may see an Adobe Flash Player Security warning message Flash regards an SWF that is on a local hard drive trying to access a remote webpage as a security risk and shows this message When the SWF is on a web server ther
76. an select sound formats on the Options window but not the main window Selecting different sound formats will vary the quality of the recording and the amount of space it occupies in the movie file You can select Sample rate The higher the rate the better the sound quality but the more file space the sound track occupies Stereo Mono Stereo will give better sound quality than mono but also produce larger movie files MP3 compression This option should always be selected unless you are experiencing problems or crashes during recording or export Deselecting this option may greatly increase the movie file size BB FlashBack uses a redistribution of the LAME MP3 codec http www mp3dev org Troubleshooting sound recording We ve tried to make it as easy as possible for you to record sound either from an attached microphone or the sounds made by the PC However due to the widely varying audio capabilities of different PCs and sound cards some users may experience problems Problems recording the Microphone If you are having problems trying to record sound from a microphone Make sure you have a suitable microphone connected to the correct input of your PC sound card 1 On the BB FlashBack sound settings window go to Tools gt Options gt Sound tab select the microphone radio button 2 On the same window set the Level slider up as far as it will go Now speak into the microphone The green and red Level indicator on the r
77. and FLV file See Files generated by Flash exports for more help Quality and file size of Flash exports There are a number of settings you can use to balance file size vs quality See Adjusting the quality and file size of Flash exports for more help Custom Flash playback controls If you have Flash authoring skills you can create your own playback controls and have BB FlashBack use them during export so they are included in the exported movie See Customising the Flash playback controls for more help Restricting third party use of Flash exports BB FlashBack allows you to restrict how your Flash exports are linked to or embedded by 3rd party websites See Restricting third party use of Flash exports for more help Flash export options General Tab Export Frames use these controls to export either the entire movie or just a set of frames If you selected a set of frames before exporting this set will be shown in the Selected frames controls BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 168 Frame rate a higher frame rate means smoother movement in the movie but usually increases file size Scaling use the controls to reduce the dimensions of the Flash movie Playback Tab Starting playback you can decide whether the movie should start to download and play automatically when the webpage it is embedded in is opened or whether it should wait until it is clicked At movie end set whether playback should loop
78. ard Copies the movie file name to the clipboard Send by email Opens a new email with the movie or an export attached Recently opened movies Exit Closes the BB FlashBack Player application BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 122 The Edit menu Undo Undoes the previous edit operation rolling back to the state before that edit Redo Redoes a previously undone edit operation Select frames Enables selection of frames between two frame numbers Select all frames Selects all frames in the movie Select inactive frames Selects inactive frames adjacent to the current frame Inactive frames are frames with no mouse keyboard or screen activity Delete Frames Deletes one or more frames Crop Frames Cuts the movie down to the currently selected frames deleting all unselected frames Insert Frames Inserts a new frame after the currently selected one Merge Frames Merges a number of frames into one Bring to front Moves the currently selected textbox or image in front of all other objects in that frame Bring forwards Moves the currently selected textbox or image up in the ordering of objects layered on top of the movie Send to back Moves the currently selected textbox or image behind all other objects in that frame Send backwards Moves the currently selected textbox or image down in the ordering of objects layered on top of the movie Copy Object Copies a selected object textbox image highlight or
79. at function This process would normally be performed when the movie was opened in BB FlashBack Player How to export movies using the batch export tool 1 Add the FBR movies you want to export to the Movies to Export list Do this by clicking the Add button and selecting the files you require You can remove files from the export list by selecting them and clicking the Remove button 2 Select a destination folder The exported files will be created in here 3 Select the export format required 4 Set the export options as you normally would in BB FlashBack The options you choose will be applied to all the files being exported 5 Click Export and the process will start You can cancel the file currently being exported by clicking the Cancel Current button or cancel the entire process by clicking Cancel All The Status list at the bottom of the export tool window shows whether each file was successfully exported BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 189 Uploading Movies BB FlashBack can upload your movies to some popular video hosting sites enabling you to share movies just by sending a web address It uploads to YouTube Blip tv Viddler and Revver You need to create an account at the web site before uploading to it How to upload a movie 1 Ensure you have an account for the site you are uploading to 2 Click the Upload button on the toolbar By default it uploads to YouTube Select a different upload profile by clicking on the small
80. ates which tracks are selected Changing Volume and Muting You can change the volume of a track or mute it You can also change the volume of a clip and mute it See Video How to mute a track 1 Select the track you want to change 2 Right click on the track header 3 Click Mute Track BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 38 How to change the volume of a track 1 Select the track you want to change 2 Right click on the track header 3 Click Volume Up or Volume Down How to mute a section of sound 1 Select the track you want to change 2 Click and drag to highlight the section you want to mute 3 Click on the toolbar Or Click Sound gt Mute Sound Selection in the menu How to change the volume of a section of sound 1 Select the track you want to change 2 Click and drag to highlight the section you want to change 3 Click on the toolbar Or Click Sound gt Increase Sound Volume or Decrease Sound Volume in the menu BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 39 Deleting Sound You can delete an entire track or clip or part of a clip from a movie See Video How to delete a whole clip 1 Select the track you want to change 2 Click on the handle of the clip 3 Right click on the clip 4 Click Delete Clip 5 Click Yes How to delete a section of a clip 1 Select the track you want to change 2 Click and drag to highlight the section you want to delete 3 Right click on the selecti
81. ath to the movie file it can be either a relative path or a URL If you didn t export the movie as above but now want to put it into a separate location you can use Flashvars You will need to add the fileName parameter into generated HTML code BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 176 Changing the controls text and other movie settings via HTML and Flashvars You can override all text strings in the playback controls by specifying Flashvars in the HTML that embeds the Flash movie You can also override many of the export settings in this manner For more information on how to use Flashvars see this article http kb2 adobe com cps 164 tn_16417 html Supported Flashvars str1 string an escaped string with the text of the first item in the FlashBack Logo button dropdown For example Created 20with 20BB 20FlashBack str2 string an escaped string with the text of the menu item on FlashBack Logo button dropdown that opens the BB FlashBack homepage For example Visit 20www bbflashback com str3 string an escaped string containing text to be shown to the right of the Hide toolbar toggle control For example Hide str4 string the URL that is opened by the link on the FlashBack Logo dropdown str5 string text that appears if the user s Flash player version is not high enough to play the movie By default this is Flash Player v9 or above required Update your player here showToolbar true or f
82. ble to be selected when uploading Some server types may require files only of a certain format you cannot upload FBR files to YouTube for example only WMV QuickTime FLV or AVI If only one video format is selected the user sees no choice when uploading the format is selected automatically If more than one format is selected the user has to choose the format to upload If the Allow user to change video format settings box is checked the user sees a window on which they can change video and audio quality settings when uploading If Allow user to change video format settings is unchecked and only one format is selected the user sees no choices relating to video file formats when uploading they give their login details movie information and BB FlashBack immediately starts the upload 5 Enter Login and or Server Details Depending on the type of server you may need to enter server addresses and or login details You may select not to enter login details at that time and leave the user to enter their account details when uploading You can select to have these details editable by the user when uploading BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 192 Working With Sound Adding and recording sound into a movie BB FlashBack Player enables you to add sound files to a movie or record commentary or PC sounds into the movie When you add a sound file or record new sound this new sound appears as a new clip in a new track For more on cl
83. cam Video Keystrokes Options relating to capturing of keystrokes are set on this tab For more help see capturing keystrokes Hotkey Select this to define a hotkey that can be used to make the recording controls pop up window appear during recording For more help see Defining and using hotkeys File Size Use this tab to select options to limit the size of the movie file produced For more help see Limiting the movie file size Record mode Use this tab to change your recording mode or the number of frames captured per second For more help see Recording modes and Performance BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 95 Misc This tab contains settings relating to start up options and the various delays that BB FlashBack inserts between certain operations at the start of recording For more help see Customising delays Advanced This tab contains advanced settings relating mainly to performance Scheduling Use these settings to have BB FlashBack record at a set time or when a certain application runs and closes For more help see Scheduled Recording Adding a Marker while recording While recording is in progress you can add a marker by using a popup window To make the pop up window appear during recording 1 Pause recording by selecting Pause from the Recorder main menu or using a hotkey if defined see Defining and using hotkeys 2 Select Add Marker from the Recorder main menu 3 Enter a name into the Marker
84. codec Or you could export using another codec or to a different format When I export to any format I get a created by image in the top right corner Will this appear when I buy a licence No the created by image only appears in exports made by an unlicensed copy of BB FlashBack BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 208 I ve exported my movie to Flash but the SWF file appears distorted or low quality When exporting to Flash format BB FlashBack creates both a HTML and a SWF file both of which are required to view your movie You should open the HTML file in order to see your movie at the correct size and quality I record with sound but when I play back the movie the sound and video become more and more out of sync This problem can occur with certain sound hardware Go to the Advanced tab of the Recorder Options window and check the Use extra sound synchronisation box BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 209 Reporting Problems BB FlashBack enables you to report problems in its execution back to Blueberry It will automatically create a log of recent runs gather information about your PC configuration and make it easy to add screenshots to the report To be able to send a record of its recent execution BB FlashBack needs to have Logging switched on By default Logging is switched off How to report a problem to Blueberry 1 Turn on logging Start BB FlashBack and select the Enable Logging Autorun menu item from the Support men
85. contain animation or moving graphics On older PCs in particular it may give better performance than other modes It cannot record Vista Aero mode Auto Mode BB FlashBack also has an auto mode that tries to pick the best mode for your PC and situation If it detects a media player application running it will select mpeg mode if your PC is capable of running it at a good frame rate If no media player is detected or your PC isn t powerful enough to run mpeg mode it selects GDI mode If your PC isn t powerful enough to use GDI mode capture driver mode is selected For Vista and Windows 7 users GDI and MPEG modes can record Vista 7 Aero graphics mode Capture Driver mode will force Windows into basic graphics mode during recording but may give better performance and smoother movies than GDI mode when recording Windows basic graphics Setting the frames per second When using GDI or MPEG modes you can adjust the frames recorded per second A higher frames per second FPS value means the final movie should be smoother but may affect the performance of your PC while recording A lower FPS value means that your PC will perform better during recording but movements in the final movie will be less smooth BB FlashBack will try to set a sensible default FPS value but the ideal rate depends greatly on what you are trying to record so you may achieve better results by experimentation Troubleshooting poor performa
86. continuously back to the start when it reaches the end Preview Image An image of the first frame of the movie can be displayed before the movie is downloaded Optionally this preview image can be in a separate SWF file named lt moviename gt _preview swf to make it easier for you to customise the preview image this is set on the SWF File Generation tab Pausing playback the movie can be set to pause and restart when it is clicked and also show a paused overlay on the movie while it is paused Preload Flash movies exported by BB FlashBack and put on webpages will stream to the end user This means that the movie can start playback in their web browser before it has completely downloaded to the user s PC Playback starts when enough has been downloaded to allow the movie to play to the end without stopping to wait for more to be streamed down Setting a value for Preload overrides this default behaviour It starts playback when a preset of the movie has been downloaded Video Quality Tab Select Flash Video FLV or Standard Flash SWF See Selecting between Flash Video FLV and Standard Flash SWF for more help Depending on whether you select FLV or SWF there will be different controls to help you adjust the file size and quality of the export See Adjusting the quality and file size of Flash exports for more help Audio Tab See Sound export options for more help Playback Controls Tab To improve
87. cord mouse movements In selected frames For the whole movie Smooth Cursor Movements Corrects mouse movements for a selection of frames so that it move smoothly from its position in the first frame to its position in the final frame of the selection Reset mouse action images Uses the default or your own custom animations in place of mouse action animations saved in the movie Cropping submenu Set Cropping Rectangle Allows the user to position and resize the cropping rectangle Play in Cropping Rectangle Restricts movie play back to only show what is within the cropping rectangle Make Cropping Permanent Permanently alters the movie so that it only contains what is within the current cropping rectangle Movie Speed submenu Speed up selected frames Use this option to speed up playback of part of the movie by a selectable factor Slow down selected frames Use this option to slow down playback of part of the movie by a selectable factor BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 130 Select Inactivity submenu Define Inactivity Allows you to define an inactive section as the absence of annotation mouse movements and or key presses Select Next Inactive Section Selects the next inactive section from the current frame Select Previous Inactive Section Selects the previous inactive section from the current frame Delete all Inactive Sections Deletes all inactive sections from the mo
88. d each sound track is shown as a bar under the framebar There may be a number of sound tracks Movie area The Movie area fills most of the Player window and this is where the movie appears as it is played Status bar This is divided into four sections The right hand section shows the total length of the movie The second from right section shows the value of any keys pressed during the recording of the selected frame The other two sections display messages to inform a user of the status of BB FlashBack when it is engaged in operations that may occupy a noticeable length of time BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 116 The Timeline and Frame bar The Timeline The Timeline shows the entire length of the movie from the first frame on the far left to the final one You can jump to any point in the movie by clicking on the Timeline To help you navigate around position your mouse over the Timeline to display a thumbnail image of the movie at that point It is marked in either seconds or frame numbers The timeline units can be changed with the help of the Timeline Units option under the View main menu The Frame bar The Frame bar contains a graphical display of each individual frame in the movie starting with the first frame at the left through to the final frame at the far right Each frame is shown as a selectable rectangle Either a single frame or a continuous range can be selected and then modified by an edit operation You can regard the
89. d when you have a number of clips with differing volumes To apply compression to a clip 1 Select the clip 2 Select Volume Level Processing gt Even out the Volume Within a Clip on the Sound menu or the right click menu of the clip 3 Set the strength of the compression To apply normalization to a number of clips 1 Select more than one clip by holding the Shift key and clicking the clip handles 2 Select Volume Level Processing gt Make Multiple Clips Have the Same Loudness on the Sound menu or the right click menu of the clip 3 Set normalization to either use the mean volume of the clips or a custom level Editing sound BB FlashBack includes powerful multi track sound editing capabilities You can add and edit extra commentary or sound files to your movie Clips and Tracks BB FlashBack works with sound as clips and tracks A clip is a piece of sound that you can move and adjust its volume independent of all other sounds A number of sound clips together form a track You could have a track called commentary for example which contains a number of different commentary sound clips BB FlashBack shows clips and tracks below the framebar Each clip is shown as a blue sound waveform image with drag handles In the image below there are 2 tracks Commentary and Sound Effects The Sound Effects track contains 2 clips BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 197 When you add a sound file or record a new commentary
90. deo How to fade a clip in and out 1 Select the track you want to change 2 Select the clip you want to edit 3 Right click on the clip and select Fade Clip In Out Or Click Sound gt Fade Clip In Out in the menu BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 47 4 Set the duration of the fade in and or fade out 5 Click OK The fade in and out is displayed as a greyed out section on the sound clip Adding Sound There are two ways to add sound to a video You can add an existing sound file to your movie or record sound from a microphone See Video How to add an existing sound file 1 Select the frame where you want to insert the sound file 2 Click on the toolbar Or Click Insert gt Sound in the menu 3 Browse to the file select it and click the Open button 4 Click OK The sound file has now been added as a new track BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 48 How to record a sound clip 1 Select the frame where you want the recording to start 2 Click on the toolbar Or Click Sound gt Record Sound in the menu 3 Select which microphone to record with 4 Click record 5 Press the space bar or click on the toolbar to stop recording The recording has now been added as a new track Adding Text and Images Highlights Arrows and Buttons You can add text and images to a movie highlight sections of the screen or add an arrow You can also insert a button to your movie See Video Text See Video Images
91. e cursor highlight properties the size colour and opacity of the circle that surrounds it and whether clicks are highlighted with circles Display Invisible Keystrokes Automatically creates textboxes showing invisible keystrokes like function keys Start End Titles Adds titles text and or image on a solid background at the start or end of the movie The Tools menu Player Options Sets the sound playback device whether BB FlashBack automatically checks for updates and other options Recording Options Shows the Recorder options window Extract FBR from EXE Export Takes an EXE exported from BB FlashBack and extracts and saves the FBR file it was originally exported from EXE exports contain the FBR file Convert AVI file to FlashBack movie Opens an AVI movie and converts it to a FlashBack FBR movie file BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 129 The Actions menu Hide Show WebCam in selected frames Sets webcam visibility in selected frames Mouse Cursor submenu Bring cursor to front Puts the mouse cursor in front of other in movie objects such as textboxes and images Send cursor to back Put the mouse cursor behind other in movie objects Hide cursor in selected frames Hides the cursor during movie playback for those selected frames Show cursor in selected frames Shows the cursor in the selected frames if it has previously been hidden Re record mouse cursor Enables you to re re
92. e will be no security warning So this problem only exists when the Flash export is being previewed from your local hard drive BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 179 To workaround the warning you can add the folder that the SWF is being run from to a list of trusted folders Do this by right clicking the embedded Flash Player selecting Global Settings and then selecting to change Global Security Settings Add the folder to the Always trust files in these locations list Exporting to QuickTime H264 BB FlashBack can export your movies to Apple QuickTime format This format is playable on all Apple Macs and PCs that have the QuickTime player installed this is many PCs but those in corporate environments are more likely not to have the QuickTime player installed The H264 encoding used in QuickTime exports makes it particularly well suited for streaming over the internet but if you are delivering movies via another media on intend them to be completely downloaded before playing QuickTime is still capable of excellent results Note exporting to QuickTime requires that you have QuickTime 7 or newer installed Technical Note QuickTime files exported by BB FlashBack use H264 video encoding and the MP4 container format How to export to QuickTime format 1 On the Player main menu select the Export to QuickTime item on the File menu Or Click the Export button on the File toolbar and select QuickTime format 2 Set the export options See
93. eck boxes to have the Player automatically start to play a movie when it is opened from the Open menu or by double clicking its icon in Windows BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 136 Update options Select the Automatically check option to have BB FlashBack check for newer versions of itself every day if this option is not selected you will need to check for updates manually See Checking for updates to BB FlashBack for more details Select the Help us improve BB FlashBack by option to have BB FlashBack send back usage data when it checks for updates Note this information is sent completely anonymously It s a huge help to us at Blueberry to know if BB FlashBack is crashing which features are being used and whether there have been installation problems This data will may well influence future development Sound options Select the sound device to be used for sound playback in the Player Set the common MP3 compression level used for sound files are added to the movie via the Insert sound menu item or toolbar button Advanced options Use the Memory usage options to change the amount of memory used by BB FlashBack If it uses more memory it is faster at seeking to random frames in the movie when the timeline is clicked during playback Converting AVI files to FlashBack movies BB FlashBack allows you to convert an AVI video file to a FlashBack format movie FBR file You can open the converted file in the Player
94. ecording Sound Synchronisation Problems Troubleshooting Video Recording Contacting Support 1 Go to the Support menu in the Help menu in Player and main menu in Recorder 2 Select the Support for BB FlashBack Pro item and use the contact details shown Troubleshooting FAQ When I installed and when I run Recorder I see a warning about ASUS software We have discovered that the ASUS Enhanced Display Driver can cause severe system instability when installed on the same PC as mirror display drivers of which the FlashBack capture driver is one Because of the severity of these problems the capture driver is not installed if BB FlashBack or its installer detects an installation of the ASUS driver BB FlashBack will still be able to record but it will use the GDI record mode which may provide lower performance than the capture driver If the ASUS software is de installed the capture driver will be automatically installed on the next run of BB FlashBack Recorder My system runs extremely slowly when recording Try changing the record mode or reducing the frame rate on the Record Mode tab in the Recorder Options window or the Record Mode step of the record wizard In particular you may see problems if you use MPEG mode on a non multi core CPU e g Intel Pentium 4 Celeron Atom or to record a large desktop larger than 1280x1024 When recording I see an error message referring to the BB Capture Driver This may be due to a
95. ed Compatible with Macs Depends on codec read more Not playable by Macs without 3rd party software The filesize of EXE and Flash SWF exports may be significantly higher than AVI WMV QuickTime or Flash FLV if the movie contains movement or animation BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 167 Exporting to Flash format Flash is a file format commonly used to display movies and animations Because Flash movies can easily be viewed on most modern Internet browsers it is a good format to use when distributing movies to PC or Macintosh users that do not have the BB FlashBack installed Flash exports can contain interactive elements like click to continue textboxes and buttons They can be embedded into web pages and contain playback controls How to export a movie to Flash format On the Player main menu select the Export to Flash item on the File menu Or on the File toolbar click the Export button and select the Flash format For more help see Flash export options FLV and SWF formats BB FlashBack can export the movie as either SWF or Flash Video FLV formats Each have their advantages and disadvantages See Selecting between Flash Video FLV and Standard Flash SWF for details Files generated by Flash exports Depending on the options selected BB FlashBack generates a different bunch of files to create your Flash export It can generate a single SWF file multiple SWF files or an SWF
96. es to the next frame containing a marker Prev Mouse Click Moves to the previous frame containing a mouse click event Next Mouse Click Moves to the next frame containing a mouse click event Loop Check this option to have the movie play continuously in a loop Pause on There are 4 sub items on this menu item Pause on Mouse Clicks Check this option to have the movie pause playback on every frame that contains a mouse click Pause on Markers Check this option to have the movie pause playback on every frame that contains a marker Pause on Text boxes check this option to have the movie pause playback on every frame that contains the appearance of a Text box For more help on Text boxes see About Text boxes Ignore Pauses in Movie check this option to ignore any pauses that may already have been inserted into the movie Goto Frame Enables you to jump straight to a particular frame or point in time in the movie Search for Text Use this option to jump to the frame where some specific text is drawn in the movie It can be used to search for the text drawn in window title bars so you could use it to find the frame where an application appears BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 127 The Sound menu Add New Sound Track Add a new sound track Add Sound Add a sound file to the selected frame Record Sound Record sound into the movie Mute Sound Mute the selected sound Increase Sound
97. field 4 Click Add to add the marker at that point in the recording 5 Continue recording by clicking the Continue button BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 96 Using Recorder when it is minimized BB FlashBack Recorder can be minimized to the icon tray or to floating controls In the icon tray Recorder appears as an icon in the system tray Access its functions by clicking it and selecting from its popup menu Floating above the desktop Recorder appears as a set of controls floating above the desktop You can start to record or play a movie by clicking its Record and Play buttons You can access the same menu as seen in Tray icon mode by clicking the down arrow button The toolbar can be positioned anywhere on the Windows desktop Position it by clicking on the FlashBack logo on it left end and dragging Change how Recorder minimizes by selecting an option from the Tools menu BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 97 Recorder Features About Recorder features Recording sound BB FlashBack can record a spoken commentary via a microphone connected to your PC See Adding and Recording Sound into a Movie Recording Webcam Video If you have a webcam attached to your PC BB FlashBack will record video from that at the same time as you record the desktop and play it back picture in picture style See Recording Webcam Video Recording windows regions or full screen BB FlashBack can do all three See Recording windows and reg
98. ge to a movie 50 How to add a highlight to your movie 51 How to insert an arrow 53 How to add a button 54 Tips for better performance recording 57 How to change the recorder settings 57 Saving your recordings as Flash 59 How to export as Flash 59 Creating Pan and Zoom Effects 61 How to zoom in 61 How to pan while zoomed in
99. he mouse movements BB FlashBack will make the mouse move smoothly from the position in the first frame of the selection to its position in the last frame of the selection 2 Select the Smooth cursor movements item from the Actions gt Cursor menu BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 156 Hiding the mouse cursor BB FlashBack can hide the mouse cursor during playback You can select a series of frames and choose to hide the cursor in those frames when the movie is played back How to hide the mouse cursor 1 Select the frames in which you want to hide the mouse 2 In the Actions menu select Mouse Cursor gt Hide the mouse cursor The selected frames will be drawn in blue in the frame bar indicating that the mouse is hidden in those frames To un hide the cursor in those frames just select the frame and select Actions gt Mouse Cursor gt Show the mouse cursor Mouse action animations When a mouse button is pressed during recording BB FlashBack can show an animation in the final movie to indicate the action that occurred These animations can be customised by editing the bitmaps used to create them How to switch mouse action animations on and off In the Effects menu select Highlight Cursor Then select or deselect the Highlight mouse clicks setting How to use the default animations instead of customised animations saved in a movie file If you play back an FBR file with customised mouse animations but want to use the default ani
100. highlight by clicking it 2 On the Player main menu select Edit and then Delete highlight or Right click the mouse over the highlight and select Delete Pausing the movie at a highlight Movie playback can be automatically paused when a highlight appears giving the viewer time to view the highlighted area before allowing the movie to continue To enable this feature for a particular highlight bring up the Image Insert window and check the checkbox titled Pause movie until mouse clicked BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 149 Adding Buttons Button objects are interactive objects that allow you to open a web page jump to any point in the movie start or stop playback How to add a button 1 Select the frame where you want to add a button 2 On the Player main menu select Button from the Insert menu or On the Edit toolbar click the Insert Button button 3 On the Button properties window a Type the button caption b Select the style of the text and the button background c The length of time it should be displayed d The action Available actions are i Stop playback ii Start playback iii Open a URL Enter address of the webpage with or without the http prefix When the button is clicked the web address will open in the default web browser iv Jump to a point in the movie You can jump to a frame number marker or an object such as a textbox image highlight sound or button v Execute Javascript
101. hile recording and produce smaller files Improving Performance and Decreasing File Size There are a number of graphic effects that Windows uses to improve the appearance of its user interface Having these effects switched on can affect the performance of your PC while recording a movie or playing it back They will also result in a larger movie file BB FlashBack includes options to switch off these effects while recording They are set back to their former settings when recording stops These effects include The drop shadow under the mouse cursor Menu and tool tip transition effects like fade in and expanding menus Gradient shading in window title bars Smooth scrolling in combo and list boxes The slide open effect in combo boxes There are also two other Windows settings that BB FlashBack can temporarily change while recording to improve performance Desktop background bitmaps BB FlashBack can set the desktop background to a single colour Display of window contents while moving and resizing BB FlashBack can set Windows to only display the window border while moving and resizing BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 100 To turn off Windows graphic effects during recording 1 On the Recorder main window select Options from the Tools menu and go to the Display tab 2 If Recorder is minimized to a tray icon or floating controls show the main menu click the tray icon or click
102. ic setting and leave the system to pick a rate based on the dimensions of the movie and the quality setting Set the Data Rate on the Video Quality tab of the QuickTime Export Options window Displaying a QuickTime movie in a web page QuickTime movies can be embedded and displayed in web pages You will need to copy the exported movie file to a web server and edit the HTML in the web page to reference that file A quick tutorial http www oreillynet com pub a javascript excerpt learnwebdesign_chap22 Full details on the parameters accepted by the QuickTime movie player object and things you should know about displaying movies correctly in Internet Explorer http www apple com quicktime tutorials embed html BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 181 Exporting to Windows Media Video WMV BB FlashBack can export to the Windows Media Video WMV format This format can produce high quality highly compressed video files that play back on the large majority of Windows PCs WMV files can only be played on Macs that have installed third party video player software Note the export to WMV function requires that Windows Media Player v9 or newer is installed How to export to WMV format 1 On the Player main menu select the Export to WMV item on the File menu Or Click the Export button on the File toolbar and select WMV format 2 Set the export options See below for more details 3 Give the WMV file a name and click Save to create the export f
103. ie file size BB FlashBack can limit the size of the movie file created By default no limit is set but you may wish to enable this option so that BB FlashBack can record continuously without gradually filling up all available disk space There are two modes to select from Limit by time Select this option to have BB FlashBack create movie files that only contain a set number of minutes For example you select this option and set the maximum minutes recorded to 5 and then record for 10 minutes The final movie file will contain the most recent 5 minutes of recording To set the number of minutes that BB FlashBack will record in a single movie file 1 Open the Recorder Options window and then select the File Size tab 2 Select the Limit by time radio button 3 Enter a value into the Limit To entry field This is the number of minutes that BB FlashBack will record into a single movie file Limit by size Select this option to have BB FlashBack create movie files that never exceed a certain size For example you select this option and set the maximum movie file size to 5Mb The final movie created will be approximately 5Mb in size or smaller if you did not record long enough to reach the limit To set the maximum size of a movie file 1 Open the Recorder Options window and then select the File Size tab 2 Select the Limit by size radio button 3 Enter a value into the Limit To entry field This is the maximum size of a single movie
104. ight side of the window should move If the level indicator moves it shows BB FlashBack Recorder is detecting the sound If it does not move no sound is being detected from your microphone sound channel and you should follow the steps below to check that the microphone is operating correctly 3 Again on the same window select the PC sounds option and click the Select sounds to mix button Make sure that the microphone source is enabled and its volume slider positioned at the right Test again by speaking into the microphone and seeing if the Level indicator moves with the sound volume BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 110 Try to record the microphone using the Windows Sound Recorder 1 Open the recorder from the Windows Start button gt Programs gt Accessories gt Entertainment gt Sound Recorder 2 Select the Audio Properties item on the Edit menu 3 Click the Volume button for the Sound Recording device 4 Ensure that the microphone source is selected on the Recording Controls window 5 Back in the Sound Recorder click the Record button and speak into the microphone 6 6 Click Stop and the lt lt button then replay If you do not hear your recording your PC and Windows are not set correctly to allow recording from the microphone If you do hear your recording now try and record with BB FlashBack using the microphone as the sound source Check that you are able to use the microphone in other applications like Skype a
105. ile WMV Export Options General Tab Export Frames If you ve selected a range of frames BB FlashBack defaults to exporting just those frames Otherwise it exports to exporting the entire movie Scaling Select a value less than 100 to reduce the movie dimensions Video Tab Frame rate The higher the frame rate the smoother the movie will look However a higher frame rate means that the movie file size will be larger Video Quality Tab Codec You should normally select Windows Media Video 9 The V8 and V7 codecs give better compatibility with older PCs but the vast majority of PCs can play back the version 9 codec now See WMV compatibility with older PCs if you encounter problems with playback on PCs with older versions of Windows Media Player The Windows Media Video 9 Screen codec was developed by Microsoft specifically for the purpose of encoding screen capture movies and will usually give the smallest file size However the quality will be lower than that seen with Windows Media Video 9 Quality This is a number from 0 100 which determines the quality of the final video output A higher value means higher quality but increased file size Passes Selecting two passes will generally result in higher quality but takes longer to export BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 182 Variable bit rate You may want to uncheck this box and encode at constant bit rate if you are exporting
106. iles with the recorder config avi config wmv config and swf config options to use custom settings instead of the current BB FlashBack defaults Options for use with the stop action save fbr fileName Save recorded movie to fileName save avi fileName Export recorded movie to AVI avi config fileName Use AVI export configuration file save wmv fileName Export recorded movie to WMV wmv config fileName Use WMV export configuration file save swf fileName Export recorded movie to Flash swf config fileName Use Flash export configuration file BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 204 So to start recording then stop and save to a WMV file the commands would be FBCMD start then FBCMD stop save wmv c test wmv This will use the default WMV export settings To use a different set of settings you would get settings as required using BB FlashBack Recorder then export them to an XML file with the FBCMD export configs command Then when stopping and exporting you could specify the WMV config file via the wmv config option like this FBCMD stop save wmv c test wmv wmv config c fbcmd exportwmv xml Options for use with the start action recorder config fileName Use custom recorder config file BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 205 Support First see if your question is answered by the FAQ below Then read these pages in the Help documentation Troubleshooting Sound R
107. in the Key logging window in Sentence mode Treasure BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 134 BB FlashBack has combined the key presses together However it can only do this for simple cases where the backspace arrow and delete keys are used More on Raw mode Where there is more than one key pressed in a single frame Raw mode draws the frame with a small green indicator To see all the key presses in the frame put the mouse over the frame to show its thumbnail image The keys are listed under the image In the example below the t and e keys were pressed in the same frame I put the mouse over the frame to see the thumbnail BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 135 Virtual keys In both Raw and Sentence views virtual keys such as arrow keys modifier keys e g Ctrl or Alt and function keys are shown in blue In the example above the small blue triangle shows when the space key was pressed Here is a list of virtual keys and how BB FlashBack represents them in the KeyBar Other Player Features The Player Options window The Player Options window holds some extra settings used by BB FlashBack Player To display the Options window Select the Player Options item from the Tools menu Playback options Use the Return to start of movie checkbox to have the Player return to the start frame of the movie on reaching the end If this option is not selected the Player displays the final frame when the movie ends Use the Auto play ch
108. indows Media Player 6 4 Windows Media Audio 9 Professional Plays in Windows Media Player 7 and later Codec downloads automatically in Windows Media Player 7 and later Windows Media Player 6 4 cannot find the codec Exporting to AVI format The AVI file format is commonly used to display movies and animation However files exported to AVI format will often be larger than the same movie exported to Flash QuickTime EXE or WMV format Codecs When exporting a movie to AVI format you will need to select a codec the software used to compress and play back the AVI file The codec used to export the AVI file has a large impact on its file size and image quality Because choosing the best codec can require some technical knowledge as well as some testing exporting to a Flash QuickTime WMV or EXE file may be a simpler option For more information on codecs and recommendations on how to select one see About AVI Codecs The time taken to export and the eventual file size is largely dependent on four things BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 184 The length and complexity of the movie The codec used The sound format and compression used if the movie contains sound The frame rate of the movie the higher the frame rate the smoother the movie but the larger the exported file How to export a movie to AVI format 1 On the Player main menu select File and Export to AVI or On the File toolbar click the Export but
109. ions Recording multi monitor systems BB FlashBack can record from multiple monitors simultaneously into one movie See Recording multi monitor systems Setting Windows display options while recording To reduce the width and height of your movies BB FlashBack can set a lower screen resolution during recording Windows graphic effects such as animating or fade in menus can result in larger file sizes and slower playback on lower powered PC These effects can be switched off during recording See Windows display options Continuous recording BB FlashBack can record continuously and limit the size of the movie file produced See Limiting the movie file size Recording modes BB FlashBack has three different methods of recording screen changes The best one to use will depend on your version of Windows and your PC hardware See Recording modes and Performance Setting hotkeys BB FlashBack can respond to a hotkey during recording to display a pop up controls window See Defining and using hotkeys BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 98 Recording windows and regions BB FlashBack can record either the entire Windows desktop or only a single window or rectangular region You choose whether to record the entire desktop or a region on the Recorder main window How to record a single window 1 Select Window in the Record setting on the Recorder main window 2 When prompted click the window you want to record a red frame will appear around it
110. ions to let you adjust the file size and quality of your final Flash export The video quality options you can access depend on whether you select Flash Video FLV or Standard Flash SWF on the Video Quality tab of the Flash Export options dialog See Selecting between Flash Video FLV and Standard Flash SWF for details Video Quality Settings for Flash Video FLV FLV Type H263 should give smaller files particularly if your movie has moving video ScreenVideo encoding has been developed specifically for screen recordings It will export larger FLV files than H263 but very high quality Quality Higher quality values mean better image quality but larger file sizes Bitrate Higher bitrate means higher quality but larger file sizes The encoder will try to attain the quality you set at the bitrate specified but if the quality is higher than can be achieved at the specified bitrate it will increase the bitrate to reach the quality I e quality takes priority over bitrate KeyFrames More keyframes usually mean better quality but larger file sizes Video Quality Settings for Standard Flash SWF Compression Select JPEG or Lossless compression JPEG should give smaller file sizes particularly if the movie contains photo type images However moving objects can leave trails or artefacts behind them due to the nature of JPEG compression Lossless gives lossless quality images and no trails behind m
111. ips and tracks see Clips and Tracks How to add a sound file to a movie 1 Select the frame in the movie at which you want to add the sound 2 Click the Add button 3 Select a sound file and click OK The sound will be added as a new clip in a new track at the selected frame Recording Sound into the movie BB FlashBack will let you record sound from a microphone if one is attached or the sounds you hear from the PC speaker 1 Select the frame in the movie at which you want to add the recording 2 Click the Sound Record button 3 You will need to select the recording source typically either a microphone or the PC sounds you hear through the PC speakers 4 Click Record 5 BB FlashBack will start playback of the movie and record sound from the frame you selected earlier 6 Press the Stop button on the toolbar to stop recording and playback The sound will be added as a new clip in a new track at the selected frame Selecting the Recording Source On the Sound Record window you select the sound source and format to be used by BB FlashBack Player when recording Selecting a sound device Choose a device from the Sound Device drop down list Your PC will typically have a default sound device and one for each sound card or other sound playback or recording device attached to your PC Select the device you want to record sound from Selecting a sound source There are three options to choose from Microphone Select
112. is run the file from Windows Explorer and the movie will open and play automatically The user has access to playback controls similar to those in BB FlashBack player and Flash exports to allow them to jump to any point in the movie pause and restart playback How to export a movie to standalone EXE 1 On the Player main menu select the Export to Standalone exe item on the File menu Or Click the Export button on the File toolbar and select Standalone EXE format 2 On the dialog that appears set options for i The initial size of the movie player ii The toolbar visibility The toolbar is the set of controls that lets the user stop pause continue playback and jump to any point in the movie You may want to hide this However the user can still see the toolbar by right clicking on the movie and selecting Show Toolbar iii The movie menu visibility Similar to the toolbar the movie menu lets the user control playback of the movie iv Cache settings See the cache settings section below v The autoscroll function The autoscroll function ensures that the mouse cursor is always visible even if the movie is played back in a window smaller than the movie size 3 Click OK and provide a file name for the movie to be exported to The saved EXE can be zipped and sent to users that do not have an installation of BB FlashBack Converting exported EXE to an FBR file Because EXE exports actually contain the FBR file they are expor
113. is will create textboxes to show any invisible keystrokes in the movie You can edit the textboxes as normal in BB FlashBack Player To hide invisible keystrokes select Hide Invisible Keystrokes from the Effects gt Display Invisible Keystrokes menu This will delete all textboxes created by Show Invisible Keystrokes BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 164 Exporting Movies If you want non FlashBack users to see a movie you ve created you ll need to export it File formats Here are the file formats BB FlashBack can export to Flash Easiest format to embed in a web page Includes full playback controls A very high gt 95 of PC and Mac users should be able to view movies in this format Flash and EXE formats are the only formats that support interactive elements like click to continue textboxes and buttons QuickTime H264 QuickTime uses advanced compression to achieve a good balance of quality and file size QuickTime movies can be embedded in web pages and streamed to viewers They will play back in all Mac s but only PCs that have QuickTime or iTunes installed You need QuickTime 7 or later installed to export to QuickTime format Windows Media Video WMV As with QuickTime you can achieve good quality and file size with this format and WMV movies can be embedded in web pages WMV files should play back on virtually all PCs but generally not on Macs You need Windows Media Player 9 or newer to export to WMV format
114. k for updates BB FlashBack can also check for updates in the background while you are working If it finds one it will ask you whether you want to download and install it now How to turn on or off automatic update checking in Player 1 Select the Tools gt Player Options menu item 2 Check or uncheck the auto update checkbox How to turn automatic update checking on and off in Recorder 1 From the Recorder main menu select the Options item 2 Select the Misc tab on the options dialog 3 Check or uncheck the auto update checkbox
115. le movie menu item Removing inactive sections BB FlashBack allows you to select or delete sections of the movie where there is nothing of interest happening Defining Inactivity First you need to define what is regarded as an inactive section BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 160 Go to Actions gt Select Inactivity gt Define Inactivity On this window you can define inactivity as the absence of annotations mouse movement or key presses and how long the absence needs to last before it is regarded as inactivity Selecting Inactivity Use the Select Next Inactive Section and Select Previous Inactive Section menu items in the Actions gt Select Inactivity menu or use the shortcut keys Ctrl N and Ctrl P to select the next or previous inactive sections from the current frame Deleting Inactivity Use the Delete all Inactive Sections menu item on the Actions gt Select Inactivity menu to delete all inactive sections from the movie Using markers in movies BB FlashBack places no limits on the size of the movies you can create Though practically you are restricted by the amount of free disk space available to your PC you can easily create movies that span many minutes possibly hours If there are particular events in a large movie that you need to be able to view again and again finding them could prove to be a tiresome operation To enable fast access to different points in a movie BB FlashBack Player lets you add markers Ma
116. lete an image Select the Image by clicking it on the movie area BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 147 On the Player main menu select Edit and then Delete Image or On the Edit toolbar click the Delete Object button Adding Highlights BB FlashBack Player can add highlights to a movie during editing to draw attention to an area of the movie How to add a highlight 1 Select the frame where you want to add a highlight box 2 On the Player main menu select Highlight from the Insert menu or On the Player toolbar click the Highlight button 3 In the Insert Highlight window three tabs allow the highlight to be customized General tab Type the Name of the highlight select the Shape of the highlighted area its Fill Colour and Outline Colour You can also choose the thickness of the highlight in pixels its opacity and duration up to a maximum of 1 second The duration can also be set to pause the movie until the mouse button is clicked Position tab The Position tab allows you to enter the co ordinates of the top left corner of the highlight Transitions tab Have the highlight fade in and out by setting the duration of its transitions In the Frame bar you will see an image in the frame where you added the highlight Further highlights can be added to the Frame bar by right clicking the time line and selecting Insert Highlight In the toolbar the Jump to dropdown menu allows you to jump straight to a highlight
117. lick Save and follow the steps to save the recording Editing Your Movie First open BB FlashBack Pro 3 Player and then open the movie you have recorded BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 13 The toolbar Use the toolbar to edit the movie An overview of the whole toolbar is shown below The toolbar buttons are grouped into sections according to their function The top left of the toolbar gives quick access to saving and publishing options The middle of the top row of buttons provides shortcuts to objects that you can insert into a movie Click to edit the properties of any object which has been inserted into the movie Click to delete any object from the movie Click to insert a textbox Click to insert an image Click to highlight a section of your screen Click to add a button Click to insert an arrow Click to insert another movie Click to set a marker Click to insert a watermark Click to pause a section of the movie BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 14 The top right of the toolbar gives quick access to effects Click to add a highlight to the mouse cursor Click to insert or edit a zoom or pan Click to delete an existing zoom or pan Click to set a cropping rectangle Click to add start and end titles to the movie Click to switch the effects on whilst you edit the movie The middle left part of the toolbar gives you the optio
118. llows the user to add a marker while recording Recording is paused and a window is displayed where you can enter a marker name Restart Recording Starts recording again Everything recorded up to that point is discarded Stop only enabled while recording Stops recording Help Shows the help file within the application Support Use the Report Problem to Blueberry item on this sub menu to report to Blueberry any problems you have while using BB FlashBack See Reporting Problems for more help BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 91 Buying BB FlashBack Not displayed once purchased Contains 2 items Buying a licence Displays help on how to buy a licence Buy BB FlashBack online Select this item to go to our online store See Buying a licence for more help Enter Review Licence key Shows a window where you can enter the licence key and owner name you purchased from Blueberry to fully licence BB FlashBack Minimize to tray Displays the Recorder as an icon in the system tray when minimised Minimize to floating controls Displays Recorder as a floating toolbar when minimized Check for updates Select this item to check on the internet for newer versions of BB FlashBack About Displays the About box This shows the program version number licence key and enables registration and purchasing Exit Closes the Recorder application BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 92 The movie file sub menu Each item in the
119. mations or your own customised images select the Reset mouse action images item from the Edit menu in BB FlashBack Player How to customise mouse action animations The images used in animations are contained in the custom folder which is in the BB FlashBack install folder When Player starts it loads these images Take a look in this folder and you will see a number of PNG image files called LeftMouseDblClk1 png LeftMouseDown1 png etc When a mouse action occurs in the movie BB FlashBack overlays these images onto the mouse cursor in a sequence to create the animation For example if the right mouse button was pushed down it would overlay RightMouseDown1 png then RightMouseDown2 png then RightMouseDown3 png to create the animation effect BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 157 To change the animation seen for a mouse action you simply need to change the image files used When you change the animations your customised version is saved into the movie FBR file and also included in all exports you make For example if you wanted to change the right mouse down animation you could edit the 3 files called RightMouseDown1 png RightMouseDown2 png and RightMouseDown3 png in an image editor application to create a completely different effect Each of the images must be the same size Supported formats for the image files are BMP GIF PNG JPG JPEG and ICO If you wanted to use BMP files instead of PNG files for the right mouse down animatio
120. mes are selected then frames will also be inserted into the movie If frames are not selected no frames will be inserted by the Insert function You will know if frames are selected because the Framebar header will be shown in red Cropping the Movie and Sound Tracks BB FlashBack allows you to crop sound tracks down to a selected period You can optionally also crop the entire movie down to the selected period Select a period of sound and click the Crop button on the Edit toolbar or the Crop item on the Edit menu You ll be asked to confirm the operation then the selected sound tracks will be cropped to the selected section everything outside the selection will be deleted Note if frames are selected i e if the Framebar header is drawn in red like this frames will also be cropped to the selection The entire movie length will be reduced BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 202 More about selecting sound and frames You can make selections in either the framebar or soundtracks by clicking and dragging or holding the Shift key while clicking the selection start and end points Selecting the same frames period in many tracks BB FlashBack enables you to make a selection in one sound track or the framebar and make that same period selected in other tracks Edit operations can act on the same selection in multiple sound tracks and the movie frames To toggle the selection state of the frames or sound tracks click the header on the left The
121. n you would remove the RightMouseDown lt frame number gt PNG files from the Custom folder and replace them with RightMouseDown lt frame number gt BMP files The actions available for animation are Left button down Left button up Left button double click Right button down Right button up Right button double click Middle button down Middle button up Middle button double click Scroll wheel up Scroll wheel down No default animation is supplied for middle button actions Transparency The animation images need transparency or they would completely obscure the mouse pointer and the movie around it BB FlashBack handles transparency in the images in one of two ways By treating one colour in the image as transparent The transparent colour is set by the TransparentColour variable in the custom cfg file see the section More advanced customisation below If you use normal BMP GIF JPG or 8 bit PNG images you must use this method and specify a colour as transparent BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 158 By using transparency information encoded into the image This is only available for 32bit ARGB BMP files and 24bit PNG format images 24bit PNG images can be saved by Adobe Photoshop and other image processing applications More advanced customisation In the custom folder is another file custom cfg that holds details on how Player will use the animation images It is a text file
122. n the cursor over one of its edges or corners then click and drag BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 152 Zoom Pan effects BB FlashBack allows you to zoom in to any area of the movie to more clearly show what s happening on screen How to zoom in 1 Select the frame where you want the zoom effect to occur 2 Click the Add Zoom Pan button on the toolbar 3 On the Zoom Pan properties dialog select Custom Area and click OK You ll see a green rectangle on the movie area This marks the area that the movie will zoom into Whatever is in the green rectangle will expand to fill the entire movie area The green rectangle will look like this You can move the green rectangle by clicking and dragging on the handle at the top left corner Resize it by dragging an edge or corner BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 153 How to preview your Zoom Pan effect Click the Apply Effects button on the toolbar to see how the movie will look when exported When effects are applied you see no green rectangle Click the Apply Effects button again to turn effects off and see the green rectangle that enables you to change the area the movie will zoom into How to change the Zoom Pan effect When you add a Zoom Pan effect this changes the view for all frames that follow it in the movie Select any frame after the effect with Apply Effects set to on and you ll see the green rectangle that indicates the displayed area of the movie Changing the position or size
123. n to play a short section of the movie or jump to a different part The middle right part of the toolbar allows you to change the viewing options The bottom left of the toolbar gives quick access to basic editing options Click to undo or redo previous steps Click to delete Click to crop the movie to a selected area Click to insert BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 15 The bottom right of the toolbar is for sound editing operations Click to add a new sound track Click to add a new sound Click to record a new sound Click to adjust the volume levels or mute a track or clip Click to apply a fade in or fade out to a clip Click to split a sound clip Click to merge sound clips Click to merge sound tracks Click to copy sound Click to cut sound Click to paste a copied or cut sound Click adjust or mute the master volume The playback bar gives easy access to playing the movie at various speeds skipping forward and back or going directly to a different part of the movie Editing frames The framebar gives easy access to edit any individual frame or groups of frames in the movie You can insert and delete frames and you can crop a movie down to specific frames BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 16 How to delete frames 1 Select the first or last frame to be deleted 2 Drag the mouse across the frame bar to select additional frames
124. n which it is typed How to display the Key Logging window From the Player select the KeyLog item from the View menu The Key Logging window can either float above the movie area or be docked to the side of the movie area Use the Dock and Undock buttons to select the configuration you prefer Viewing modes There are two ways that the window can show key press data Raw which shows all key presses in a sequence and Sentence which groups together presses into words and lines and is more easily readable Sentence mode attempts to simplify the display by showing you the results of edits and corrections For example if a user mistyped Treasure as Treasire And then corrected the word by hitting backspace three times and retyping ure you would see in the Key logging window in Sentence mode Treasure BB FlashBack has combined the key presses together However it can only do this for simple cases where the backspace arrow and delete keys are used Additionally each key press or sentence can be displayed with a timestamp the time relative to the start of the movie that the item was typed How to search for a word typed within the movie 1 On the Key Logging window type the word or part of a word into the Search for field 2 Click the Search button BB FlashBack will look through all the key presses in the movie for that word and jump to the frame where the first letter of that word was typed The Auto locate featu
125. nce Settings here enable you to change The fill type lineart or gradient and colour The border appearance The shadow appearance Position Settings in this tab enable you to change the position and size of the arrow Transitions Here you set how the arrow fades in and out Arrows can be layered in front of or behind other elements on the screen by right clicking over a highlight and selecting the bring forwards and send backwards type options from the menu Changing the arrow position and size To move the arrow click and drag its centre To change the position of the tail or head click and drag the tail or head To make the arrow wider or narrower change the Width property on the Properties tab of its Properties window How to delete an Arrow 1 Select the arrow by clicking it 2 On the Player main menu select Edit and then Delete Arrow or Right click the selected arrow and select Delete BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 151 Adding a Watermark BB FlashBack allows you to add a watermark image to a movie This image remains with the position and size you set for the duration of the movie Note The watermark cannot change its size and position during the movie How to add a watermark 1 In the Insert menu select Watermark 2 Select an image file To change the position of a watermark you can click and drag it to anywhere in the movie area To change its size positio
126. nce See Troubleshooting video recording for more help BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 106 Troubleshooting video recording We ve worked hard to ensure that BB FlashBack can record your screen at a good frame rate However because of the widely varying capabilities of different PCs and video cards it is possible that some users will be unable to make high quality recordings of certain applications Poor quality jerky motion when recording moving video Ensure you are using MPEG mode not GDI or capture driver mode Record just the movie player window not the entire desktop Experiment with the FPS setting on the Record Mode step of the wizard You may actually get a smoother recording by decreasing the FPS because this reduces CPU load Recording media movie player type applications results in a black rectangle in the recording where the video should be This is due to the movie player program using overlays a hardware video acceleration feature that cannot be recorded You will need to force the program to not use overlays by either using a setting in BB FlashBack or changing a setting in the movie player itself On Windows XP On the Record Mode step of the Record wizard click the More Settings button On the More Settings window turn on the Disable hardware acceleration feature Before recording starts BB FlashBack will prompt you to click a button and disable hardware acceleration Note to record some media pla
127. nd Editing Operations 200 More About Selecting Sound and Frames 202 Using BB FlashBack from the Command Line 203 Support 205 Contacting Support 205 Troubleshooting FAQ 205 When I installed and when I run Recorder I see a warning about ASUS software 205 My system runs extremely slowly when recording 205 When recording I see an error message referring to the BB Capture Driver 205 I m trying to record a DVD or video clip but it fails or the results are poor 206 What affects the file size of my final movie file 206 BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 7 When I replay my movie graphics or text are not displayed correctly or missing alt
128. nd MSN Messenger If you can use the microphone properly in other Windows applications and still can t record sound from the microphone in BB FlashBack click the TroubleShooting button on the Recorder Options window Sound tab BB FlashBack Recorder gt Options gt Sound tab This will let you send an email to Blueberry Technical Support team Please give as much information about the problem as possible and indicate whether you have gone through the hints above Problems recording PC Sounds We ve tried to make it as easy as possible for you to record sound either from an attached microphone or the sounds made by the PC However due to the widely varying audio capabilities of different PCs and sound cards some users may experience problems Dell PC Owners If you are having trouble recording PC sounds this is probably because it has been deliberately disabled on your PC This is to prevent copyright violation and is performed by a number of manufacturers in particular Dell The solution will probably be technical in nature involving editing the registry and or installing new drivers and may be specific to your particular PC model We recommend searching for dell your pc model cannot record sound and seeing if a solution exists BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 111 If you are having trouble recording PC sounds Make sure PC Speakers is the selected sound source On the Sound tab of the Recorder Options window select the PC
129. nd other documents If you want to embed the movie in a PDF file MS Office document or are having trouble embedding it in a webpage using DreamWeaver or similar HTML editors you need to export the movie as a single SWF file see details below An HTML file that embeds the movie is always generated regardless of the format selected and other settings FLV Format Generated files lt moviename gt html demonstrating how to embed and display the movie in a webpage lt moviename gt flv the movie BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 174 lt moviename gt _toolbar swf the playback controls This is the file that needs to be embedded in a webpage or other document to display the movie It loads the FLV file SWF Format There are two options A single SWF that contains the playback controls and the movie This means you can embed the movie in PDFs and MS Office docs and can make embedding it in a webpage easier if you use an HTML editor like DreamWeaver Multiple SWFs where the playback controls and movie are in separate SWF files The advantage of this approach is that the movie can download on demand it sits in the webpage document showing a preview image and a play icon and only downloads the full movie when clicked Otherwise if you choose to have a single SWF the entire movie downloads when the webpage is loaded You can select to export single or multiple SWF files on the SWF File Generation tab in the Fla
130. nd tab of the Recorder Options window 2 Click the Sync Test button The test will take around 30 seconds to run If it finds sync problems it will enable the Extra Sound Synchronization option found on the Advanced tab of the Recorder Options window Using this option means there will be a delay on stopping recording while sound is processed and compressed BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 113 Scheduled recording BB FlashBack can start and stop recording at scheduled times It can also start and stop recording when a specified application starts and closes To start and stop recording at set times 1 Open the Recorder Options window and select the Scheduling tab 2 Turn on the Use scheduling setting 3 Set the start time in the Start At Time setting and the stop time in the Stop at time setting 4 Exit the Options window and start Recording as normal After clicking the Record button you will see a message informing you that the next recording is scheduled The Recorder main window will remain open or minimize as usual and recording start at the set time After making a scheduled recording the setting is turned off so the next recording is made as normal without scheduling To start and stop recording when an application starts and closes 1 Open the Recorder Options window and select the Scheduling tab 2 Turn on the Use scheduling setting 3 Turn on the If specific application appears setting This means BB FlashBack
131. nd the movie area to a new position Alternatively the Position tab of the Text Box properties window allows you to enter the co ordinates of the top left corner of the box BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 144 How to resize a text box This is done in the same manner as resizing a normal window In the BB FlashBack Player movie area move the mouse cursor over a corner or side of the text box the cursor will change shape to indicate that you can drag that side or corner to resize the box Alternatively the Position tab of the Text Box properties window allows you to enter the width and height of the text box in pixels How to delete a text box 1 Select the text box by clicking it 2 On the Player main menu select Edit and then Delete text or On the Edit toolbar click the Delete object button Pausing the movie at a text box Movie playback can be automatically paused when a text box appears giving the viewer time to read the contents of a text box before allowing the movie to continue To enable this feature for a particular text box bring up the text box properties window and check the checkbox titled Pause the movie at this text box The Text Box properties window The text box properties window is used to change the text shown in a text box the style in which it is drawn the style of the enclosing box and whether the movie will pause at that box during playback There are 5 tabs on this window Properties En
132. ng a range of frames for example to make sure that the range starts and ends at exactly the right points How to select inactive frames If there are a sequence of frames that contain no interesting activity and you need to delete you can use the Select inactive frames function Select a frame in the inactive sequence then select the Select inactive frames menu item from the Edit menu This will select all frames with no keyboard mouse or screen activity that are adjacent to the current frame Inserting and deleting frames To delete frames from a movie 1 Select either a single frame or a range of frames For more help on selecting frames see Selecting frames BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 141 2 On the Player main menu select Edit and then Delete Frame s Or on the Edit toolbar click the Delete button Note the Delete function also deletes any selected sound For more on selecting sound and frames together see More about selecting sound and frames Inserting Frames and Pauses The insert frame function creates one or more duplicates of the currently selected frame The effect of this is to create a pause in the movie which could be used for example to ensure that specific events are synchronised with the appearance and disappearance of text boxes To insert a frame into a movie 1 Select a single frame 2 On the Player main menu select Edit and then Insert Frame s Or On the Edit toolbar click the Insert Frame
133. ng frames see Selecting frames 2 On the Player main menu select Edit and then Merge Frames or On the Edit toolbar click the Merge Frames button Cropping frames BB FlashBack includes a function to remove all but the selected frames from the movie How to crop the movie down to only the selected frames 1 Select the range of frames that you want the movie to consist of 2 On the Player main menu select Cropping frames from the Edit menu or On the Edit toolbar select the button Frame rates The frame rate of a movie can be set using the Properties dialog This frame rate is used in normal playback and is used as the default when exporting movies How to set the frame rate of a movie 1 In Player select the Properties item from the File menu 2 On the Frame Rate tab set the frame rate value appropriately The default is 25 frames per second There may be occasions when you wish to reduce this value to improve playback on lower spec PCs BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 143 Annotating movies Adding Text boxes How to add a text box 1 Select the frame where you want to add a text box 2 On the Player main menu select Text from the Insert menu or On the Edit toolbar click the Insert Text button 3 On the Text box properties window type the words you want to appear select the style of the text the box it appears in and the length of time you want the text box to appear in the movie How to
134. ntrols allow you to select single or multiple frames so an edit function can operate on them To learn more see The Timeline and Frame bar and Selecting Frames BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 139 Deleting frames Use the Delete frames function to remove mistakes or anything unwanted See Inserting and deleting frames Creating a pause by inserting frames Use the Insert Frames function to create pauses and slow down the action See Inserting and deleting frames Enhancing the appearance by merging frames The Merge frames function merges all the changes in a series of frames into one This can be useful in tidying up sections where Windows was slow to display applications or draw the contents of a window See Merging Frames Selecting frames The various edit operations operate on either a single frame or a continuous range of frames For example Add text will add a text box to a single frame and merge frames combines a range of frames into one At any time there is one current frame This is marked in red on the Frame bar and its image is shown in the movie area below How to select a single frame Selecting single frames is simple just click with the left mouse button on the Framebar or Timeline to display a frame in the movie area and highlight it in red on the Frame bar How to select a range of frames There are 2 ways of selecting a range of frames Hold down the Shift key while clicking the start and end points of the range
135. ogether 206 I cannot hear any sound when replaying my movie 206 My licence key is not accepted by the program 207 My FBR movie file will not open in the Player 207 I ve exported my movie to an AVI file This plays fine on my PC but not in other computers 207 When I export to any format I get a created by image in the top right corner Will this appear when I buy a licence 207 I ve exported my movie to Flash but the SWF file appears distorted or low quality 208 I record with sound but when I play back the movie the sound and video become more and more out of sync 208 Reporting Problems
136. oll manually to see everything of interest Select Mouse in centre to have BB FlashBack scroll the movie area to keep the mouse in the centre Select Mouse near centre to have BB FlashBack scroll the movie area to keep the mouse near the centre View PC information Movie files recorded by BB TestAssistant include information about the PC that recorded the movie Select this menu item to see that information BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 125 View external log files Displays logfiles generated by external programs only available for movie files recorded by BB TestAssistant View Movie in Separate Window If you have multiple monitors select this option to have the movie shown fullscreen in a non primary monitor and the toolbar framebar timeline and other controls on the primary monitor Switch WebCam Mode WebCam can either be shown in a separate window or embedded in the movie Use this menu item to switch between the two modes Show WebCam Video Use this item to toggle webcam video visibility BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 126 The Movie menu Play Starts playback or continues when paused Playback Speed Sets playback speed to x4 x2 normal 1 2 or 1 4 speed Forward Moves to the next frame Back Moves to the previous frame First Frame Moves to the first frame in the movie Last Frame Moves to the last frame in the movie Prev Marker Moves to the previous frame containing a marker Next Marker Mov
137. olume level is satisfactory by recording and playing back a voice recording By default you can find the Windows Sound Recorder program under Start menu gt Programs gt Accessories gt Entertainment If you know that sound is correctly installed on your computer please go to the BB FlashBack Recorder gt Options gt Sound tab and check that the enable sound recording option is switched on if switched off no sound will be captured when recording a movie Take a look at the help topic Recording Sound this will give instructions on how to record from a microphone or PC speaker sounds My licence key is not accepted by the program Please note that trial keys are case sensitive and include spaces For more help with licence key related problems see Problems with licence keys My FBR movie file will not open in the Player If the file is corrupted there is no automatic way of recovering the file The best option is to restore from your most recent backup I ve exported my movie to an AVI file This plays fine on my PC but not in other computers When you export to AVI BB FlashBack prompts you to select a codec from a list of all the codecs installed on your machine The selected codec needs to be installed on the playing computer in order to view your AVI movie You should either advise the viewer to either use a movie player like VLC www videolan org that has built in compatibility with many codecs or install the relevant
138. on 4 Click Delete Selection 5 Choose to shift the remaining sound to the left or leave it where it is and click OK How to delete sound and frames at the same time 1 Select the track you want to change 2 Click and drag to highlight the section you want to delete BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 40 3 Press the delete key on the keyboard Or Click on the toolbar Or Click Edit gt Delete Frame s in the menu 4 Select which tracks you want to edit and click OK 5 Choose to shift the remaining sound to the left or leave it where it is and click OK How to delete a track 1 Select the track you want to delete 2 Right click on the track header 3 Click Delete 4 Click Yes Inserting Silence You can insert silence into a clip with or without inserting additional frames See Video How to add silence to a clip 1 Select the track you want to change 2 Click on the point where you want to insert silence 3 Right click and select Insert Silence BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 41 4 Choose how much silence you want to insert 5 Choose how to shift the sound to the right 6 Click OK BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 42 How to insert silence and frames together 1 Select the track you want to change 2 Select the framebar header 3 Click on the point where you want to insert silence 4 Click on the toolbar Or Click Edit gt Insert Frame s in the menu 5 Tick any additional
139. ound functions How to show or hide the Sound toolbar 1 On the Player menu bar select the View menu and the Toolbars item 2 Check or uncheck the Sound item to show or hide the Sound toolbar The Objects Toolbar The Objects toolbar provides one click access to some commonly used functions How to show or hide the objects toolbar 1 On the Player menu bar select the View menu and the Toolbars item 2 Check or uncheck the Objects toolbar item to show or hide the toolbar BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 121 The Player main menu The File menu Record New Movie Shows the Record Wizard to record a new movie Open Opens a movie file Close Closes the current movie file Save Saves changes to the current movie file Save As Saves the current movie file to a different name Save selected frames as movie Saves the selected frames as a new FlashBack movie file Save frame as bitmap Saves the current frame as a bitmap Export Exports the movie as one of the supported file formats Batch Export Utility Opens the batch export tool which enables exporting of a number of FlashBack movie files to AVI or Flash formats Upload Uploads the movie to a video hosting service or FTP server Manage Upload Profiles Enables creation and editing of upload profiles A profile contains a server type and location and your login details Properties This displays information on the current movie Copy to clipbo
140. out editing movies Once you ve recorded a movie BB FlashBack enables you to edit the video and sound and add annotations in the form of text images and sound to enhance the viewing experience Annotations You can add text boxes images buttons highlights or sounds to a movie For more details see Annotating Movies Frame Editing You can delete or insert frames For more details see Working with frames Zoom and Pan Effects You can zoom into any area of the movie to better show the details and focus the viewer s attention See Zoom Pan Effects Sound You can add sound files or record a new sound track for a movie You can also edit sounds in the movie To learn more see Working with Sound Cropping You can use the cropping functions to view and export a smaller area than was originally recorded For more details see About Cropping Pauses You can add pauses to a movie so that playback will stop at a particular point until the viewer indicates it should proceed For more details see Inserting a pause in the movie Working with frames Just like a conventional movie you might watch at the theatre or on TV a FlashBack movie is a series of still frames played in a sequence BB FlashBack s frame editing functions let you fine tune the movie by removing sections adding blank frames to create pauses or tidying up how big changes appear in the movie How the framebar and timeline work The framebar and timeline co
141. oving objects but larger file sizes Quality A higher quality setting means better image quality but larger file sizes Optimise Compression This is an option on JPEG compression When selected this analyses all images in the movie and applies high quality lossless compression to images in the movie that compress well with this technique Turning this option off may reduce filesize a little for movies that have lots of photo type images Frame Rate Higher frame rates usually mean smoother movement but also larger SWF and FLV files Change the frame rate on the General tab of the Flash export options window BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 172 Audio Settings If your movie contains audio changing audio settings may result in large changes in the exported file size Go to the Audio tab of the Flash Export Options window to set audio options Format If you select a custom fomat higher Khz values mean better quality 16 bit is higher quality than 8 bit Higher quality means larger files as usual Stereo produces larger files than mono MP3 Compression By default BB FlashBack uses MP3 compression to reduce the file size but there are a number of quality settings you can select As usual the higher the quality the larger the file Colour Depth For some files typically those that contain few or no photo type images limiting the number of colours in the exported movie can reduce the size of the file How to
142. ptions on the FTP server details window Server address e g ftp mycompany com Login name and Password Your authentication details for the FTP server Home folder This is the folder on the FTP server that the file will be uploaded to relative to the default folder for your account Download URL Base Some FTP servers will have a public download address for a file that is different from the server name and folder name you upload to In order to have BB FlashBack show a correct download address to the user when the upload completes you can use the Download URL Base setting The Download URL Base is the root of the public download address of the file Say your FTP server has a public download folder set up so that the download address of your file is ftp myserver com public lt filename gt You would enter ftp myserver com public as the Download URL Base When upload completes BB FlashBack will add the name of the uploaded file and present the download address as ftp myserver com public myfilename file Uploading using the FileCopy profile The FileCopy profile enables you to copy the FBR movie file or an export from the file to a location on your local network When using the FileCopy upload profile you need only specify the folder to copy files to This can be a UNC name or it can contain a drive letter BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 191 Creating upload profiles BB FlashBack comes with 6
143. r changing screen mode field Recording webcam video If you have a webcam attached to your PC BB FlashBack lets you record video from it while recording the screen You can include the webcam video in your movies and exports BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 104 For more help on viewing webcam video and including it in your exports see Webcam Picture in Picture Video How to record video from a Webcam 1 On the main Recorder window turn on the Record WebCam setting or On the Recorder options window select the WebCam tab and turn on the Capture video from webcam setting 2 Select the device you want to capture video from 3 Click the Settings button to change the size of the webcam video and set the brightness contrast etc Note You will not see the webcam video on your screen while recording you will see it later when playing back the movie in BB FlashBack Player BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 105 Record modes and performance Set the record mode on the Record Mode tab of the Recorder options window BB FlashBack has three recording modes GDI this is a general purpose mode that works well on a variety of PCs and situations on all versions of Windows MPEG this mode is best at recording moving video However lower powered PCs will struggle to record large desktops at a high frame rate with this mode Capture driver this gives high performance when recording normal Windows applications that don t
144. raphic How to change the pause graphic 1 On the Player main menu select Pause Graphic gt Set Pause Graphics from the Edit menu 2 Select a bitmap file The selected bitmap will now appear when the movie reaches an inserted pause To revert back to the default pause image select Pause Graphic gt Set Default Pause Graphics from the Edit menu How to change the position of the pause graphic 1 On the Player main menu select Pause Graphic gt Set Pause Graphics Position from the Edit menu The pause graphic will appear in the movie area 2 Use the mouse cursor to position the pause graphic 3 When you are satisfied with its position leave it and carry on with any other editing operations The pause graphic will appear in the position you selected when the movie reaches an inserted pause Start and end titles You can add Titles to the start and end of a movie Titles are text and or an image on top of a plain colour background Note When BB FlashBack adds titles it adds a number of highlight textbox pause and image objects to the start or end of the movie You can edit these objects manually to change the text or image position but for altering the duration of the titles it is simpler to use the Start End Titles window How to add Titles 1 Select Start End Titles on the Effects menu or click the button on the toolbar 2 Set the Title properties give it some text and or an image Changing the Titles Appearance
145. rate when exporting to SWF if your movie would exceed this limit but FLV may be a better choice for longer movies Advantages of SWF SWF can be easier to embed in webpages PDF files and other documents When BB FlashBack exports in FLV format it creates two separate files that contain the movie and the playback controls lt moviename gt _toolbar swf and lt moviename gt flv where lt moviename gt is the name of the FBR file open in BB FlashBack If you need to embed the movie in a PDF file an MS Office document or embed it into a webpage using an HTML editor like DreamWeaver you need the movie to be all in a single file BB FlashBack can create a single SWF file that contains the movie and playback controls See Files generated by Flash exports for more help Restrictions on the dimensions of FLV Movies The height and width of FLV movies will always be a multiple of 16 It is a characteristic of the FLV format that it performs best when movies are sized in this way This means that if FLV is selected the Flash movie you export may have padding on the left and right and either the top or bottom depending on where you choose to have the playback controls positioned to make the width and height multiples of 16 BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 171 You can select the colour of this padding to match the webpage the movie will be embedded in Adjusting the quality and file size of Flash exports BB FlashBack includes a number of opt
146. re If the Auto locate box is checked as your cursor moves through the Key Logging window BB FlashBack will always jump to the frame in which the letter at the cursor was pressed BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 133 Exporting key press data Press the Export button to have BB FlashBack can export the key press data in either raw or sentence format to XML The KeyBar The KeyBar is a section of the Framebar that shows the keys pressed in any frame Viewing modes There are two ways that the KeyBar can show key press data Raw which shows all key presses in a sequence and Sentence which groups together presses into words and lines and is more easily readable Here is an example of the same word test typed during the movie and viewed in Raw then Sentence mode In Raw mode it looks like this You can see the frame in which each of the letters was pressed In sentence mode the key presses are grouped together into a word and the KeyBar shaded in blue to show the duration of the word So Raw mode gives a more detailed view of the key presses but Sentence mode is easier to understand To change key view modes Go to the Key Log Mode item in the View menu More on sentence mode Sentence mode attempts to simplify the display by showing you the results of edits and corrections For example if a user mistyped Treasure as Treasire And then corrected the word by hitting backspace three times and retyping ure you would see
147. re experiencing problems or crashes during recording or export Deselecting this option may greatly increase the movie file size BB FlashBack uses a redistribution of the LAME MP3 codec www mp3dev org The Sound Options window Use this window to Set the sound output device to be used on playback Set options that determine how editing and exporting affects MP3 sounds The Playback Tab This sets the sound device used during movie playback The Editing and Exporting Tab The controls on this tab set two things The common MP3 compression level When uncompressed sounds are added to a movie they may need to be converted to MP3 This common compression level is used to compress the sounds Whether MP3 affected by frame editing operations are recompressed For example if frames are deleted that lie in the middle of an MP3 sound the sound may optionally also have a section deleted from it If the sound is not BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 194 recompressed there may be a click sound on playback Setting this option may increase processing time for edit operations that affect sounds Sound synchronisation problems Some users may experience problems in audio video synchronisation Here are some tips on solving these Note that sound sync problems are very hardware dependant you may find no problems at all if you record on a different PC Fixing sync problems in Recorder Go to the Sound
148. re see Exporting to Windows Media Video WMV Standalone EXE BB FlashBack can export your movie as an executable file EXE file that plays the movie when opened It has configurable playback controls lossless quality images and can achieve very small file size The EXE file will only play back on Windows PCs EXE and Flash formats are the only formats that support interactive elements like click to continue textboxes and buttons To learn more see Exporting to Standalone EXE AVI Exporting to AVI can be complicated for less technical users because a codec is needed to encode the movie The image quality and file size is very dependent on the codec used If a PC doesn t have the codec you used to encode it it may not be able to play back the AVI file and the codecs you can guarantee are installed on all Windows PCs may not give good results To learn more see Exporting to AVI MS PowerPoint PPT BB FlashBack can save you movie as a PowerPoint file with the movie embedded in the first slide You need MS Office 2000 or newer including PowerPoint to export to this format To learn more see Exporting to MS PowerPoint I want to send it to other BB FlashBack BB FlashBack Express or BB TestAssistant users Just send them the FlashBack Movie file FBR file created by BB FlashBack they will be able to play it and the FlashBack file is often smaller than other formats I want to display the movie on a webpage The easiest wa
149. recently recorded movie list has a sub menu The menu items from top to bottom are as follows Open Opens the movie in BB FlashBack Player and automatically plays the selected movie file Attach to new bug report This option is only visible if you have installed BB BugReporter Selecting this option starts up the Bug Reporter application creates a new bug report and attaches the selected movie file Play Flash Select this option to play the Flash movie that was previously exported from this movie file If there has been no Flash export from the selected movie this option will not be displayed Export To Flash Select this option to export to a Flash movie file Export to AVI Select this option to export to an AVI movie Export to WMV Select this option to export to a WMV movie Export to Standalone EXE Select this option to export to standalone EXE format Export to PowerPoint Selecting this option to export to a PowerPoint file Send by email Opens a new message in your default email client and attaches the movie in the selected format There are 3 formats to choose from native FlashBack FBR file Macromedia Flash and AVI Re record Starts to record a new movie with the same name as the selected movie file The selected movie file is overwritten and replaced with the new recording Remove from menu Choose this option to remove the selected movie file from the recently recorded movies list Save As Choose this option
150. rent frame Note because of the huge number of codecs available not all AVI files can be imported successfully WebCam Video Display Modes You can display webcam video in the movie in one of two ways In its own window In this mode the webcam video is shown in a window with its own title bar This window can be moved anywhere on the desktop independent of the main BB FlashBack Player window When in this mode the webcam video will not be included in exports Embedded in the movie In this mode the webcam video is shown in a frame inside the movie It cannot be moved outside of the movie The frame colour and thickness can be set via the webcam video properties window When in this mode the webcam video will be included in exports Or you can hide the webcam video completely Use the Show webcam video item on the View menu to show and hide the webcam video window How to set the mode of the webcam video Double click the webcam video window to show its Properties window Select a mode on the Properties window BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 119 Editing Webcam Video Webcam video is shown in a separate bar in BB FlashBack s framebar display This enables you to include or exclude Webcam video in selections and therefore have edit operations act on it or not as preferred Toggle the selection of webcam video by clicking its header on the right The Player toolbars The File Toolbar The File toolbar provides one click
151. rkers are simply a way of labelling a particular frame so that you can easily find it later How to add or delete a marker Markers are added with the Marker item on the Insert menu They are deleted by either Going to the Markers gt Delete sub menu from the Edit menu and selecting the marker you wish to delete or In the framebar right clicking on the frame containing the marker and selecting Delete Marker How to move to a marker or see the list of markers The top items in the Edit gt Marker sub menu are a list of the markers in the current movie Selecting one of these will jump straight to the frame that contains the marker You can also see the markers listed in the Jump To dropdown list in the Player toolbar When viewing the movie in the Player you can move forwards or BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 161 backwards through marked frames by using the Next marker and Prev marker items on the Movie menu Inserting video files BB FlashBack can insert a video file into a screen recording Note this may greatly increase the size of the FBR file How to insert a video file into a Flash Back movie 1 On the main menu select Insert then Video File 2 Select a video file 3 Select how it will be sized to the FlashBack movie Note BB FlashBack may not be able to insert some video files In general if Windows Media Player can play it BB FlashBack should be able to add it to your movie Pauses You can pause the
152. rowse to the video file select it and click Open 4 Set the position and padding for the video 5 Click OK BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 72 Scheduled Recording You can schedule a recording for a specific time or for when a specific application is opened See Video How to schedule a recording 1 From the BB FlashBack recorder click Tools gt Options in the menu then click Scheduling Or From the BB FlashBack player click Tools gt Recording Options in the menu then click Scheduling 2 Tick Use Scheduling For The Next Recording BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 73 3 Set the scheduling properties 4 Click OK 5 Click 6 Click OK Cursor Highlighting You can highlight the cursor and any mouse clicks in the movie See Video BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 74 How to highlight the cursor 1 Click on the toolbar Or Click Effects gt Highlight Cursor in the menu 2 Set the highlight properties 3 Click OK BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 75 BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 76 Section 3 User Guide BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 77 Introducing BB FlashBack Pro Edition BB FlashBack is a screen recorder it makes movies of what you see on your PC screen Easy Recording With only a few clicks of the mouse BB FlashBack can record everything that happens on your Windows desktop It can also record PC sounds or a commentary if you have a microphone If you have a webcam connec
153. rs can enable PC sounds recording Search the internet Sometimes you ll need a fix specific to your PC Use a search engine to search for your make and model of laptop or if you have a desktop PC sound card and cannot record pc speakers Some PCs and laptops cannot record PC sounds by design it is deliberately disabled to prevent copyright violation You may be able to enable it by making changes to the registry or installing a different version of the sound card drivers However it is impossible to record PC sounds on some PCs This page describes how to download alternative drivers that fix the problem on Dell Latitude and Inspiron laptops http www ekhoury com 2006 08 25 sigmatel stereo mix support for dells This page describes a fix for Inspiron laptops but it involves editing the registry Be warned you could disable your sound card or worse if you make a mistake when editing the registry http forum notebookreview com showthread php t 156400 BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 112 Alternatively search for your PC model and cannot record pc speakers the solution may be out there Problems with Audio Video synchronisation Some PCs may encounter problems with audio video synchronization particularly with longer movies These problems are highly dependent on the particular sound hardware in your PC You can run a test in BB FlashBack Recorder that will enable options to correct sound sync problems 1 Go to the Sou
154. s an HTML file that embeds and displays the Flash movie This HTML file demonstrates how to embed the movie in a webpage This HTML file has the same name as the SWF file Changing the default HTML The default HTML file is very simple it just shows the movie against a white background You may want to add more to this page displaying a company logo or description of the movie for example You can just edit the HTML file created by the export but if you want to export the changed HTML many times it may be easier to make a new Template How to add a new HTML template 1 Go to the HTML Template tab on the Flash export options dialog 2 Select the New button and give the new template a name 3 Click the Edit button to enable the HTML to be edited or click the Select button to select an HTML file you have already prepared 4 The HTML can be edited in the dialog In the exported HTML the lt SWFOBJECT gt tag will be replaced by code that displays the Flash movie 5 Click Save when the HTML has been changed to your satisfaction You can select the new template via the Template name combo box at the top of the HTML Template tab and this HTML will be used in the export See also Displaying a Flash export on a webpage Files generated by Flash exports BB FlashBack generates different files depending on whether you selected SWF or FLV format and for SWF format whether you want to enable download on demand or embedding in PDF a
155. s button 3 In the Insert Frame s window input the number of new frames to insert or the length of the pause in 1 1000ths of a second and click Ok The duplicate frames will be inserted after the selected frame Note if you insert a pause at a point where a sound is playing you will be given a choice of either inserting silence into the sound to keep it in sync with later events in the movie or leaving the sound unchanged You indicate this with the Insert silence into sound track checkbox Merging Frames The merge frames function can be useful in tidying up the appearance of a movie An example of how to use the Merge frames function An application is recorded starting up which comprises many separate complex windows In the movie the individual windows do not seem to appear at the same moment but are visibly drawn separately across a number of frames To improve the appearance of the movie and have all the windows appear together in just one frame you could merge the range of frames that starts just before the first of the windows appears and ends just after the last one is fully drawn Merging means that all of these frames get combined into one and the windows all appear together Merging does not affect the overall length of the movie All of the merged frames appear identically in the resulting movie BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 142 How to merge a range of frames 1 Select a range of frames For more help on selecti
156. s option to record what you hear from your PC speakers A typical sound device e g a sound card will have a number of sources available for recording Click the Select Sources button to see the sources that play through your PC speakers You can select which sources to record and adjust their relative volumes with the mini sliders Other Sources On the Options window these will be in the Other Sources section In the main window these will be in the Source dropdown list You may find the stereo mix source here which can be useful for recording the PC Speakers or PC Speakers and Microphone together on Windows XP Recording the PC Speakers and Microphone together On Windows Vista and 7 just select the PC Speakers source as the main source you are recording On the main window select Microphone as the Second Source On the Options window select Record Microphone into a separate track On Windows XP recording the PC Speakers and Microphone is only possible if your sound card enables it and many do not You should consult any documentation that came with the card and look at settings in the driver software that installs with the card This is usually in the Windows Control Panel or your desktop icon tray bottom right of the desktop by default BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 109 Try selecting the Stereo Mix source which may be listed as an Other source on the Options window or the main window Sound Formats You c
157. seByClickingOnMovie true or false indicates whether the user has chosen to allow the movie to be paused or played when a user clicks on the movie startingPlaybackMode integer indicates the playback mode chosen by the user Values are 0 Only download and play the movie when the Play overlay button is clicked 1 Automatically download the movie but do not play until it is clicked 2 Automatically download and play the movie preloadPercent integer 0 100 the percent of the movie that should be loaded before playback starts The default of zero means that playback should start automatically when it is calculated based on the current download rate and duration of the movie that playback should be able to start and complete without pausing to wait for further downloading previewFilename string if this is non null it is the name of the preview image SWF that should be loaded and shown before the main movie is downloaded and played previewMode integer indicates how a preview image will be used Values are 0 no preview image 1 Load preview image from an external SWF file The name of the file will be passed in the previewFileName parameter scaleMode give this a value of noscale if the movie should not scale when in fullscreen mode dimPreview true or false set to true to have a darker preview image Default false urlParams true or false set to true to let the S
158. ser ensure that you open the html file that has been exported BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 28 Please note each export format comes with different options to include in the export For example you may choose to export the movie to AVI which can be opened and edited again in FlashBack 1 When exporting to AVI you need to select the Codec BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 29 2 After selecting the Codec you can set the AVI export options Uploading to YouTube for easy sharing You can upload a movie to YouTube directly from BB Flashback Pro 3 Player 1 Click on the toolbar Or Click File gt Upload gt YouTube in the menu BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 30 2 Type in your username and password and click OK BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 31 3 Complete the movie details and click OK BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 32 4 Set the movie size and click OK Note FlashBack will show sizes equal to and lower than the size of the movie i e it won t show the 1080p option if the movie you re uploading is only 400 pixels high 5 You will receive a message to confirm if the upload was successful BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 33 6 Click Open in Browser to view the movie in YouTube BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 34 Section 2 How To Guides BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 35 How To Guides Working with Frames You can add and delete frames from a section of your movie This allows you to add ne
159. ses but is less compatible with older media players than constant bit rate encoding Bitrate Quality A higher value results in better quality but a larger exported movie file More Tab Add created by unregistered copy message Select this option to add a bitmap to the top right corner of the movie that states that the movie was exported by an unregistered copy of BB FlashBack BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 183 WMV compatibility with older PCs Video and audio encoded with Windows Media series 9 codecs should play back on most Windows PCs Certain older PCs might encounter problems depending on their version of Windows Media Player By default Windows 2000 is installed with Windows Media Player 6 4 Windows ME is installed with version 7 and Windows XP is installed with version 8 Codec Behavior Windows Media Video 9 Plays in Windows Media Player 6 4 and later However the codec is not installed by default with this version of the player it will try to automatically find and download it via the internet Windows Media Video 9 Screen Plays in Windows Media Player 7 and later Does not play in Windows Media Player 6 4 Codec downloads automatically in Windows Media Player 7 and later Windows Media Player 6 4 cannot find the codec Windows Media Audio 9 Constant bit rate Plays in Windows Media Player 6 4 and later Variable bit rate Plays in Windows Media Player 7 and later Errors or silence in W
160. sh Export Options window Files generated when Single SWF is selected lt moviename gt html demonstrating how to embed and display the movie in a webpage lt moviename gt swf contains the playback controls and movie Files generated when Multiple SWFs is selected lt moviename gt html demonstrating how to embed and display the movie in a webpage lt moviename gt swf the movie lt moviename gt _toolbar swf the playback controls This is the file that needs to be embedded in a webpage or other document to display the movie It loads the lt moviename gt swf file and optionally lt moviename gt _preview swf this is generated if you have the do not download until clicked option selected on the Playback tab and selected to have a preview image and selected use separate swf file on the SWF File Generation tab Otherwise the preview image is inside the _toolbar swf file Flash Player Version Compatibility If you export as FLV Flash Player v7 and above is required to view the movie If you export as SWF Flash Player v6 and above is required BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 175 Displaying a Flash export on a webpage When BB FlashBack exports to Flash format it creates a webpage HTML file that has the movie embedded in it Embedding the movie in your own webpage requires only a couple of steps you need to copy upload the exported files up to your webserver and add HTML code
161. t support playback of recordings The capture driver not required for recording but may give better performance on older PCs is certified for 32 and 64 bit versions of XP and Vista It has been tested but not certified on Windows 2000 and 2003 DirectX 7 0 is required to play back movies If you see a warning message regarding your version of DirectX when you try to view a movie you should browse to http www microsoft com directx and download the latest version of the DirectX runtime for your Operating System Windows 2000 users need to apply a hotfix to Windows before BB FlashBack will run Go to http support microsoft com kb 816542 and click View and Request Hotfix Downloads near the top of the page to request the hotfix from Microsoft Export to Windows Media Video WMV Windows Media Player 9 or newer needs to be installed in order to export to WMV format Export to QuickTime QuickTime 7 or newer needs to be installed in order to export to QuickTime format Export to MS PowerPoint MS Office 2000 or newer including PowerPoint must be installed in order to export to PowerPoint format Hardware Requirements Processor speed 500Mhz minimum 1Ghz recommended Memory 256MB RAM minimum 512MB RAM recommended Display Super VGA 800x600 or higher resolution Graphics card 8MB video memory required 64MB and above recommended BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 80 Buying BB FlashBack To continue to use all the features of BB Flash
162. tab of the Recorder Options window and click the Test Sound Sync button BB FlashBack will test your sound hardware and it if can make adjustments that correct sync problems in subsequent recordings Fixing sync problems in existing recordings If the fix above does not work or you have existing recordings with sync problems this process may correct problems If the sound is ahead of the video and reaches the end before the video you can use the Resynchronise function in BB FlashBack Player to make sound and video end at the same point correcting the sync 1 Find the point in the audio at which it ends this will be before the end of the movie 2 Select the sound from that point to the end of the movie 3 Delete the sound but make sure you do not also delete the movie frames Only the sound should be selected and drawn in red 4 Right click on the track header and select Resynchronise Select to resynchronise to the duration of the movie This will resample the sound track to make it the same length as the video probably correcting sync problems in the process Changing the volume of a track or clip To change the volume of a Track or Clip select it and then use the Volume control on the toolbar Select the Track or Clip by clicking its drag handle Then use the Volume control in the toolbar to increase or decrease the volume BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 195 Removing noise BB FlashBack can remove background noise such
163. tbox in and out 8 Click OK to insert the textbox How to add an image to a movie 1 Select the frame where you want to insert the image 2 Click on the toolbar Or Click Insert gt Image in the menu BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 22 3 Click Load Image 4 Browse to the image select it and click Open BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 23 5 Set the properties of your image Set the size and position of where it will appear in the movie from the Position tab Add a fade in or fade out using the Transitions tab 6 Click OK to insert the image You can also insert highlights buttons arrows and other objects into the movie in a similar way Using zoom pan cropping and autoscroll You can create zoom and pan effects in a movie You can also crop a large movie to a smaller section and use the autoscroll effect to follow the mouse missing none of the action BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 24 How to zoom or pan 1 Select the frame where you want to add the zoom or pan 2 Click on the toolbar Or Click Effects gt Add ZoomPan in the menu 3 Set the properties of the zoom Select Custom Area to zoom to a particular region of the movie Select Whole Movie to zoom back to show the entire movie if you previously added a zoom in The transition speed sets how quickly the zoom or pan will appear on screen 4 Click OK to insert the zoom effect Click and drag to re size the zoom pan BB
164. td and Pro editions only are a better choice for sharing movies Finding a good codec The codecs that are installed with Windows are not the best for getting a good balance of file size and image quality A free codec that gives much better results is BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 185 XVid You can download it from http www xvid org Downloads 15 0 html Install it on your PC and select it when exporting a BB FlashBack movie You should also get good results from the DivX codec www divx com However you should be aware that PCs may need the codec installed to play back your export in Windows Media Player Windows default codecs Windows comes with a small number of codecs installed by default Intel Full frames Cinepak and Microsoft Video 1 If you choose one of these you can be fairly sure that the AVI will play back correctly on most Windows PCs Intel YUV and Full frames will produce high quality but very large files Of Microsoft Video 1 and Cinepak Video 1 tends to give higher but much larger files than Cinepak Exporting to MPEG4 MPEG4 format is particularly useful for delivering video exports to devices produced by Apple Exports in this format need no further conversion to be played back by iPad iPhone or video capable iPods MPEG4 format is not very widely supported on Windows PCs since Windows Media Player the default video player on most PCs does not support MPEG4 playback by default It requires the installation of
165. ted from the FBR can be extracted from the EXE Use the Extract FBR from exported EXE function in the Tools menu in BB FlashBack Player BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 187 Cache Settings When a user runs the exported EXE and tries to jump to any point in the movie there is often a small delay while the movie player winds forward to that point and draws the frame Changing the cache setting can reduce this delay Increase the cache size to enable the movie player to jump to random points in the movie more quickly The drawback to increasing the cache size is that a larger cache uses more memory on the user s PC Only increase the cache size from the default of minimum if you believe that users are likely to move around the movie by clicking on the timeline frequently and the movie is quite large more than 10 minutes Select a cache size option in the cache tab of the EXE export dialog Exporting to MS PowerPoint BB FlashBack can export your movie to MS PowerPoint format The generated PPT file will automatically play back the movie when opened Note You will only be able to export to PowerPoint format if you have Office 2000 or newer including PowerPoint installed on your PC How to export to PowerPoint format 1 On the Player main menu select the Export to PowerPoint item on the File menu Or On the File toolbar click the Export button then select PowerPoint format 2 If required change the export options from the defa
166. ted to your PC BB FlashBack can record from it to produce picture in picture movies Powerful Editing Features BB FlashBack comes with a powerful editor application that you can use to add annotations and sound to your movie Easy Upload to Video Sharing Websites BB FlashBack makes it easy to share your movies by giving you easy upload to some of the most popular video hosting sites YouTube Blip tv Viddler and Revver Publish to Popular Formats Movies can be exported to Flash QuickTime H264 Windows Media Video WMV AVI MS PowerPoint or standalone EXE format They can be viewed by virtually anyone with a PC or Internet Browser BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 78 Contacting Blueberry Blueberry has years of experience in offering both custom software development and IT consultancy to clients that require a rare combination of technical expertise and an understanding of how this can address their business needs For more information about Blueberry and its products go to our website www bbsoftware co uk For pre sales and product support in your region 1 Go to the Support menu in the Help menu in Player and main menu in Recorder 2 Select the Support for BB FlashBack item and use the contact details shown BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 79 System Requirements Software Requirements BB FlashBack runs on Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista 7 and 2008 32 and 64 bit versions supported However Windows 2008 Server R2 does no
167. ter the text to appear in the text box in the Text entry field The font used and style of the box can be set using the controls on this tab See Text box styles below for more information on styles The length of time that the box will appear during the movie is entered in the Text Duration entry field If you want movie playback to pause when this text box appears check the Pause movie at this text box checkbox Styles Allows you to save the current look of the textbox as a style that you can apply to other textboxes Background The controls on this tab determine the colour of the text box background and border You can set the box to have a gradient fill a transition between two colours from top to bottom or left to right BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 145 Position This tab contains controls for the exact positioning of the text box The pixel position of the top left corner and the width and height of the box can be entered Shadow Select draw shadow to have the text box cast a shadow over the movie below Set the colour size and opacity of the shadow using the controls on this tab Transitions Have the textbox fade in and out by setting the duration of its transitions Text box styles When you have a combination of text box properties the colour text size font etc that you like and want to use again you can save these properties as a style Then you can apply this style to any other text box in an
168. to your webpages that refers to the SWF file that displays the movie BB FlashBack generates the HTML code you need for embedding when it does the export For example I export a movie called mymovie fbr to Flash selecting to export as SWF not FLV Two files are generated mymovie html mymovie swf Open mymovie html Under the movie are instructions on embedding the movie in a webpage Copy the code in the entry field to the clipboard and paste it into your webpage where you want the movie to appear If your webpage and all the exported SWF and FLV files that you uploaded are in the same folder the code should work ok and display the movie If your webpage and the uploaded files are in different folders you will need to change the code so it refers to the files Look through the code you copied to your page In two places it will refer to a swf file mymovie swf or mymovie_toolbar swf In each of these places you will need to add a folder path so it refers to the correct location of the toolbar swf file See also Files generated by Flash exports Having the movie and toolbar files in separate folders If you export a movie and the toolbar as two separate files it is possible to save the movie into a folder different from where the toolbar is located To achieve that open the SWF File Generation tab find a setting named Specify path to movie file and check it In the URL of movie file text field enter a p
169. ton and select AVI format 2 Select a codec to use for the compression See About AVI Codecs for more information 3 If required change the dimensions of the movie that you want to export The movie will be shrunk or expanded to this size to create an AVI movie file with this width and height 4 Select the frame rate for the export file The higher the frame rate the smoother the playback but the larger the exported file BB FlashBack gives you the option of selecting full frame rate which gives the smoothest playback and the largest exported file or 1 2 and 1 4 frame rate which reduce the frame rate to give a smaller but less smooth AVI file 5 If required set the Scaling values to reduce the movie dimensions 6 If required change the sound export options See Sound export options for details 7 Click Export 8 Provide a file name for the new A VI movie file and click Save to save the movie to that name About AVI codecs A codec is software that is used to generate and play back the AVI movie file When exporting a BB FlashBack movie file to AVI format you need to select a codec The file size and quality of the exported AVI file is very dependent on the codec used to encode it If you are getting poor results from your A VI exports this is probably due to the codec you are using The complication of selecting a codec often means that other formats like Flash Windows Media Video Std and Pro editions only and QuickTime S
170. tracks you want to edit 6 Click OK BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 43 7 Choose how much silence you want to insert 8 Choose how to shift the sound to the right 9 Click OK BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 44 Editing Sound and Video Together A sound clip can be edited without the edit affecting the video frames A sound clip can also be edited with the same edit applying to the video frames See Video How to edit sound without affecting video 1 Ensure the sound track s you want to edit are selected and the Frame header is not 2 Proceed with the edit How to edit sound and affect the video 1 Ensure that the Frame header is selected along with the sound track s you want to edit 2 Proceed with the edit BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 45 When using toolbar or menu functions to perform an edit you can choose to include or exclude any track s from the edit in the following pop up box Removing Background Noise You can remove background noise from a sound clip or an entire track See Video How to remove noise from a clip 1 Select the track you want to change 2 Click on the handle of the clip BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 46 3 Right click on the clip and select Remove Noise Or Click Sound gt Remove Noise in the menu 4 Set the strength of the noise removal 5 Click Apply Noise Removal Fading a Clip In and Out You can fade a sound clip in and also fade it out See Vi
171. u In Player the Support menu is in the Help menu In Recorder it is in the main menu If you cannot start BB FlashBack select the item Enable Logging Autorun from the Support menu in the BB FlashBack menus under the Windows Start button 2 Reproduce the problem Restart BB FlashBack Player or Recorder and reproduce the problem 3 Start the report Go to Report Problem to Blueberry This is in the Help gt Support menu in Player and the Support menu in Recorder 4 Send the report Fill in the description and the email address if you want us to get back to you and click Send You can attach screenshots or files to the report by clicking the Change Attachments button on the Fault Report window BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 210 Checking for Updates to BB FlashBack BB FlashBack can check to see if a newer version of the application is available If it finds a newer version than the one you are running it will give you the option of downloading and installing it The checking and download requires an Internet connection if none is active and your Internet settings use dial up connections you will be prompted to dial your default connection How to check for updates to BB FlashBack 1 Select Check for updates on the Player Help menu or the Recorder main menu 2 Follow the instructions on the Automatic update wizard to check for a newer version and if there is one download and install it Automatic chec
172. ult settings These are the same as the settings used in Flash export so for more help see Flash export options 3 Click Export 4 Provide a file name for the PPT file and click Save to save the movie to that name Sound export options If the movie you are exporting contains sound this will also be included in the exported movie file These audio export options determine the size of the exported file and its sound quality Format The sound format is a combination of the sampling rate and whether it is in mono or stereo The higher the sampling rate the better the quality but the larger the exported movie file Selecting mono instead of stereo will decrease the movie size but only include one channel of sound instead of two MP3 compression This option greatly decreases the size of movies exported with sound It should only be unchecked if you are experiencing problems BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 188 with BB FlashBack while exporting movies The MP3 option is not available in WMV exports Note BB FlashBack uses a redistribution of the open source LAME MP3 codec www mp3dev org Batch exporting BB FlashBack includes a batch export tool that enables you to export a number of files in one go To run it select Batch Export Utility from the File menu in BB FlashBack Player The batch export tool can also be used to convert FlashBack FBR movies from old formats to the newest format via the Convert to new FBR form
173. upload profiles by default YouTube Blip tv Viddler Revver FileCopy and FTP An upload profile describes to BB FlashBack how it should upload movies to a server the authentication needed if any the file format required the address of the server and how the server wants files to be delivered to it You can create your own upload profiles so you or other users can quickly upload movies to webservers FTP servers or local file servers BB FlashBack can have an unlimited number of profiles so you can create profiles for a number of different FTP and local file servers You decide what information is editable by the user on upload You can fix login details video formats and server addresses or allow them to be changed when uploading How to create an upload profile 1 In BB FlashBack Player select the Manage Upload Profiles item in the File menu The item is also in the dropdown menu from the Upload button on the toolbar 2 On the Manage Upload Profiles window click the Add button 3 Set the server type and profile name You need to tell BB FlashBack what type of server it is uploading to so it can authenticate and transfer the file successfully The profile name is displayed in the File gt Upload menu the dropdown menu for the Upload button and on the Upload button 4 Select available video formats BB FlashBack can upload the movie in one of a number of video file formats On this window you can select which formats are availa
174. use to keep it in view Use options in the Effects gt Autoscroll Cropping Rectangle menu to have the mouse either in the centre or near the centre of the movie When autoscrolling is set on the cropping rectangle any ZoomPan effects you add can only be resized not moved because they will also be automatically positioned to keep the mouse in view Making Cropping Permanent To decrease the size of the FlashBack movie file FBR file you can make cropping permanent effectively throwing away everything outside of the cropping area To do this on the Effects menu select Make Cropping Permanent The mouse cursor Highlighting the mouse cursor By default BB FlashBack draws a yellow highlight circle around the mouse cursor If you want to change the colour opacity size and outlining of this circle or not show it at all use the Highlight Cursor option in the Effects menu Note if you use the cursor trails option in Windows the highlight circle will not be visible Smoothing mouse movements BB FlashBack enables you to smooth out the mouse movements in selected frames The mouse will move smoothly from its position in the first frame of the selection to its position in the last frame of the selection stopping to make any clicks it needs to along the way Use this feature to remove any distracting jumps in mouse movements How to smooth mouse movements in a section of the movie 1 Select the frames in which you want to smooth out t
175. vie BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 131 The Help menu BB FlashBack Help Displays the help file Support BB FlashBack includes functions to allow you to report problems with the application to Blueberry Software Enable Disable logging auto run switches on internal logging for BB FlashBack Report Problem to Blueberry displays a wizard that directs you through the process of sending a problem report to Blueberry Buying BB FlashBack Pro Not displayed once purchased Has 2 sub items Buying a licence displays help on buying a licence Buy BB FlashBack Pro opens a page on the Blueberry website where you can buy a licence online Enter review licence key Displays a window where you can enter or review the licence key and owner name given to you by Blueberry to fully licence BB FlashBack Check for update Checks for a newer version of BB FlashBack If one is found you will be given the option to download and install it About Displays the About box which displays the BB FlashBack version numbers shows email and web links for support and allows you to enter a license key BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 132 Viewing key presses BB FlashBack offers two ways of viewing keys pressed during recording of the movie the Key logging window and the KeyBar The key logging window This shows a display of all keys pressed while the movie was being recorded You can search for a specific word and jump to the frame i
176. vie see The Player For help on some of the more advanced features of BB FlashBack Recorder see Recorder Features BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 85 Playing Back Movies Open BB FlashBack Player from the shortcuts on your desktop or Windows Start menu and play back movies by using the Open item on the File menu or the button on the toolbar From the Welcome Window Starting either Recorder or Player shows the Welcome window Click Open an existing movie file to select a recording and play it Playing a movie from Recorder On the File menu of the Recorder main window use the Open or Open Recent items to open a recording When Recorder is minimized to a tray icon or floating controls show the main menu by clicking the icon or clicking the button on the floating controls Use the Play item or the recently recorded movies list at the top of the menu BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 86 Sharing Movies If you want to share your movies with other PC or Mac users you ll need to either upload them to a video hosting site or export them and send the exported file to the user Uploading to a video hosting site BB FlashBack can upload your movie to these video hosting sites http www youtube com blip tv and http www revver com Use the Upload button on the Player toolbar You need an account at the video hosting site before you use this function The first time you use this feature you ll need to give BB FlashBack your login details
177. w sections to your movie or remove any sections you no longer need See Video How to delete frames 1 Select the first or last frame to be deleted 2 Drag the mouse across the frame bar to select additional frames 3 Press the delete key on the keyboard Or Click on the toolbar Or Click Edit gt Delete Frame s in the menu 4 Click OK How to insert frames 1 Select the point where you wish to insert the frames 2 Click on the toolbar Or Click Edit gt Insert Frame s in the menu 3 Enter the number of frames you wish to insert 4 Click OK BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 36 Tracks and Clips A clip is a piece of sound which can be edited and moved independently of any other clip A track is series of one or more clips and can be edited to change every clip it contains See Video How to select a clip 1 Click the handle of the clip How to select multiple clips 1 Click the handle of the clip 2 Hold the shift key on the keyboard 3 Click the handle above each additional track How to select a section of a clip 1 Click and drag to highlight the section How to move a clip 1 Click and drag the handle to the left or right BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 37 How to select or de select a track 1 Click on the track header A pink highlight indicates it is selected How to select multiple tracks 1 Click on each individual track header A pink highlight indic
178. will look for the specified application to appear and when it does start recording If the application does not appear before the specified start time BB FlashBack starts to record at that time anyway You can specify the application to watch for either by giving some text that will appear in its title bar or its executable name e g iexplore exe for Internet Explorer If you turn on the Record only this application setting the recording has the dimensions of the entire desktop but everything except the application being recorded is blacked out BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 114 The Player The Player window Menus The functions on each menu are described in this help document See the topics inside The Player Main Menu Toolbars The various toolbars provide quick access to some of the most commonly used functions For a description of their functions see topics inside The Player Toolbars Timeline The Timeline together with the Frame bar shows the position in the movie of the currently selected or playing frame The Timeline is marked in either seconds or frames Framebar and objects The Framebar shows each frame of the movie as a selectable rectangle The selected frame is drawn in red Selecting a frame causes it to display in the Movie area Objects like textboxes and images that you ve added to the movie are shown under the Framebar BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 115 Sound Tracks If your movie contains soun
179. will move behind other objects like textboxes images and highlights which you add to the movie You may want the mouse cursor to move in front of them so they appear to be part of the original recording BB FlashBack allows you to do this Note the exception to this is the webcam video window this always appears in front of the cursor and other objects added in BB FlashBack How to make the cursor move in front of other presentation objects Select the Bring cursor to front item from the Actions gt Cursor menu If you wanted to send the cursor behind other objects you would select the Send cursor to back item from the same menu Re recording the mouse cursor There may be occasions when you want to tidy up or correct mouse movements in the movie BB FlashBack allows you to do this by letting you re record the mouse for part or all of the movie How to re record the mouse for a section of the movie 1 Select the frames in which you want to re record the mouse 2 Select the menu item Actions gt Cursor gt Re record mouse cursor gt At selected frames A countdown will be displayed to allow you to get the mouse into the correct starting position When the count down finishes the movie will play 3 Move the mouse as you wish it to be seen in the final movie and BB FlashBack will record the movements To re record the mouse for the entire movie just select the Actions gt Cursor gt Re record mouse cursor gt For who
180. y of displaying a movie on a webpage is by uploading to a video hosting site and using the embed code they provide for the movie See Uploading Movies for more details BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 88 If you want higher quality and or interactive elements in the movie you need to export to Flash and copy that Flash export onto your web server See Displaying a Flash export on a webpage for more help WMV and QuickTime formats can also be embedded in web pages See Displaying a QuickTime movie in a webpage I want to include the movie on a CD Try exporting to Flash QuickTime WMV and EXE formats The format that gives best image quality at lowest file size may depend on the content of your movie EXE format often gives smallest file sizes if normal Windows applications are recorded If your movie contains moving video or lots of photographic images Flash QuickTime or WMV formats may produce smaller exports BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 89 Using BB FlashBack Recorder Windows The Recorder main window The Recorder main window allows you to easily change the main recording options and start recording The Record setting allows you to select what to record Full screen or screens if you have more than one monitor A Window A Region Turn on the Record Sound setting to record sound You ll need to select a source usually either PC Speakers or the Microphone and you can set the recording levels See
181. y of your movies to get the same appearance How to save a style 1 Get the text box properties as you want them 2 On the Properties tab of the Text box properties window click the Save current style button 3 Enter a style name and click OK BB FlashBack creates a style with the name you entered The style name will now appear in the Select text box style drop down list whenever you edit a text box in any of your movies To apply this style to a text box just select the style name from the Select text box style drop down list The size and position of a text box is not saved in the style Adding Images BB FlashBack can display images in the movie area How to add an image file to a movie 1 On the Frame bar select the frame where you want to add an image 2 On the Player main menu select Image from the Insert menu Or On the Edit toolbar click the Insert image button 3 Click on the Load Image button to select an image file Valid formats are jpg png bmp gif emf wmf or ico files How to edit an image There are a number of ways to show the Image properties dialog for a particular image BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 146 Double click the image in the movie area or Click the image in the movie area A blue line will appear around it to indicate it is selected Then either click the button on the Edit toolbar or select Image Properties from the Edit menu or Double click on the frame in the
182. yer applications you will need to start them after hardware acceleration is disabled so that they don t try to use overlays And to record some movie players e g KM Player you will need to change their settings manually so that they do not use overlays because they do not detect that use of overlays is disabled On Windows Vista or 7 To record the movie player you will need to find a setting in that application that disables its use of hardware acceleration or overlays The name of the setting will vary from application to application Capture driver mode is disabled after installation Sometimes the driver requires Windows to be rebooted before it is available for selection If Capture Driver mode is disabled on the Record Mode step or Options window this may be the reason If you see a message about ASUS software when installing BB FlashBack and running the Recorder BB FlashBack has detected software that is incompatible with BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 107 the driver and not installed it See When I installed and when I run Recorder I see a warning about ASUS software How to email Blueberry technical support If you are experiencing difficulties with recording modes and performance you can email our technical support team for help 1 Open the Recorder Options window and select the Record modes tab 2 Click the Troubleshooting button and select Send email to support 3 In the wizard describe your problem as fully as you can
183. you zoom in then want to zoom back out later to show the entire movie you need to add a second Zoom Pan effect To zoom back out and show the entire movie 1 Find the frame where you want to zoom out 2 Click the Add Zoom Pan button on the toolbar 3 On the Zoom Pan properties window select Entire movie for the Show Area setting 4 Click OK The movie will zoom back out at that point Cropping and Autoscrolling After recording a movie you may only wish to show a part of the recorded area in the final movie Use BB FlashBack s cropping function to cut down the movie to a smaller area and have it automatically scroll to keep the mouse in view How to crop a movie Open the movie in BB FlashBack Player and click the cropping button to turn cropping on Or select Set Cropping Rectangle from the Effects menu You will see a blue rectangle that indicates the size the movie will be cropped down to Resize and position it as required To turn cropping off click the cropping button again How to preview the cropped movie Click the Apply Effects button on the toolbar or select the Apply Effects item from the Effects menu Note the Apply Effects function also applies any Zoom Pan effects you ve added it shows exactly what you will get when you export the movie apart from any scaling or other effects you add at export time BB FlashBack Pro User Guide 155 Autoscrolling Cropped Movies The crop rectangle can follow the mo

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