Bird Cams Around the World

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I purchased the WMRecorder Bonusbundle. With WMRecorder you can record streaming video, directly from the url. It can record many streams at the same time and you can play them simultaneously. (Meaning you can have more than one player open on your screen.)
The Bundle comes with a splitter, that is very useful to pre-edit long recordings, before you make a video from it in Windows Moviemaker.
Then there is the converter, embedded in the WMRecorder program, with which you can convert a realplayer file into a file that can be processed in Windows Moviemaker.
And the third useful program is the capturing program. With that you can record anything on your screen. The whole screen or a window or a selected part of a window.
This one I use for recording Pete's Pond (from the website, not the standalone Realplayer), and it is the only way to record the cams that play in the Adobe player, such as the Hornby Eagles on WildEarth.

The WMR Bundle costs $59,-

For capturing screenshots Snagit is one of the best program. It can capture directly from an url. This way you can capture every image from, let's say, Alcoa without having that page active.
That is how Arjen does it, among others.Peet, on my forum, uses Snagit for capturing the refresh images from De Mortel. Het starts it early in the morning, goes off to work, and when he's back home, he checks the folder in which the images are stored. The ones without any Falcon are thrown in the dustbin, the rest gets uploaded to Photobucket.

I am about to get it myself, so I can learn how it works and I am ready for the new season.

Snagit 9.1 costs $48,95

Right now I use Irfanview for taking screenshots. It works better then the option "Printscreen" where you have paste each capture immediately in Paint and then save it.
Irfanview saves it automatically into a designated forlder, therefore you can take many screenshots in a row, just one or two seconds apart.
Irfanview is completely for free and is an outstanding program for managing and editing images. You can do a lot with it, enhancing, changing size, resolution, lots of effects are available, convert to many formats.
I have used it for years along with other programs and still think it's one of the best there is.



Screenshots (made with Irfanview) of the WMRecorder and the (four) open players.

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Great info Ingrid! Thanks for taking the time to write all this out. I use SnagIt and love it. I'll have to look at streaming video software next.

Thank you very much Ingrid!! That's just what I needed to know!! You're the best!!

Many of us used Photobucket for our image storage. Last year PB decided to end the free image sharing service causing many to "lose" our images on this forum. I believe they assumed that any image sharing was for commercial purposes so, in order to share, PB offered a plan for a mere $399 per year. Of course, we were outraged and many refused to pay so images posted were no longer available. I think PB realized that many images are shared on non-commercial blogs and forums, like BCAW and now they offer a much more reasonably priced option.

I just received an email with the PB plan that I have. I took a screenshot of the page.



Here is the link
http://photobucket.com/p500/?utm_source=ga&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:12071385&utm_campaign=2018-02-04-Subscription

The email also included an address to discuss plans - [email protected]

Good luck!