{"id":913,"date":"2006-08-15T13:50:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T13:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/windows-media-encoder\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:05:02","slug":"windows-media-encoder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/windows-media-encoder\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Media Encoder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I am testing out the (free) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windowsmedia\/forpros\/encoder\/default.mspx\">Windows Media Encoder<\/a> as a means of capturing video and audio on my computer screen (kind of a poor woman&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsmith.com\/camtasia.asp\">Camtasia<\/a>)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsmith.com\/camtasia.asp\"><\/a>.  Yes, it is Windows only.  Overall, the learning curve to get WM encoder going was not too bad.  For whatever reason, Microsoft is gearing the software solely to &quot;professionals&quot;, but I think they are missing a large audience who would like a down and dirty way to capture video by labeling it a &quot;professional&quot; product.  There is still a huge mountain to climb to perfect the quality, but I was able to &quot;produce&quot; this 3 minute first attempt in less than an hour.  I am also playing around with ways to host the video.  I uploaded my first attempt (in .wmv format) to Google video, YouTube and my site&#39;s server.  At first blush, the Google video and YouTube options are way to small to read the screen capture.  However, it took all of 30 seconds to upload and embed in a blog post, so I will keep that in mind for quick projects that don&#39;t require detailed video.  Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/drupal\/files\/0816a.wmv\">a link to the file <\/a>that I uploaded on my web server.  Not bad, but I&#39;m going to tinker around with ways to view from other web based players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I am testing out the (free) Windows Media Encoder as a means of capturing video and audio on my computer screen (kind of a poor woman&#39;s Camtasia). Yes, it is Windows only. Overall, the learning curve to get WM encoder going was not too bad. For whatever reason, Microsoft is gearing the software solely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-presentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3169,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}