PicNTell: A camcorder metaphor for screen recording


PicNTell is a new technique for generating compelling screencasts where users can quickly record desktop activities and generate videos that are embeddable on popular video sharing distributions such as YouTube®. While standard video editing and screen capture tools are useful for some editing tasks, they have two main drawbacks: (1) they require users to import and organize media in a separate interface, and (2) they do not support natural (or camcorder-like) screen recording, and instead usually require the user to define a specific region or window to record. In this paper we review current screen recording use, and present the PicNTell system, pilot studies, and a new six degree-of-freedom tracker we are developing in response to our findings.