Video Call Recording and Capture (Skype)
I’ve never been a huge Skype fan, although it seems I’ve had an account forever. More than anything, I just don’t like accepting random calls from folks. Of course, I realize that I could limit my contact list and privacy options - but that’s next to impossible for me, as I know a lot of people and am always online (in some form or another). Plus, I envision using Skype to further enable communication for future programs - but not yet.
If you try to call me on Skype and I’m not expecting your call, I’ll likely never pick up. Moreover, you can watch me ignore your call. It’s not that I’m a cold-hearted communicator - it’s just that I’d never get anything done if I spent all day long having conversations that led nowhere, or got tied into discussions that could have been handled in text chat or email instead.
In other words: the “neat” factor of talking with someone with VoIP software is long gone. Not since I first played with Netscape’s CoolTalk (1996?) have I ever been giddy with voice communications over the Internet. It’s only become easier to do, but the power has also become more fragmented.
This is what’s interesting to me. Recording an answer to a question:
I thought Pamela was the end-all / be-all of recording Skype calls. Then receiving another answer to my recommendation:
Here’s Bwana’s take:
Now, if you upload your own suggestion(s) in video form - to any video network of your choosing - I’ll update this post to include your embed code. Any takers?
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2 Comments
Dave Gray
May 21st, 2007
at 9:15am
Chris, I would throughly recommend MX Skype Recorder. We use it to record our podcast over Skype. We are pretty fussy about the audio and I set MX to record as a .wav as a dual track (So I can adjust the levels for one or the other). I then mix the track into a stereo track for editing. Only because it can be tempting to edit one track over the other and “unsync” your whole piece. I edit the track then send it to mix for adding the other sound effects and music.
It works very very well. We have used it for a number of weeks now and it has not let us down. We tried Pamela and found the audio quality to be somewhat lacking for podcasting purposes.
Cheers.
Reinier
May 22nd, 2007
at 8:42am
ok, so you don’t want to limit skype by using the privacy options, yet you say when you don’t expect a call form someone you likely won’t pick up… You are contradicting yourself. I would use the privacy options and tell people you have skype but YOU need to add them first before they can talk to you.
It works well. I never get random calls.