What could I use to record a tutorial in 3ds Max?

[Command: Manick]

I tried doing some research on my own but found little actual discussion about commonly used programs that were used for making most video tutorials I see made of 3ds Max. I tried using Fraps, hoping it would work but it only crashed 3ds Max every time I started it. I want to do voice recording with the same software as well since I have a microphone. If anyone has some recommendations that meet these two criteria I'd greatly appreciate it, especially if the program is easy to learn and setup.

[hazardman]

this may work...i remember doing some test quite a while ago and it seemed ok...best of all it's free!..

 

http://camstudio.org/

[Command: Manick]

Thanks a lot hazardman! Works perfect and took only minutes to setup

 

Actually, I jumped the gun and thought MPC was the player which I was watching the video play back on but it turns out it was just the video playback program provided by the CamStudio installation. I set it up to playback with MPC but It wont work with ffdshow Video Codec or any of the others that I've tried. I have the latest Combined Community Codec Pack. Unfortunately I know close to nothing about video compression and codecs so if you know what codecs I need to get it to work so I can download them I'd appreciate it.

[hazardman]

don't know too much but did you try and play the file with a different media player...what is the intended use of these files?..flash playback on your own webpage?...youtube?...off a server in a class room?...

[Command: Manick]

It will probably end up being privately distributed first to get some constructive criticism from people I know, and will be hosted on an uploader site.