So I’ve been working for about a week on one of my Subversion walkthroughs with a free copy of DemoCreator that I received about 2 months ago. In this day and age, there is no excuse for, “You get what you pay for,” in the software world.
Good God I’ve been having a pain in the ass time getting my demo to work right. There are out and out bugs all through the software that I’m using. Jesus people! To those at Wondershare who actually sell this crappy software. please listen to me. Why on earth have it be so bug ridden that when I go to use it I want to poke my eyes out? I mean you advertise DemoCreator for $70 a pop.
I’ve used Camtasia software, which runs at $300 a pop, for paid projects. Seriously, I’m way into open source, and free, software, but this DemoCreator shit is AWFUL! I’m ready to plunk down the $300 just to legally use the Camtasia software.
Wondershare, you need to grow the F— up and learn to produce software that is not bug-ridden, especially if your software is commercial. In the mean time, I’m going to find another legal method to fix my now broken demo and actually get it posted in a no-longer timely manner.
[Edit at 2:03 am on March 11, 2008: Wondershare (the makers of DemoCreater), you guys are on my ABSOLUTE HATE LIST! I haven't been this angry at a commercial software company since my vehemence at Microsoft and their backroom OEM Vista deals. SCREW YOU GUYS! I will now somehow find a way to take my week's worth of lost labor and remake the demo I was creating. I hope you guys rot in hell and I hope Camtasia spanks you in the ass! I will never have anything nice to say to a commercial software company that can't produce software without so obvious a set of bugs.]
[Edit at 12:40pm March 11, 2008: I've decided my project cannot be salvaged. I've deleted DemoCreator from my computer. Time to start from scratch with CamStudio.]
Comments (5)
have you tried camstudio? i’ve never tried it, but it’s free/opensource: http://www.camstudio.org
Todd, you might just be my hero. I actually hadn’t heard of CamStudio before, but I’m going to check them out. Thank you!
I’ve heard camtasia is superior to camstudio, so don’t call me a hero just yet. ;) also, this site might be useful for you http://www.osalt.com (you might already know about it though)
You get what you paid for!
Of course that’s a valid answer. But there’s probably no excuse for shitty software.
Todd:
I actually didn’t know about that web site. Thank you for passing it on.
Rob:
Hee hee. I love that you can say the perfect things.
To myself:
Breathe, it’s noon the next day. After a “night” of very little sleep and another 3 hours this morning of tweaking things, I’m scrapping the entire demo.
Now that I’ve calmed down, this has been a great learning experience. It’s a harsh reminder that just because software survives my early “does it work?” testing that it won’t break 90% of the way into a project.
Time to give CamStudio a whirl.