Ok some of you may have wondered how I made my screen captured videos of my Christmas Light Animations. So I decided to write a tutorial for those who want to share.

First off you will need Windows Media Encoder 9. You can find it at this Link

After Installing WME 9 Then follow the following steps:

Flemish bend.  Cleat Hitch.  Alpine Butterfly. 

Here is a very cool site which has animated tutorials on how to tie a variety of knots.