How do I record my screen activity as a video?

May 2021 4 38 Report

How do I record my screen activity as a video?

I will not accept links to SpyWare (trust me, I'll know) or any viruses. I want a 100% free and safe way to record my screen activity without any bugs or errors.

Computers & Internet / Other - Computers

brisray

Verified answer

There are some very good free ones...

BB FlashBack Express - http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashBack_FreePlayer... - good screen video capture program. Captures to AVI and SWF formats. The problem with this one is it puts a halo around the screen cursor which cannot be removed.

Expression Encoder - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx... - An advanced audio/video-encoding and live-broadcasting application. A huge program but the video capture is great. Captures to WMV format. The free version is good enough for most things but can only record 10 minutes at a time. The full program is $600 but it really is a good program.

Screen to Video - http://www.koyotesoft.com/indexEn.html - great screen video capture program. Can capture screens to AVI, SWF, FLA and WMV formats. My favorite free recorder.

Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ - A tutorial and presentation creation software. The screen capture is great. Captures to SWF format.

The most common free one is CamStudio - http://camstudio.org/ - but I stopped using it some time ago after I found it could not capture subtle gradients and even changed some screen colors. It was was seaching for a replacement for that that I chose the previous 4 as good replacements.

Camtasia - http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/ - is just great. The reason being it can handle all sorts of screen recording - especially from commercial video which some other programs have problems with. This is not a free program ($300).

Fraps and Bandicam are OK, but use a lot of resources but both are less than $40.

If you're that great with computers "trust me I know", why aren't you looking for this stuff yourself?

I recommend CamStudio (linked below). It's free software that is meant to record your screen. I've used it in the past for tutorials and it does a wonderful job.