windows 7 best screen capture (video maker) software? [closed]

Solution 1:

Try CamStudio. It's free and open source.

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).

Solution 2:

I use three different software packages for screen recording, depending on the specific task I'm trying to accomplish.

Jing

Jing is free, but not open source. It lets you select either a specific window, an area of your screen, or the entire screen, and then records. It can also take still shots. You have the choice of uploading screenshots and screencasts to their free hosting service, to several popular services like YouTube or Flickr, and to your own FTP server. You can also just keep the files locally. Saves in swf format, the Pro version has an option for saving mpegs.

DebugMode Wink

Wink is also free, but not open source. It's intuitive, and has more options than Jing, but because of those options takes more time to create a screencast. You can start/stop recording, join them together, add/remove frames, change the cursor in each frame, add notes/shapes/voiceovers. Outputs to swf format only.

CamStudio

Simple, open source, records the entire screen or just a specific area, and outputs to AVI or SWF.

Solution 3:

It depends on what type of video capture you are trying to perform. If you are looking to capture video from within a game, give FRAPS a try. You can record high framerate videos with FRAPS, and easily encode them to whatever filetype you need all in one interface.

If you are looking for an Open Source Screen capture program, try CamStudio. It is very simple to use for the novice user, but also powerful enough for professional screen captures.

Solution 4:

There are a few options here that you can use. Only one is free though in this list:

Camtasia Studios
HyperCam
Jing