Comparison of screencasting software

A comparison of notable screencasting software programs, that are used to record activities on the computer

Computer

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screen, mouse movement, and often includes live audio for later playback. Screencasting is an asynchronous communication technology (not real-time). This category of software is used for recording demonstrations, remote technical assistance, sales presentations, and training.

Comparison by specification

Product Name	Publisher	Latest stable version	Latest release date	OS
ActivePresenter ActivePresenter ActivePresenter is a screencasting and eLearning software for Microsoft Windows which can be used to create software demonstrations, software simulations, quizzes. It allows exporting to series of images, HTML slideshows, documents , Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, videos , Flash videos and...	Atomi Systems	3.0	2011-10-15	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
ActivePresenter Free Edition ActivePresenter ActivePresenter is a screencasting and eLearning software for Microsoft Windows which can be used to create software demonstrations, software simulations, quizzes. It allows exporting to series of images, HTML slideshows, documents , Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, videos , Flash videos and...	Atomi Systems	3.0	2011-10-15	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
Adobe Captivate Adobe Captivate Adobe Captivate is an electronic learning tool for Microsoft Windows, and from v.5 Mac OS X which can be used to author software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and randomized quizzes in .swf format. It can also convert Adobe Captivate generated .swf to .avi which can be...	Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...	5.5	2011-05-27	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
Bandicam Bandicam Bandicam is a screen capture and real-time video capture utility for DirectX and OpenGL applications.Bandicam consists of two modes. One is the 'DirectX/OpenGL window' mode, which can record the target created in DirectX or OpenGL, and the other is the 'Rectangle on a screen' mode, which can be...	Bandisoft	1.6.1.113	2011-03-16	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
BB FlashBack BB FlashBack BB FlashBack is a Windows-based screen recording program, distributed by Blueberry Software. It allows the user to add text effects, cut and paste movie footage and edit mouse movements. Screen recordings can be exported to Flash, AVI, WMV, PPT or EXE formats. A PowerPoint plug-in is also deployed...	Blueberry Software	2.8	2011-02-17	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
BB FlashBack BB FlashBack BB FlashBack is a Windows-based screen recording program, distributed by Blueberry Software. It allows the user to add text effects, cut and paste movie footage and edit mouse movements. Screen recordings can be exported to Flash, AVI, WMV, PPT or EXE formats. A PowerPoint plug-in is also deployed... Express	Blueberry Software	2.8	2011-02-17	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
BSR Screen Recorder BSR Screen Recorder BSR Screen Recorder is a Windows-based screen recording program. The user defines which part of the screen or window to be recorded as video and from which source the audio to be captured. It can produce video in AVI, Flash, WMV or EXE formats...	BSRSoft	5.2.1	2011-04-18	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
CamStudio CamStudio CamStudio is a screencasting program for Microsoft Windows released as free software. The software renders videos in an AVI format. It can also convert these AVIs into Flash Video format, embedded in SWF files...	CamStudio.org	2.6 Beta	2010-10-27	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
Camtasia Studio Camtasia Studio Camtasia Studio and Camtasia for Mac are screen video capture software, published by TechSmith. The user defines the area of the screen or the window that is to be captured or the whole screen can be recorded instead. This is set before the recording begins...	TechSmith TechSmith TechSmith Corporation is a software company developing screencasting tools for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS such as Camtasia and Snagit. The company was founded in Okemos, Michigan in 1987 by William Hamilton. In 1990 they created Snagit, their most popular and best-selling product.TechSmith, which...	7.1	2010-10-12	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
Camtasia for Mac	TechSmith TechSmith TechSmith Corporation is a software company developing screencasting tools for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS such as Camtasia and Snagit. The company was founded in Okemos, Michigan in 1987 by William Hamilton. In 1990 they created Snagit, their most popular and best-selling product.TechSmith, which...	1.1.1	2010-06-01	Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
Capture Fox Capture Fox Capture Fox is a free Mozilla Firefox add-on that was released on July 12th, 2008. Its primary use is for capturing screen shots and recording voices, making it useful for creating screencast videos....	Zafer Gurel	0.7.0	2009-11-25	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line...	FFmpeg.org	0.5	2009-03-10	Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms...
Fraps Fraps Fraps is a benchmarking, screen capture, and real-time video capture utility for DirectX and OpenGL applications. It is commonly used to determine a computer's performance with a game, as well as record gaming footage...	Beepa Pty Ltd	3.4.7	2011-10-22	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
Freeseer Freeseer Freeseer is a cross-platform screencasting application suite released as free and open source software. Freeseer is a project of the Free and Open Source Software Learning Centre , a not-for-profit organization....	FOSSLC	2.5.3	2011-05-24	Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms...
HyperCam HyperCam HyperCam is a screencasting program. It captures the action from a Microsoft Windows screen and saves it to an AVI movie file...	Hyperionics & Solveig Multimedia	3.0.1006.10	2010-06-16	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
Jing Pro Jing (software) Jing is a screencasting computer program launched in 2007 as Jing Project by the TechSmith Corporation. The software takes a picture or video of the user's computer screen and uploads it to the Web, FTP, computer or clipboard. If uploaded to the web, the program automatically creates a URL to the...	TechSmith TechSmith TechSmith Corporation is a software company developing screencasting tools for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS such as Camtasia and Snagit. The company was founded in Okemos, Michigan in 1987 by William Hamilton. In 1990 they created Snagit, their most popular and best-selling product.TechSmith, which...			Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
Jing Jing (software) Jing is a screencasting computer program launched in 2007 as Jing Project by the TechSmith Corporation. The software takes a picture or video of the user's computer screen and uploads it to the Web, FTP, computer or clipboard. If uploaded to the web, the program automatically creates a URL to the...	TechSmith TechSmith TechSmith Corporation is a software company developing screencasting tools for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS such as Camtasia and Snagit. The company was founded in Okemos, Michigan in 1987 by William Hamilton. In 1990 they created Snagit, their most popular and best-selling product.TechSmith, which...			Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
Microsoft Expression Encoder Microsoft Expression Encoder Microsoft Expression Encoder is a Windows-based program for encoding digital video for web-based video. Expression Encoder can be used to create video compressed VC-1 as well as H.264 for distribution via Microsoft Silverlight. Expression Encoder features a WPF-based modern graphical user...	Microsoft Corporation	4	2010-06-08	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
Nero Vision Nero Vision Nero Vision is a video editing software publicated by Nero AG which is suitable for multichannel video editing - even with images. After editing the software burns a DVD, whose menu and chapters you can create individually in single steps before finishing....	Nero AG Nero AG Nero is a global computer software company headquartered in Karlsbad, Germany. It is perhaps most well-known for its burning software, Nero Burning ROM.-History:The company was founded as Ahead Software GmbH in 1995 by Richard Lesser....	10.6.10800	2011-04-19	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
Pixetell Pixetell Pixetell is an online communication and collaboration tool which can be used to produce and share screencasts, or short videos that present the contents and activity on their computer screen...	Ontier Inc.	1.3.11913	2010-01-15	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
QuickTime X	Apple Inc.	10.0 (118)	2010-03-29	Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
RecordMyDesktop RecordMyDesktop RecordMyDesktop is a free and open source desktop screencasting software application written for GNU/Linux. The program is separated into two parts; a command line tool that performs the tasks of capturing and encoding, and an interface that exposes the program functionality graphically...	SourceForge SourceForge SourceForge Enterprise Edition is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of free software / open source software applications .While originally itself...	0.3.8.1	2008-12-13	Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
Screencam Screencam ScreenCam is a Screencast tool for Microsoft Windows that is used to author software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and tutorials in .swf format...	SmartGuyz Inc.	3.3.0	2009-03-24	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
ScreenFlow ScreenFlow ScreenFlow from Telestream is a screencasting and video editing software for the Mac OS X operating system. It can capture the audio and video from the computer, edit the captured video, add highlights or annotation and output a QuickTime video file....	Telestream Telestream Telestream, Inc. is a privately held provider of software and hardware products for video capture, encoding, transcoding, and network-based delivery. Products include desktop components, screencasting, video streaming, cross-platform encoding software and transcoding applications to automate...	3.0.2	2011-08-11	Mac OS X 10.5
Screenpresso Screenpresso Screenpresso is a screenshot and screencast program for Windows. It is created and distributed by Learnpulse and was first launched in 2009. Screenpresso is available in 17 languages .Screenpresso...	Learnpulse	1.2.6	2011-09-28	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
Screenpresso Pro Screenpresso Screenpresso is a screenshot and screencast program for Windows. It is created and distributed by Learnpulse and was first launched in 2009. Screenpresso is available in 17 languages .Screenpresso...	Learnpulse	1.2.6	2011-09-28	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
SnagIt SnagIt Snagit is a screenshot program for Windows. It is created and distributed by TechSmith, which also makes Camtasia Studio, and was first launched in 1990. Snagit is available in English, French, German, Korean, and Japanese versions....	TechSmith TechSmith TechSmith Corporation is a software company developing screencasting tools for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS such as Camtasia and Snagit. The company was founded in Okemos, Michigan in 1987 by William Hamilton. In 1990 they created Snagit, their most popular and best-selling product.TechSmith, which...	10.0.1	2011-04-21	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
Snapz Pro X Snapz Pro X Snapz Pro X is a utility program for Mac OS X developed by Ambrosia Software. It is designed to record movie-like screenshots of a computer monitor doing various actions, such as a user moving their mouse across the screen, clicking on desktop icons, typing text, et cetera...	Ambrosia Software Ambrosia Software Ambrosia Software is a predominantly Macintosh software company located in Rochester, New York. Ambrosia produces utilities and games. Its products are distributed as shareware; demo versions can be downloaded and used for up to 30 days....	2.2.3		Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
VirtualDub VirtualDub VirtualDub is a video capture and video processing utility for Microsoft Windows written by Avery Lee.It is designed to process linear video streams, including filtering and recompression...	Avery Lee	1.9.11	2010-12-24	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
VLC media player VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to...	SourceForge SourceForge SourceForge Enterprise Edition is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of free software / open source software applications .While originally itself...	1.1.11	2011-07-15	Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms...
Windows Media Encoder Windows Media Encoder Windows Media Encoder is a freely downloadable trial version media encoder developed by Microsoft which enables content developers to convert or capture both live and prerecorded audio, video, and computer screen images to Windows Media formats for live and on-demand delivery. It is the successor...	Microsoft Corporation	9.00.00.3352 (x86) 10.00.00.3809 (x64)	2002	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
Wink Wink (tutorial software) Wink is a freeware screen capture and tutorial-creation program written by Satish Kumar. It supports many features such as input-based capture and text annotations. Navigation buttons can be added to any presentation and the bitmaps for all presentation controls can be edited...	Satish Kumar	2.0	2008-07-14	Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms...
XVidCap XVidCap XVidCap is free software used for recording a screencast or digital recording of an X Window System screen output with an audio narration. Screen capture tools are very handy for developers to document software and installation procedures...	SourceForge SourceForge SourceForge Enterprise Edition is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of free software / open source software applications .While originally itself...	1.1.7	2008-07-13	Unix-like Unix-like A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification....

Comparison by features

Product name	Can record audio?	Records entire desktop?	Supports full-screen OpenGL OpenGL OpenGL is a standard specification defining a cross-language, cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 2D and 3D computer graphics. The interface consists of over 250 different function calls which can be used to draw complex three-dimensional scenes from simple primitives. OpenGL... ?	Supports full-screen DirectX DirectX Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with Direct, such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay,... ?	Supports editing Video editing software Video editing software, is application software which handles the post-production video editing of digital video sequences on a computer non-linear editing systems... ?
ActivePresenter ActivePresenter ActivePresenter is a screencasting and eLearning software for Microsoft Windows which can be used to create software demonstrations, software simulations, quizzes. It allows exporting to series of images, HTML slideshows, documents , Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, videos , Flash videos and...
Adobe Captivate Adobe Captivate Adobe Captivate is an electronic learning tool for Microsoft Windows, and from v.5 Mac OS X which can be used to author software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and randomized quizzes in .swf format. It can also convert Adobe Captivate generated .swf to .avi which can be...
Bandicam Bandicam Bandicam is a screen capture and real-time video capture utility for DirectX and OpenGL applications.Bandicam consists of two modes. One is the 'DirectX/OpenGL window' mode, which can record the target created in DirectX or OpenGL, and the other is the 'Rectangle on a screen' mode, which can be...
BB FlashBack BB FlashBack BB FlashBack is a Windows-based screen recording program, distributed by Blueberry Software. It allows the user to add text effects, cut and paste movie footage and edit mouse movements. Screen recordings can be exported to Flash, AVI, WMV, PPT or EXE formats. A PowerPoint plug-in is also deployed...
BSR Screen Recorder BSR Screen Recorder BSR Screen Recorder is a Windows-based screen recording program. The user defines which part of the screen or window to be recorded as video and from which source the audio to be captured. It can produce video in AVI, Flash, WMV or EXE formats...
CamStudio CamStudio CamStudio is a screencasting program for Microsoft Windows released as free software. The software renders videos in an AVI format. It can also convert these AVIs into Flash Video format, embedded in SWF files...
Camtasia Studio Camtasia Studio Camtasia Studio and Camtasia for Mac are screen video capture software, published by TechSmith. The user defines the area of the screen or the window that is to be captured or the whole screen can be recorded instead. This is set before the recording begins...
Capture Fox Capture Fox Capture Fox is a free Mozilla Firefox add-on that was released on July 12th, 2008. Its primary use is for capturing screen shots and recording voices, making it useful for creating screencast videos....
FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line...
Fraps Fraps Fraps is a benchmarking, screen capture, and real-time video capture utility for DirectX and OpenGL applications. It is commonly used to determine a computer's performance with a game, as well as record gaming footage...
HyperCam HyperCam HyperCam is a screencasting program. It captures the action from a Microsoft Windows screen and saves it to an AVI movie file...
Microsoft Expression Encoder Microsoft Expression Encoder Microsoft Expression Encoder is a Windows-based program for encoding digital video for web-based video. Expression Encoder can be used to create video compressed VC-1 as well as H.264 for distribution via Microsoft Silverlight. Expression Encoder features a WPF-based modern graphical user...
Nero Vision Nero Vision Nero Vision is a video editing software publicated by Nero AG which is suitable for multichannel video editing - even with images. After editing the software burns a DVD, whose menu and chapters you can create individually in single steps before finishing....
Pixetell Pixetell Pixetell is an online communication and collaboration tool which can be used to produce and share screencasts, or short videos that present the contents and activity on their computer screen...
RecordMyDesktop RecordMyDesktop RecordMyDesktop is a free and open source desktop screencasting software application written for GNU/Linux. The program is separated into two parts; a command line tool that performs the tasks of capturing and encoding, and an interface that exposes the program functionality graphically...
Screencam Screencam ScreenCam is a Screencast tool for Microsoft Windows that is used to author software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and tutorials in .swf format...
ScreenFlow ScreenFlow ScreenFlow from Telestream is a screencasting and video editing software for the Mac OS X operating system. It can capture the audio and video from the computer, edit the captured video, add highlights or annotation and output a QuickTime video file....
Screenpresso Screenpresso Screenpresso is a screenshot and screencast program for Windows. It is created and distributed by Learnpulse and was first launched in 2009. Screenpresso is available in 17 languages .Screenpresso...
SnagIt SnagIt Snagit is a screenshot program for Windows. It is created and distributed by TechSmith, which also makes Camtasia Studio, and was first launched in 1990. Snagit is available in English, French, German, Korean, and Japanese versions....
VirtualDub VirtualDub VirtualDub is a video capture and video processing utility for Microsoft Windows written by Avery Lee.It is designed to process linear video streams, including filtering and recompression...
VLC VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to...
Windows Media Encoder Windows Media Encoder Windows Media Encoder is a freely downloadable trial version media encoder developed by Microsoft which enables content developers to convert or capture both live and prerecorded audio, video, and computer screen images to Windows Media formats for live and on-demand delivery. It is the successor...
Wink Wink (tutorial software) Wink is a freeware screen capture and tutorial-creation program written by Satish Kumar. It supports many features such as input-based capture and text annotations. Navigation buttons can be added to any presentation and the bitmaps for all presentation controls can be edited...
XVidCap XVidCap XVidCap is free software used for recording a screencast or digital recording of an X Window System screen output with an audio narration. Screen capture tools are very handy for developers to document software and installation procedures...

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