Best screen recording software?

TWilson

Any recommendations for screen recording software? Preferably with options to record only a section of screen and include audio.

Cheers

killingpeople

i have limited experience but i used this software years ago and it worked:
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

cman2k

yes. camtasia is the best, IMO.

TWilson

Do you happen to know if the Camtasia trial watermarks the screen or anything goofy like that? It's 300 bones to buy for one vid

Yozora

Not software but still might be suitable for what you're doing; http://www.screentoaster.com/

Has audio and screen sectioning, and its quick and easy to use. Oh and free.
You can save as mov or upload straight away to the site or youtube.


If that doesnt suit you then you can try http://camstudio.org/ , the free alternative to camtasia - probably not the "best" but I'm not sure why you need the "best" when you're only making 1 vid

TheSplash

Ive used this, worked very nicely, and its free. Has some nice features. http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/bbflashback.aspx

whats_true

http://fraps.com/ is pretty sick. No lag to if your running a lot.

TWilson

I think fraps wins as I'm trying to record my iphone game. Thanks guys!

AstroZombie

Debut

Emperors Teeth

TWilson wrote: »

Do you happen to know if the Camtasia trial watermarks the screen or anything goofy like that? It's 300 bones to buy for one vid

I tried Camtasia out recently, it does not watermark the screen captures on the trial version .

dehebo

I've used Camtasia is very good.

Pedro Amorim

I use Camstudio, cause it's free.
And then i encode my videos with virtualdub.

ElysiumGX

I use Camstudio or Fraps depending on what is needed. Then I encode to Xvid in VirtualDub as well. I get a great quality when uploading to Youtube, even with non-HD resolutions.

soulstice

Fraps is definately my favourite too. After recording a good program to use to crunch down and encode the video is sorenson squeeze.

Squirrely Jones

I have used hypercam 3 beta to record 720p video from a portion of the screen at 30 fps for my reel. I used FFDshow with MJPEG to encode. FFD is hardware accelerated so it encoded in real time and MJPEG is pretty lossless but gives you 10/1 compression ratio.

TWilson

Fraps has been capturing pretty well followed by VirtualDub to convert it so that Premiere can read it with audio. What a nightmare...

Are there any powerful alternatives to Premiere? Premiere doesn't seem to want me to export any resolution other than it's very specific options like DV 720x480. Does Sony Vegas offer more export options?

Quokimbo

Sony Vegas can put out all kind of goodness! I love Vegas as a video editor!

arrangemonk

tried debut too, its pretty awesome
just click and go, and finish

Rick Stirling

perna wrote: »

Came across this. Lifehacker recommends "Jing"

Yes. Jing is very nice.

Racer445

Camtasia is a nightmare. Crashes all the time, really slow, some long files have gotten corrupt. I'd stay away from it. I now use Camstudio and it's working great.

TWilson, Vegas has a fantastic export dialog with pretty much any format you can think of, then some. There's lots of options and rendering is pretty speedy as well. It's my primary video editing app now.

Muzzoid

Sorry for the bump, but i thought i would just let people know that they can actually do screen capture using virtual dub, you dont need to use something else first.

Only figured it out today and the performance is really impressive.

Just keep in mind that win 7 and vista cant use the gpu accelleration, which is on by default so be sure to turn it off or it wont work.

ivars

Muzz wrote: »

Sorry for the bump, but i thought i would just let people know that they can actually do screen capture using virtual dub, you dont need to use something else first.

Only figured it out today and the performance is really impressive.

Just keep in mind that win 7 and vista cant use the gpu accelleration, which is on by default so be sure to turn it off or it wont work.

Sorry for the bump (again), just had to say THANK YOU! this was a life saver

JasonLavoie

camtasia has my vote (But only have done limited recording though).

Tadao215

I've also been looking for some recording software. Is there something that will only record changes made on screen?