Recording Video From PC Screen

CamStudio seems pretty decent, although I'm no pro, but it's free.

If you want to buy some software, Camtasia seems to be really popular.

If you just want simplicity, check out Wink. It's free, too.

Thanks for the suggestions.

CamStudio is one I have tried out. It has been about as close to what I want to accomplish as any and was very user friendly.

The Camtasia one has a trial version, and when I played around with it, I was not particularly impressed by it. Maybe I just needed to become more familiar with the software.

I will check out the Wink one and see how well it works.

I would not object to buying a package to do this, I just want to be sure that the results would be what I expected from it.

I am running Camtasia Studio from Techsmith.com and quite like it. It is a reasonably priced AV tool for screen recording. Techsmith also produces a lighter freeware product called Jing which allows video snippets of up to five minutes in length - excellent for documenting one or two key concepts at a time. They also have a subscription version with a few more options for only a few dollars annually.

Another excellent tool I have is Adobe Captivate. You can capture software applications as slide shows then annotate it with text captions, custom text entry, rollovers, images, audio, etc. It allows much more flexibility in the final product
with a much smaller file footprint.

No matter what you do however, there won't be much you can do about the file size. A couple of MB per minute of full motion video isn't unusual.

Thanks for the input.

I may revisit Camtasia with your recommendation.

I am very new to trying to do this, so it may well have been that I had not set all of the options up correctly as far as frame captures per second and some of the other options for recording.

The Wink software recommended by Wendell looks to be very useful for some other materials I will need to put together as well.

> Techsmith also produces a lighter freeware product called Jing which allows video snippets of up to five minutes in length - excellent for documenting one or two key concepts at a time.

Wow, I can't believe I forgot about that one... I have it running on my laptop right now and I love it.