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Review of Best Free Screen Capture Recorders

May 25th, 2009 · View Comments · How To

Peter Feerick over on Tech Support Alerts reviews the best screen capture software. I’ve used Camtasia, Snagit and recently Jing, which he includes in this review.

These utilities are normally used for effectively making movies of computer screens. Such utilities are really useful in tech support, product documentation, presentations, or simply showing someone how to do something.

Jing, which is made by the same people who make Camtasia Studio (but free), puts a little icon on the top of your screen and allows you to take screen snapshots and make screen recordings that record to .swf format.

Peter adds that “The result can then be saved to your local machine, an FTP server, or put on screencast.com (100 meg free).  I’ve started using this at work and it is amazing!  Allows for audio while you record too.”I tried each and they all work fine. I liked Wink most because of its ease of use, great flexibility, and powerful annotation features. Wink also allows audio to be embedded in the presentation, allowing you to narrate the viewer through a series of steps. It only produces movies in Flash or executable file formats, though. Wink is freeware for Windows 98 and later.

Full review of Screen Capture Software here

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  • Jing Project only produce the SWF files for the free version. For more features you can go for the Pro version. DemoCreator is like wink and it is better, but not free.
  • Thanks Adward,

    I wasnt aware of the difference between the standard and the Pro versions of Jing. I will look into this and prepare a matrix showing the different features.

    Hadnt heard of DemoCreator, tbh. Will also look into this and review it.

    What do you use for screen captures? DemoCreator?

    Does it have any real limitations that I should note when reviewing it?

    Thanks

    Ivan
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