15+ Desktop Screen Recording Tools For Creating Video Tutorials
If you are Vlogger and want to publish your own How to Video articles online, you need to record your computer screen and shows other how you are doing the thing on your computer, other user will see the video and better understand what exactly you want to say by the video.If you want to be a vlogger and still in search of such Desktop Screen recording software, your search ends here.
Free Screen Recording Tools
Freez Screen Video Capture is a screen-capture & screen-recording tool to record screen activities and sounds into standard AVI video files.You can record Movement of cursor on your desktop along with any part of your Desktop Screen with the help of the free software.You can set video Output format as such as Microsoft Video 1, MPEG-4, DivX & and audio output format can be PCM, ADPCM, MP3, OGG.You can create your personal screen demos, training videos, animated how to tutorials & animated presentations with the help of this software.It's cost is nothing and free to use and register.
It is online screen recorder for one-click recording on Windows, Mac, or Linux for free.It is free online screencasting software that enables everyone to create and share recorded screen sessions online on various social video sharing websites like YouTube(HD) or you can save it as MP4, AVI, or flash video in local drive of your computer.This is the standalone tool to record your right now activity from your browser.Screen recording duration can be up to 15 minutes long.It leaves watermark on your created videos if you are using free version, however you can upgrade it to pro version of Screencast-O-Matic by paying $12/year.It works with Java,so you need to have installed in your PC before you can start recording your screen.
Webinaria is open source Screen recording tool that let user to create demonstrations and video tutorials & publish it in Flash formats.You can send your recorded screen video to Screencast.com, Flickr, a FTP account, Twitter.It can record both the audio and video file formats that happening on your screen.The recorded video can be converted in to widely used video formats,You can also record audio narration or webcam video together in the process while at the time of recording screen.So you can record interview of any person over Skype or other video input and record it in combination of your video.
Wink is a Video demo tutorial and software presentation software, It is specially designed to creating tutorials on how to use software.Wink allows user to capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.It is freeware for Windows and Linux.
You can add voice narration while recording your screen from your desktop so records both audio and video simultaneously.It is Multilingual software & lets user to export the file as PDF, HTML, SWF and EXE formats.
5.Windows Media Encoder
Windows Media Encoder allows user to create a Windows Media Video file containing computer screens, keystrokes, and mouse movements.User can create High Defination(HD) video representation with high quality of video and voice output.
6.Scenegrabber .NET
It is lightweight program having only about two and half MB file size that can generate multiple screenshots or signle screenshots of your desktop.It is specially used to record the screenshots of any movie or video which is not captured by ordinary image tool.
Firefox Extensions To Capture Screens
7.Capture Fox
Capture Fox is Mozilla Firefox add ons that allows you to record your computer from your Firefox screen.So you can easily turn your Firefox in to Screencasting tool.main drawback is that, it is no longer supports for Mozilla Firefox version 8.0 or above.
8.Screengrab
Screengrab is another Firefox extension to capture your computer screen from browser.but you can take only screenshots with the add ones so not useful for recording screen in to video formats.
9.Abduction:
It is another free tool which is similar to Screengrab extension for Firefox.
See also : Create animation presentation in 3D | Chrome extension to take screenshots
Commercial Screen Recording Tools:
Records screen activity from the Windows desktop into standard AVI movie files. It is an ideal tool for creating software demonstrations and active presentations.If you want to show any demonstration with video Representation, it will be very useful and easy to operate.I like personally this software because I am generating video from my Desktop from this software.
The software has ability to add high-quality, anti-aliased (no jagged edges) screen captions to your recorded video with the unique Video Annotation feature.You can create webcam movie by generating "picture-in-picture" preview by this software.Camtasia Studio can produce 720p HD screencasts easily and you can share your created video directly on YouTube by the option available after you finish your video.You can also Export your PowerPoint presentation or record PowerPoint presentation as movie from this awesome software.It can be used on Window operating system.
Price: $299.00 USD for Window,$99.00 USD for Mac
11.Copernicus
It is the best & free tool for making your video recording for desktop screen quickly on your mac.It is freeware consisting only about 4.9 MB.It has special feature that will let you to save directly to RAM, increasing movie framerates significantly for shorter movies.But the main backward is that it can record only screen video and photo screenshots, It doesn't have ability to record the audio.So it helps you to making only demonstration movie and quick presentation.
12.ScreenRecord
ScreenRecord is a screen recording tool that lets you to capture the screen as a Quicktime movie. It is useful for creating training CDs, Video demonstration tutorials, and much more.It can also supports Mac OS X Lion.It costs only $14.95.
13.ScreenMimic
ScreenMimic is no longer available.
14.iShowU
iShowU is specially designed to record both audio and video recording of screen.Designed to record anything that happening on your screen, instantly.You can make HD video presentation with iShowU HD & Supports iPod/iPad and also 1:1 high quality H264 in both NTSC and PAL formats.
15.HyperCam
Adobe Captivate is best screencasting tool for professional people.It costs $800 a license which is also costlier than CamStudio.You can easily Import Microsoft PowerPoint files into Adobe Captivate make presentations into interactive eLearning content.It can be used for screencasting, podcasting, and the conversion of Microsoft PowerPoint presentations to the Adobe Flash format.
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Screenflow is specially made for Mac,You can record entire or part of your desktop in HD, record from video camera, and record audio from your computer and your microphone simultaneously.You can export your created video in multiple formats and upload it directly on YouTube.Trial version of Screenflow is available to download for free and you can upgrade it to pro version by paying $29/buy $99.The easy editing interface allows user creatively to edit their recorded video, and user can add additional images, text, music and transitions for a truly professional-looking video.
18.TeamViewer:
TeamViewer is the All-In-One Solution for Remote Access and Support over the Internet.
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