CamStudio
 

CamStudio is a tool for recording screen
activity into standard AVI video files.   

You can use CamStudio to  

• demonstrate features of a new software

• create movies used in user trainings

• track the progress of a program that executes for a long time

• record the sequence of steps that cause the occurrence of bugs in faulty software 

• record a movie stream 

• convert AVI files to Flash (SWF)  files

^Latest!   Version 2.0 is now available

What's new in version 2.0

• Flash (.swf) Output -- you can now produce small, stream-able Flash (SWF) movie files with lossless compression (in perfect quality).
  To produce Flash files, you can either

1) Record Directly to Flash with CamStudio Recorder 
or
2) Convert almost any AVI file playable on your system into SWF files.
 

• With the Autonaming feature -- you can now avoid giving a name to every AVI you record.  The name of the file is automatically formed using the system's date and time of recording.

• Screen Annotation -- allows you to display screen captions on your desktop while recording. These captions are anti-aliased, high quality images that can display text in multiple languages. You can also make a caption transparent and create a cutout region for it. 

Other annotation features include the editing of caption text and images, arrangement of the captions into a layout, and tools for managing the captions.     

• Video Annotation  -- allows you to stream the contents of your web cam onto your desktop. With this feature, you can add a personal touch to your recordings by including a movie of yourself into the AVI. The video annotations window, like the screen annotations, can be made transparent (Win XP) and assigned a cutout region.

• You can now pan the fixed region of recording by dragging any of the four corners around it.

• With the new Audio and Video Synchronization feature, you can now shift the video stream slightly to make the audio and video streams to be in phase.