the Best Screen Capture Program (record ANY video from your screen)

With the WM Capture, you can easily record webcam video from Windows Live, MSN Messenger, Skype, Jabber, Omegle, ICQ, AIM and Yahoo Messenger and save the output in WMV, MPEG, MP4 and even DVD-Video formats and play recorded videos anytime you like. Audio can be recorded from any source including: microphone, line-in or speakers so that you can choose to record the sound from either side or both sides.

[placebo]

i certainly wont test several screen capturing programs. i needed to produce a high-quality video (capturing me myself) today and i installed an eval version of camtasia studio 7.x. i recorded ~50mins, the software created huge amounts of data in the temporary folders (several GB's i suppose) and deleted them again, the final *.camrec file was (only) ~1GB in size.

on an AMD Athlon II X2 250 (2 years old CPU, and still being sold!) the rendering from *.camrec to *.avi (or *.mp4) takes hours and it consumes 840MB's of my RAM.


...but the result is a truely high-quality (with zooms, annotations, mouse effects, etc.), small file size video file: 200MB The editing of the *.camrec file is so easy and fun.. It didnt crash. Saved in reduced dimensions (from fullHD to 1 280x720) with no visible (JPEG-type of) artifacts. 200MB for ~1hour HQ-video. Mazing!! i am impressed.

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General
Complete name                    : C:\camtasiatemp\testvideo.mp4
Format                           : MPEG-4
Format profile                   : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID                         : mp42
File size                        : 209 MiB
Duration                         : 56mn 56s
Overall bit rate                 : 514 Kbps

Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : AVC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                   : High@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC           : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames        : 4 frames
Codec ID                         : avc1
Codec ID/Info                    : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                         : 56mn 56s
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 510 Kbps
Width                            : 1 280 pixels
Height                           : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Frame rate mode                  : Constant
Frame rate                       : 15.000 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.037
Stream size                      : 208 MiB (99%)
Language                         : English

Audio
ID                               : 2
Format                           : AAC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile                   : LC
Codec ID                         : 40
Duration                         : 56mn 53s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
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I would imagine that only Adobe releases an even better solution. Bigger, more expensive and better. Which recording software does Kelby Training use, anyone knows? They record with video cameras, i guess.

To me, the best screen capture program *is* Camtasia Studio. A very modern and stable and easy-to-use mature application.

And small. (~115MB on hdd)

[tater6100]

WM Capture is better than any other screen recorder out there in my opinion. It automatically records in 1080 hd with full screen. It has the best quality ever.

[DylanJone]

I think ScreenFlow for Mac is a better screen capture software,with it you can capture region grab on your Mac OS.
You can try it

[brownsmith]

Hey,

I want to suggest following program for the picture capturing

FastStone Capture
Jing
Skitch
Snagit

This is all the very well known software for the picture capturing.

Thanks & Regards,
smith Brown
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[arinsamuel8]

I have used My Screen Recorder Pro for video screen capture for the past 6 months. I like the recordng quality and the ability to schedule a recording. It can record the PC screen to AVI, WMV, Flash, EXE or MP4 formats.