Top Free Screen Recorders to Record Your Screen Activities
These days recording screen activities have become quite a popular way of blogging and doing presentations. The screen recorders act just like the print screen function but the difference is that it continuously records all your on screen activities just like a camcorder or digital camera.
These softwares can also be useful when you want to create screen casts for software usage instructions or a video to report a bug that occurred in a software.
There are many screen recording softwares available for you to record the screen activities, here are few of the best screen recorders that will allow you to create videos and presentation from your activities and which are free to use.
CamStudio Open Source
CamStudio is a open source software that allows you to record your screen activities and create AVI videos out of it, it also includes a built-in SWF producer that allows you to create bandwidth friendly flash videos.
In addition to that CamStudio allows you to add high-quality sound to the video and also create picture-in-picture videos by using your webcam videos.
This is one great software that you should definitely have to record your screen activities and create videos out of it.
Learn More | Download CamStudio Open Source | Download CamStudio Codec Pack
Free Screen Recorder
Free Screen Recorder is another screen recording software that can be used to capture screen activities into a AVI video file. Free screen recorder records every moment including mouse cursor movements, typing etc.
You can also record voice from the microphone which makes it easier to add your own commentary while the video is being recorded.
Freez Screen Recorder
Freez Screen Recorder allows you to record videos and also pause them. Like all the other softwares you can record any region of the screen or activities in a particular window in addition to recording all the activities of the full screen.
It also supports voice recording from the microphone, videotape or Internet.
AutoScreenRecorder
AutoScreenRecorder allows you to create AVI files by recording screen activities. You can record the mouse pointer, a rectangle area or choose to record activities taking place in a application window. You can also choose to record the full screen for activities.
You can also choose to buy a full fledged version of AutoScreenRecorder which adds in more features to the software like generating flash video files and recording voice and sound in the video.
Summarizing
If you are looking for softwares to create demo videos and presentations or even plan to start video blogging, these tools are quite handy. Not only are they completely free to use but also add more utility to your computer life.
If you think there are better options please do share it with other readers using the comments form. I am definitely looking to try out more alternatives.
K-IntheHouse
January 15th, 2008 at 9:08 am #
I have never heard of CamStudio until now and it looks like a great software. I should try it sometime and review it. i am sure a lot of folks would like this open source alternative.
Great list Keith. Stumbled!
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
January 15th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Yups its quite a nice software, I have used it to record screen activities to assist freinds.
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Will Smith
September 4th, 2008 at 12:58 am #
As a technical support guy, I always recommended my customers to record what happened on their screen to show the problem they encountered. CamStudio is a good choice. some customer told me they are using
FlashDemo Studio, the flash demo send from them are in extremely small size with high record quality. So I also would like to recommend this application. Hope it helps.
FlashDemo
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Will Smith
September 4th, 2008 at 1:08 am #
As a technical support guy, I always recommended my customers to record what happened on their screen to show the problem they encountered. CamStudio is a good choice, some customer told me they are using FlashDemo Studio, the flash demo send from them are in extremely small size with high record quality. So I also would like to recommend this application. Hope it helps.
FlashDemo
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Hugo Firth
December 27th, 2008 at 9:04 am #
These are some great applications, especially for creating say a tutorial pack for your website or application.
Thanks for the links
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Steven Fan
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:12 pm #
We’ve found CamStudio to be a little difficult to set up.
A lot of people we know have started using http://www.screentoaster.com
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özgün
February 25th, 2009 at 7:52 am #
beautiful and useful program. Thank you …
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Rita Sam
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:43 am #
I tied CamStudio before and now I use FlashDemo Studio
This tool is neat and smart, ideal for recording PC screen activities in real time to create demonstrations for my business. Hope it helps :p
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Mohit
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:57 am #
You missed WINK
http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
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Recruitment SEO
June 15th, 2009 at 12:25 pm #
Thanks – some much better than others but Freez Screen Recorder seems the simplest solution for newbies. A great list.
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Mājas lapu izstrāde
September 15th, 2009 at 11:12 am #
Very interesting post. I have to say, that your blog is very useful, a lot of good and concentrated information, keep it going!
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James Smith
September 20th, 2009 at 8:31 pm #
I’ve used most of these and some are pretty good, but the best, by far is GunCam. It isn’t free, but at $19.95 is a terrific value. It records audio and video, has a dynamite screen shot feature and includes a rudimentary video editor. Tech support is first-rate, too.
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froggertv
September 24th, 2009 at 7:50 am #
Yeah wink is worth considering.
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