List of screen recording software
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This is a list of software suitable for producing screencasts by recording from the screen.
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[edit] Free Software / open source
- - Many of these are cross-platform
- CamStudio - GPL (Windows only)
- FFmpeg - Records, converts and streams digital audio and video - (Linux or Windows)
- ImageMagick - Convert, Edit, and Compose Images Cross-Platform (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows...)
- Istanbul - for Linux, with sound recording
- recordMyDesktop - GPL, for Linux
- vncrec - VNC session recorder and player (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows...)
- vnc2swf - outputs in SWF format (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows...)
- pyvnc2swf Pyvnc2swf - Python cross-platform screen recorder
- VirtualDub - Windows
- VLC media player - Free cross-platform
- Xvidcap - for X11 (Linux, Unix, Mac OS X)
[edit] Freeware
- Wink - closed source (Linux / Windows)
[edit] Commercial and shareware
- - Windows only, unless specified
- Bozteck VNCScan ($49) Captures remote screens to thumbnail view
- Hyperionics HyperCam 2 ($40)
- turbodemo.com
- Instant-Demo.com
- Camtasia ($299.00) - Techsmith
- Flash Professional 8 ($700) - Macromedia/Adobe - Flash
- Studio 8 ($1000) - Macromedia/Adobe - Adobe-Macromedia Studio
- Captivate ($600) - Macromedia/Adobe Screen Recording Software - Captivate
- Articulate Presenter ($500-1k) E-Learning Authoring Tools - Articulate Presenter Convert PowerPoint to Flash
- Camtasia Studio Screen Recorder for Demos, Presentations and Training ($300) - Techsmith Camista Studio
- Growler Guncam ($20) Capture video of the desktop or games, and convert to animated GIF or AVI - Growler Guncam
- Qarbon ViewletBuilder ($300 (Linux / MS Windows) - ViewletCam - Convert Powerpoint to Flash Presentations ($150)
- ScreenWatch Producer 5.6 ($700)
- TurboDemo ($300-950) - Demo Creator FLASH, JAVA, GIF, EXE, PDF and AVI (Capture under Linux & MAC OS X -> Edit on Windows)
- Demo Builder ($200+) - Create software presentations,tutorials and demos
- BB FlashBack Screen Recorder ($200+) - Blueberry Software
- SPX Instant Screen Capture ($30-300) - Screen Capture by Moodysoft
- Bulent's Screen Recorder ($30-80) - Screen Capture Software - includes screen video (+audio) capturing and video/audio editing for adding annotations, images, video, callouts, transitions, effects etc. into videos.
- Hero Screen Recorder 2.0 ($30) - Screen Capture Software
- My Screen Recorder ($30) / Pro ($100) (screen recording software)
- Replay Screencast ($30) - Screen Recording Software
- UVScreen Camera ($20.00)
- ScreenRecord ($20) (Mac OS / MS Windows)
- DemoRecorder ($47-247) - Screen Recorder for Linux with sound recording and export to AVI, MPEG, VOB, FLV
- FRAPS - Fraps 3D DirectX or OpenGL Benchmark, Demo and Video Recording software for Windows
- Fraps FAQ ($37, free version capped at 30fps, produces header + watermark)
[edit] From Microsoft
[edit] Mac OS X
- Snapz Pro X ($70) - Review from Macworld
- Screenography ($50)
- ScreenAction Studio ($30)
- Display Eater ($19)
- Screen Movie Recorder (€15)
- iShowU ($20)
- Wirecast ($450)
[edit] Flash, FLV resources
- Screenweaver - Open source Flash - Screenweaver.org
- Open source Flash - Tutorials
- Flash Video FAQ + Comparison
- FLV Player - Flash video online
- Gnash GNU Flash movie player
- Free Flash screen recorders - Swftools.com
[edit] Technical tools
- - FLV, SWF, ActionScript and command line scripting and development tools
- SEPY ActionScript Editor - sephiroth.it
- ASDT - ActionScript development tool - Open source Flash - ASDT.org
- Open source Flash - swfobject
- SWFMill - swfmill, as2ant, as2lib, swf2xml and xml2swf
- Flash - SWiK
