dmorris68
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Being new here, and a professional computer geek and all, I thought I'd point out that Camtasia Studio is a commercial product. The above link takes you to the 30-day free trial, after which it costs like $300.
Assuming most of you wouldn't want to drop $300, nor resort to piracy, a totally free alternative for Windows is CamStudio, which will do pretty much the same thing, just with fewer features that most people don't need for making simple screencasts. It outputs to AVI or SWF (Flash), if you prefer a different format (like WMP or MPG) then there are numerous free transcoding utilities to do that job too.
The CamStudio 2.0 release can be found on the main website here.
However I'd recommend the 2.5 beta release which can be found here (you want the ".bin.zip" version, not the ".src.zip" version unless you intend to compile the source code yourself). You may also need the mfc71 DLL files if you don't already have them on your system.
The CamStudio blog has more info on the product, and they also have a forum available for support.
If you're a fellow geek like myself that also uses linux, there is the venerable xvidcap to create MPEG screencams that can then be transcoded to many other formats.
Assuming most of you wouldn't want to drop $300, nor resort to piracy, a totally free alternative for Windows is CamStudio, which will do pretty much the same thing, just with fewer features that most people don't need for making simple screencasts. It outputs to AVI or SWF (Flash), if you prefer a different format (like WMP or MPG) then there are numerous free transcoding utilities to do that job too.
The CamStudio 2.0 release can be found on the main website here.
However I'd recommend the 2.5 beta release which can be found here (you want the ".bin.zip" version, not the ".src.zip" version unless you intend to compile the source code yourself). You may also need the mfc71 DLL files if you don't already have them on your system.
The CamStudio blog has more info on the product, and they also have a forum available for support.
If you're a fellow geek like myself that also uses linux, there is the venerable xvidcap to create MPEG screencams that can then be transcoded to many other formats.
