CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
CamStudio can be used to create demonstration videos for any software program.
It can add high-quality, anti-aliased screen captions to your recordings in seconds and with the unique Video Annotation feature it can personalise your videos by including a webcam movie of yourself “picture-in-picture” over your desktop.
It comes with its own Lossless Codec that produces crystal clear results with a much smaller filesize compared with other more popular codecs, like Microsoft Video 1.


Nice application! Simple and effective!
Easy to use and install ok interface but
Uses too many resources
Video’s are laggy (for what i do anyway)
so its a NoNo from me
Gamecam or fraps is really good and free (if cracked :))
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