
It’s a survey of just a few screen recording tools available out there, most of which correlate to vendors who focus on the EDU market in some way. The list below is inevitably going to be incomplete.
Other tools aren’t necessarily intended to act as screen recorders but can nonetheless record your screen (Zoom and WebEx, for instance). And Quicktime has built-in recording functionality for both MacOS and Windows. PowerPoint can natively record your presentations. And Screencastify exists as a simple to operate Google Chrome plugin. I personally use Recordit for quick and easy screen captures. The purpose for which you use the software should not dictate into which category it falls (after all, you can create spreadsheets in Microsoft Word, but is Microsoft Word a spreadsheet software?) There’s countless screen recording tools out there. Wat.It’s hard to draw the line as to when a screen recording product becomes lecture capture software.ShowMeDo – screencast focused for open-source tutorial, not commercial-use friendly.Vimeo – non-commercial only, high quality.
YouTube – regular and HD available, 10 mins only. There are also screenshots of Linux video editors. Subtitle Editor – subtitle editor that shows the waveform for easy alignment. MediaInfo – tells you about codecs (like GSpot on Windows). mencoder – part of MPlayer, great for transcoding. WinFF – ffmpeg visual wrapper for transcoding. Sony Vegas – another very good video editor. Adobe Premiere – excellent video editor. MediaInfo – tells you about codecs (like GSpot). GSpot – codec explainer to diagnose weird video codecs. MouseZoom – tells you your mouse’s exact location, great for multi-scene alignment. Sizer – presets to fix your window’s size and position. Tools that help you record and edit screencasts: ffmpeg (free but command line only so only for the brave). FRAPS (commercial, low cost, can record games & video players). HyperCam (commercial, low cost, will contain an editor). BBFlashBack (commercial, contains an editor). Jing (free and premium, has hosting via ). Camtasia (commercial, contains an editor, integrates with for hosting). Screencast-o-matic (free, has hosting, Java based). Screenr (free, has hosting, Java based, Twitter focused). Web-based tools (so nothing to install!): Most of these tools are discussed in The Screencasting Handbook. If I’ve missed something, get in contact. This is a quick guide to the available screencasting packages.