Screen capturing software for Windows

• Replay Video Capture ^{Editor's choice!} (Shareware - $29.95/Windows) - the easiest way to capture whatever you see on your screen, and turn it into a movie file, or "screencast." It's a great way to make Software Demos and Tutorials, make Powerpoint Videos, record Flash, QuickTime, and DRM protected videos, and a lot more. It can record from a screen region, or any application window. Replay Video Capture makes standard Windows Media WMV files.
• ZD Soft Screen Recorder (Freeware/Windows) - free video screen capturing software, however, it is as powerful as most of the commercial screen recording software on the market, especially outstanding on the recording speed and the output file quality. As for video Screen Recorder can capture the full screen, a window, a rectangular region. Mouse movements can be recorded smoothly. You can even record audio.
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• TechSmith SnagIt and Camtasia (Shareware/Windows)
  SnagIt (Shareware - $39.95/Windows) - the leader in screen capture, offers users over 40 ways to capture content from your Windows screen, such as video, images, text, and more. As for video SnagIt can capture the full screen, a window, a rectangular region. Cursor image can be included. You can even record audio. Upgrades are free. Awarded Best of the Year 2003 by PC Magazine. Free trial for 30 days.
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• River Past Screen Recorder (Shareware- $39.95/Windows) - Captures AVI video from the full screen, a window, a rectangle region, or a defined area around the cursor. Cursor image can be included. You can even record audio into the AVI, from the microphone, line-in, or speaker.
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• FrontCam (Shareware/Windows) - is a screen camcorder tool. It can capture the action from your screen into standard AVI movie files. Sound from your system microphone is also recorded. You can use it to capture screen into static pictures too.
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• ACA Screen Recorder ($39.95/Windows) - is a video capture software that records AVI movies directly from your Windows screen.
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• ScreenCorder (Shareware- $39.95/Windows) captures and records all your desktop activity. You may enhance recordings with step-by-step audio instructions and graphic speech bubbles. You also can correct audio and video or add new material to existing recordings. Export recordings to multiple formats, including AVI, Animated GIF, WMV streaming video and Flash.

• MediaCam (Shareware/Windows) - captures video from the whole desktop, a selected area of the screen, or a window. Exports directly to PowerPoint, AVI and PackAndView. Captures audio and overdub if required. Shares captures across the network, distribute them via e-mail, and publish them on the Internet or Intranet. Free 30 day trial.

• HyperSnap and HyperCam (Shareware/Windows)
  HyperSnap is a screen capture and image editing tool for Windows. Captures screens from standard desktop programs and hard-to-grab DirectX/Direct3D, Voodoo and Glide mode games. The program can auto-scroll and concurrently capture long web pages and other documents, enabling it to grab more than is visible on the screen. Can also resize and capture entire windows much bigger than the screen on Windows XP. The program integrates with the Windows clipboard, and has new painting and editing features, too.
  HyperCam is video capture software that records AVI movies (screencam) directly from your monitor. It supports text annotations, sound, and screen notes. You can select Frame rate and compression quality prior to video capture.

• Hero Screen Capture - is a screen capture and video capture software that can record full or any area of computer screen to AVI or GIF format. It supports sound recorder, text annotation. You can combine files and edit frames with it.

• Easy Video Capture (Shareware - $29.95/Windows) - a video capturing tool for recording your screen activities into AVI video in real time. It supports recording video, audio, and mouse cursor. You may change the options for recording, add text to video, record video with audio, choose to record mouse cursor or not, blink the area border when recording, and so on.

• Capture-It! (Shareware - $19.95/Windows) - is a screen capture program. Can capture screen shots of the active window, the entire screen, user defined area, menus, objects, and more. Saves video as AVI video or GIF animation. FREE 14-Day Trial.

• CapturePad (Beta version/Windows) - s a video capture utility which allows you to capture any screen activity into standard AVI file, JPG sequence and even into Flash SWF file. Besides that CapturePad works with any video hardware attached to the computer so you can easily grab and save a video from your webcam, tv tuner, etc.

• Capture Professional (Shareware/Windows) - captures the entire screen, controls, menus, elliptical areas, windows, DirectX surfaces, polygonal areas, client areas, rectangular areas and more. Captures images from games and media player applications. DirectX overlay surfaces can be automatically captured by themselves or they can be included in screen captures made using other screen capture modes. Capture Professional has the ability to capture images or video and audio.

• Cybercam (Shareware/Windows) -

• Macromedia RoboDemo (Shareware/Windows) - records your actions in any application and instantly creates a Flash simulation with visible and audible mouse movements. Can automatically generate text captions. Free 15-day trial.

• ACS Capture (Shareware - $25/Windows) - makes screenshots and captures screen images, icons and records your actions as AVI. Free 30-day trial.

• Mr. Captor - captures regions, windows, DirectX games, DOCs using auto-scroll feature. Can record screen action and save it as AVI file. Saves captured images in a variety of graphical formats.

• Cam2Flash (Shareware/Windows) - Record your screen and save in as a Flash file (SWF). In Enterprise version, you can also create an exe file.

• WinCam 2000 (Shareware/Windows) captures everything on your computer screen in full motion, and records it as a movie file. Adding narration, background music and sound effects are very simple using the Recording Wizard. Recorded movie files can be converted to EXE, AVI, and ASF as well as WinCAM 2000's own WCM and WCO file formats. Have built-in movie editor. Free 15-day trial.

• CamStudio

• ScreenWatch

Screen capturing software for Linux

• WinCam 2000 (Shareware/Linux) Screen capture software. Doesn't support sound recording. Free 15-day trial.

Screen capturing software for Macintosh

• BTV and BTV Pro (Mac OS) - allows you to view video from any video input source, either in a window or full screen on an entire monitor. Video can be captured to disk as a standard QuickTime movie file and single frames can be saved as image files.

• Snapz Pro (Shareware - $69/Mac OS X) is a quantum leap in video capture technology, adroitly capturing full motion video of anything on your screen at a blistering pace, complete with digital audio, and an optional microphone voiceover. It allows you to effortlessly record anything on your screen, saving it as a QuickTimeŽ movie or screenshot