Comparison of screen recording software

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This is a comparison of Screen Recording software applications which may be used to create video (no audio) or movie (video+audio) clips of actions performed and recorded on a computer screen. Many of these Screen Recording tools are not complete solutions, but small apps and utils that fulfill a specific need or piece of the puzzle required for producing a complete "Movie" in one of the many Video Formats suitable for playback on a particular system or Media Players. These movies are called many things (Video Presentations, Demos, Screen Recordings, ScreenCasts, Screenies, VodCasts, WebCasts, CBTs... incomplete list). One of the problems formating this "Comparison of screen recording software" is briefly describing what these tools do, how they can be used to produce a "movie" and what their dependencies are. For example, many of these tools like Wink do not record or mix audio which may be desired in the final movie product. But, using a tool like Audacity an audio stream can be recorded, edited and combined with the Wink screen recording (which is why Audacity was included originally). Similarly, FFmpeg provides codecs and libraries that other screen recording tools and players depend on. Mixing Video+Audio and producing a final screen recording "movie" with nice transitions, effects and compressing it to play on the most popular computer media players is difficult. Perhaps that is why there are so many commercial and freeware solutions.

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• List of screen recording software