Elysian Shadows

What does everyone use/recommend to do screen captures for making youtube videos?

CamStudio is pretty good

Also Fraps on Windows and recordMyDesktop on Linux.

Fraps plugs "into" OpenGL/DirectX windows and captures their rendering. It's by far the best for games, but it only works on games.

+1 for CamStudio, free and very easy to use

hurstshifter wrote:+1 for CamStudio, free and very easy to use

Yea cam studio's good, it just lags a bit when you run a game at the same time.

Camtasia Studio is much better than CamStudio (however it isn't free).

LeonBlade wrote:Camtasia Studio is much better than CamStudio (however it isn't free).

Agreed. I prefer CamStudio just to be legal.

Well, I would have been one to say "Camstudio kicks ass," but I have since found out that AUDIO RECORDING FROM SPEAKERS DOES NOT WORK WITH WINDOWS VISTA/7.

I've used Camstudio flawlessly with XP, and it still works perfectly for everything except for the goddamn audio recording on Vista/7.

But yeah, every video (including ESRev2) since AiGD Ch 8 or 9 has been Camstudio (before that was Hypercam, which is a piece of shit).

I got it to work on 7, I just had to enable the Stereo Mix input device and set that as the recording device in Camstudio. However this meant I couldn't record voice at the same time, but meh.

GyroVorbis wrote:Well, I would have been one to say "Camstudio kicks ass," but I have since found out that AUDIO RECORDING FROM SPEAKERS DOES NOT WORK WITH WINDOWS VISTA/7.

Are you talking about how you can't select "Stereo Mix", or "What U Hear"? ..because there are ways...

EDIT: As RyanPridgeon said, plus if you unmute your microphone input (so it's coming through the speakers), that will record with it.

I use TechSmith's Camtasia, it's a great piece of software imo, but it's not free =/.

if you are on osx, screenflow is the app for you, its not free, buts its better than any screen casting tool i have used, free or not.