What's the best video screen and sound capture software?

Asked by ETpro (34605

) August 5th, 2013

I’m about to train one of my clients, an artist who paints children’s art, in how to use the Content Management System (CMS), Order Processing, and so forth on her new Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Store. This includes a bunch of features I added that are not covered in Yahoo! help files.

I will have here store’s CMS open on my screen, and she’ll have it on hers. I’ll step here through everything she needs to know to manage and add/delete products, put things on sale, take them off sale, etc. Our audio connection will be via Skype, so she will have that as well as screen to capture, but needs software that can capture from the browser and Skype simultaneously.

She wants a video record for her own sake, and is also going to be bringing in a couple of people to help with store management while she creates new paintings, manages scanning of them, and giclee printing of them.

She’s on a Mac, but I’d welcome recommendations for Windows 7/8, or Linux, as I have clients using each.

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My kids use Fraps for capturing what ever is on their screen.

tranquilsea (17775

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@tranquilsea Thanks, but it appears Fraps only works for DirectX and OpenGL applications, so it’s pretty much targeted at screen capture for games.

ETpro (34605

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From what I’ve read people have used it for purely screen capturing as well. I could be wrong as it’s not a software I’ve used.

My youngest son just told me that it records any programme he opens. YMMV :)

tranquilsea (17775

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QuickTime works great and it’s free. I also use Camtasia, which isn’t.

Pachy (18610

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I like Applian Director for “Replay Media Capture” (for all audio and some video), “Replay Video Capture” (which works on all of the videos that I’ve ever tried to capture), and “Replay Converter”, when I’ve captured video but just want the audio.

I think it cost me around $35 several years ago, and it seems to be updated every month or so, which is also a simple and painless process. A good buy for me then, and a strong recommendation now.

They offer a complete-feature trial (unlimited, I think), which is only crippled by the inability to record over a certain length of time, a couple of minutes, IIRC. So you can try it out to see if you like it, then pay for the full program when you’re convinced.

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