Desktop Capture with CamStudio

Written by Mr. NgeDownloads on March 25th, 2009

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

Here are just a few ways you can use this software:

You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
You can create video tutorials for school or college class
You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people
You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them

You can download and use it completely free – yep – completely 100% free for your personal and commercial projects as CamStudio and the Codec are released under the GPL (for more details on this license, click here.)

There are no royalties or any monies to pay – although if you do use it for a commercial product, I wouldn’t say no to a copy of whatever you produce

To manually install the codec, download the zipfile version, extract the contents to a folder, right click the camcodec.inf file and select Install.

If you don’t have a lot of experience or just plain can’t be bothered with all that mucking around [grin], download the EXE version and double click it to begin the install process.

Download Links

CamStudio: CamStudio20.exe
Lossless Codec: New CamStudioCodec1.4.zip | CamStudioCodec14.exe
Support Forum: http://camstudio.org/forum