Program Tutorials - What screen capture program do you recommend?

[Rowduk]

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for some recommendations for a screen capturing program.

The only requirements are:

• It captures the screen in a high quality.
• Can be imported into Premiere.

Some "nice-to-haves" options would be:

• Low cost
• Able to high the mouse courser within the screen capture program (saving my time in editing).
• Able to choose the area to record.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Sean

[Meg The Dog]

If Mac based, take a look at Screenflow:

Screen Recording, Screencasting and Video Editing Software &#x7c Telestream ScreenFlow &#x7c Overvie...

MtD

[Rowduk]

Rats, I'm on PC!

Thank you for the suggestion!

[Horshack]

Microsoft Expression Encoder 4. It includes an excellent screen capture utility and is free. The output of the screen capture utility is a very small proprietary file, which can then be encoded into a variable-frame rate Windows media file. You can then convert that variable-frame rate file into a constant-frame rate file (that Premiere supports) via Handbrake - I posted a Handbrake preset for this conversion here: Re: Converting VFR to CFR with HandBrake

Also, I recommend ZoomIt from Microsoft - it's a free utility that adds some features helpful for presentations and screen casting, including zooming and drawing. You can download it here: ZoomIt

[Rowduk]

Thank you for this. Very helpful.

Cheers
Sean

[Meg The Dog · Accepted solution]

I believe a popular Screen Capture program on the PC side is Camtasia:

Camtasia | Screen Recording & Video Editing

MtD

[Rowduk]

Thank you for this.

Very helpful, I've gone with the 30 day free trial to test out Camtasia.

Cheers
Sean

[Roei Tzoref]

I have been looking for a screencast software for windows for a while and eventuall decided to got with Icecream screen recorder it's lightweight, no unnecessary features. Camtasia was way too much for me but many professionals use it on Windows.

icecream is not perfect, there is still no ability to set a custom frame rate and the software will record at 20-25 frame rate. at full resolution it will won't even be full number. and it will produce a variable frame rate file that you would want to change to constant using Handbrake if you do intend to use the audio and have it synced properly in premiere or after effects. but for recording tutorials and creating GIF's for interface explanations like I do here in the forums it's quite nice.

[yairb999]

Take a look at OBS Studio. It's free:

https://obsproject.com/

[weslod]

Another good program is Debut by NCH.

You can set your frame rate, screen size, format. Very good program.

Just go to www.nchsoftware.com and look for "Debut".

Mike