What's the best screen recorder?

Whats the best screen recorder?

• Like a screen recorder with download but no virus or have to pay for it

• Answer:

  One of the best is Camtasia - http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/ - The reason being it can handle all sorts of screen recording - especially from commercial video which some other programs have problems with. This is not a free program ($300). But there are some very good free ones... BB FlashBack Express - http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashBack_FreePlayer.aspx - good screen video capture program. Captures to AVI and SWF formats. The problem with this one is it puts a halo around the screen cursor which cannot be removed. Expression Encoder - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=5c3c5f97-678c-4c99-a7fc-f84f320c626f - An advanced audio/video-encoding and live-broadcasting application. A huge program but the video capture is great. Captures to WMV format. The free version is good enough for most things but only captures 10 minute segments. The full version is $600 but it is a very good program. Screen to Video - http://www.koyotesoft.com/indexEn.html - great screen video capture program. Can capture screens to AVI, SWF, FLA and WMV formats. My favorite free recorder. Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ - A tutorial and presentation creation software. The screen capture is great. Captures to SWF format. The most common free one is CamStudio - http://camstudio.org/ - but I stopped using it some time ago after I found it could not capture subtle gradients and changes some screen colors. Fraps and Bandicam are very popular. I think they are little heavy on resources but they are both less than $40.