What is it?
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
“Nick, here is what I think I\'ll do; rather than fork out the $300.00 bucks for [CENSORED], I\'ll just keep using CamStudio.
“I am a self-employed consultant that works in the public safety community (cops, fire, ems, dispatch etc). What I have planned is to use CamStudio to capture on screen video for training vids.
“Thanks for a great product and your help!”
Joe Borgione
www.AlpineGeographic.com
Don\'t like the sound of your voice? No problem.
CamStudio can also add high-quality, anti-aliased (no jagged edges) screen captions to your recordings in seconds and with the unique Video Annotation feature you can even personalise your videos by including a webcam movie of yourself "picture-in-picture" over your desktop.
And if all that wasn\'t enough, CamStudio also comes with its own Lossless Codec that produces crystal clear results with a much smaller filesize compared with other more popular codecs, like Microsoft Video 1.
You have total control over the output of your video: you can choose to use custom cursors, to record the whole screen or just a section of it and can reduce or increase the quality of the recording depending on if you want smaller videos (for emailing to people, for instance) or you can have "best quality" ones for burning onto CD/DVD.
But all of these features would be worthless if CamStudio wasn\'t easy to use ... fortunately that\'s not the case. CamStudio can be learned in a matter of minutes and comes with a comprehensive built-in helpfile, so if you do manage to get stuck, you can simply hit "Help" and get the answers you need.
So where can I get it and how much does it cost?
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
Designed For XP - Windows Vista Capable
Download Links
Latest Version: CamStudio 2.6 (Build r294)
Download CamStudio - Desktop Screen Recorder
Lossless Video Codec v1.4 (optional):
Download CamStudio Lossless Codec V1.4
Support Forum:
http://camstudio.org/forum
FAQ:
http://camstudio.org/faq.htm
To download CamStudio, click the top big green button and you\'ll be taken to a page where you can get the latest version.
The same procedure to download the CamStudio Lossless Video Codec.
To manually install the codec, download the zipfile by clicking the small green button above, extract the contents of the zipfile to a folder using your preferred unzip software (7-Zip, WinZip, WinRAR, etc.), then right click the camcodec.inf file and select Install from the context menu that appears.
CamStudio\'s History
Over the last few months, quite a people have asked me about CamStudio\'s history and the confusion with the V2.1 that\'s around, so I thought I\'d explain what the situation is, as I understand it ...
CamStudio was originally released by a company called RenderSoft who were subsequently bought by a company called eHelp who used some of the technology in their program, RoboDemo ...
Some time later, eHelp was bought by Macromedia who wanted RoboDemo (which was to become Captivate) ...
Knowing that CamStudio did some of the stuff RoboDemo did for free (mainly export to streaming Flash), they released a newer version which fixed some bugs but most importantly, removed certain features. Gone was the ability to create SWFs, added was the requirement to register to use it, and over time, links to the various webpages that had CamStudio and its source code, became broken.
However, I managed to find an earlier version complete with the related CamStudio video codec (comparable to Techsmith\'s excellent TSCC), the source code for both and just put the website up so people could download them ...
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
“Nick, here is what I think I\'ll do; rather than fork out the $300.00 bucks for [CENSORED], I\'ll just keep using CamStudio.
“I am a self-employed consultant that works in the public safety community (cops, fire, ems, dispatch etc). What I have planned is to use CamStudio to capture on screen video for training vids.
“Thanks for a great product and your help!”
Joe Borgione
www.AlpineGeographic.com
Don\'t like the sound of your voice? No problem.
CamStudio can also add high-quality, anti-aliased (no jagged edges) screen captions to your recordings in seconds and with the unique Video Annotation feature you can even personalise your videos by including a webcam movie of yourself "picture-in-picture" over your desktop.
And if all that wasn\'t enough, CamStudio also comes with its own Lossless Codec that produces crystal clear results with a much smaller filesize compared with other more popular codecs, like Microsoft Video 1.
You have total control over the output of your video: you can choose to use custom cursors, to record the whole screen or just a section of it and can reduce or increase the quality of the recording depending on if you want smaller videos (for emailing to people, for instance) or you can have "best quality" ones for burning onto CD/DVD.
But all of these features would be worthless if CamStudio wasn\'t easy to use ... fortunately that\'s not the case. CamStudio can be learned in a matter of minutes and comes with a comprehensive built-in helpfile, so if you do manage to get stuck, you can simply hit "Help" and get the answers you need.
So where can I get it and how much does it cost?
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
Designed For XP - Windows Vista Capable
Download Links
Latest Version: CamStudio 2.6 (Build r294)
Download CamStudio - Desktop Screen Recorder
Lossless Video Codec v1.4 (optional):
Download CamStudio Lossless Codec V1.4
Support Forum:
http://camstudio.org/forum
FAQ:
http://camstudio.org/faq.htm
To download CamStudio, click the top big green button and you\'ll be taken to a page where you can get the latest version.
The same procedure to download the CamStudio Lossless Video Codec.
To manually install the codec, download the zipfile by clicking the small green button above, extract the contents of the zipfile to a folder using your preferred unzip software (7-Zip, WinZip, WinRAR, etc.), then right click the camcodec.inf file and select Install from the context menu that appears.
CamStudio\'s History
Over the last few months, quite a people have asked me about CamStudio\'s history and the confusion with the V2.1 that\'s around, so I thought I\'d explain what the situation is, as I understand it ...
CamStudio was originally released by a company called RenderSoft who were subsequently bought by a company called eHelp who used some of the technology in their program, RoboDemo ...
Some time later, eHelp was bought by Macromedia who wanted RoboDemo (which was to become Captivate) ...
Knowing that CamStudio did some of the stuff RoboDemo did for free (mainly export to streaming Flash), they released a newer version which fixed some bugs but most importantly, removed certain features. Gone was the ability to create SWFs, added was the requirement to register to use it, and over time, links to the various webpages that had CamStudio and its source code, became broken.
However, I managed to find an earlier version complete with the related CamStudio video codec (comparable to Techsmith\'s excellent TSCC), the source code for both and just put the website up so people could download them ...