Hello everyone! Does anyone knows about a good screen capture program that saves avi files of what you have on your screen and with hot keys to start and stop the capture?

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I've seen tutorials with animated screen shots with Viewlet Builder by Qarbon. (I don't know what format(s) it saves as.) I know several NewTek Lightwave tutorials use it, including the frying pan tutorial below: http://newtek.com/products/lightwave/tutorials/modeling/modeling/fryingpan.html

Thanks a bunch Crescent!!! I sooo need this!

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You might look at Camtasia Studio for $349. I've played with Camtasia, and think it's fantastic!

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The one I use, and really like cuz it lets you select any shape, etc, with the mouse and converts to many different formats and even has filter and a drawing program built in, yada yada...

having just researched this myself (and still doing a bit)... there are several that are pretty interesting but you can do all in the world you want with the free app: Bulent's Screen Recorder its available at twocows (I think thats where I downloaded it) and it is fully functional freeware. words of advice tho...depending on what kind of application you are working in, you will need a beast of a computer to make a good avi with a screen capture program. Think about it, your computer has to be fast enough to capture multiple screens per second, compress and write to a sequential avi while running other applications. In my case, Amapi..which means it has to have a lot of power just to do that alone. so, at the very least..the free program will show you if you have the computer to support the capture. :) BT

I love Camtasia...it's easy to use...

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CamStudio - Free - PC Magazine 5 Stars. He has a screen capture optimized codec you can get as well.