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