Editor's Review
CamStudio at a Glance
CamStudio is a compact little program with some nice features tucked away to maximize its allure. Installation is a breeze. However, when you launch CamStudio, a private product upgrade is offered that has not been verified by SourceForge. You’ll have to decide if you want to take a chance on CamStudio’s private upgrade or not. Yet, once you launch CamStudio, you’ll find several helpful features to make your screen recording journey quite enjoyable. For example, controls to record an entire screen or a portion of it, sound options, and the ability to add comments to videos and screen captures. CamStudio and its codec are released under GPL license.Product Details
Here is a detailed breakdown of CamStudio’s features:- Records your screen and audio to AVI files
- Converts AVI into Flash
- Highlights your cursor path for clarity
- Automatically pans
- Records with sound
- Lets you add text comments to videos
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| CamStudio lets you create training tutorials and has a nice selection of video styling features. | CamStudio outputs only to AVI with a conversion to Flash. |
Quick Specs
- Version: 2.7.2
- Date added: October 19, 2013
- Operating system: Windows
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Description
CamStudio records screen and audio activity on your computer to create AVI video files and turns them into bandwidth-friendly, streaming Flash videos (SWF). CamStudio also lets you add screen captions or video annotations to your recordings through anti-aliased images, or by producing a Webcam movie of yourself (screen in screen) on your desktop. And CamStudio comes with its own lossless codec that produces crystal clear results with a much smaller filesize compared some popular codecs, like Microsoft Video 1. Additional options include cursor controls, the ability to record an entire screen or a portion of it, and selections for output quality. Best of all, CamStudio is easy to use and navigate, plus it includes a built-in Help file.
Official release builds: http://p.sf.net/camstudio/stable
Source Tree: http://p.sf.net/camstudio/mercurial
Patches sent to the dev mailing list.
Consider joining the CamStudio project by emailing one of the admins.
Categories
License
Features
- Record your screen and audio to AVI files
- Convert AVI into Flash
- Highlight the cursor path
- Automatically pan
- Record with sound
- Add text comments to videos
User Ratings
User Reviews
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This product is so chalk full of spyware that it gives problems installing. In order to install it, you need to disable your security, which normally sends up red flags by itself. Once it's installed, it loads three programs that the only way you can close them, is by UNINSTALLING them, which makes the program completely useless. I uninstalled this program and started a sweep of my system, but I recommend NO ONE INSTALL THIS SPYWARE PROGRAM!
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Packed with adware and stuff like that. Useless and dangerous.
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Easy to use and fairly clean interface, but the recorded files (in .avi format) are humongous. I recorded less than 30 second of screen activity on slightly less than half of a 1920x1200 monitor and got a file that was a bit over 0,5 GB. I switched to TinyTake and it recorded a slightly shorter version of the same screen action in about 2,5 MB (200 times smaller). TinyTake had other drawbacks but nothing I couldn't live with :-). However, I don't seem to have gotten any additional, unwanted software installed with CamStudio from Sourcefourge, maybe they've cleaned up the installers after all the complaints they got?
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I have used CamStudio in the past and found that it is good, reliable, and lets face it free, screen recording software. I have Adobe Premiere Pro, so don't need to do video editing in my screen capture software, I just want something that captures my screen, captures my voice and highlights the cursor. CamStudio also auto pans which is useful if you are not recording the whole screen, but occasionally need to move over and show something out of the current shot. One feature I wish CamStudio had is the ability to display keyboard presses as text on the screen in a customizable location. I find when watching demonstrations of software that use a lot of keyboard shortcuts such as Photoshop or Premiere Pro etc, that they can be difficult to follow since the person generally forgets to mention what they are pressing and when. But sadly CamStudio doesn't seem to do this. The workaround of course is that when making demonstration videos just don't forget to say what keyboard shortcuts you are pressing when you use them, so the viewers can follow along. Anyway I up graded my computers after many years and so needed to download the latest version of CamStudio. I read all these complaints about people getting Malware and trojans and things when installing CamStudio even here on sourceforge. Anyway as of 16th of Feb 2016 I can report that the file available here from the link in the "Stable" folder on files tab of the CamStudio pages had no malware of any kind. Various commentors for this software noted that you just have to click decline and the Malware is not installed, but for me there was no attempt to install any. One commentor noted that there was advertising in the CamStudio software when it came up, but there is none on the version that I downloaded "CamStudio_Setup_2-7_r316.exe (11.4 MB)". Sadly you can't post URLs in these comments otherwise I could show you examples of videos I made with the software to address the issues of the quality of the recordings.
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MUY BUENO... FUNCIONA EXELENTE EN MI WIN 7