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Ezvid is exceptional because of the power of its cutting-edge effects and features. With voice recording, facecam, voice synthesis, screen drawing, and speed control, Ezvid the world's single best solution for making videos which entertain, inform, and enchant your viewers.

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Robin Good: Screen Video Recorder is a free Windows-only downloadable software which allows you to record your computer screen to create screencasts or video tutorials.

 

Key features include:

- Record full screen or defined region

- Record dynamic region by following mouse

- Overlay of graphics

- Webcam recording

- Post production image controls

- Full control of audio and video codecs

- Timed recording

 

Review: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/video-screen-recorder-create-screencasts-with-visual-effects/ ;

 

Download and more info: http://www.testuser.ru/eng/screenvideorecorder.html ;

 

(Unearthed by Baiba Svenca)

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Robin Good: Here is a truly well prepared illustrated guide to record your screen on your iPhone or iPad.

 

"This detailed guide describes the various options that will help you record movies (screencasts) of your iPad or iPhone screen. You can use it for capturing app demos, game walkthroughs and more."

 

Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration, has done an excellent research and curation job in bringing together the very best tools, resources and video tutorials that clearly explain how to record the screen on your favorite smartphone.

 

This guide includes six alternative solutions, all clearly explained by an accompanying video. Very useful.

Recommended. 9/10

 

Full guide: http://www.labnol.org/software/record-screencasts-on-ipad-iphone/20958/ 

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Ezvid is exceptional because of the power of its cutting-edge effects and features. With voice recording, facecam, voice synthesis, screen drawing, and speed control, Ezvid the world's single best solution for making videos which entertain, inform, and enchant your viewers.

Via Nik Peachey, Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.

 

 

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Robin Good: For Windows PC users ActivePresenter may prove to be an interesting alternative, with lots of useful features at a price that can't be beaten.

 

And when you want more options, like extra export formats, or the ability to produce PowerPoint presentation as final output, the Standard and Pro editions come to the rescue.

 

With ActivePresenter, not only you can record your computer screen along with your own audio narration, but you can also capture screenshots automatically with mouse clicks or key presses and 

automatically generate appropriate annotations for each action.

 

Even the free version has no watermarks or time limitations.

 

Other features include:

- Attractive callouts

- Annotations for explaining each action
- Changing mouse cursor path
- Remove/change unneeded parts
- Add more video overlays
- Sync audio, video and overlays
- Closed Captioning

- Make it interactive by adding application simulations, branching scenarios, and quizzes
- Easily publish to the web, desktops, mobile devices, and leading SCORM-compliant Learning Management Systems
- Track and report key metrics to evaluate learner performance

Supported output formats: AVI, MP4, WMV or WebM (supported by Youtube)

 

Three editions available:

- Free Edition: Can create video (AVI, MP4, WMV, WebM)
- Standard Edition: as Free + output in Flash Video (FLV), Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDF and HTML output
- Pro Edition: as Standard + the capability to create interactive AJAX, Adobe Flash simulations and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.

N.B.: The Free Edition has almost all the features as in the Standard or Professional Edition, except the export capability.

 

Demo recordings: http://atomisystems.com/demo/ ;

 

Compare different editions: http://atomisystems.com/activepresenter/features-comparison/ ;

 

More info: http://atomisystems.com/activepresenter/free-edition/ ;

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