Screencast

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Recording a desktop computer screen to a movie is useful for many reasons: to record user testing sessions, to make demos for talks, to post demos on a web site, or to record a Show & Tell.

Here is some software for recording screencasts.

Wink for Windows & Linux, generates Flash videos. Can include annotations and callouts.

Camtasia Studio for Windows, generates AVI and MPG videos. Lots of options, very powerful. You can download a 30-day trial version of Camtasia 5. We also have a license for an older version, Camtasia 4.

Snapz Pro X for Mac, generates Quicktime. $70.

iShowU for Mac. $20. Free trial version records 30-second videos.

Copernicus for Mac. Free.

Screencast-o-matic for Windows, Linux, Mac. No install needed -- records with a Java applet in a web browser and hosts the resulting video on their public server. Somewhat frame-rate-challenged.

ScreenMimic is a commercial Mac app, but its evaluation version can record up to 30-second screencasts, so if that's all you need, go for it.

ScreenFlow/ScreenFlick is another commercial Mac app; the UID group has a license for it.

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