At a recent WebWorks.com Open House, a discussion about good tools for capturing computer screens came up and I recalled that I had actually done quite a bit of research and experimentation with these types of tools. I also had put together a short write-up on my company’s internal wiki about the topic. Now I realize that others might find this information useful, so I have made it available on our main wiki site. wiki.webworks.com.

In a nutshell, here were my findings.

Best in Class for:

Static Screen Capture

TechSmith’s: Snag It

Dynamic Screen Capture (category 1)

Blue Berry’s: FlashBack

Category 1: focuses on routine training and recording tasks where there are minimum requirements for modifying the resulting output

Dynamic Screen Capture (category 2)

TechSmith’s: Camtasia

Category 2: focuses on special applications requiring post editing, scaling, and the remixing of audio and video

Light-weight Static and Dynamic Screen Capture

From the TechSmith folks: Jing