Screencasting is used for creating interactive demonstrations and simulations.You can take a series of screen shots of a application in live motion.The Screencast tool records the motions and creates a Screencast .There are a variety of formats like Macromedia Flash SWF,Standalone EXE, AVI format or the Windows Media Video (WMV) formats.Screencasts can be vert helpful e-learning purposes.You can teach someone who do not some tips with the help of Screencasts.

Apple Mac OS X

Snapz Pro X
Record anything on your screen, saving it as a QuickTime® movie or screenshot that can be emailed, put up on the web, or passed around however you want.

ScreenAction Studio
Easily capture on-screen action or import video clips, images & sounds to create clear and powerful presentations.

Screenography
Capture your screen to various image, movie and Flash formats. Very useful for creating tutorials, training videos/CDs and demonstrations.

iShowU
Capture and record anything you can see on your screen, along with audio from a compatible source (like a microphone) as well as any audio from the mac itself.

Windows

Camtasia Studio
Record your screen to create compelling training, demo, and presentation videos .

BB FlashBack
BB FlashBack is the screen recorder that creates great movies quickly and easily.

ScreenCam
Create easy-to-understand ScreenCam® movies of virtually anything on your PC Screen.

Windows Media Encoder 9
Powerful tool for content producers who want to capture audio and video content using the many innovations in Windows Media.

CAPTUREâ„¢ V2
Record all on-screen activity and compile as a Macromedia Flash® Movie (SWF).

Replay Screencast
Makes Screen Video Captures Easily.

Adobe Captivate
Enables anyone to rapidly create powerful and engaging simulations, scenario-based training, and robust quizzes without programming knowledge or multimedia skills.

InfoStrider
Screen activities such as the movement of the mouse, the processes of applications.

WildPresenter
Easily create outstanding Flash and video presentations, convert PowerPoint to Flash.

UVScreen Camera
Create animated demo or tutorials by recording your computer’s desktop activity, including all mouse movements, window graphics, mouse clicks and everything else you see on the screen.

TurboDemo
Intelligent capturing technique for single screenshots that can then be edited as slides. Mouse movements are automatically reproduced.

Qarbon ViewletCam
Record PC applications, PowerPoint presentations, animations, and video directly from your PC screen and generate Flash movies for use in demos, troubleshooting, training classes, and presentations.

Replay Screencast
Great way to make Software Demos and Tutorials, produce Powerpoint Videos, record Flash, QuickTime, and DRM protected videos, and a lot more.

CamStudio
Create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

Bulents Screen Recorder
Record your web cam sessions, favorite games, any software on your desktop, any video display on your screen, record audio of what you hear from your speakers.

Linux

DemoRecorder
Simple-to-use GUI to record your video. You do not need to choose any options apart from the resolution of the virtual desktop.

Xvidcap
Capture things going on on an X-Windows display to either individual frames or an MPEG video.

Istanbul
Desktop session recorder for the Free Desktop. It records your session into an Ogg Theora video file.

Byzanz (free, GPL, produces animated GIFs)

Cross Platform

Qarbon Viewlet Builder
Create high-impact online presentations.

vnc2swf (Mac OS / Unix / Linux / MS Windows)(Open Source)
Cross-platform screen recording tool for ShockWave Flash (swf) format.

TurboDemo Enterprise (capture under Linux & MAC OS X -> Edit on Windows)
Intelligent capturing technique for single screenshots that can then be edited as slides. Mouse movements are automatically reproduced.

Wink(Freeware) (Linux / MS Windows)
Capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.

ScreenRecord (Mac OS / MS Windows)
Screen recording tool that allows the user to capture continuous images on the screen as a Quicktime movie. It is useful for creating training CDs, visual tutorials, and many more. It can even be used as a monitoring device.

DemoRecorder (commercial)
Simple-to-use GUI to record your video. You do not need to choose any options apart from the resolution of the virtual desktop. (more about virtual desktop and its resolution later)

Screencast-O-Matic
Uses a Java applet to do the screen capture and playback so theoretically it should
support all major platforms and browsers. That said there are some
issues with certain combinations of platforms/browsers.

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