Screen Recorders

Not web cams. Screen recorders. So that I can record what's going on on my screen and post it in a video. It needs to have a way for me to add voice to it as well. Nothing special mind you. I don't need anything fancy, so something that's "simple but works easily" is ideal.

Anyone have any recommendations?

Oh, free is a bonus, and no, I won't pirate anything so no pirated links/programs/etc. please.

Ive used camtasia to record online tutorials from the screen it works well, not free thou.
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html

Any free ones?

Jing is free. From the makers of camtasia. You can record up to five minutes

What your looking for is a program called Snag It. Totally free and easy to use, records anything on your screen sound or video.

A friend told me to try hypercam. It works very well, is simple and is totally free.

I have a new question, though.

I just recorded a tutorial for something. It's all of seven minutes and thirty seconds long. Not very big.

But the file is 1.4 fucking gigabites!

How do I make this shit smaller so I can upload it to a web site?

It's an avi file if that makes any difference, but for those of you that make videos, how do you get their sizes down to something a web site can manage?

You can use Windows Movie Maker to export it as a smaller file. OR, you could use Any Video Converter...

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Originally posted by orestesmajor

You can use Windows Movie Maker to export it as a smaller file. OR, you could use Any Video Converter...

Windows movie maker doesn't seem to want to work with AVI files. Am I missing something here?

Am I doing something wrong or does Windows Movie Maker just not work on AVIs?

Bulent's Screen Recorder is free, I use it every blue moon and it works quite well for me. It's easy for me to use and has lots to it.

http://www.bsrsoft.com/keyfeatures.asp
http://johnbokma.com/software-recommendations/bulentsscreenrecorder.html

Some of the many key features:
- Captures screen actions as video
(as standard Windows video file : AVI file, Flash movie file : SWF, Windows Media Video : WMV and Executable File : EXE)
and pictures (JPG, PNG and BMP).
- Select any portion of the screen for recording (Full Desktop, A Window, A Region, Picture In Picture , Auto-pan).
- Record audio from your microphone, speakers, CD Audio, MIDI etc. into your movie or add sound into video from a sound file.
- Recording from multiple monitors.
- Custom mouse cursor selection.
- Mouse cursor highlighting.
- Record mouse click displays and animations.
- Split video, cut portions from video.