Recording the screen and mouse movements

[mw2005]

Is there a free program which enable you to record the screen and the movemets of the mouse in a certain section of the screen? A bit like the Microsoft tutorials.

Any help will be appreciated,
Thanks,
MW2005

[Tristan Gray]

I'm not sure if the first one here works only for games or not but I've heard good things.

FRAPS (http://www.fraps.com/)

If that one doesn't do it I'm sure this one will... Cheers.

CamStudiov 2.1 (http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?download=1&ID=1640)

[mw2005]

Thanks for that :thumbsup:

[Tristan Gray]

Yeah I gotta use that one myself. I plan on getting my own site running pretty serious once my temp contract is up here at my current place of business (2 weeks) at which point I will be creating a slew of Photoshop and Web Tutorials. This will be an excellent tool, and FRAPS is good for demonstrating in-game strategies etc.

[iota]

Also search in

http://snapfiles.com

[Lawn Gnome]

I'm not sure if the first one here works only for games or not but I've heard good things.

FRAPS (http://www.fraps.com/)

If that one doesn't do it I'm sure this one will... Cheers.

CamStudiov 2.1 (http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?download=1&ID=1640)

lol FRAPS isnt that used for the game Xenimus?

[Scootertaj]

Wink (http://debugmode.com/wink) is a very good program for this kinda of thing.

[brothercake]

I generally just take the screenshot normally, then take another screenshot of the "cursors" folder in thumbnail view, and cut the necessary cursor out of that - you can add a dropshadow to it, and then position it independently, or change its color to draw attention to it, whatever you need.

[Tristan Gray]

Yeah, that is similar to how I have always done it and it has the advantage of being a much smaller file. But certain tutorials I want them to know it is real time so they can be wowed by my photoshop prowess. heh.