I’ve been a little busy lately preparing slides for a presentation I am helping with this week (to do with Social Media), and I wanted to be able to capture my own screen; the idea being not only to use them in the presentation itself but make the resulting video available later.

A great piece of free software (released under the GPL) to accomplish this is Camstudio; it records your screen and also allows you to speak as you are doing so, so if you wanted to walk a new user through, say, setting up a new Twitter account then this software captures all you are doing on screen. Once you have it captured you can then edit it with your Windows Movie Maker (assuming you’re on a recent version of Windows!)

There are other software packages out there which offer more features for a price, but if you want to produce demonstration videos for people and don’t have deep pockets then this software is a real boon.

Link to Camstudio site