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Hi John, SnagIt [^] has a free 30-day full-functional trial. It does, indeed, let you limit the recorded area to the current window of your choice. You start the recording session, and then move the mouse until the window you want is highlighted.
cheers, Bill
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Yet another vote for Camtasia, but TechSmith also has a free tool for this: Jing[^], if you need something for longer than the 30-day trial of Camtasia.
TTFN - Kent
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For video: CamStudio.
For still screen shots: ScreenHunter.
Both are free.
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Roll your own... with an SQL back end...
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That was cruel...and inhumane. 
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But you liked it... and understood it.
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Argg... 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I've used "Screencast-O-Matic" before and it is good enough, plus its free.
http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/[^]
The free version allows you to publish to a few standard formats, youtube, and it will do the screen limiting that you need, plus audio. You can specify exactly where and what you want recorded.
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Call me old school, but I'm quite happy with alt-printscrn for capturing the active window, and if I need to, I'll paste it into Paint (no, not Paint.NET, just plain ol' Paint) and crop it as I see fit. It's a very paintless process, harhar.
Marc
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For clipping I use greenshot[^], can't recommend it highly enough.
For capturing video of keystrokes there's CamStudio[^], I havent really used this much but reviews are great.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Definitely Greenshot for still capture--very configurable, nice UI to get only the image you want, and configurable with regards to saving, edit tools, etc.
Especially good with capturing screenshots of dynamic menus (web pages and such); just hit the "Print Screen" button and you have everything you need.
vuolsi così colà dove si puote
ciò che si vuole, e più non dimandare
--The answer to Minos and any question of "Why are we doing this way?"
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It is an awesome utility, I use it a lot!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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For screenshots I give my vote to Greenshot, been using it for a while now. I recall some problems with capturing the Chrome window but couldn't put my finger on the cause being due to a dual screen setup or capturing the browser itself.
CamStudio looks great will have to give it a shot  (shamelessly returning to topic)
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Think I had some problems a couple years ago when I first started using it but when I reloaded my system a while back I must have gotten an updated app or my there was something wrong in my setup either way haven't had any problems since and I reloaded back in the spring some time.
I love greenshot it just works.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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I use Instant Demo for all/any screen recording work of applications in use.
You can get both a free and a free version - I've used the free one for the best part of a decade.
It allows the painless insertion of captions and (more importantly) it allows you to wait for (or force!) the user to acknowledge a prompt before continuing. The cursor position is recorded as are mouse-clicks and keystrokes.
Output is either an AVI or a HTML file and an accompanying SWF. File-sizes are tiny.
I use it in preference to both Camtasia and Camstudio. Can't remember the other players in the field.
Demos of the product can be found here: Instant Demo Demonstrations[^]
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Surprised nobody mentioned Snipping Tool yet. Been part of windows since Vista. Lives on my quick launch. Click, drag, think of a name.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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If you have a fairly powerful machine you can use Open Broadcaster Studio software. It is optimized for Live-Streaming but can also record locally. If you have NVENC-compatible Nvidia-GPU (7xx or newer) or an Intel i5/i7 3xxx or newer you can use their hardware encoding to record with virtually no performance hit. OBS if free as in free beer, open-source and can record the whole screen or only single windows (Vista SP2 or newer required.)
If you need help, drop into our IRC help channel, #obsproject @ quakenet (or use webchat from the OBS homepage).
Download: https://www.obsproject.com/[^]
How-To for local recording with best quality: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/[^]
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About 8 years ago Snagit offered Snagit 7 for free, with the hopes that you would install the software then upgrade to their newest version when they hounded you enough. Luckily you can turn the "check for updates" function off and continue using 7 in it's fully functional form. Message me if you want more info. Edit - Found the link[^]
modified 23-Feb-15 13:40pm.
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I'm quite a fan of Screenpresso [^], it's free for personal use. It also is quite a lot of goodies for documenting screenshots.
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. T.Jefferson
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I like ScreenRecorder. Does Windows or full screen with audio.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.03.utilityspotlight2.aspx?pr=blog
(Now if I could only figure out how to use that ^ thingy)
73
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Jing from TechSmith, same people who make Snag-It.
We use it a LOT. It has 2 capture buttons, one for video and one for just the screen.
You can save the file locally or upload it to their server and share the link.
The capture Video works great!
As an example: [^]
We have been using it for years. Love it!
Kirk Out!
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That's Wink.
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Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 SP2 (using the Screen Capture component).
All free.
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