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Free Screen Capture Software for Windows

37 Responses (Add) | Saturday, December 1st, 2007 at 4:30pm

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What do you use to capture video or stills on your computer? Two of my sponsors, TechSmith and ShinyWhiteBox both have excellent programs available. But TechSmith has now decided to offer slightly older versions of their screen capture software completely for FREE!

TechSmith’s Camtasia is used to make everything from training videos to PowerPoint presentations to lectures look better, reach more people, and pack more punch. Camtasia Studio screen recorder is smart, and does the hard work for you. Never created a video before? No worries, Camtasia Studio will help you look like a pro. The current version of Catasia is 5.0. It retails for $299.00 USD. However, you can now download version 3.12 absolutely free! Once you have downloaded and are installing the program, you will be asked for a product activation key. You can get that free, as well, simply by clicking this link.

The SnagIt program from TechSmith is different. SnagIt allows you to capture anything on your screen – from an area to a scrolling web page, edit your screen capture using the built-in image editor, and Share, save, and print your screen capture in the format of your choice. Create and share high-quality screen captures for your presentations, documents and blogs. The current version of SnagIt is 8.2 and costs around $40.00 for a single-user copy. However, you can download version 7.2.5 absolutely free! Again, once you’ve downloaded and are installing, you will need the key, which you can download by clicking this link.

So there you have it. More software companies should release older versions of their software for free, like TechSmith is doing. I don’t know how long this offer will last, though, so hurry and get yours today!

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December 2nd, 2007
at 6:19pm

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December 1st, 2007
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December 2nd, 2007
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December 2nd, 2007
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laaabaseball

December 1st, 2007
at 5:12pm

thanks chris! this exactly the type of programs I was looking for! Thank you so much!

kamara

December 1st, 2007
at 5:41pm

great job man thanks for the links very useful!

Miguel Mendoza

December 1st, 2007
at 6:17pm

Thanks for this info on free software Chris!

Miguel

Jamie McGauley

December 1st, 2007
at 6:50pm

I’ve been using TechSmith’s products for a while, good to see these programs becoming available for free. Once people have tried the older versions I’m sure they will see that they are worth the money for the latest editions. I don’t think I could live without SnagIt.

tooomp

December 2nd, 2007
at 2:14am

Why not just put the links in the about this video section?

rainbowbowserpow9999

December 2nd, 2007
at 2:23am

Fraps for me has well and prnt :D

zilverzero

December 2nd, 2007
at 3:54am

i know i might sound like a noob for saying this but i used to play runescape and i used camtasia to record videos and its a great screen recording program but not so good ingame like cs or wow

Carol Pyles

December 1st, 2007
at 9:25pm

ewww cool I wonder if the Techsmith one will work for capturing video while playing a game :) Not all my MMPORG games have video capture.

mool414

December 2nd, 2007
at 7:16am

Sniper

poxbag1

December 2nd, 2007
at 9:26am

yeah, he has a pretty bad aim :D

neyway

December 2nd, 2007
at 12:44pm

can someone please comment the links that chris said. thanks

voyagerfan5761

December 2nd, 2007
at 10:18am

There’s also ScreenshotCaptor from DonationCoder.com, which is free, has a built-in image editor, and will capture (or at least try, depending on settings and what you select) pretty much anything. I’ve been using it for months. So they make you register for a free registration key, but hey, it’s great freeware. I use it for the screenshots on my blog.

paintballfreak94

December 2nd, 2007
at 11:32pm

cam studio

felix290492

December 2nd, 2007
at 11:48pm

Camstudio is the best, i capture all my tutorials with it + it has a more responsive autopan feature. AND ITS OPENSOURCE!!!

TigerClaw

December 2nd, 2007
at 8:14pm

What some of you aren’t aware of, Is that you have a screen capture feature built into the OS, particularly if your on XP. Whatever you have on your screen you want to capture, Press the Print Screen button on the keyboard, Then open Paint which is located in the start menu/programs/accessories. While on that program, Click on Edit and Paste and it will Paste the screen you captured into Paint and you can save as a .bmp or .jpg.

FearedBliss

December 3rd, 2007
at 4:55am

Hey thanks man , I use to use SnagIt cracked back when I use to download illegal programs, I don’t do this anymore and I don’t support it. I also wanted to use Camtasia Studio because I’m planning on doing screencasting tech support in the future, so this will definetly help me. It would be better if they it was Mac compatible.

SQaudiophile

December 3rd, 2007
at 7:12am

Runescape is like masturbating. No one talks about it untill they find out everyone does it. No my amigo, you are not a noob.

zilverzero

December 3rd, 2007
at 9:21am

yah i know its a repetitive game with no point to it >.> but if somepeople like repetitivity then i guess its not such a bad game

SLT23C

December 3rd, 2007
at 11:58am

For me I use ALT+PRTSC for my screen shots.

voyagerfan5761

December 3rd, 2007
at 9:26pm

@TigerClaw: Yeah, we know, but that solution just seems so kludgy and convoluted. Having one app that does everything associated with a task is always nice.