People love to watch how-to videos or demo screencast of your software and Web applications manual to cut down your support and marketing efforts. A screencast is a simply video capture of your computer screen. Most of the screen recorders available are desktop based, but with the Web-base moving towards Software as Services (SaS) platform, a few online screen recording services have emerged. We take a look at some of the popular remotely hosted screencast services. and it is totally Free.
ScreenToaster uses a Java applet to capture your computer screen, video and live streams from your webcam. Recorded videos are streamed and saved live making editing and publishing faster. The web-base application video editor allows you to annotate videos or add voice. Once your screencast is ready, you can upload it to the servers of ScreenToaster or send it to your Youtube account. Alternatively, you can download a copy of the video as .mov or .swf. Screencasts published on the ScreenToaster site can be set to be accessed publicly or privately and supports social sharing and commenting features.
Price: Free
Pros: Extremely fast video upload and processing.
Cons: Lacks video editing features.
GoView is a new player in the screen recording business that has been developed by Citrix Online, the company behind GoToMeeting and GoToMyPc. Similar to the other services, it supports both video and voice recording. After downloading and installing a small application, GoView will sit in your system tray. Your screencast are automatically uploaded to the goview.com site which can then be easily shared. When tested, we found that the quality of video recorded is far better than the other services. GoView also has a web based video editor that allows you annotate, split and export your videos to MP4 format.
Price: Free
Pros: High quality screen recording
Cons: Uploading screen capture is slow. Video cannot be embedded on site.
Screencast-0-Matic was the first service to offer web-base screen recording right from the browser without any software installation (requires only Java support in the browser). You can select to record your full-screen or just an area of it. Once recorded, your videos can be uploaded to the Screencast-O-Matic web site or sent to YouTube in HD format. You can also export the video as downloadable formats like Quicktime (MP4), Flash (FLV) or as Windows Media Player (AIV).
Price: Free
Pros: Multiple export features.
Cons: Lacks video editing features.
ScreenCastle is the easiest screencast recorder. It no registration requirement, just the download of a lightweight Java applet that takes less than a minute to install. It supports both video and audio recording from your microphone. You can select to record full-screen or just an area of your computer screen. After the recording, it will take a few seconds for your video to be uploaded and right after upload, you will be presented with linking and embedding options. The best part about ScreenCastle is that it has an API version, called Skoffer. Skoffer allows developers to build in the screencast recorder into the web application. Plugins that makes use of this API are already available for popular scripts like WordPress and MediaWiki.
Price: Free
Cons: Lacks video editing features.
Pros: Extremely simple and easy to use and has an API available.
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The main downside of these free ones is there is no editing feature with them. If people need to edit their screencast they have have turn to desktop screen recorder software like DemoCreator and Camtasia.
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