This tutorial explains how to capture and record video of your computer screen. Though there are many popular screen video capture tools, Camtasia Studio is the best and the most widely used one. Camtasia Studio includes Camtasia Recorder, Camtasia Player and DVD Maker.
How to capture video from Computer Screen
- Download & Install Camtasia Studio from here
- In the menu, Click on “Record the Screen“.
Camtasia Options Panel
- Soon you can see the Camtasia Record Panel appearing on your desktop.
Camtasia Record Panel
- Setting #1: You can select to display the full screen or a part of the screen using the “Select Area” option.
- Setting #2: You can record either from the computer screen or from a webcam directly, this can be chosen from the “Camera” option in the panel.
- Setting #3: “Audio” button displays options to choose the audio device, the volume and the quality of the sound.
- Setting #4: This option under the “Effects” menu, you can select whether the mouse cursor should be displayed normally or highlighted.
Mouse Highlight Option in Camtasia Studio
- Setting #5: Mouse Click Sound: This is really a cool feature, it can generate sounds when u click your mouse, so the person watching the video can understand that you have clicked your mouse.
- Finally Click on the “Record Button“, this will start the recording.
- You can stop the recording at anytime, just press the Function key “F10” to stop recording.
- Thats it, the recoding is done.
- The Camtasia Studio has an inbuilt Player, that can play the file after the recording.
- Incase you want to burn the recorded to DVD,do check out the Camtasia DVD Menu Creator included along with the package.
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Camtasia Menu Maker
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wow this is really good ,Thanks for sharing bro
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Welcome Bro
Wow !! Awesome Application bro
Would surely give it a try..Thanks for sharing man 
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Sure dude., Not a problem
Techsmith are known for awesome app creation.. just like camtasia, I use snagit which also has video recording feature
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SnagIt is for screen capture for images , aren’t they. Never knew Snag It can record videos. lol . Let me check it out.
You can make videos too
And, add music using dubit which is also a free tool from techsmith 
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Oh thats great. Thanks for the added info dude.
Nice Software, Do you have full Version of this Software and the quality of video is Good ?
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Nope. The full version is around 300 USD., The video quality is really good.
But you can get the trial of the product, i think its a 30 day trial period.
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When guys from Camtasia and TechSmith develop something, it got to be real good
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Yup thats right, the product is really awesome, (Except the price
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u usually give a free link for the demo version rite?
Hi Ashwin, My sincere apologies for not providing the download link. However I have fixed it now, I have added the link, Thanks a lot for pointing it out, We will see to that we provide a the download link for softwares in our upcoming posts. Have a good day
Really appreaciate this tutorial. I am just getting into maybe doing a few videos, and some basic tips like these are really helpful.
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Thanks John, Video Tutorials may be awesome, They drive a lot of traffic incase you can get them to youtube.
Thank you for sharing this info and guide…
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Thanks for the tutorial. In my view recording video using your webcam is a faster and cheaper way of producing you own video content.