Yes, Camtasia is much much smoother than CamStudio, and gets good quality
videos at reasonable file size.  CamStudio had given me horribly large
files to get any resolution at all.  (Note:  Neither of these programs is
usability testing software.  They are just for screen casts, and screen
recording.)

-Wilhelmina Randtke

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Stephen Francoeur <
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> If all you need is something that will capture the screen as video and add
> audio from a mic, then CamStudio or SnagIt will work (I've used both). But,
> I have to admit, I've had those programs crash in the middle of a test. I'm
> waiting to get my hands on Camtasia to see if it's more stable.
>
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> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Jason Michel <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > I've been using Silverback but lately have had problems: crashing
> > during export, exported file corrupted, and also crashing during the
> > preview playback within the app itself. Any one else have these
> > issues?
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Jan 31, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Jan 31, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Julia Bauder <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> I've used this in the past: http://silverbackapp.com/. It's Mac-only
> > (which
> > >> was actually a drawback for the project I was working on!), it's
> cheap,
> > and
> > >> did what we needed. It doesn't do nearly as much as Morae, though, so
> it
> > >> might not have specific features you need?
> > >
> > > I liked Silverback as well. BTW, you might also ask this question of
> > Usability4Lib -- http://bit.ly/VxGls9
> > >
> > > --
> > > Eric Morgan
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