Video Capturing
CamStudio
CamStudio records activity from your screen and audio from a microphone into AVI video files and can also convert the AVIs into Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) using its built-in SWF Producer.
Some interesting and important history on this program:
CamStudio was originally released by a company called RenderSoft who were subsequently bought by a company called eHelp who used some of the technology in their program, RoboDemo. Some time later, eHelp was bought by Macromedia who wanted RoboDemo which was to become Captivate) Knowing that CamStudio did some of the stuff RoboDemo did for free (mainly the export to SWF), they released a newer version of CamStudio (2.1) which fixed some bugs but most importantly, removed certain features, mainly the ability to create SWFs and you were required to register to use it and over time, links to the various webpages that had CamStudio and it's source code became broken. - information from the new homepage.
The strange thing is that the person who resurrected the program, isn't a programmer and is accepting donations to get the program updated. Seems fishy to me, but the 2.0 program was hard to find out on the internet, but with some digging it was still possible. However now its much easier to find. Its a great program though, I just wish a programmer had resurrected it instead.
VirtualDub
Video capture/processing utility. You can also use it to do some basic but powerful edits to videos very easily.
