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Softpedia Editor's Review for Desktop Video Recorder
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A fast, reliable and easy to use utility to record anything that happens on your screen in a video
Written by Bogdan Popa on April 23rd, 2012
Desktop Video Recorder is a straightforward Windows software solution designed to help you record screen activity with minimum configuration settings.
The program comprises all features in the same window and relies on a tabbed layout, which means that you can easily access the screen you want for a seamless screen recording task.
There are three recording areas supported, namely full screen, a custom region or a specific window, with Desktop Video Recorder giving you the power to select any region on your screen.
Of course, you can select the audio source and the volume, but also play with more advanced recording settings such as compression, framerate, audio compression and sample rate.
One of the drawbacks is that Desktop Video Recorder doesn’t provide hotkey support, which means that you cannot control the recording process from your keyboard. Instead, it offers a toolbar to easily pause, stop or resume a recording, but keyboard shortcuts would still help a lot.
Files are saved as AVI clips on your local disks and it’s very important to set up compression because the overall size of the recording seems to be fairly big.
Desktop Video Recorder works as it should, with absolutely no problems experienced during our testing on Windows XP and 7 workstations.
All things considered, Desktop Video Recorder is a handy application, but improvements in many key areas are absolutely needed. Hotkey support to control the recording without the need for a toolbar is clearly a must have and so is a greater amount of configuration options concerning the recording job.
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Desktop Video Recorder description
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Here are some key features of "Desktop Video Recorder":
Ideal for demonstrations:
· If you need to explain how to use a software, fill a shopping cart, or build a complex learning or support website, Desktop Video Recorder will make it easy for you to create realistic and understandable demonstrations. Viewers can be guided step by step using the videos you recorded.
Fast and efficient:
· Desktop Video Recorder records higher quality (more smooth) videos than most of other desktop recording software. Even the few that can compete often use so much resources that your computer becomes very slow during recording, making the recorded contents look bad (menus open very slowly, progress bars are not updated, ...).
Record audio simultaneously:
· Desktop Video Recorder will record audio alongside the video from your screen using any audio device. The audio is inserted into the video in realtime (most screen recording software record audio and video separately then mix them at the end of the recording, which can take few minutes).
Exhaustive statistics:
· Desktop Video Recorder provides a lot of statistics to help you find and solve problems, and improve the general quality of your recordings. All these statistics are updated in realtime.
Simple and powerful recording area selection tool:
· The window or control (part of a window) you want to record can be easily selected and Desktop Video Recorder can prevent other windows to be displayed in front of the window you are recording. You can even move the recorded window during recording, allowing you to use your computer as you would do normally. Off course, you can also define the area to record manually or record the full screen (multi-monitor configurations are supported).
Limitations:
· This demo version will insert a message inside the recorded video (because it inserts this message, the recording process will be slightly slower).
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