Evan's AVI Screen Capture

Evan's AVI Screen Capture is a small but powerful tool which enables you to record your monitor's activity.

This software does not require installation, so that makes it portable. You can place Evan's AVI Screen Capture on a removable device and run it on any computer. But, more importantly, no changes will be made to your registry entries.

The interface of the program consists of a small window in which you need to follow a few simple steps.

You can select what you want the program to capture, between the entire screen, a specific window or a region within a window, or a rectangular area that follows the mouse cursor.

Plus, you can include the mouse cursor in the recording, as well as input the desired frames per second (between 10 and 30).

You can select the window you want to capture and choose between the client area, full frame or custom. But you can also pick a quick preset for the rectangular area, or input your own values. Optionally, you can preview the region.

Now you can specify the output directory and name, as well as change and configure the AVI compressor. Last but not least, you can set the maximum recording time (in seconds) and configure error tolerance (ignore failed frame writes or terminate if even one frame failed to write).

The program uses a low-to-moderate amount of system resources and displays useful tips along the way. No errors have popped up during our tests and the image quality of the AVI files is pretty good.

On the other hand, there is no "Back" button, so if you make a mistake, you have to restart the program. Plus, you cannot reconfigure the keyboard shortcut for stopping the recording before reaching maximum allocated time, so you cannot use the "Esc" key when you are trying to record a software tutorial, for example.

We would have liked the possibility of capturing audio as well, but also to schedule a recording. However, Evan's AVI Screen Capture is a very good software and we strongly recommend it to all users.