Software to make a movie of using software

cats_five

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I am wanting some free software that I can use to capture a window on my PC, into a format I can splice with video from my camera using Windows Moviemaker.

The idea is to create a short video demonstrating how to download from a very old, antiquated bit of hardware - I'll be using my camera to take video of using the hardware, and want to splice in with the software side.

Suggestions?
 
I needed to use CamStudio recently, and at first had great results using its own lossless codec (since you're going to re-process the video again when spliced for a final output, you would at most want one lossy encoding in the chain).

However, did run into a problem known as 'colour vomiting' with that codec when trying to get Sony Vegas (home studio version) to render the final spliced output, which would occur whenever there was motion on screen. Once it settled down to stills again it was fine.

Since then, I located/downloaded/use the Lagarith lossless codec instead, that's been working great.

I ignored the annotations features stuff since I can add all that gubbins and control it when rendering in Vegas anyway. I'd probably only use that stuff if I was just doing a single, unedited, recording of something.
 
You are probably right about the annotations - and it's not that obvious how to use it, at least not to me.

Good point about just one compression between start and finish, and I will make a note of Lagarith incase I get the same problem.
 
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