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There are a number of software products that are suitable for creating screencasts.  Some Some of them are open source or otherwise freely available for download, others are licensed for a fee.  Techsmith's Camtasia Studio is a very full-featured commercial product for Windows or Mac. We have had good results with Screencast-O-Matic, which features a free online product for all platforms and is fairly simply to learn and use.  Quicktime, as available on the Mac, will record screencasts, though you will need a video editor like iMovie if you would like to do post-production edits.  There are a few Linux-only products that may be used. as well.  Consult our charts of Video Tools below for more information. 

We recommend the following tools:

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