FlashBack

This has been Very buggy for me. I purchased it, which was a mistake. It freezes after recording my screen content in the video editor. The editor itself has no brightness, contrast, color, or hue adjustments. It's very limited. If it didn't crash that wouldn't bother me as much.

For the free offering, this app is the most honest out of the other bunch. I am really happy with this software. It records first to a proprietary format which seems to be lossless, then allows the user to edit and export the recorded videos. This can be hassle to some who just wants to simply record and share, thus an alternative for these group of users would be vokoscreenNG

its the best screen recorder, no time limits, no watermarks and no sign-ups. You can upload your video to youtube or make it into a file to edit later. BB Flashback express can handle only 30 fps until you see visible problems, try it on youtube to see what i mean. Audio can can record in perfect with any options you want it.

This is the software you want for basic video recordings, if you want to record games you have to look somewhere else.

It's simple and free (with limited features).

The best alternative for Camtasia Studio users who need support for annotations and an efficient timeline to quickly edit recorded tutorials. I was a Camtasia Studio user for a long time, but little things started to annoy me in the past few years. Annotating videos wasn't as efficient as it can be, for example. Pricing is also a tad high.

My search for an alternative led me to try FlashBack Pro: I downloaded the free version, and the same night I bought the full license.

Things I like:

• the annotations tool is great! They're easy to copy and paste, adjust and edit. Absolutely love this part.
• the timeline is effective enough for quick tutorial creation. I work with NLE software (Premiere, Davinci Resolve, etc.) and although FlashBack's timeline obviously can't compare, for quick training video editing it works very well. It is very similar to Camtasia's timeline. Keystrokes are displayed, and the mouse position is shown as well for each frame. What I particularly like is the option to jump from annotation to annotation quickly.
• a distraction-free full screen mode with timeline is available.
• annotations text can be exported and edited externally, and reloaded. Such a time-saver, and it becomes easy to translate the annotations too.
• easy to insert other objects, such as images, picture-in-picture views, texts, etc.
• support has been very good. A bug I reported was squashed in the latest release.

Things that could be improved:

• the annotation edit dialog is modal, and locks the program until that dialog is closed. I would prefer a non-modal dialog - or even better: a dockable properties panel that adjusts according to the context (select a text: display text properties, select a text balloon: display those properties, etc.)
• to edit screen recordings made with an external tool requires a conversion to FlashBack film file format. I suppose this is required to improve editing performance, but it's a pain sometimes. Transcoding takes time away from editing.
• while the timeline more than suffices for quick tutorial video editing, for longer video tutorials the lack of a zoom in/out slider is at times painful. This is mitigated somewhat by the secondary timeline slider, but it slows down editing sometimes.
• The GUI isn't very configurable. That said, the full screen option is actually quite nice, and at least the movie display and timeline windows can be separated. I use this to place the timeline so that it spans two of my three screens for a better overview.

All in all, I found it to be a great replacement for Camtasia Studio. I use annotations all the time, and FlashBack Pro does a better job at this than Camtasia. And at a far lower price point.