screen capturing for movie making

Hey guys

I spend some time on google to look for a software with which I could capture my screen and create a movie for video tutorials.

However I was not quite successful with what I found.

Anybody knows a decent program which also runs on Mac and Win?
Maybe an open source one?

Claas

Try camstudio. It’s free. However, I’m not sure about open-source.

http://camstudio.org/ should be open i believe/recall from past, could be wrong though.

mh that one is only Win no OS X

I’ve looked for ages for an open source one for Mac, but never found one. There are some free ones, but they pretty much, well, suck in some way or another. I got so frustrated I started coding my own (that takes a lot of frustration ;)), but it never got too far (I lost interest :().

Most OS X ones that I’ve seen that aren’t horrible cost money, like iShowU.Here’s a list of some (none free, but some have trials).

I did see a Java one a while ago, you might check sourceforge. I don’t think it was too spectacular, but there might be some others around if you google for Java screen recorders (no telling whether they’re good or not).