CamStudio 2.5 “Beta” Released

CamStudio 2.5 is a screen recording application I’ve been using to author screencasts for the online courses I teach. These types of tutorials are really useful when teaching new users how to go about building things in Flash. It includes the option to output in FLV as well- so that is just perfect.

I kind of missed the release of this by a week or two. For some time, the website wasn’t updated and I had thought the project abandoned. Glad I was wrong- apparently this is considered a beta because 2.6 is on the horizon. Strange reasoning for a beta- but I can understand the need to release something… but having “2.5 beta” followed by a “2.5” release makes more sense, in my opinion. I suppose they are only names.

I’ve posted before about some troubles I had with the previous versions of CamStudio getting the AVI output processed correctly in Premiere. I haven’t had the chance to try out this new version yet but it apparently works on Windows Vista and includes some expanded windowing options.

I’m a big fan of the project and very happy to see things moving forward.

1 thought on “CamStudio 2.5 “Beta” Released”

  1. 2.5 outputs virtually no differently to Premiere. I’m using CS2 version so it might work with more recent versions, but no idea. You also wrote the above a long time ago, have you found a solution?

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