what platform? - mjc

Windows 7, to be exact. - Roberto Bonini

Jing is borderline decent... depends on what you want to use it for, though - mjc

Just need it to make a record of what I'm doing, for later review. Thanks, will try Jing. - Roberto Bonini

They all suck (the free ones). The only one I've liked so far is Screenr, although it restricts to shorter screencasts, the client is very well written. http://screenr.com/ - Jorge Escobar

Screenr is web based. No downloadable client?? - Roberto Bonini

Microsoft's given us Community Clips; I've used it for some time. It's designed for creating + sharing how-to videos, but the sharing part is optional; you can just save the video file to the hard drive. http://communityclips.officelabs.com/downloa... - Wade Dorrell

Ah, thanks wade. This is more like it. - Roberto Bonini

Roberto, you can create the screencast and then download the video to your computer, or YouTube. As I said, it's more of a 'quick' solution, but very good at that. - Jorge Escobar

Thanks Jorge. Must remember it :) - Roberto Bonini

Community Clips seems to be exactly what I need. I just tested it. Love how it hide all the complexity of choosing formats and video sizes and encodings etc. Color capture while it was recording Adobe Bridge wasn't that great, but its to be expected. We'll see. - Roberto Bonini

We use Jing here also. - Travis Koger

Used Community Clips yesterday to grab my screen for an hour. Worked flawlessly. - Roberto Bonini