Screen casting is a modern and sophisticated tool that can be used to teach, demonstrate, or create video tutorials without taking the pain of writing any article. There are several free screen casting tools for making video tutorials available in the market. They are available as desktop applications and web-based services. Most of the tools are available free of cost and you do not even need to register to use this amazing display tool.

Video Tutorials

Video is a quick and convenient way of delivering any message. It is time saving and adds a personal touch to the message. One disadvantage of free screen casting tools for making video tutorials is that the features offered are quite less compared to the paid ones. Basic features like editing the video, adding your own audio recording, changing the existing ones can be done easily. To obtain best results it is important to choose a good and reliable tool.

Free screen casting tools

• AviScreen: It is an application that is used for recording screen activity in the AVI video form or Bitmap images. It is one of the most preferred tools for screen casting. It offers a feature called “follow the cursor”. This feature helps you in producing any video or picture of small dimension while covering the mouse activity over the full screen. You can easily pause or stop the capture at any position. The video will be captured and will give you an option of trimming later. 
• Camstudio: It is one of the frequently used free screen casting tools for making video tutorials. It provides a feature that captures the audio as well as screen activity in creating AVI files and export to SWF. It has a convenient using interface including a video interpreting feature and custom cursors. It also offers selected screen recording. 
• ISU: It enables the user to record series of operations in application. You can edit the recorded video, add to it and style it. 
• Copernicus: It is a free application for Mac operating system, which focuses on recording video on your RAM and making faster movies. It does not offer any support for audio. 
• Goview: It is windows software by Citrix online. It allows you to record videos, audios, edit or host the video without bandwidth restrictions. Moreover, the screen casts can be protected with passwords and uploaded to other websites. 
• Screentoaster: It is a web-based recorder used for capturing screen activity, audio activity, and webcam images. It can be published in blogs and websites. The benefit of using it is that it can work in any browser and need not be downloaded. 
• Jing: It is very simple free screen recording software for Mac and windows machines that records videos and audios very quickly from the desktop. It can record any activity for up to five minutes.

These were some of the best free screen casting tools for making video tutorials. They can be easily downloaded through the internet.

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