Giveaway of the Day - PCHand Screen Capture Recorder Suite
January 3, 2011This giveaway is not available any more.
PCHand Screen Capture Recorder Suite, a bundle of Screen Capture and Screen Recorder, is the best capture software that take a screenshot and capture video on the screen.
With Screen Capture, you are able to capture anything you see on screen with preset capture profile, optimize with built-in editor and save as images. Screen Recorder will help to record screen and create video demonstration along with audio.
| User Rating: Rate It! | 32 comments |
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| System Requirements: | Windows 7 / Vista / XP (x32 and x64) |
| Publisher: | PCHand Software |
| Homepage: | http://www.pc-hand.com/screen-... |
| File Size: | 10.9 MB |
| Price: | $29.95 |
This software was available as a giveaway on January 3, 2011, this giveaway is not available any more.
You can download the trial version of this software at http://www.pc-hand.com/screen-....
Terms and conditions
Please note that the software you download and install during the Giveaway period comes with the following important limitations:
1) No free technical support; 2) No free upgrades to future versions; 3) Strictly personal usage.
THIS SOFTWARE PRODUCT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWABLE BY LAW, END USER ASSUMES THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE DOWNLOADED SOFTWARE PRODUCT.
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The Good
* Is made up of two separate programs, PCHand Screen Capture and PCHand Screen Recorder.
* PCHand Screen Capture:
o Straightforward and easy to use.
o Allows users to use multiple different methods to take screenshots: Rectangle freehand, freehand, window, active window, scrolling window, full screen, and “fixed rectangle”.
o Screenshots can be sent to a built-in image editor, Windows clipboard, e-mail, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, be saved on computer (directly, with no edits), or be saved automatically.
o Can automatically apply edge effects and add a watermark to all screenshots.
o Has the ability to apply captions to all screenshots.
o Allows users to save screenshots as BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, or TIFF formats.
o Users can save custom screen capturing settings as custom profiles which can easily be reused at any time.
o Built-in editor can be used to edit any images, not just screenshots taken with PCHand Screen Capture.
o Supports hotkeys.
* PCHand Screen Recorder:
o Straightforward and easy to use.
o Allows users to save recorded videos as AVI, WMV, MP4, MPG, FLV, or SWF formats.
o Allows users to record whole screen, a specific window, or a custom region.
o Can record audio from microphone and (supposedly) speakers.
o Allows users to select if they want to include the mouse cursor in videos or not, and is able to highlight mouse cursors and clicks.
o Videos can be saved manually, or automatically.
o Supports hotkeys.
The Bad
* PCHand Screen Capture:
o Does not use automatic naming scheme when manually saving screenshots or editing screenshots and then saving them. (Only uses automatic naming scheme for auto-saved screenshots.)
o Needs better ways to control output image quality/compression.
o Needs “global profile settings” feature so users don’t have to manually change all the profiles’ settings when they want them all to be the same.
o Needs an option to automatically apply a user-defined caption to all screenshots, instead of prompting the user every time for every screenshot to input the caption they want to add.
* PCHand Screen Recorder:
o AVI videos are discolored. (At least they are for me – all other formats work fine.)
o Claims to be able to record audio from speakers, but needs a better/more direct way to do this. (I couldn’t get recording audio from speakers feature to work, even after following the directions in the Help file.)
o Doesn’t give users any sort of countdown between when the start recording button is hit and the actual recording happens.
o No video editing/modification features.
Free Alternatives
[Screenshot Tool] FastStone Capture (v5.3)
[Video Recorder] BB Flashback Express
[Screenshot tool and video recorder] Ashampoo Snap 3.50
For final verdict and recommendations please click here.
Screen Capture and Screen Recorder are simple to use and have an intuitive user interface. They make creating a screen capture a simple task. An editor is available for still captures, but nothing for video which is a shame.
There are a variety of ways that you can perform a capture, region, full screen, scrolling window etc.
There are some missing items that would be useful such as text capture or web page capture but this does not detract from the feature set that already exists.
The recorder would benefit from editing tools as #1 Ashraf states. The ablity to append to captures or combine them with transitions and text overlays would be very nice. Also it would be useful if it could capture the audio stream if a video is playing in your capture area (although most other offerings I have tested don’t have this ability either).
Screen capture/recording software is not in short supply both in commercial and freeware versions but this suite is definitely worth the download at today’s price of FREE :-)
This was one of those giveaways that I wanted to like. However, when I tried it the last time it was given away, February 25, 2010, it was a disaster (see my comment #55, as well as other people’s comments). Their website lists the most recent version as 1.8 from December 19, 2009. Even if this version is different, I have no confidence in their coding abilities.
I’ve found that the only thing that successfully captures all screen video on my Win7x64 PC (1920×1200, latest nVidia drivers), is Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 (the free version, Screen Capture tool). On my PC, the frame capture rate tends to top out at 15-20 FPS, which is lower than I would like (30 would be acceptable). I tried the latest version of Fraps, it’s junk and couldn’t capture anything. Unlike Fraps, the ZD Soft Screen Recorder was written by a programmer, but it couldn’t capture anything, either. As I stated previously, MEE4 will edit but doesn’t do annotations. You can add captions, but WMP will scale down the video to make room for the captions, which are displayed below the video. You can convert to WMV and do some editing, annotations, and effects in Windows Live Movie Maker, but you’re limited on output formats, and it recodes (MEE4 Free lets you set all relevant output VC-1 WMV properties).
See my comment #55 from last time for still-image captures. (I don’t care if people thumbs-down my comment because they’re too lazy to read earlier comments, I don’t waste time on endless reruns).