The Take-1 Recorder is a cute app that's better than most because it will let you use video codecs you've already installed -- most won't. If you're screen capturing video & want to be able to edit the results, that means you can use the free UT Video codec, which can do a great job at today's HD monitor resolutions & is very near lossless. You can also use the VFW version of x264 to capture direct to AVC/H.264 if editing isn't on your to-do list.
Straddling the border between positive & negative columns is Take-1 Recorder's process of writing the initial video to a temporary folder, saving it to disk in the folder you specified only when you stop recording. The good part is you can set that temporary folder to be on a faster drive [SSD?] without worrying as much about filling it up with a bunch of smaller, saved captures. The down side is that you need twice the disk space available, 1st for the capture & then to write the saved file, & you have to wait for the app to copy the video to your destination folder, which can get tedious.
A much more minor concern is the capture fps [Frames Per Second]... By default it's at 100, which it will do, but that's kind of a ridiculous number -- this isn't intended to capture game play, so there's really no reason for it to be that high. And once you set it to something standard, you'll find it doesn't take fractions, so you can't use 23.976 or 29.976, which are the 2 frame rates for NTSC. You can of course use 24 or 30, except if you wanted to put a tutorial on a DVD for example, there's a very good chance those will give you trouble.
Finally, not so much a negative as a missing positive, Take-1 Recorder does not include a fake or virtual audio driver -- if your PC/laptop can't record the audio sent to the speakers you can only record from the mic or line-in.