ShadowPlay is free, and one difference between it an Fraps is that Fraps captures in software mode, meaning that depending on what you are capturing (and I refer mainly to games), there can be a potentially hefty performance hit. Not sure about the framerate - 30 FPS should not be a problem though, as it is designed for game capture. If you have a later model NVIDIA card (660+), GeForce Experience can now capture desktop using NVIDIA's ShadowPlay. Framerate won't be a problem with it - you can capture up to abut 120 FPS. It is shareware, but does not have any tools for editing afterwards (from memory, it captures to AVI). Fraps - originally intended for game capture - can capture the desktop as well in current versions. While animated GIF may seem an odd format to capture to, if the person you are sending a capture to does not have video playback software or codecs, it may fit the bill.įor general purpose capturing (ie games), there are a few. Can't recall now if it offers a choice of frame rates or not - I think it does though.Īs an aside, if you are interested in animated GIF - and it will depend on what you want to do with the video after capture and who you want to send it to - there are a couple of pretty good desktop to animated GIF capture programs out there as well. This is the free version of the commercial product of the same name (confusingly, distributed by a different company than Hyperionics). Another good capture tool I have used in the past is HyperCam from Hyperionics.
FASTSTONE SCREEN CAPTURE DISABLE ZOOM MP4
However, FastStone can only capture to WMV - ShareX can capture to MP4 and animated GIF. A big difference between them - apart from one being free - is that ShareX does not have annotation tools that you edit the resulting video with afterwards (as FastStone does). It is freeware, and again, you can set the framerate to capture. ShareX - which is another capture software I use - also has both screenshot and video capture. It is shareware, and includes screenshot and video capture - and does allow you to set the frame rate of the capture. If I need to capture a desktop video, I use FastStone Capture. If you are looking for desktop recording, I would suggest a specific desktop recorder, as they will typically come with better tools and features for that case.
I am assuming you mean desktop recording, as opposed to games recording? Recording software tends to fall into two basic types - desktop specific (for tutorials etc), and general (for gaming etc).