Total Screen Recorder Standard Editor's Review

Record screen events with ease with this must have Windows utility.

Evert now and again, I find I need to record events on my computer screen.  It's usually related to some kind of training or troubleshooting operation.  When I need an app like that, I tend to lean heavily towards Total Screen Recorder Standard. It's one of the best Windows screen recording apps available today.

Capturing video from your screen just got easier.  Total Screen Recorder is an easy-to-use video recording application with a clean interface that starts recording in just two steps. To start recording, click the red start button, and then define the screen area you wish to record. Recording starts immediately.

The app is light. It's easy on CPU cycles and RAM usage when it's recording.  Skipped frames and choppy video are a thing of the past with Total Screen Recorder.  Other applications also won't suffer a performance hit when the app is running.

Total Screen Recorder supports five different recording types.  You can define a custom region, record vide from a specific program window, record full screen, or a fix size or fixed region. The app records audio from your PC as well as your PC's microphone, so you can narrate what you're recording.  This is especially helpful when recording demos, training videos or troubleshooting videos.

Aside from recording video of your PC desktop, you can also record video from your webcam.  All incoming AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger and Skype video can be captured.  You can record online video, from YouTube, for example, and save it for viewing later.  You can also record active video game play and share it with others.

Pros: Easy to use, easy on PC resources, save to multiple formats including Flash.

Cons: Versions are split strangely, moderately priced, won't work via Parallels Desktop.

Conclusion: Total Screen Recorder is a decent app and while the price is a smidge higher than I would like to see for an app of this type, it's reasonably priced.  You'll get more value from the purchase if you plan to use it often. The only problem that I had with the app was trying to use it on my Mac via Parallels Desktop 8. The app kept throwing the Mac into full screen mode when I tried to define a custom video region, and then wouldn't record anything. It also displayed error messages when trying to record video from any individual program window.