What's a good free screen capture software?

[jeray2000 111]

I'm making a tutorial video for one of my classes, and I think using screen capture software like in Let's Plays would be the easiest way to do it, does anyone have any recommendations for which one I should use? I want to use something free, since I doubt I'll use it much after this, but all the ones I see after a brief googling look like they have viruses or adware with them.

[Adri 52]

OBS is pretty solid for a free recording / streaming software

[PenPal 121]

Hyper cam two. It has a bug so check/uncheck (cant remember which, whichever one it isnt on.) the make the area blink button

[FullMetalParagon 80]

Bandicam is a good software. It takes 10 minute recordings with the free version, and allows any format.

 

I use the full version, and it's a good one to use.

[N.W. 3,619]

Open Broadcaster (OBS) is pretty good for a free program, and it can double as both recording and streaming software.

Alternatively NVIDIA Shadowplay can do the same with better PC performance, provided you have an Nvidia graphics card with that ability to do such.

[I used to be a stranger 7,989]

NVidia Experience and the Xbox App in Windows 10 are both free and fairly effective screen capturing programs.

[redaxted 1,765]

Personally, I use Ezvid. As requested, it's free, and it produces videos of high quality (up to 720p); it's also very easy to shorten and change the speed of videos, and you can manually select the capture area. But anyway, Ezvid is personally what I use, and I'd certainly recommend it, although... hey, I'm not advertising it or anything. I see there are already quite a few great other suggestions.

[Elysia 269]

As a few other people have stated, OBS and Shadowplay are both very highly functional.

And free, of course.

[ponylaces 1,869]

I use Camtasia. I torrented it though.

 

If you don't want to torrent anything, maybe use Hypercam or Camstudio.

[Chara 1,565]

If you have Windows snipping tool is free, and it is actually one of the apps that is already on your computer. 

[nevergrowingup 28]

I use this Razer thing, but I don't remember the name of it >.> works really good though. It's meant for games but I think it can work otherwise.