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SnowFox Screen Recorder is an intuitive and fun-to-use application that enables you record your monitor's activity and save it to a video file. It features several advanced options that can be quickly figured out.Installing this tool is a fast and simple job. It's wrapped in a user-friendly interface represented by a normal window split into four areas, for selecting the area, editing audio and video settings, and for preparing the recording for output.

Select the recording area and video settings

You can record in full screen mode or specify a region or active window, as well as show or hide a flashing rectangle and the selected area. The recording may be paused and resumed anytime.As far as video settings are concerned, you can select the output format between .avi, .wmv, .mp4, .mpg, .flv and .asf, adjust the quality and frames per second, include or exclude the mouse cursor, highlight the cursor and click with custom colors.

Customize audio settings and hotkeys

Audio recording may be enabled or disabled, depending on your preferences. You can select the frequency, channel mode and bit rate, adjust the volume level, and choose a compressed format. Lastly, the recording can be saved to a default location on the disk, or it can prompt you for a destination and file name.SnowFox Screen Recorder can be minimized to the system tray area when it starts recording, and it can automatically play the video afterward. Moreover, you can configure keyboard shortcuts for starting, pausing and stopping the recording.

Evaluation and conclusion

We haven't come across any stability issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that the tool didn't hang, crash or display error dialogs. It delivers quality video recordings and remained light on the system resources consumption.All in all, SnowFox Screen Recorder proves to be a reliable assistant for recording screen activity to video files, backed by many practical options. Too bad it hasn't recently updated.