Aplus Screen Recorder1.00

Aplus Screen Recorder is a lightweight application specialized in recording your screen activity to AVI movies or EXE files. You can deploy it on all Windows flavors out there.It can be used for different purposes, such as creating software demonstrations, video tutorials, and help clips. The tool is able to capture video streams from your desktop activity, video player, or webcam. In addition, you can record microphone streams (or system MCI).

Interacting with the GUI

Aplus Screen Recorder reveals a well-structured suite of features. All configuration settings are distributed with the aid of different tabs so they don’t seem overwhelming at a first glance. More specifically, you can perform tweaks to the hotkeys, basic parameters, recordings, sound, and cursor.The utility also reveals information about the current recording, such as frame, elapsed time, number of colors, codec, and dimension.

Hotkeys and basic configuration parameters

The application gives you the possibility to reassign hotkeys for starting or pausing the recording mode, stopping the process, as well as cancelling an active task.What’s more, you are allowed to record the video streams to EXE files for easy distribution or to AVI file format, as well as set the compression type and output quality.You may record the entire screen, active window, or user-defined region of the screen, and include the audio streams, record from the microphone, or record using system MCI.

Recording tweaks

When it comes to recording options, you can specify the saving directory, follow the mouse cursor while recording, automatically stop the capturing mode after a custom time (in seconds), capture translucent/layered windows, show flashing rectangle during recording, minimize the main window while starting to record data, as well as specify the number of frames per second.

Sound and cursor options

Aplus Screen Recorder allows you to tweak the audio parameters by selecting the capture device and format, choosing the compressed format, and interleaving video and audio streams at a certain number of frames or milliseconds.You can also show or hide the mouse cursor in/from your recordings. You can use the actual mouse cursor, select between several predefined ones, or import a custom one from a file. In addition, the tool lets you highlight the cursor using different shapes (circle, ellipse, square, rectangle) and adjust the size of the shape.

Insert screen annotations

You may add screen annotations in order to create personalized video tutorials with custom explanations. Aplus Screen Recorder lets you embed text notes inside boxes, alter the text in terms of size, font, font style, and color, change the shape (round rectangle, ellipse, rectangle) and background color of the boxes, and upload a user-defined image that is displayed in the box background.Furthermore, you may close some of the notes, drag and drop them to the desired desktop position, resize them, adjust their transparency, and clone them.

Final remarks

All things considered, Aplus Screen Recorder integrates smart and powerful features under its hood for helping you record video streams and include sound, screen annotations, and cursor. It is suitable especially for professional users.