Pros
Easy to use and with enough functionality to create good looking tutorials.
Cons
It lacks "click effect" and "zoom and pan effects".
Summary
I tried BB FlashBack and DemoCreator before installing Wink, but in the end Wink seemed much more simple to use and gave me what I wanted: a rapid way to do a tutorial in Flash format.
It is true that the other commercial applications had better effects and more complex functionality but for example with DemoCreator the "click effect" was suffering a big delay. I lost like half and hour trying to figure out how to fix it, and in the end I decided to use Wink and to do the tutorial today, not tomorrow.
Being free it is a plus. In this case you get much much more than what you pay.
Pros
Can't think of any...
Cons
No panning feature, very stationary, not designed for the non-tech savvy computer users. I have a life, I want a program where I don't need to learn how to use it, I want a program I could use right out of the box.
Read replies (3)
Reply by Amdillae on July 17, 2011
I also disagree with this review. I have tried both CamStudio and Wink and found Wink to be a much more user friendly and effect screen capture program than Camstudio. CamStudio is NOT an intuitive package and has little to no in program help as well as no solid inbuilt editing option.
Reply by strovink on April 27, 2011
Have to disagree with the 1 start rating. I downloaded, installed, opened the first-time guide, did my first "presentation", and then used Wink to document what I was doing with a problem web site. Quick and easy. Certainly at 5-star product for the free price. Too bad new versions haven't come out to keep such a useful program fresh.
Reply by Scaramunga86 on April 6, 2009
There is a tutorial on how to use it under help. I found it very easy. "Non-tech savvy computer users" shouldn't be writing computer tutorials.
Pros
easy frame-by-frame editing, smooth good quality capture, export to swf or jpeg/png, great annotation tools
Cons
took a while to figure out that to export to a graphic format (e.g. jpeg/png) you have to use File -> Export to HTML.
Summary
Great for animated screencasts, but also useful for simple screenshots
Pros
Pretty simple once you test it a few times. I captures screenshots and can make a flash presentation that resembles real time recording (based on your capture rate). Very useful for software demo's and the like. It worksed well for me and got the done- which was to make a demo on how to configure a SQL client.
Cons
I tried it with Halo just to see if it would make a little movie. It is not going to work on things that move really fast like games. At least you cannot use it to make a flash movie of a game though you could take screen shots.
Pros
It delivers what I expected. Easy to record video and audio for presentations. And it can even export it to SWF.
Cons
Nothing. It's superb.
Pros
Easy to use, decent functionalities, fit for a variety of purposes and above all free.
Pros
Fairly easy to use, The final product looks clean and professional. Truly free, no ads or nag pages.
Pros
Capture ANY screen activity as well as insert your own screen where ever you want. I've previously seen Camtasia, Captivate, SnagIt, CapturePad. Wink is my preferred choice. It's simple to use, works well and the price is excellent.
Cons
Minimal cons. It is desirable to be able to save the output as Mpeg or AVI files, but hese are not options. Only output types are Flash or as a Windows executable which is not a big problem if you have a file converter.
Pros
does the job
Cons
not very polished
Pros
This is one of the most useful free programs out there. I had spent almost a week testing out simular products and none of them were nearly as good as Wink. And Wink was the only one that was free! I was able to make a desktop video in about an hour the very first time I used it. You can see the video and what Wink is capable of on our website: fixieonline.com/pagefix/ (I'm sure it can do MUCH more as this was only my first attempt)
Thank you for the wonderful product.
Cons
I would have liked to be able to overlay audio on top of the completed video (all frames) rather then just one frame at a time. This can probably be done while capturing, I'm not sure, as I wanted to add audio after completing the captures.
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