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If you're okay with a paid solution Camtasia is probably the gold standard for tutorial/instructional videos, especially screencasts. https://www.techsmith.com

If you're okay with a paid solution Camtasia is probably the gold standard for tutorial/instructional videos, especially screencasts. https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html For something free, I've had success with OpenShot and used it for show & tells at work on a work machine that I didn't have a licence to use anything more 'professional' with but be prepared to finnick about with it, but for your simple use case it should do the trick. You can use OBS (https://obsproject.com/ https://obsproject.com/) or ShareX (https://getsharex.com/ https://getsharex.com/) as free tools to capture the screen and/or your webcam. https://www.openshot.org/ https://www.openshot.org/

samspenc 4y ago
Thank you! Do Camtasia, OBS, etc allow simple video workflows like linear editing and splicing audio / video tracks? Or would I need to use these screen capture software along with something else for that functionality?
- rschachte 4y ago
  Yes they allow for both of these things. “Clip at playhead” will allow you to cut the track and you can right click the track to separate video and audio instantly. Great tool
- benbristow 4y ago
  OBS doesn't really do editing, it's designed for live streaming/events (hence Open Broadcaster Software (OBS)) but also handles 'VOD' (video on-demand) recording. You can do cuts on the fly as you record by configuring different scenes and using hotkeys but there's no timeline feature or post-editing features. Camtasia is basically a NLE (Non-linear (video) editor) which has a screen recorder/A/V external capture function bundled though and can be used for splicing audio/video, adding basic effects/transitions and titles etc. I suggested OBS if using OpenShot (which is also a NLE) as it's good for capturing screen/external video (capture card/webcam etc.)/audio content which then can be post-edited using OpenShot.

samspenc 4y ago

Thank you! Do Camtasia, OBS, etc allow simple video workflows like linear editing and splicing audio / video tracks? Or would I need to use these screen capture software along with something else for that functionality?

rschachte 4y ago
Yes they allow for both of these things. “Clip at playhead” will allow you to cut the track and you can right click the track to separate video and audio instantly. Great tool
benbristow 4y ago
OBS doesn't really do editing, it's designed for live streaming/events (hence Open Broadcaster Software (OBS)) but also handles 'VOD' (video on-demand) recording. You can do cuts on the fly as you record by configuring different scenes and using hotkeys but there's no timeline feature or post-editing features. Camtasia is basically a NLE (Non-linear (video) editor) which has a screen recorder/A/V external capture function bundled though and can be used for splicing audio/video, adding basic effects/transitions and titles etc. I suggested OBS if using OpenShot (which is also a NLE) as it's good for capturing screen/external video (capture card/webcam etc.)/audio content which then can be post-edited using OpenShot.