Top 7 Screen Recorder with Zoom-n-Pan

Zoom-n-Pan is very useful when making videos for the small screen. This feature allows you to zoom and pan in a specific area smoothly showing specific area in details, and focus your audience¡¯s attention on important screen movements or actions to make your point clearly. Now more and more screen recorders come to introduce this feature that provides full visual clarity when replaying on a smaller screen. Here I have collected 7 screen recorders with the zoom-n-pan feature, you may pick up the one that fits your need.

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1. Captivate
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/ ()
Captivate from Adobe lets you create powerful and engaging Flash-based simulations, software demonstrations, and scenario-based training without programming knowledge or multimedia skills. Captivate 4 has just been released.

To achieve the zoom-n-pan effect in Captivate, you need to put a zoom object to select the area. It works like a magnifying glass on your screen.

2. Camtasia
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp ()
Easily record onscreen activity. Edit for professional polish, enhance for emphasis. Share multiple video formats conveniently. Version 6.0 features support for HD, timesaving editing hotkeys, and the ability to edit audio and video tracks independently.

Add the zoom-n-pan effect to the selected key frames, and adjust the zoom speed and scale for best result.

3. DemoCreator
http://www.sameshow.com/demo-creator.html#107 ()
Easily creates the powerful animated software video tutorials and website demos just by three steps: Record, Edit, and Publish. The new version of DemoCreator 2.5.5 has enhance the user¡¯s experience and the editing features.

Put the zoom object on the area of the slides you want to enlarge for emphasis. When editing, the zoom area is displayed and can be easily repositioned or resized with the mouse. If you link up two zoom objects, you can see the panning effect.

4. BB FlashBack
http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashBack.aspx ()
Easy-to-use screen recorder creates compact, high quality movies for tutorials, demos and presentations with powerful video and audio editing features. Version 2.5 includes and enhances multiple formats export.

You can emphasize key actions and areas of the screen by adding 'pan' and 'zoom' effects to your presentation for that professional finish.

5. Instant Demo
http://www.instant-demo.com/download.php ()
Using a very simple interface you can create animated Flash demos quickly and easily. Most controls to edit and annotate are contained in just one sm

Zooming is done during editing by dragging a rectangle around the region to be enlarged. The zoom region can automatically follow the mouse activity.

6. DemoBuilder
http://www.demo-builder.com/download.html ()
A powerful Flash-based tool that allows you to create eye-catching and professionally-looking interactive presentations that do not require any programming skills.

Set the zoom scale and time for the key frames. Adjust the parameter by dragging the parameter to left or right. You may find setting your zoom target area confusing if you are not familiar with this screen recorder.

7. TipCam
http://www.utipu.com/app/download ()
Free screen recorder for Windows. Record your screen and voice in a flash video (FLV format) and share it instantly at uTIPu.com or via e-mail.

The only free application supports Pan-n-Zoom(as far as I am concerned) so the recording area can easily follow the movements of your mouse cursor. The Pan-n-Zoom feature is controlled by some hot key when recording. Not that convenient for users.

Is there more software with zoom-n-pan? Which one are you using?