What is the best software for desktop recording?

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Published on 2009-07-17T08:02:16Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 7:14 UTC
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I know this question is partially a stub from: http://superuser.com/questions/201/free-desktop-recording-screencasting-on-windows

However I would have to use this at work, so it doesn't have to be free, just work very well.

Lended from the free post:

I would expect such an application to have these features:

choose the whole desktop, a region, a window to record

zoom in an area, and camera move

save the recorded movie to a compressed format

have basic editing tools

have the mouse highlighting feature

highlight window/field on the screen, any trick will do

display pressed keys/key combinations (like iphone does)

So the question is:

Which desktop recording/screencasting software would you recommend?

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