Suffice to say, this is very professional screen recording software with more than enough features and settings/customizations to satisfy even the most discerning user. There are so many options it would be nigh on impossible to enumerate them all here. Once you hit the ‘Stop’ button, that is when ActivePresenter really gets interesting: This is the one and only area where I believe the software could be improved: include a pre-recording warning system of some kind and display the system tray options automatically. Starting the capture process does initiate a system tray icon with options to Pause, Stop, or Discard the current capture but even that requires a left click before those options are available:Įven though every aspect of ActivePresenter is highly customizable via a plethora of preferences and options I could find no way to amend this behavior. A message appears… ‘Preparing, please wait’… for the briefest of moments and then recording automatically begins.
Now we come to the actual capture process itself and this is where I encountered one minor negative capturing is almost instantaneous with zero warning, there is no countdown, no ‘Go’ button.
During installation ActivePresenter did mention that it was adding itself to Windows Firewall exceptions – however, I’m almost certain that would be connected to the program’s automatic update feature.ĪctivePresenter’s initial interface is simple enough, offering just three main options: Installation is clean and free from bundling or unwanted extras. ActivePresenter is truly impressive, by far the best of those tested to date, and the beauty of this program is even though it is obviously designed with the serious user in mind, the pre-set defaults and intuitive GUI make it a piece of cake to use, even for novices. But, once you see the features included in this outstanding software, you can fully appreciate the ‘additional’ megabytes. I also promised to take ActivePresenter for a test drive and report back – well I did and here is the result:Ĭompared to the alternatives in the genre, ActivePresenter is not a small program – download is 36.6MB installing to 83.4MB.
At that time I mentioned ActivePresenter, a program from AtomiSystems which has been attracting favorable user comments but one which I hadn’t yet tested. A few weeks ago I reviewed a number of free programs specifically designed to record screen activity for demos, guides, etc… Screen Recorder Freeware: which is the best choice?… none of which really came up to the mark and some of which were just downright awful.