LICEcap

LICEcap is an intuitive and flexible application that can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF. It is designed to be lightweight and function with high performance, and is compatible with both Windows and OSX.

In addition to .GIF, LICEcap supports its own native lossless .LCF file format. This format allows for higher compression ratios than .GIF, higher quality (more than 256 colors per frame), and more accurate timestamping. If you record to .LCF, you can play back the .LCF files within REAPER and use it to convert to .gif or another video format.

LICEcap is GPL free software. Each download package includes the source.

Features and options:

• Record directly to .GIF or .LCF
• Move the screen capture frame while recording
• Pause and restart recording, with optional inserted text messages
• Global hotkey (shift+space) to toggle pausing while recording
• Adjustable maximum recording framerate, to allow throttling CPU usage
• Basic title frame, with or without text
• Record mouse button presses
• Display elapsed time in the recording