Acala Screen Recorder

Acala Screen Recorder is a software application whose purpose is to record the desktop and audio feed, and export results to a file.

Clean interface

Users should be careful when setting up this utility, as it offers to download other products that you do not actually need in order to properly run it. After completing it, you are greeted by a pretty minimal GUI, as it only encompasses a few buttons, a pane in which to display the playlist and some instructions. The latters along with the online Help contents ensure that all user categories can find their way around it, with great ease.

Insert screen annotations, adjust hotkeys and save videos to the HDD

This program enables you to video record the screen or a specified region of it, while also recording the environment with your microphone or system MCI is possible. Resulted items can be saved to a custom location on the hard drive as EXE or AVI.
In addition to that, you can allow capture to follow the mouse cursor, pause and resume recording, and show flashing rectangle during recording. Comprehensive shapes and layout libraries are available so that you can create various screen annotations.
Advanced options are also available, which enable you to change the video codec and audio format, adjust the quality and frame rate, and show or hide the cursor. Last but not least, keyboard shortcuts can be assigned to the most important available actions.

Conclusion

To sum up, Acala Screen Recorder is a pretty handy piece of software, which can be used to create tutorials. The interface is user-friendly, jobs are completed in a timely manner and there are sufficient options to keep you busy for quite a while. It does not hinder the computer’s performance, yet in our tests, on a Windows 8.1 64 bit operating system, it misbehaved multiple times, freezing and popping some errors.