MC Screen Capture

MC Screen Capture is an application you can use to capture the fullscreen or custom region to save it as an image file, as well as to record audio from your microphone and video from your desktop activity. It features advanced customization options.

Simple setup with systray integration

After a speedy and uneventful installation, the tool gets integrated into the systray area and captures the full screen by default when double-clicking the tray icon. This action can be swapped for recording audio, video, or audio and video.

Take, edit and save screenshots

When it comes to the image capture mode, you can choose between fullscreen and drawn region. It's possible to preview the image, zoom in and out, crop it, add text, draw with a pen, draw rectangles or ellipses, as well as change colors before copying or saving photo to PNG, JPG, BMP or TIFF filetype.

Record audio and video, set a timer

The audio and video recording features require Windows Media Encoder 9 to work. Settings can be configured when it comes to video (frames per second, frame compression quality, key frame frequency, bit rate), audio (bit rate, pin line, balance, volume level), along with the snapshot default format and JPG compression quality.
Moreover, you can enable a timer, set the delay before starting the recording and indicate the recording duration, instruct MC Screen Capture to automatically minimize when the recording starts and to take captures after selecting a region, as well as modify the default temporary working folder.

Evaluation and conclusion

Although it hasn't been updated for a pretty long time, MC Screen Capture worked on newer Windows models in our tests. It used a low amount of CPU and RAM, so it didn't hamper system performance.
All in all, MC Screen Capture contains practical options to help you take screenshots and record audio and video footage.