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uTIPu: Another free screencast recorder

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FreeScreenCast isn't the only game in town when it comes to easy to use free software for recording action on your Windows desktop. Like FreeScreenCast, uTipu is a free Windows app that lets you record videos and upload them to a web server. You can either send links to your videos to friends or use the embed code to post the videos on your own web site.

The screencast recorder is fairly basic. There are no advanced editing features, so if you're not happy with your voice track, or if you want to redo the beginning or end of a video you're going to have to redo the whole thing. But you can hit pause while you're making a recording to collect your thoughts before continuing.

Unlike FreeScreenCast, uTipu allows users to save files to their desktop as Flash videos. So if you have a video editor that can handle Flash videos, you can make edits using a third party application. You also have much more control over your settings with uTipu than FreeScreenCast. You can adjust your bit rate and choose your zoom level, which will let you do things like capture your fullscreen desktop while compressing the video to 640 x 480 pixels. You can also zoom in on just the area of the screen you want to focus on.

You can find a sample video we uploaded after the jump. Yes, we know it's too large to properly fit on our website, but if you alter the embed code trying to shrink the video you just wind up awkwardly cropping the video

Update: Oleg from uTIPu contacted us to show us how to shrink a video by adding "overstretch=fit"to the embed code. He also tells us there will be an updated version of the client with some additional features coming out soon.

[via WebWare]

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