A real camcorder can record many real world things including computer screen, while ZD Soft Screen Recorder can only record computer screen but can do much better than a real camcorder on screen recording, because software screen recording is crystal-clear, pixel by pixel, 100% true color reproduction, non-interfering, no shaking and no noise. When you're done the files are all there for you.ZD Soft Screen Recorder is a high performance screen recording software program. It has a screenshot mode that is really good for games - you can just click on the little camera as and when you want a screenshot and it automatically takes the screenshot and saves it as graphics files - you choose. It stays in the corner of the screen and does not minimise to the task bar - so it remains accessible. It has a variety of drawing tools that you can write on your recording as you go along - I tried that and works well, it's very cute actually - it shows a small pen drawing on the screen. It had an intuitive interface - I loaded my game, selected game mode and it automatically found the exact edges around my game and recorded just that. The sound was perfectly in sync - and even more it captured the audio even when it was turned off (The PC was playing the audio, the speaker to play it to me was off.) Tested it on a game and was happy with the quality - as good as any other recording software I've used. (Click an option to record something then it takes you to the interface, from there you can register - or record something then there's a pop-up.) Installed / Registered without a problem.