From picking the target to the finished export — here you'll find every CaptureStudio feature in detail. For a quick overview, the home page is often enough.
Download CaptureStudioFrom picking the target to the finished export, CaptureStudio covers the entire screen-recording workflow — no editing software required.
A window picker lists every open window — record the whole screen or target a single window, no matter which application it belongs to.
Camera and microphone capture a second video alongside the screen. A live self-preview gives the speaker orientation while staying technically excluded from the recording itself.
Mouse clicks are automatically highlighted during recording — choose from five styles (ring, filled circle, ripple, dot, crosshair). Ideal for tutorials where it's otherwise hard to tell where a click landed.
A floating control bar accompanies every recording with a live timer, a mute toggle for the microphone, and a clear stop button — no need to switch back to the main window.
Recordings are stored and managed permanently per project — including metadata such as date, time, duration, and whether a speaker video was captured. Play, export, or delete right from the list.
Right after you stop, CaptureStudio shows a preview: the screen large, the speaker as a freely draggable picture-in-picture on top — save, export, or discard with one click.
Export produces a standalone folder with screen.mp4,
speaker.mp4, and a combined combined.html that plays both
videos in sync in the browser — shareable even without any player software installed.
Choose your camera and microphone, set video quality (Low/Medium/High) and frame rate, pick a default storage location for projects, and adjust the speaker overlay's position (4 corners) and size (3 sizes).
In tutorials and screencasts, a simple mouse click often goes unnoticed in the video. CaptureStudio automatically highlights every click during recording — choose from a ring, a filled circle, a ripple effect, a dot, or a crosshair.
Instead of hunting for video files in Explorer, CaptureStudio manages every recording as an entry in its project — with date, time, duration, and a note on whether a speaker video is included.
As soon as you stop recording, a preview opens automatically — the screen large, the speaker video as a freely draggable picture-in-picture on top.
CaptureStudio is built for smooth recordings — with project management, portable export, and settings that go beyond plain capture.
Instead of always capturing the whole screen, a picker dialog lets you target a single open window — no matter which application it belongs to.
During recording, a small preview window shows the speaker their own camera image for orientation — technically excluded from the screen capture, so it never shows up in the recorded video itself.
Screen and speaker video export as a standalone folder with combined.html,
which plays both in sync in the browser — shareable even without CaptureStudio or a
special player.
Save, export, or discard — the preview after recording shows immediately whether the take worked before it ever lands in the project.
Settings let you pick video quality (Low/Medium/High) and frame rate — depending on whether file size or sharpness matters more. Encoding uses Media Foundation as H.264/AAC.
Ring, filled circle, ripple, dot, or crosshair — just try which style fits your tutorial best in settings.
A floating control bar accompanies the recording with a live timer, a mute toggle for the microphone, and a clear stop button — no need to switch back to the main window in between.
CaptureStudio ships as a standalone x64 single-file EXE — no .NET runtime, no installation, no administrator rights, just download and run.
The interface is available in German and English; an in-app language switch in settings is coming in a future version.
CaptureStudio can be fully tried for 14 days — recording and preview keep working without restriction the whole time. Once the trial ends, a one-time access code per workstation unlocks saving recordings again.
Camera and microphone selection, video quality, frame rate, the default storage location for projects, and the speaker overlay's position and size can all be set centrally in settings and apply automatically to new projects.
Storage location, camera/microphone setup, speaker overlay, license activation.
For new usersFrom a new project to your first finished recording — step by step.
For daily useClick styles, speaker position, video quality, and portable export.
Try CaptureStudio free for 14 days — we're happy to show you how it fits into your workflow.
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