BB FlashBack Standard

by: CNET staff on February 01, 2010

BB FlashBack Standard Edition is an incredibly easy-to-use program that allows you to create video recordings of on-screen activities. The program's cool features and intuitive design make it a great choice for presentations, tutorials, and more.

The program's interface is quite well-designed, and getting started with the recording features is easy. A small (but optional) toolbar appears next to the your system tray, with buttons for Record, Stop, and Play, as well as access to a more detailed menu. When you're ready to record, just click the button, and a brief wizard appears that allows you to customize settings for display, sound, Webcam, and more. You can have the program record the full screen, a particular region of the screen, or just one window. We thought it was especially cool that you can run the Webcam at the same time you're recording in full-screen mode; the Webcam recording then appears inset within the full-screen view and can be moved and resized as needed. Anyone who finds themselves using the same settings over and over again can make use of the Quick Record feature, which remembers the settings from the previous recording session. The program's editing tools allow you to crop videos and add markers, text, images, sounds, and more. Overall, we were quite impressed with BB FlashBack Standard's versatile features, and we think it's the best program of this type that we've seen.

BB FlashBack Standard Edition has a 30-day trial period. The program installs and uninstalls without issues. We highly recommend this program to all users.

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BB FlashBack Standard Edition is an easy-to-use screen recorder creates compact, high quality movies for tutorials, demos and presentations. Enhance your recordings with text, sound, images, webcam and special effects. It includes easy sharing with quick upload to YouTube and other video hosting sites. Save to common file formats: Flash, QuickTime (H264), AVI, WMV. Capture Vista's 'Aero' graphics. Radical new technology means a perfect capture of your Windows desktop with minimal impact on PC performance, even on low powered PCs.

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"Record the audio really well!"

July 31, 2012  |   By drenaldi

Version: BB FlashBack Standard 3.2.5.2273

Pros

I found similar softwares having difficulties getting the screen and audio recording right, but this software does it with a breeze. Well done.

Cons

#1 Price - $89 is borderline expensive for a standard version. I reckon they'd sell more if the price is closer to $50. Their top of the line Pro Edition also costs $199 and with Camtasia only $100 more it's a pretty tough sell.
#2 It requires 2 steps process to convert the initial recording into avi or other common formats while cheaper softwares would automatically do it (ok - I got the idea. You have the chance to edit it before converting it. It is still a hassle though)

Summary

They got it right with this one. I am happy with the output. Price is the thing to consider with both the Standard and Pro version.

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4.0 stars

"The best screen cap software I've used."

January 8, 2012  |   By dock lizard

Version: BB FlashBack Standard 3.2.2.2096

Pros

simple to set up and use/excellent export, sharing & publishing capabilities/records webcam and screen/nice effects & annotations

Cons

none so far

Summary

I got the Standard edition and it is the best screen cap software I've used so far. I make short, simple videos for my educational website to explain/enhance certain points of information and this software more than does the job. The editing features in the Pro edition would probably be nice to have, but I didn't think it was worth the extra cost for my needs. I'm very satisfied with this product.

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3.0 stars

"Good Pics, but..."

June 5, 2010  |   By shadows567

Version: BB FlashBack Standard 2.7.3.1528

Pros

Awesome recording

Cons

the price... 89 dollars?! what are you? insane?

Summary

price=bad, lols.

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4.0 stars

"A Much Welcomed Alternative to Hypercam"

February 5, 2010  |   By mrzeppelin09

Version: BB FlashBack Standard 2.6.9.1360

Pros

Movie Maker-ish interface
Easy to Use
Can record cleanly without any quality loss
Great alternative to Hypercam

Cons

Slows down old computers
Can take long to process video

Summary

BB FlashBack Standard Edition is a much welcomed alternative to Hypercam. I was quite impressed that users such as myself, who are used to the Windows Movie Maker scheme will have an easy time with it. At first I was appalled at the massive price tag this program brought with it, but all of your $89 are being well spent.

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