Power Screen Capture can capture screen from your desktop with high quality. Besides, it offers you the function of capturing video and image from DV, TV tuner, other devices.

Pros: This is a all in one screen capture tool. You can capture screenshots quickly. Power Screen Capture is a tool designed for professionals and amateurs alike through the easy to easy to use interface. High quality captures are now available on the desktop and captures present high quality. Captured files are displayed as a list and then you can review, copy, delete or rename the files easily. You can add water mark or text captions to the captured videos and images. Videos can even come from devices like a TV tuner, DV and other such video sources. Setting of parameters for each capture session can be set and tweaked for each capture session. Various settings let you set video compression codec, audio compression codec, output frame size and frame rate. You can set multiple video and encoder settings. Options are provided to tweak the parameters too for optimum video quality. This is via an interface that is easy to use. Preview is available for captured video that may or may not include audio. It’s possible to browse through such files and edit them. Nicely designed interface with elaborate setting that include capture settings and device settings. Nice color schemes too. Controls available including the controls on the preview screen are quite intuitive.

Cons: None that is noticeable, except to get the best results one should understand what settings make the best sense in a given situation.

Overall: This simple yet sophisticated application has so many controls available for getting optimized results that it’d be tough to mess up capture sessions. This is definitely a 4 star package.