A lot is happening on your screen, and a split-second can make all the difference. Sure enough you can take pictures at the press of a button, but you might need an entire recording. Luckily, you can rely on specialized applications like AimOne Screen Recorder to record the entire activity on screen, or just what’s happening inside a particular window.

It doesn’t take long before you can check what the application can do for you, with the installer being over before you realize. The window shows up, displaying an organized layout, with an intuitive toolbar with all recording controls, and expandable menus for source, destination, as well as hotkey commands.

Although you can take the application for a spin right away, it’s best to go through the configuration menus first in order to set up general details. Expanding the first one lets you choose the type of recording to capture, which can be the entire screen, custom region, or just what’s happening inside a window.

There’s the possibility to set margins, and even record audio from a microphone or speaker sound. A drop-down menu lets you choose frames per second for more quality or less disk space, and whether or not to include the cursor, which can come in handy for creating tutorials and such.

Turning to the second section is where you get to define destination options. A folder needs to be specified, as well as the file type to save as. Sadly, the only supported formats are AVI and WMV, and it would have been useful to see at least GIF, given its Internet popularity.

Quality of the capture codec can be set in case you’re not at terms with default options, and this goes for both video and audio capturing. Last but not least, playback and capture controls can be triggered through custom hotkeys, which is especially handy if you choose to minimize to tray during recording so no post-processing is required.

All things considered, we can state that AimOne Screen Recorder is a reliable application because of its overall set of features. Even though output formats leave much to be desired, quality can be tweaked with ease, while recording is done exactly inside the space of interest.