Handy little free screen recording software, this produces similar videos to VH’s tutorials on how to?. You can add sound or text info balloons to explain an item.
Can get the downloads:
Here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/
This one has a bit more info.
http://www.camstudio.org/
Haven’t fully looked into it yet, but I believe it will convert your AVI to SWF as well.
Good luck.
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