I am looking to upload a racing video to youtube..but don"t know how to capture screen effectively.....can you help me!!
When I have done that in the past I have used FRAPS aswell, works well as long as you have a good PC.
Fraps will be the best one that fits on recording your game, but your PC must be high in terms of its specs I think because you are running two big programs at the same time.
Fraps is the best but you'll have to register or you'll get a nasty little watermark. Also I'm not sure how much of RAM and CPU Fraps uses so make sure you have it enough.
Fraps fails for me - when I'm at a 2560x1600 resolution the files are just too big, and selecting half size resolution means that any text is unreadable .
For desktop apps Screen Recorder Gold worked fine for me, for PC games I do suggest FRAPS too. I don't know any possibilities to record console games but to set up a cam that records your screen, maybe the one from your cell phone or anything.