I'm planning on making some more Movies, some tutorial, some for fun.

Was looking for suggestions on the best type of Video capturing others have found, and the best rendering options as well.

From what I have experienced in the past, with fraps I captured it in half screen and the file size was still insanely large. Rendered it with Sony Vegas using others suggested quality and the end result is a somewhat dissappointing video with an insanely large file size.