A blank screen capture involves a black screen or any other colored screen that doesn't register the supposed footage that should appear on the recording. This is caused by a variety of reasons, including incompatibilities between the player and the screen capture program, a blocked screen capture caused by the computer's security program or the screen capture attempts to reproduce copyrighted material. It is always important to take note that duplicating content from a copyrighted movie is illegal and may cause fines, imprisonment or both.
A problematic recording showing a recorded video with missed out frames, missing graphics, jerky footage or erratic playback speed is usually caused by slow graphic cards and computer memory. Although these problems generally require technical hardware improvements, simple solutions that may help alleviate such issues include closing all unnecessary programs in the computer, making the video's playback window smaller or changing the settings of the screen capture and media player programs to adjust the movie's playback and recording resolutions.
A blurred recording may actually show a complete copy of the movie, but it looks annoyingly fuzzy or blurred. Some may also look pixilated and the video doesn't provide enough details to make it usable. This problem can be due to corrupted or badly tuned settings of your screen capture program and the media player used to play the movie. Sometimes, the frame size recorded by the screen capture program may be so small that the final video seen in a bigger window, especially in full-screen mode, shows a blurred or pixilated version.
A recording crash means a failed screen capture attempt. This is typically caused by CPU resources getting all used up. Often, other programs are using these resources and nothing is left for the screen capture process to use. Another common cause of this is when the screen-captured movie's destination hard drive has not enough disk space anymore to accommodate the video being processed. It is important to have enough disk space allowance, at least twice the projected file size of your captured movie, because screen capture programs would typically create temporary files to store audio-video resources while the movie is being recorded.