ScreenCam was primarily targeted at users who need to create video-oriented instructional materials who were not multimedia authors or video capture technicians.

Although some other commercial software did similar things, especially on Unix workstations, the widespread adoption of Windows 95 went a long ways to establishing ScreenCam's dominance in this area.

As Microsoft Windows matured and spread, the "VPC capture" design started to show its age, and programs that invasively intercepted procedure calls became difficult to support.

This ameliorated the problems caused by capturing and playing back VPCs, and allowed ScreenCam an upgrade path to newer OSes and the Internet.

The current version of ScreenCam[8] builds and edits interactive software demonstrations, simulations, podcasts, screencasts, and program demos.

Authors can edit the content (including mouse pointer path, position, image) and change the timing for each item to appear and disappear.