How can I get good quality screen recordings on a mac?

I am a web designer. I have a few customers who I make video tutorials for so they can find their way around their website. I have been using Quicktime Screen Recording to make videos so far. The quality is great when I view the origional movies on my own computer but when I export them to Youtube via Quicktime or export the movie as a .MOV file, the quality is lost. So I end up sending a video to my customers to watch that is fuzzy and out of focus.
What I want to be able to do is upload high quality, sharp video tutorial to a 3rd party video hosting platform like Youtube.
There are a number of paid apps on the app store for screen casting, but I am not if they would be any better than Quicktime.
I am willing to pay for an app if it does what I need but I would rather use the software that ships with the Mac if possible.
I am using a mid 2009 MacBook Pro. The screen on the laptop is not high resolution, the 27 inch monitor i am using is (I don't know if that will effect the video quality)
Has anyone got any ideas?
Thanks - Seb

Your problem is not with the screen recording app but with YouTube's method of making the movie smaller when you upload it. You could try using Vimeo or some other service instead of YouTube. But I suspect that you will get best results by experimenting with exporting to different video formats before uploading it to YouTube. Everyone's in love with MP4 at the moment. A lower resolution in MP4 won't undergo so much compression at YouTube's end. Best advice from YouTube is here:
http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1722171&topic=28886 48&ctx=topic
The resolution of your capture area will definitely change how much compression is applied to your video. If what you're demonstrating allows it, you should be capturing a smaller area than your entire display. Remember that the smaller the file that you deliver to YouTube, the less YouTube will compress it at their end.
And lastly, remember YouTube is a free service: you pay nothing and get what you paid for. If you want to host exactly what you want, get your own server and pay for your own bandwidth. Then you get as much resolution as you like.

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