Video demo glitchy when recording

I am recording a video demo of MS PowerPoint. Each clip is 1-2 minutes at the most. I only have PPT, CP, and Word open while I am doing the demo. As I am clicking around in PPT, my screen will sometimes flicker or another window will suddenly pop up over it. Sometimes the Word window will jump from my second monitor into the frame I'm recording for the demo on the primary monitor. It's just all together glitchy. This shouldn't be a processor/RAM problem. I work on an Alienware with 8G RAM, 64-bit, with Windows 7. Any idea why it would be so glitchy?

Not completely sure, but try disabling video acceleration, Adobe Captivate Help | Choppy full motion recording.
The type of weirdness your experiencing is strange though, especially with an Alienware machine. They're built for gaming so having display problems while recording video is something it should do without any problems.

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