I'm a newbie in desktop recording and screencasting. I didn't find a suitable free application to do all the things I want it to do, but I did enjoy using jing.

I would expect such an application to have these features:

• choose the whole desktop, a region, a window to record
• zoom in an area, and camera move
• save the recorded movie to a compressed format
• have basic editing tools
• have the mouse highlighting feature (either a sonar blip or something similar)
• highlight window/field on the screen, any trick will do
• display pressed keys/key combinations (like iphone does)

So the question is:

Which free desktop recording/screencasting software would you recommend on windows?

It doesn't have to have all those features, just tell me your favorable experiences. Please suggest tools that would do mouse/keys/areas highlight tricks. I'm open to commercial software too, but I would prefer a free one.

Thank you!