Im starting up a youtube channel for some gimp tutorials, i am currently using faststone capture as my screen recorder and i was wondering if there are some other preferences on screen recorders... for me id like free software and i tried camstudio and it didnt let me reorder layers so what are some good recorders (i have windows btw) and would it be okay if i made written tutorials into video tutorials?

for me Camstudio blows and up and destroys things... (makes screen flash some weird almost like Green Screen green)
and never heard of Faststone.

Thats funny i tried Hypercam and it did that to me too! And faststone is working pretty good, i cant autopan but thats okay!

I've used the free version of BSR Screen Recorder 5. The free one leaves their "watermark" in the corners of the video, but otherwise the quality is pretty good and it's easy to use I think. I'd be willing to pay for it if I made videos... I've never tried anything else, so can't really offer any comparisons.

After watching a bit of your plaid and stitching YouTube tutorial, I'd say the mouse click sound has got to go. It was pretty loud and the sound seems to lag a bit, so we weren't hearing the click sound when you were clicking.

That's all I've got to suggest :)

Ya i was gonna change that after i first viewed the video but i didnt want to remake my 12 minute video so i guess im just a bit lazy

Yay! for another GIMPer starting a youtube channel.

Camstudio doesn't let you drag layers. The expensive Camtasia studio has the same problem. You can get around this by explaining to your audience how to drag the layer and then use the arrow buttons in the layer dialog to reorder the layers. I usually solve this by pretending to drag the layer and then say, "But you can use these arrow keys as well." and then I use the arrow keys.

I foresee problems with layer groups but if/when the problem arrives I'll just stop the recording if I need to drag in groups and stitch the separate recording together in editing later I guess.

The things is, camstudio gives you excellent results. Just as good and sometimes better than camtasia. Especially if you use the the camtasia codec, that is free, with camstudio.

About doing written tutorials? Ask the tutorial maker for permission and if it's hard to track them down as least credit them fully in the video itself so it's always clear even if the video gets embedded on another website then youtube. But please consider making your own tutorials as well. You'll increase the GiMP resources that way.

p.s.
Be prepared for hate comments. Youtube is too anonymous for some people to handle and they say things that I can only explain as either bad puberty or them taking out some frustration on you.
You need to have a thick skin. And you need to be able to recognise the difference between constructive criticism and plain rudeness.

Wink makes some pretty nice animated tutorials and is free also.
I use FastStone Capture myself.The commercial version with record as movie addition. (cost is 9 bucks)