Good value Usability Software!

I have been recently in touch with Techsmith's Morae and was impressed on what the software provides for usability testers. If you haven't heard of the software yet, it is worth a look. It consists of three separate modules which are designed to help the recording and note taking throughout usability tests.
1) The recorder is responsible for capturing the screen activities and recording the video and audio of the user.
2) The observer is used by the experimenter to take notes on the fly through the test
and
3) The manager, which basically puts the outputs of the other two softwares together.

The downside to this is that he price is a bit steep $1,495 for the bundle (and if you want more recorder and observer modules you add $195 for each extra copy).

Another quite good alternative for low budgeted usability analysts is Clearleft's Silverback which is the equivalent of Morae's recorder wih the possibility of adding markers to the video on the fly via a remote control. I've tried this software for 30 days and it definitely does a good job! And better yet, it costs $49.95 (and 10% of the purchase price helps save the gorillas!!! Seriously!)

Of course, there is a downside... It only works on Mac computers.