I’m using JME 3 Beta SDK and I can’t import the above class - it does not seem to be present in the class hierarchy. Has it been removed, and if so is there a better way to make simple videos?
it does exist, i used it 10 minutes ago 
[java]com.jme3.app.state.VideoRecorderAppState;[/java]
Make sure you have updated to the latest stable update
help → check for updates
Will do. I checked in that exact package - it has a ScreenCaptureAppState, an AbstractAppState and the AppState interface… no video recorder.
Update doesn’t seem to work either (or it is extremely slow). I will just download and install a fresh build. But is there any way of knowing which build I have now? The splash screen just says JME 3 Beta - it would be nice to add ‘build xxxxx’ to that.
EDIT: I thought I would just download a nightly build to be sure of getting something more recent, but it does not seem the nightly builds page is being updated, if I am not mistaken. But at least I have discovered town.zip, which is also missing from my JDK
I don’t want to sound critical - JME is amazing software, I wouldn’t have a chance of building a game without it. For your testing, do you run all the samples in a default JDK environment and reject the build if any of the samples throw errors?