Comments on: Mac screencast recording choices http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/06/11/mac-screencast-recording-choices/ Alex Miller's technical blog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:04:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Alex http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/06/11/mac-screencast-recording-choices/#comment-55333 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:54:59 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/06/11/mac-screencast-recording-choices/#comment-55333 Thanks for the comments Tonio. As I said, I'm just doing first looks at these things so I'm likely missing important stuff like the difference in target audience. I don't consider $100 much at all for a quality piece of software but then maybe I'm unusual. :) When I tried iShowU, it acted strangely - I got scrolling portions of my other screen in parts of the background and I couldn't figure out how to lock the screen area. Granted, I only spent 10 minutes on it, which is why I wouldn't call this a review. Screenflow did exactly what I expected on the first try. I found it easier to get started with than iShowU. But I'm sure I'll learn more when I try these in earnest. Thanks for the comments Tonio. As I said, I’m just doing first looks at these things so I’m likely missing important stuff like the difference in target audience. I don’t consider $100 much at all for a quality piece of software but then maybe I’m unusual. :)

When I tried iShowU, it acted strangely - I got scrolling portions of my other screen in parts of the background and I couldn’t figure out how to lock the screen area. Granted, I only spent 10 minutes on it, which is why I wouldn’t call this a review.

Screenflow did exactly what I expected on the first try. I found it easier to get started with than iShowU.

But I’m sure I’ll learn more when I try these in earnest.

]]> by: Tonio Loewald http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/06/11/mac-screencast-recording-choices/#comment-55332 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:46:35 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/06/11/mac-screencast-recording-choices/#comment-55332 I think you're referring to my review here http://loewald.com/blog/?p=149 but I think you've missed a few things. ScreenFlow costs a LOT and is intended at a different audience (people doing this kind of thing "professionally"). As such, I think it's a clearly superior product, and while much-improved remains flawed even for its intended audience (its keystroke display is unattractive and not sufficiently configurable). IShowU has a killer feature shared by one other program -- you pick a preset, capture your video, and you're done. No "export delay". If you produce videos to explain things quickly for a small audience, IShowU will save you a LOT of time compared to ScreenFlow. If you produce videos to make money for a large audience, ScreenFlow is incomparably superior. I think you’re referring to my review here http://loewald.com/blog/?p=149 but I think you’ve missed a few things. ScreenFlow costs a LOT and is intended at a different audience (people doing this kind of thing “professionally”). As such, I think it’s a clearly superior product, and while much-improved remains flawed even for its intended audience (its keystroke display is unattractive and not sufficiently configurable).

IShowU has a killer feature shared by one other program — you pick a preset, capture your video, and you’re done. No “export delay”. If you produce videos to explain things quickly for a small audience, IShowU will save you a LOT of time compared to ScreenFlow.

If you produce videos to make money for a large audience, ScreenFlow is incomparably superior.

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