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Snow Leopard 'Screen Recording' Feature Allows Desktop Video Recording

chelsel said:
Screenflow only allows you to capture the entire screen.
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Screenflow captures the entire screen in its initial capture. In editing mode you can crop down to any portion of the screen you'd like before publishing. Also adding zooms, pans, callouts, etc.

Garbled audio? Never had that problem in Screenflow.
 
Vanilla said:
I had to build a tutorial on a sofware product for internal communication recently and after a lot of research and trial downloads trying standard recording and then attempting to edit in iMovie/FCE etc. I eventually settled on ScreenFlow.

It. Is. An. Awesome. Product.
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+1

I can't really see Apple bringing any killer functionality to their inbuilt screen recording software that would lure me away from ScreenFlow, which was worth every penny.

For starters I can record everything, regardless of which application I have open. It would annoy me if I had restrictions placed on me for what I could and couldn't record by the application.
 
Great for supporting family...

This will be a great feature for anyone who has convinced family (i.e. Mom & Dad) to get a Mac and ends up supporting them.

Rather than trying to explain how to do something on the phone or via email, you will be able to record and send them a video of how it's done.

This is a great educational tool, IMHO.

G
 
Thank you apple!

Once again Apple have finally come around to a very useful and basic tool that can enhance the OS without the need to purchase so many minor third party apps.
 
love screenflow

I have screenflow and love it... It does the job better than anything i've used so far.
 
TheShinyMac said:
ohh well i will still use screenflow unless the built in one completely blows it out of the water
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Screenflow is a very nice program, but having this built in will be soooo very nice!!! :D

If I were screenflow I would be PISSED to hear about this haha! :eek:

Drumjim85 said:
what happened to "no new features"
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I've been saying for a while that there would be new features!

After Leopard was a bit buggy and feature focused, when they announced Snow Leopard they placed all the spotlight on performance and optimizations etc. BUT that does NOT mean that they didn't have all these features planned from the beginning. They are just not announcing them because then when they surprise us with them it takes all the pressure off and we will be very happy! Smart, better approach to the PR! Under promise, over deliver!
 
It has been in Leopard since it's inception...

Not sure why nobody else knew this, :confused: but check out the following command when run in the terminal...

"/usr/libexec/podcastproducer/pcastagentd -f ~/Documents/ScreenCapture.mov"

Been there all along. Well at least since Leopard. Just no GUI to it...

It is there to support Podcast Producer, Apple's Podcast workflow engine on their server product... There are many different ways to use it... It will even capture your voice over the mic...

voodueBunny:rolleyes:
 
Great Deal

I've wanted to use Snapz Pro in the past, but $69 is way over-priced. It looks like ScreenFlow is even more, at $99. Including this in a new OS priced at $129 makes the upgrade even more compelling.
 
voodueBunnie said:
Not sure why nobody else knew this, :confused: but check out the following command when run in the terminal...

"/usr/libexec/podcastproducer/pcastagentd -f ~/Documents/ScreenCapture.mov"

Been there all along. Well at least since Leopard. Just no GUI to it...

It is there to support Podcast Producer, Apple's Podcast workflow engine on their server product... There are many different ways to use it... It will even capture your voice over the mic...

voodueBunny:rolleyes:
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I checked out the command and it doesn't capture the screen, it captures video from the built-in camera.
 
Screenflow versus Camtasia

Can anyone compare/contrast Screenflow versus Camtasia. Yes I know Camtasia is only available on Windows today. I understand that TechSmith is working on a version of Camtasia for the Mac due sometime in second half of 2009. Have used Camtasia Studio on the PC to capture/build customer tutorials with chapterization and voice-over tracks as well as subtitles for Section 508 compliance.

TIA
 
Finally! I need to make screencasts occasionally and I really don't want to have to buy ScreenFlow, so my videos always have the demo watermark.

Really looking forward to this feature! :D
 
when Microsoft introduced IE, Netscape got killed. MS got sued for monopoly.
when Apple introduced Spaces, a program that offered the same feature got discontinued (i don't even remember its name now). However nobody got sued.
i guess when Apple introduces screen motion capture, those companies with products that offer that feature will get killed. question is, will anybody get sued this time?
 
h.21 said:
I love all the people clamoring on the first page about how they're not going to use this, even though it's not out yet and it is not even feature complete yet.

Try to be MORE reactionary, simpletons.
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While I love the idea of free, won't this mean training videos that equal crap?
 
I've been using ScreenFlow for a while now, if SL has something better, would be awesome.
 
phuong said:
when Microsoft introduced IE, Netscape got killed. MS got sued for monopoly.
when Apple introduced Spaces, a program that offered the same feature got discontinued (i don't even remember its name now). However nobody got sued.
i guess when Apple introduces screen motion capture, those companies with products that offer that feature will get killed. question is, will anybody get sued this time?
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Why don't you get your facts straight before spewing this?
 
Nice to see something good coming to SL then speed. i think it will be a big hit but there will be people that will still like the 3rd party stuff so they should be okay and not get killed off.
 
timhood said:
I checked out the command and it doesn't capture the screen, it captures video from the built-in camera.
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No actually it does. I don't know all the details, but if you run PodcastCapture (in the Utilities folder) as a front end to Poscast Producer and log into a Mac Podcast Producer server, it seems to set up a plist preference file. When this command line tools is run, it will capture , mic only, camera video or screen capture video depending on that plist file...

Looks like it is a compiled ruby script: http://www.macos.utah.edu/documenta..._faqs/podcast_command/just_a_ruby_script.html

Check out the Apple page on it: http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/podcasts.html . The screen capture it talks about produces a video. And it is a really good one.

So it is built in already. Just need to be able to see a podcast producer server to enable it I guess...

I have used their Podcasting Workflow Architecture. It is quite an impressive piece of software! It does work as I have said...

vooduebunnie:rolleyes:
 
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