Comments on: Screencast Software Options

By: Alan Ashwood

Alan Ashwood — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:37:41 +0000

Hi
Copernicus. One major problem with it. It doesn’t record any sound.

There’s no free or cheap alternative to Camtasia for the Mac.
You can do the job with Quicktime, but it records the whole screen! It does work though.

By: Mikael

Mikael — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:09:01 +0000

And the nag window shows up even when you are not running Snapz. You just need to run it once, then the nag starts and it never ever goes away, and there is no Snapz app running. WTF!? So...

open terminal

ps -Uusername -a

find the background snapz process

kill -9 processnumber

Crossing my fingers that works.

By: C A

C A — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:59:49 +0000

Just tried Copernicus and could not get it to work on Tiger 10.4 even after removing my multiple displays, so free or not, it was worthless for me.

By: Cesar Mujica

Cesar Mujica — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:12:00 +0000

For small screencast I use screenr.com it lets you record five minutes and then post your video on twitter, you can also download your video. Not perfect but useful

By: bobby

bobby — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:52:06 +0000

May be below link is worth seeing

http://probedeep.blogspot.com/2008/10/make-screencast-videos-of-desktop-and.html

By: Alex Miller - Mac screencast recording choices

Alex Miller - Mac screencast recording choices — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:27:46 +0000

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By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:50:51 +0000

I tried Jing – pretty if unintuitive ui. Records straight to Flash but stops recording after 5 mins. Shame. Could be good if the restriction were not in place

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:47:26 +0000

I prefer Jing. It is a project powered by TechSmith. It is easy to use and, it’s FREE. It works with Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista.

By: Ken Hanson

Ken Hanson — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:21:33 +0000

Wow, I knew I would find some great feedback in a blog post like this, so straight from google I read the review and then straight to the comments. I am greatly impressed by Greg Willits' (simply titled) ScreenCast application. It almost feels like a widget on steroids. I recorded -exactly- what I needed to record in under 30 seconds (speaking of setup time). I say widget, because it behaves exactly as a mac app should, and is amazingly simple to get moving. Drag out the screensize you need, click through to turn audio on in different sections, oh and system audio? "No problem", screencast says, "we'll just install a small kernal update that can be uninstalled anytime. Sit back for a fraction of a second while we handle that." Even compression is robust, with many different ways to compress the movie. It also has left click and right click notifiers to show off where your clicking and such. Its a ton of small things that make a daunting screencast a breeze. Download it over here, I did, and in one video, I bought it :D ScreenCastApp.com

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:41:51 +0000

One feature that is missing from all of this software, using the built in camera that comes on all macs.

Does anyone know a program that records using the iSight and syncs it with the video from the screen? I do real world lectures and would love to be able to get synced screen capture / iSight recording and then edit them into a presentation.

Sean