Screencasts

From Fishcakes Wiki

Jump to: navigation, search

Edit Menu

  • Icon_Stuff_20px.png Stuff
  • Stuff
    A page containing lots of other Stuff.
  • Links
    A page containing links to lots of interesting stuff.
  • Google Apps
    Google's email and web apps offering.
  • Mailing Lists
    Details of Microsoft Sender ID and other mailing list registration procedures.
  • Screencasts
    Notes and guidelines for creating a Screencast, Webcast or Webinar on Mac OSX.
  • Web Hosting
    Notes on using web hosting including control panels and such.
  • Web Hosts
    Notes on the never ending search for the perfect web host.
  • Windows
    Notes Microsoft Windows, plus PC software and PC hardware.
Edit Menu

Image:Icon_Stuff_40px.png Screencasts

This page containst notes and guidelines for creating a Screencast, Webcast or Webinar using Mac OSX.

Contents

Screencast, Webcasts & Webinars

Pick of the Bunch

  • iShowU — software for realtime capture and record video into a Quicktime movie. Commercial $20.
Simple and easy to use but won't deal with full screen size on my Mac. Good simple PDF manual and Mac Help. Only outputs movies. Excellent.
  • ScreenMimic — screen recorder to create screencasts saved as SWF, FLV, MOV files. Demo. Full version $64.95.
Pretty good user interface and can export to different formats so no need for other editor. Rather slow at exporting but as it's a finished product might be ok.
  • Paparazzi — utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages. Freeware.
Very useful. Just paste in the URL and it grabs the whole page. Excellent.
  • ScreenSteps — capture any video on your computer screen to a QuickTime movie. Mac & PC. Commercial $39.99 or £20.99.
Allows step by step capture of screens with inserts and edits for export to PDF or HTML. Interesting approach. Very simple for screengrab guides. Really like this one. Shame it doesn't export to Movie. Good help docs Online Manual] plus Creating a Template guide.

Mac Test Drives

  • Copernicus — perfect for taking many screenshots. Freeware.
Fairly straightforward and can save to many formats. Captures very slow frame rate, probably due to my slow Mac. Would need to edit movies as have bit of junk around the edges. No manual or help. Could defo use and it's free!
  • ScreenoGraphy — capture your screen to various image, movie and Flash formats. Demo. Commercial Full $39.99, Lite $9.99.
Yuk. Just something about this one I don't like. Very stuttery in action and couldn't get it to output a file that worked. Defo no.
  • Snapper — capture a movie of your screen while you are working. Basic is free, advanced costs €14.95!
Very nice screen interface. Let's see how it does...
  • Snapz Pro X — record anything on your screen and save as a QuickTime movie or screenshot. Snapz Pro X 2.x costs $69. MacWorld 5 Mice.
Nice interface and looks easy to use. Only saves to QuickTime format. Let's see.
  • Mousepose — dims the screen around everything but the mouse for better screencasts. Shareware $14.95. MacWorld 4+1/2 Mice.
Excellent and very easy to use. Bit ropey on my old Mac so will have to await a hardware upgrade before I can use this one.
  • OmniDazzle — add on-screen effects. Commercial $14.95.
My lovely old Mac wouldn't even give this one a go.


Screen Grab

  • Capture — screen-capturing Widget for image capture. Freeware.
Nice widget, but bit poorly designed with too-small text. No video capture, so really doesn't do much more than the Finder's capture facility.

Other Stuff I Found

  • Backdrop — fill screen with a blank window of solid color or custom image. Great for formatting screenshots.
  • GrabberRaster — screen grabs with auto resize. Freeware.
  • AsSceneOnTV — screen grabs from DVDs. Freeware.

Notes

  • GoToWebinar
  • Open Source as Alternative — find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software
  • Mac Blog — excellent guides to getting the most out of your Mac. Geared towards Mac techi professionals.
  • Mac Blogger — rumours and reviews of what's coming out from Apple.
  • I Use This — digg style site for sharing info on the best applications for your computer. Dedicated OSX section.
  • Macscreencast — free video tutorials to mac os x users, both experienced users and switchers. Also do UK web hosting. Looks worth a look.
  • Tech Tips — great site full of video tutorials by Russell Brown.

Other Screencast Software

Open source software:

  • Camstudio — open source PC screen capture. CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).

Commercial screencast or screen capture software:


See Also

  • VoteWatch — VoteWatch is a widget for OS X Dashboard (10.3 and later), showing recent votes in the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Enter your ZIP code to see how your senators and representative voted!


Screencast Resources

Tutorials

Retrieved from "http://wiki.fishcakes.biz/Screencasts"
Personal tools