Well I finally found a nice screencasting app for the Mac that outputs to Flash – Screen Mimic. Dead simple to use, and a great price of $25. But it doesn’t record audio, and doesn’t allow for annotations to be added after the fact, so there’s no way to explain what’s happening in the screencast. Sigh. I thought this one was going to do the trick for me. I’ve emailed the developer to see if he’s planning on adding audio support, but until it does, this just goes on the pile of close, but no cigars.
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8 Responses to “So close it’s painful – Screencasting on the Mac”
Paul, I read somewhere that Qarbon are again planning to release Viewletbuilder 2006 for the Mac ? I don’t have the details but this might be interesting news for the Mac screencasting community.
I’ve heard that too, Amit, and directly from Qarbon, so I’m sure it’s on the way, but it’s not here yet. I did hear back from Lee, the developer of Screen Mimic, and he says adding audio is at the top of the list, and they hope to have a new release in the next couple of months.
Snapz Pro X 2.0
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/
lets you record whatever’s on the screen (whole thing, or just a region, or follow the mouse) and records audio + narration etc… It spits out Quicktime files, but those can be easily transcoded to Flash Video if that’s necessary…
D’Arcy – only thing I’ve found that can transcode from Quicktime to Flash is Sorenson Squeeze, which at $449 USD is way more than I want to (or should have to) pay for the ability to transcode to Flash 🙁 Are you aware of another solution? I’d still much rather have a single tool…
well, yeah. Or Flash Pro. Or Riva FLV Encoder. Or ffmpegX.
Or one of a few others…
OMG D’Arcy, what are *YOU* doing pointing me to Windows products?!? (I can already do this on my Win machine – I’m trying to help you Prove To The World that the Mac is superior in ALL ways…) 😉
There are also rumours that Adobe Captivate may be ported to Mac. That may be a big relief I guess.
well… riva is windows. but ffmpegX is MacOSX. As is Flash Pro. As are many of the ones linked from the wikipedia page. Just thought you’d like to at least make the initial recording on a Mac so it doesn’t look all sucky and Fisher Price, then encode on whatever’s available…