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#Screenium discount software
So that was a quick review of the screen capture software available for Mac. But it's very simple it just records the screen so you have to add your audio later in something like iMovie. If you're looking for something even cheaper, as in free, take a look at Copernicus. This is in beta testing right now but it's due out any time. A new program that should be hitting the market pretty soon is called Screenium. So if you're looking to go right to flash, Screen Mimic is probably the one you want to look at. Screen Mimic allows you to export your screen cast as flash when you're done, right from the program so there's no other steps. But if you want to have something that's flash right out of the box then you should maybe look into the $65 Screen Mimic program. So someone like me would just convert that to flash or upload it to a website like You Tube or Blip TV. You usually end up with a QuickTime movie. Now some people have a problem with what to do with a screen capture once you're done.
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So if you want something that's really high level for the Mac look into Screen Flow. It's also got tons of features like being able to feature mouse clicks and key presses and things like that inside your screen capture. What Screen Flow allows you to do is actually record not only the screen but yourself in video as well as multiple tracks and then go ahead and do some editing.
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As a matter of fact it's the closest thing to on the PC which you've probably heard about is the main software that people use on PC. And Screen Flow is a $99 piece of software that allows you to just do screen captures. But Vara Software also has a new piece of software out called Screen Flow. Now that's mostly for on the fly video production and it's got a small attached program called Desktop Presenter that allows us to do on the fly screen captures.
Now here at MacMost we do use Snapzpro for a lot of things but we also use Vara software's Wire Cast to record this main podcast. And Screen Flick is also pretty inexpensive, coming in at only about $29. So you can say record a very small one for quick streaming on the web and then record a larger one for download. Now Screen Flick allows you to record your screen cast and then it will go ahead and let you export it over and over again in a variety of formats. Now at the opposite end of the spectrum is one called Screen Flick. Well there's one cheap piece of software out there called iShowU that is a very basic piece of screen capture software but has the advantage of encoding on the fly so when you're done capturing, you're done. So you finish say a five minute screen cast, that's a tutorial say, and then you have to wait five, ten, fifteen minutes for it to finish encoding. One of the annoying things if you use SnapzPro is that when you're done it takes forever to encode it. Software's been around for a while, it's about $69 and it works very well. It allows you to basically screen capture but it's got a bunch of extra features like for instance you can decide whether to have the cursor or not, you can have the capture area follow the cursor around on the screen and you can save it in a variety of different formats. Now this is a great little piece of software. The one piece of software that's been around for a while that does this is SnapzPro by Ambrosia software. Now by screen capture software of course I mean capture to video, not just a regular screen shot. Let me show you the ones we use and also some of the other options out there on this episode of MacMost now. There's a lot of different screen capture software out there for Mac.
We've gotten a lot of emails here recently about how we do our screen captures for MacMost. Check out MacMost Now 55: Mac Screencast Software at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.