Comments on: Screencasting on Mac OS X: What you need to get the job done

By: Chris Brewer

Chris Brewer — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:17:53 +0000

@Gabe, thanks for sharing that resource. Looks great, and you can’t beat the price! FWIW, I’m now a full convert over to Screencast. It’s a top-notch app that offers great editing capabilities.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:52:12 +0000

I found a better PIP solution, and it’s free.

http://www.pleasantsoftware.com/pip/

By: Chris Brewer

Chris Brewer — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:20:13 +0000

@rik: What’s causing your system to lag is that it is having to compress a large screen size in real time. If you capture using Apple Animation as the codec, you’ll get a smooth capture, but very large file size. After capture, you can open in QuickTime (tip: Purchase QT Pro — it’s worth the price of admission) and compress using h264. Basically, the idea is capture in best quality, then compress afterward. It’s just too hard on the average system to capture and compress in real time. Stay tuned as I’m going to do a feature on a new(er) screen capture utility that puts iShowU to shame…

By: rik

rik — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:33:15 +0000

Great video! I’m new to iShowU and trying to use the same set up that you are, but the recording is very choppy. The recording of my iChat video seems to have a very small framerate.

How did you get yours so smooth?

I’m recording at my 1280×800 screen with the YouTube setting and the quality just one notch below the max. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks.

By: Chris Brewer

Chris Brewer — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:47:11 +0000

Thanks Paul. Wow, Screencast looks fantastic. I especially like how it integrates visual mouse clicks and keyboard shortcuts, and keeps a list of screen captures that can then be exported in the future at any variety of settings. Thanks for the tip. Move over, iShowU!

I’ve invited Araelium to comment on this post as well as to consider the addition of Picture in Picture video like that which I’ve demonstrated in my video. Here’s my email to them:

I was turned on to your Screencast app by a reader of my blog. I recently posted a how-to about assembling a low-cost, flexible screen casting/screen capture set up. In the post, I listed various software vendors. I’d like to invite you to check out this post ( http://www.gigoblog.com/2007/11/13/screencasting-on-mac-os-x-what-you-need-to-get-the-job-done/) which might give you an idea for a cool feature to add to screencast that would make it the no-holds-barred champ of the screen casting software segment for Mac OS X.

By: Paul R. Pival

Paul R. Pival — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:44:38 +0000

Pretty good setup – I especially like the PIP using the iChat preview. Couple of other options – I just found a piece of software called Screencast (how original!) that looks like it’ll give iShowU a good run – http://www.araelium.com/screencast/ And if you don’t need to include the PIP and can keep it under 5 minutes you could use Jing (http://jingproject.com). Actually it’ll record the PIP too, but at a slower frame rate so it looks kinda jerky. Thanks also for the display keyboard tips.