Screen Capture with DP

labman · Post by **labman** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 7:19 am

What do you folks use for making your DP screen capture demos and tutorials? And why do you like the one you use?

mikehalloran · Post by **mikehalloran** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 8:10 am

Mac or PC?

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 8:16 am

I'm guessing Mac since it was in the Mac section and layman has been here forever!

labman · Post by **labman** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 8:27 am

Mac Mike.

What is this thing you call PC?

mikehalloran · Post by **mikehalloran** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 9:28 am

There are people who have switched or so I have heard...

On a Mac, might as well use the free tools that come with the OS.

QuickTime will capture screen video.

Preview is what I use to take screen shots as it lets you frame the shot (Take screen shot from selection) and save as .png, jpeg, .pdf, open EXR or .tiff.

Preview is much better than the old Capture Screen which still works.

labman · Post by **labman** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:06 am

Thanks Mike. Appreciated.

I used Quicktime for a brief screencast about a month ago. It turned out 'alright' but it needs more tools for what I think I need. Here are some specifics that I 'think' I need.

Need to have mouse clicks highlighted, hotkeys shown when typed, maybe some kind of watermarking, and a good way for it to record both a tutorial voice and the DP audio.

Of course, maybe I am too old for all this whiz bang podcast web tutorial stuff that the young whippersnapppers are doing.

davidh · Post by **davidh** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:55 am

Take a look at Camtasia For Mac. It does all you mention and more, including video overlays, zooming, and so on. I've created some tutorials with it before and it's pretty nifty once you get used to it's slightly 'unique' interface.
They have a full-feature 30 day demo if you want to give it a spin...

labman · Post by **labman** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 11:09 am

Thanks David. Looks good. Our main production mac where I would most likely do the tutorials is OS X 10.8+. Looks like they are listing 10.9 as minimum. I will write them and see what they think.

I own Voila, and I own iShowU HD, but ishowU uses sound flower to shuttle mac audio. I hate sound flowers off/on stabilty. What protocol for mac audio does Camtasia use?

labman · Post by **labman** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 11:30 am

Camtasia sent me a link to get the demo for a 10.8 version, so I shall try it out.

David, could you go into more detail about "slightly 'unique' interface"? Any troubles getting along nicely with other apps?

FMiguelez · Post by **FMiguelez** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 11:54 am

Screenflow is awesome! It's intuitive and it has a lot of the functions you seem to want.

http://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm

labman · Post by **labman** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 11:56 am

Hey FM! Thanks.

How does Screenflow route audio from DP?

Tesionman · Post by **Tesionman** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:26 pm

All the tutorial guys I know that are on Mac use ScreenFlow. Never used it myself though. I don't make tutorials.

cheers

mikehalloran · Post by **mikehalloran** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:38 pm

davidh wrote:Take a look at Camtasia For Mac. It does all you mention and more, including video overlays, zooming, and so on. I've created some tutorials with it before and it's pretty nifty once you get used to it's slightly 'unique' interface.
They have a full-feature 30 day demo if you want to give it a spin...

$99 certainly looks good for all that.

FMiguelez · Post by **FMiguelez** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:43 pm

labman wrote:Hey FM! Thanks.

How does Screenflow route audio from DP?

I haven't tried it with DP yet. But the app allows to use audio from DP (or any app) plus another source, such as a mic. I suppose it does something similar to Soundflower.

IIRC, they have a free-trial period with the full capabilities of the app. I think you will really like it, labman

Before Screenflow I used Snapz Pro, but they stopped supporting Mavericks and Yosemite. I wrote to them and they didn't seem to be in any hurry not lo lose more customers, so I sent them to hell and went with Telestream instead. It´s MUCH BETTER anyway in terms of support and features!

FMiguelez · Post by **FMiguelez** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:48 pm

IIRC, our own Shooshie uses and has made tutorials using Screenflow.

Shoosh?

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