The Best Screen Capture To Movie Tool On The Mac.

Monday, June 9, 2008 | Tips and Tricks | Read or Post a Comment

iShowU Sometimes you find a Mac utility, a tool that not everyone uses, but should, and it just works.

Record your screen actions to a movie. With sound. How hard can it be? iShowU makes the difficult seem like child’s play.

There are times when I want to record something I’m doing on my Mac. It’s not just a screen capture, though they come in handy.

It’s not just a movie of some sequence of clicks and drags that I perform on my Mac. Recording a movie of what you do isn’t.... (excerpted).

2 Reader Comments

everysandwich said:

I have ishow-u and like it a lot. One thing I’m looking to do is figure out how to make moves on video, zoom-ins like the Ken Burns effect on stills in imovie, but on video. I think I saw that technique in the keynote 09 tutorial vid, though maybe not. Maybe it was a keynote feature exported to video?

Larry Hobbs said:

For screen capture, try ScreenFlow.

It’s absolutely amazing.

I used Snapz Pro for years, but ScreenFlow completely blows it away.

It is one of those applications that will make you say, “Wow. Wow. Wow.”

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Watch the tutorials / screencasts on their website that show you what you can do with the program here:

http://varasoftware.com/products/screenflow/screencasts.html

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Watch the video review on MacApper here:

http://macapper.com/2008/02/23/screenflow-video-review-and-giveaway/

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It does not force you to only capture part of the screen, it captures the entire screen, and then AFTER you’ve done the screen capture, you can decide if you want to crop it or not.

You can add music and audio after the recording is done.

You can record additional audio while the “movie” is playing so that you can get the timing right.

After you’ve captured the screen, you can decide to zoom in and zoom out whenever you want.

After you’ve captured the screen, you can decide put a spotlight on the cursor for as short or as long as you want.

After you’ve captured the screen, you can decide enlarge the foreground window. Wow. You’ll be asking yourself, “How the heck did the do that?!”

After you’ve captured the screen, you can decide if you want a sound played every time you click the mouse in the movie.

It is absolutely amazing.

I’ve owned a Mac since a week after they came out in 1984, and this is one of those programs that just makes you say, “Wow. That is absolutely amazing.”

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