The Daily Bits

With the RSBandB Event where I will get 99 Farming coming up rather quickly I needed to find a good mac screencasting appllication.

There’s one out there called Snapz Pro X but it’s $69 for a full version with video capture. The trial also seemed a little hard to use. Luckily I found iShowU.

iShowU is well worth the small $20 payment. There is a huge list of codecs to select from. It also can record audio from the system or record your own narration. What makes it really great is the support for the H.264 codec. I was able to make two decent looking movies using the ‘High’ option, I can’t even notice that they are compressed.

Demo 1 (Small screen, demoing eclipse and MSN.)
Demo 2 (Full screen scaled to 50% loading up RS in Safari.)

I think with this piece of software I’d be tempted to do all video recording on this machine even if I wanted to record a Windows application. Here’s the equation I see:
VMWare Fusion + CS:S + iShowU = A very good CS:S movie.

You can also talk about it on rsbandb.

Anyways… in the mean time it’ll be used for Sunday and maybe more RSBandB events.

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