#Screenflow reduce file size how to

There's a 'HotText' function that lets you assign popup text to a hotkey, but it's a little limited and it doesn't show the text you've triggered until the recording is played back. The options are full-fledged and include picture-in-picture iSight recording and mouse click visualization. Screenium does a good job of capturing full screen video for relatively long periods without using up a ton of system overhead. I haven't quite figured out what's taken this app so long to get out of beta (or 'preview,' as Synium calls it). And it does a pretty slick job of keeping track of your movies and screenshots with a built in library.

#Screenflow reduce file size how to

It is, however, absolutely perfect for tech support and showing Aunt Marcy how to mount that DMG. The player is branded at the end, so there's no lying about whether you used Jing, and it's limited to relatively short movies. Jing records to Flash SWF files and can upload to various services, providing code for embedding uploaded video. What Jing does have going for it is smooth recording and fast encodes, and great sharing options. It doesn't get rid of the giant fireball of a main window, but it gets the fluorescent sunburst off of your desktop. Lucky for me, you can swap out part of the gaudy interface for a menubar-only version. In my old age I've come to appreciate a certain amount of conformity in application interfaces, so I personally find the 'Sun' theme to be obtrusive and annoying. It also does it with an unconventional interface, which some may enjoy.

Jing is a 'casting app that serves a rather limited purpose, but it does it well and it does it for free. At least the screenshots it can take don't jitter. Unfortunately, I also find it practically useless even for short recordings. It has minimal settings to play with and way too much overhead to handle long recordings. No matter how I tried, I couldn't get what I consider to be a decent video capture out of this thing. I was tempted to leave Copernicus out of the running, but it's good ground on which to build.