So here's your situation:You are working on some video tutorials and find yourself in need of a decent Screen Recording tool. Well, in this post, I'll review 3, and give you a good idea of which one to use.
QuickTime Player X
Price: $29 with Snow Leopard
Almost hidden in the new version of Mac OSX is the function for the new version of the QuickTime player to do Screen recordings. It records the screen videos at full resolution, and can save into almost all fo the QuickTime formats. Pros: Comes with Mac OSX, many exporting formats. Cons: Does not record system or microphone sound.
Jing
Price: Free
Jing is an okay screen recording tool. It, like QuickTime player, does not record sound or system sounds. It does upload your videos to it's website. Pros: Free. Cons: Only saves files as SWFs, leaves it's recording window open in your recordings.
Snapz Pro X
Price: $69 from Ambrosia Software
Snapz Pro is one of the best tools for Screen Recording that I have used in a very long while. It does everything from screenshots to recordings, and it takes in the system and microphone sound. It encodes all of it's videos to QuickTime .mov files. It has teh capability to only take a video of a selection of the screen, rather than the whole thing. This is the best one that I have used out of all of the ones that I have reviewed.
Some of you may be saying, "What about ScreenFlow?" Well, ScreenFlow is good to, however I made an investment in Snapz Pro, and didn't want to spend the $100 on a screen flow license. If anyone would like to contribute a review of ScreenFlow, I'd gladly post it and give you all the internet cookies you can handle.
All for now!
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