Screen Recording - Part 1
Posted in thoughts, teaching, technology, recording on Sep 20th, 2009 No Comments »
As I have been using Techsmith Camtasia for a few years now at work, I was excited to hear that Techsmith was creating a version for Mac. I have been a long time user of PC’s but purchased a Macbook in Dec 2006 for video editing while I was an urban missionary offering technical support services at Heartland International Ministries. The first generation 13 inch Macbook is used as my daily workhorse at home and for the various technology support services I provide to ministries. I have loved it. The PC just takes too long in some instances and that with the OS of Vista just turned me right off PC’s. The Mac OS is clean and easy to use. And the feature I love the most is the sleep function. I close the screen and it switches into hibernate - I open the screen and within 10 seconds comes back to life! I did have Microsoft Office for the Mac but that was just more trouble than it is worth, so I get along just fine with the iLife and iWork suite, along with NeoOffice. Of course I use iTunes with with the iTouch (as Apple makes it just so easy), and I have a bunch of other useful tools like Wiretap studio, MacJournal, EasyWMA, BibleDesktop, SnapZ Pro (Also a good screen capture tool but doesn’t have a feature to create call outs), and Handbrake.
Back to Camtasia. I have been using at work for a few years. Great tool for creating simple short “how to” movies that can be published through our new SharePoint sites. But now I have this great tool on the Mac OS, I can create instructional guides and provide feedback like never before.
