![]() ![]() It has comparable features to to Camtasia Studio, though the UI is appreciably different. Camtasia is a nice piece of software, easy to use for making annotated screencasts fast.įor recording on the Macintosh, I’m using the built-in webcam of my Macbook Pro and a piece of software called Screenflow 5, which I picked-up as part of a Humble Bundle years ago. The screen capture software is a freshly-upgraded Camtasia Studio 8, which I’ve used before to make some rudimentary how-to videos for the Gantt Excel Chart and Modifying the Compact Calendar. On the downside, it doesn’t work with the “fun” software that consumer webcams come with, but I never use that stuff anyway. That means it can see more of the space around me than regular webcams so I can move around as I talk, and the hardware assisted video encoding means smoother high-resolution video on Skype. However, I’ve read that the Pro has had problems with its USB drivers in the past as it is different hardware (the regular Yeti doesn’t require additional drivers at all), so I’ve steered-clear of it.įor recording on the PC, I have a Logitech c930e Business Webcam which is notable for its 90-degree field of view (FOV) and hardware-accelerated HD video encoding. Since it’s USB-only I can’t use it with the regular podcast setup, though there is the Blue Yeti Pro which has USB and an additional XLR input for use with a mixing board. It’s solidly built, and has a variety of sound pickup patterns so it’s useful as a single vocal microphone as well as an omnidirectional or even for two people facing each other. I like how it’s supported on both Windows and Mac OS X, includes headphone monitoring and gain control. ![]() Reviewers like it a lot for its flexibility and ease-of-use. I have a Blue Yeti USB microphone that I sometimes use for video conferencing when sound quality is important (or I just want to sound MORE AWESOME). My screencasting arrangement is a little different from my recently-revived podcast setup. I have the software and gear from other work-related projects, so why not use it? I think it would be cool to capture not just the screen but also my talking head in the webcam, so you can see my reactions to what I’m seeing and doing, in all its messiness. I am seeing screencasting as a way to have more conversational interactions with people, perhaps a stepping stone to doing Google Live Hangouts or other realtime exercises. Saturday was surprisingly productive, perhaps because it was a Spring-like 55 degrees outside instead of being in the -10s! The major GHDR-related project for the day was setting up screencasting software on both the PC and the Mac in preparation for the first Project 1404 Music Composition videos. ![]()
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