Favorite Screen Capture software to use with FCP?

[Stephen Smith]

I would not call it my favorite but you are limited on what screen grab software works on a mac. I use Snapz Pro because it show all of the mouse symbol changes which some software programs don’t. It works good in Motion and I like that. It has some bugs but what are you going to do.

For other opinions you may like this thread:

https://www.slccut.com/Visit-Forums/Video-Distribution/Web-Video/Screen-Capture-Software-What-s-the-best.html

Best of luck.

Utah Video Productions

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[John Fishback]

Checkout Screen Flow

John

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[Naiche Lujan]

Thanks guys. They both seem cool, but with different features.

I presume they both use h264 to compress?

Naiche

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[Stephen Smith]

Snapz Pro lets you choose your codec. You can do a 15 day free trial.

Utah Video Productions

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Check out my Motion Tutorials

[David Roth weiss]

There is also iShowU, which is only $20. All of these products have the ability to use any codec installed on your Mac. If you’re going to edit the material at all you certainly don’t want to capture using h.264, but rather to an editing codec, such as ProRes, then export as h.264 if that’s your final choice for distribution.

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[Stephen Smith]

David,
iShowU was the first screen capture software I ever used back when it was free. I really liked the program. Have they made it so it shows the mouse arrow change yet? Back in the days you would not see the arrow change into the hand symbol on the web. Or if you did something like select and hover your mouse over a clip in FCP and hold down the option key, which changes the mouse arrow to a plus symbol type thing. That was the reason I switched to Snapz Pro. If that has been fixed I would like to look at iShowU again.

Utah Video Productions

Check out the Graphics Demo Reel I did.

Check out my Motion Tutorials

[Naiche Lujan]

Oh, I see. That’s great that they let you use any codec you have. Choices are good. ProRes it is!

Thanks guys

Naiche

Mac Pro
Dual 2.8Ghz Quad-Core
16GB RAM
ATI Radeon 256MB
320GB 7200rpm
3TB 7200rpm Internal Software RAID0
Blackmagic Studio Card (working good so far)

[David Roth weiss]

[Stephen Smith] “If that has been fixed I would like to look at iShowU again. “

Honestly, I haven’t used it in so darned long that I can’t answer Stephen. But, I’ll look into it later, as I have to create a tutorial soon. That’s a good point you make BTW.

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[Stephen Smith]

David,
That would be great. Let me / us know.

Utah Video Productions

Check out the Graphics Demo Reel I did.

Check out my Motion Tutorials

[David Roth weiss]

[Stephen Smith] “David,
That would be great. Let me / us know.
“

Stephen,

I forgot to tell you, I got a message from Eric at Shiny White Box, who said that both versions of iShowU do exactly what you asked about, i.e. changing the cursor to the various tool shapes etc. So, there you go…

David

David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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