What screencast / recording solution for edit in FCP?

[Walter Biscardi]

iShowU

Screen Flow

Those are the best out there.

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[Tony Brittan]

Ah…I’d heard of those but couldn’t remember the names. Any others from the rest of y’all?

Tony Brittan
Owner – Island Shore Productions

[Tony Brittan]

BTW…Walter, thank you very much. You have been very helpful to me here!

Tony Brittan
Owner – Island Shore Productions

[Shane Ross]

Screenflow. I cannot recommend this more. Capture and edit all in that app. Much easier than iShowU, which requires a couple tricks to get it working RIGHT in FCP (sync slippage issue), and Snapz Pro that has a frame rate issue (10fps…need to conform with Cinema Tools).

IN Screenflow it records the full screen, then you choose the size you want to focus on, and the resize things to fit, and then do zooms and pans and all sorts of things. Add music, pictures, other media. Too damn good.

Shane

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[Jason Jenkins]

[Tony Brittan] “Lookin for low cost solution if possible.”

Quicktime 10 has screen recording built in.

Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!

[Craig Seeman]

ScreenFlow can also export in whatever codec you have in Quicktime such as Apple ProRes for example or any other codec you might need to match your FCP timeline.

[Tony Brittan]

Well, it looks like screenflow is the best solution. I’ll be checking that one out for sure. As always, thank you all for helping out so quickly with good information!

Tony Brittan
Owner – Island Shore Productions

[Christopher Boghosian]

Great thread – I have been debating between Screenflow and iShowU HD. I’m on a Mac (10.6) with FCP7. I need to record an entire desktop with a video chat occurring on the desktop. The footage will then be incorporated into a short film to, hopefully, be screened at fests.

Any thoughts? It appears the Quicktime movie recording capacity is limited and not sharp.

Thanks!
cB

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[Craig Seeman]

Screenflow. Record to AppleProRes 1200×1200 screen which can be used in FCP either by repositioning or cropped to 1920×1080.

[Christopher Boghosian]

Thank you for the reply, Craig.

So there is no 1920×1080 setting in Screenflow? Sorry, I don’t have it yet, so I can’t check. 1200×1200 sounds a bit odd…

Also, is the “free” Quicktime option just not good enough? Why do folks purchase software when Quicktime records the screen?

Thanks,
cB

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