I'm looking for software recommendations for capturing motion onscreen and saving as QuickTime movies.
I have found SnapzPro to be the best so far, with Screenrecord also doing a very decent job. However, both are crippled by the fact that they cannot record the Mac's native audio. You have to (by their own recommendation) take your audio out and run it back to the audio input (a bad idea in general).
So my main question, if there anything for Mac OS X that can record screen motion AND built-in audio at the same time? If not, is there anything better than Snapz Pro?
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Tangent comments.
1. The software developers' state the reasons why they can't record Mac audio is because of something on Apple's end. Whatever. How come many other apps like Audio HiJack can do it then? I am not a programmer, but it doesn't take a genius to realize that somebody somewhere has figured out a way to record ANY audio source in OS X. Now just marry that technology with motion screen capture and we're good to go.
2. I am having to do this idiotic screen capture thing thanks to Flash's complete garbage support for any kind of decent video output export. Sure, you can export as QuickTime, but only if your Flash file is stupidly simple, has no scripting to speak of, doesn't have much interactivity, etc. Why do I need to have Flash as QuickTime? Because our Flash file is a ten minute NON-INTERACTIVE presentation. And due to its scripting and other reasons, you can't scrub it live and have it keep up. So when I review it with our client, they get impatient as I have to start it over from the beginning each time if they want to see something somewhere in the middle. My work around has been to use my digital video camera to record my monitor, capture that video as q QT movie and use the QT for client review. Isn't that insane? At least SnapzPro will cut out one step of that idiotic process. If anyone has any better ideas, I'd love to hear them.
End rant.
I have found SnapzPro to be the best so far, with Screenrecord also doing a very decent job. However, both are crippled by the fact that they cannot record the Mac's native audio. You have to (by their own recommendation) take your audio out and run it back to the audio input (a bad idea in general).
So my main question, if there anything for Mac OS X that can record screen motion AND built-in audio at the same time? If not, is there anything better than Snapz Pro?
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Tangent comments.
1. The software developers' state the reasons why they can't record Mac audio is because of something on Apple's end. Whatever. How come many other apps like Audio HiJack can do it then? I am not a programmer, but it doesn't take a genius to realize that somebody somewhere has figured out a way to record ANY audio source in OS X. Now just marry that technology with motion screen capture and we're good to go.
2. I am having to do this idiotic screen capture thing thanks to Flash's complete garbage support for any kind of decent video output export. Sure, you can export as QuickTime, but only if your Flash file is stupidly simple, has no scripting to speak of, doesn't have much interactivity, etc. Why do I need to have Flash as QuickTime? Because our Flash file is a ten minute NON-INTERACTIVE presentation. And due to its scripting and other reasons, you can't scrub it live and have it keep up. So when I review it with our client, they get impatient as I have to start it over from the beginning each time if they want to see something somewhere in the middle. My work around has been to use my digital video camera to record my monitor, capture that video as q QT movie and use the QT for client review. Isn't that insane? At least SnapzPro will cut out one step of that idiotic process. If anyone has any better ideas, I'd love to hear them.
End rant.
