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ScreenFlow

June 27, 2016 by Laurie Parker
Categories: Multimedia

Availability: Purchase license | Free trial

Comparable: Camtasia Studio, Expression Encoder, Screencast-O-Matic, BB FlashBack Pro

Screenflow logoScreenFlow is a screencasting and video editing software for the Macintosh platform. The software allows users to add transitions, annotations, text, audio and video filters, multi-channel audio mixing, chroma key and callouts. ScreenFlow has the ability to add mouse click effects, adjust mouse pointer size, and display keys that are pressed during the screen recording.

Screenflow 5 can record audio and video from connected iOS8 devices. Note: This feature requires iOS 8 or higher + Mac OS X 10.10 or higher + lightning connection to USB.

Videos can be exported directly to YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive, Dropbox, Facebook, Wistia, or Telestream Cloud from within the application.

This software is only available for the Macintosh platform.

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BB FlashBack Pro

June 13, 2016 by Laurie Parker
Categories: Multimedia
Availability: Labs | Contact CLAS IT
Comparable: Camtasia Studio, Expression Encoder, Screencast-O-Matic, ScreenFlow

BB FlashbackBB FlashBack Pro is a Windows screen recording program that allows the user to record a window,  region, or their full screen. Keystrokes are also recorded and displayed.

The recording can then be annotated with text effects, drawings, highlights, interactive buttons, arrows, and transitions. Editing options include frame-by-frame video editing, multi-track audio editing, and the ability to even out volume in a movie.

Available effects are start and end titles, magnifying a part of the movie, localization, support for multiple languages in movies, and export/import translations or translated text.

Movies can be exported to Flash, AVI, MPEG4, WMV, GIF, QuickTime (H264), PPT or EXE file formats.

BB FlashBack Pro is only for the Windows platform.

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Camtasia Studio

September 16, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Multimedia

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Availability: Contact CLAS IT
Comparable: Expression Encoder, Screencast-O-Matic, ScreenFlow, BB FlashBack Pro

Camtasia Studio and Camtasia for Mac are software suites, created and published by TechSmith, for creating video tutorials and presentations directly via screencast, or via a direct recording plug-in to Microsoft PowerPoint. The screen area to be recorded can be chosen freely, and microphone, audio, or other multimedia recordings may be recorded at the same time or added separately from any other source and integrated in the Camtasia Studio component of the product.

Camtasia Studio v8 for Microsoft Windows consists of two major components:

  • Camtasia Recorder – a separate tool for capturing screen audio and video.  This can be used to easily capture a screen or portion of a screen while capturing audio from a microphone.  Most people use this to show something on the screen, such as a document, website, video, or presentation, while describing it.
  • Camtasia Studio editor – this suite allows a user to edit the capture they just performed.  Users can add audio, insert video, cut and paste portions, and zoom in to more specific regions of the screen to produce a more professional video.
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