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Ultimate Screencast Comparison – The List

2nd November 2008, 11:19 am
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This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Ultimate Screencast Comparison
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Ultimate Screencast Comparison

This is an evolving project. If you have suggestions or recommendations, I’d love to hear them in the comments below the post.

I’m in the process of building a chart comparing features and characteristics of screencasting applications. It’s taking a while to build the chart, so I thought I’d list the apps below and begin asking people for recommendations for ones I missed. I’ve split the list up into three sections: Windows, Mac and Webapp/Other. Two notes of interest:

  • I did not include Linux apps, as none of the faculty or studio computers are currently running Linux. If I have time, I might revise the list to include Linux apps.
  • When adding applications to the list, I only picked … well, screencasting apps. This excludes programs with a lot of extra functionality, including my current favorite for building learning objects, Adobe Captivate. While apps like this do have screen recording features, they tend to be much more powerful and complicated for non-geeks. I’m sure I’ve offended someone out there, so I’ll explain what I mean in a follow-up post.

Several sites and articles were of invaluable help in finding screencasting apps, including:

In upcoming articles, I’ll explain why and how I’ll be evaluating the applications, build a chart for comparing features and describe the workflow I personally use. I also intend to publish as many reviews as I can, and publish a follow-up article identifying which applications I chose to recommend to our faculty and why.

And now, here’s the list:

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8 Comments

  1. no imagePeter - Camtasia Guide (Check me out!):

    Looking forward to your evalutation.

    You are looking at a lot of tools and as many of these are constantly improving/evolving it may be better to limit the review to the most used tools? Just a thought.

    Best,
    Peter

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    3 November 2008, 3:52 am

  2. no imageCris (Check me out!):

    Thanks for the comment, Peter. I agree with you – starting with the more popular tools and working towards the lesser-known apps sounds like a good idea.

    Even more ambitious, I hope to write some tangentially related articles, like recommended workflows and tutorials on some applications’ advanced features. We’ll see where this project leads.

    Take care,
    Cris

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    3 November 2008, 2:01 pm

  3. no imagePaul R Pival (Check me out!):

    Impressive lists, and I look forward to your results. I’m surprised you’re not including Adobe Captivate (http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/), and Jing’s not web-based, though it is one of the few cross-platform tools.

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    3 November 2008, 8:40 pm

  4. no imageAdward008 (Check me out!):

    Yeah, Captivate should be in the list. Something I feel glad is that DemoCreator is in this list, which is also slides based like Captivate. And it is powrful for making tutorials and demos.

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    3 November 2008, 10:12 pm

  5. no imageCris (Check me out!):

    @Paul R Pival: Thanks for the catch on Jing – I changed it from webapp to Windows & Mac.

    I originally didn’t add Captivate to the list because it’s so much more than a screen recorder. I ended up adding it to the list though, since several other popular applications do more than screen recording as well. I see Camtasia even does SCORM-compliant quizzes…

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    6 November 2008, 10:17 pm

  6. Jeff Newman:

    Thanks for this sweet link to all the screencasting tools. I want to try the one for firefox. I like that it creates the files in an easily editable format. I just did a video with Jing and it looks great.

    18 May 2009, 7:41 am

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  8. amiffreorma:

    Same problem. Anybody know the answer?

    25 February 2010, 11:59 am

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