Produce your own screencasts with Screenflow. Capture the contents of your entire desktop at the same time as your video camera, microphone and computer’s audio. Screenflow makes screencasting simple. Sophisticated editing tools allow you to create incredible screencasts in no time. The finished result is a QuickTime movie, ready for publishing to your website or blog.

screencasting made simple

I have been using Snapz X Pro and Quicktime pro to make my screencasts. It was the best solution for screencasting on Macs. There are rumors of a big update, there are also rumors of a Camtasia for Mac version, and now there are numerous online and inexpensive products for screencasting. Once I tried Screenflow I knew I’d never need anything else. There are some bugs and support is still growing but it looks like the best screencasting tool for Macs right now.

In the next few weeks I’ll be posting a lot more screencasts on this blog to demonstrate some features of Screenflow but also show my screencasting skills.

On the website of Screenflow there are handy tutorials made with Screenflow to show you how the features work. Visit the site now to watch the tutorials.

Contact me if you need screencasts for your intranet, website, or office. I have made over 300 screencasts and I can deliver screencasts for any budget.

Flowplayer is an Open Source (GPL 3) video player for the Web. Use it to embed video streams into your web pages. You can also use it to embed screencasts on your site. It doesn’t matter what file format your screencasts are in, .mov or .flv, it can handle them.

Built for site owners, developers, hobbyists, businesses and serious programmers. There are free non-commercial versions available and competitively priced commercial versions.

Flash technology ensures that 98% of all Internet users can see your videos. Highly skinnable and extendable. No other software makes it easier. Flowplayer looks like the customizations are much easier to do and can be very nice looking.

If you add a screencast as a .mov file many of your users will have to add a Quicktime plug in to view the video. Flash Player has a much larger market penetration so 98% of your users will already have it installed so they will see your screencasts or videos with no extra installation nightmares.

Read more about the Flowplayer 3.1 web media player here.

Contact me if you need screencasts for your intranet, website, or office. I have made over 300 screencasts and I can deliver screencasts for any budget.

A great company providing open source media players

The JW FLV Player is a very popular and flexible media player. It supports playback of any format the Adobe Flash Player can handle (FLV, MP4, MP3, AAC, JPG, PNG and GIF). It also supports RTMP, HTTP, live streaming, various playlists formats, a wide range of settings and an extensive javascript API.

You can customize its look through skins and even design your own. Its plugin architecture allows you to easily extend the player with features such as sharing, recommendations, searching, analytics and ad serving.

I have been working with a client doing screencasts. The client needed something a Flash Player could handle. I didn’t want to purchase a video file converter so I was (h)appy to discover this player.

The client can purchase the commercial version and I can still deliver the screencast files in the .mov format that I get from either Screenflow or Snapz X Pro.

Read more about JW FLV Player here.

Contact me if you need screencasts for your intranet, website, or office. I have made over 300 screencasts and I can deliver screencasts for any budget.