Camtasia verus Screenflow and screencasting for Macs
This week was a big one for for screen capturing software, especially if you are on a mac. TechSmith released their version 1.0 Camtasia for Mac and Screenflow announced their version 2.0 upgrade that will be available in September. There are spirited debates across the internet about what solution is better and what feature set works better. I am a fan of Screenflow and I do like Camtasia, but I think who ultimately wins is us–the consumer.
Many people blog about features and bugs and what is good and bad and tweet about it ,talk about and evangelize about it. No pause button on Camtasia, no export to YouTube on screenflow (version 2.0 says its coming) just to name a few.
For those who are power users of screencasts they will have even more feature requests. Mac screencasting software seems to be in demand and I am even seeing that my first screen recording software app I used Adobe Capitivate is working on a Mac version.
Whatever you use, videos won’t be the same again. Here is a video below from the apple soldier that gives a good video comparison of the two programs. Happy screencasting!
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@garybau, Camtasia is not just a screencast/screen capture tool. There are many other features that, as Chip notes, are probably for power users. I for one am about to grab it because I use it for elearning and the price is right. I am anxious to check out the Snow Leopard screen capture tool though.
there's a reason for so many updates…snow leopard has screen capture built in..
those apps are now redundant!!