By: Paul R. Pival

Paul R. Pival — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:57:28 +0000

Just tried it out and it was ok, but nothing special. Only output appears to be .mov, which is at least one of the formats you can use to upload to YouTube. I’m currently using iShowU, and find that it offers quite a few more options than Screenium. Screenium offers four capture types – full screen, screen area, specific window, or follow the mouse. I couldn’t get specific window to work – it would only record one corner of my screen and I couldn’t move it. Follow the mouse worked well, but didn’t show exactly what was being recorded during the recording, so it’d be easy to miss something – I’d prefer to see stuff that wasn’t being recorded grayed out, as they do with the screen area. I also couldn’t get the hot text to work reliably – this is an attempt to allow you to pop predefined text up on the screen during the recording, but it doesn’t display WHILE you’re recording, only on the playback, so I didn’t think it was working at all at first. The software’s pretty and works ok – certainly not bad for free!

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By: Paul R. Pival