#Screenium vs screenflow pro#
#Screenium vs screenflow free#

I’ll have to double check the following fact, but as far as I know, one of the strengths is that there’s no arduous re-encoding process.

#Screenium vs screenflow pro#

Partners well with Quicktime Pro for editing: When you open your screen recording up in Quicktime Pro, its a cinch to create highlight videos and save them out.Unfortunately, if you got a bit trigger happy, you can’t edit out the miscreant chapter markers afterwards using Silverback (at least in the current Beta), but you can do it using QuickTime Pro. In an average session, you will only have a handful of genuinely interesting events that you want to come back to, so simply marking them on the timeline is good enough. The chapter marker / Apple remote tool: this is a neat way of marking the key events in a session.Not having PiP also show you are a bit of an amateur, since all the pros produce PiP video clips in their deliverables. Screen recordings without picture in picture of the user are pretty soulless and boring to watch.

#Screenium vs screenflow free#

Some of the free apps can record live audio, which is just about good enough for user testing, but it’s not great. Live picture in picture recording: to the best of my knowledge, none of the free / shareware screen recording apps out there can record live PiP video.However, the few extra features it does have are make it hugely more useful for recording and analysing user-test sessions. How does Silverback compare to all those free screen recording apps out there?Īs far as I can tell, Silverback doesn’t do that much more than a free screen recording app like camstudio. Screenshots available here (Thanks Remy!).Probably going to be much cheaper than Morae (which weighs in at around $1,500).It’s still in beta – more features may emerge soon.Doesn’t explicitly support the creation of highlight videos, but you can use Quicktime Pro (Â£20) to do that very easily.Exports to Quicktime, and chapter markers are added at the points where you pressed the apple remote.

Whenever an interesting event happens, you (the facilitator) can put a marker on the timeline by hitting a button on your Apple remote.Picture in Picture (PiP) video & audio from your Mac’s isight & microphone.I’m one of the beta testers, and I have to admit I don’t know the product inside out, nor what’s ahead on the Silverback roadmap, so please forgive me if there are any errors or ommissions in this review. It’s made by Clearleft, it’s in currently in beta, and the price and release date haven’t yet been published. Silverback is a simple tool for recording face-to-face user research sessions on OS X.