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ScreenFlow and Videocue


ScreenFlow for your MAC

ScreenFlow™ is an award-winning software toolkit that lets you easily build beautiful screen recordings or software training tutorials on your Mac. Using a unique screen capture system, ScreenFlow is powerful enough to capture the contents of your entire desktop while simultaneously capturing video and audio – all in real time. Powerful features allow you to highlight areas of your screen – add mouse click effects, circle the area around your mouse, show key strokes, and zoom your mouse pointer up and down. Using a familiar timeline interface, sophisticated editing tools allow you to easily add effects, trim clips, adjust audio levels, and combine existing media into your screencasts. The finished result is a polished, high-quality QuickTime movie, ready for publishing to your website.


Features

The Best Capture
ScreenFlow has the best screen capture available. Using a custom multithreaded SSE & Altivec accelerated, 64-bit enabled compression system, ScreenFlow can handle everything from capturing DVD video & audio to fast moving Keynote presentations.

Record Everything
You don't need to pick an area of the screen for capture, ScreenFlow has advanced algorithms that only encode areas of change on your screen. The application is powerful enough to simultaneously record from your iSight or DV camera at the same time as your screen (and your microphone and computer's audio!).

Highlight
During your screen capture, ScreenFlow tracks where your mouse cursor is, when you click and when you press a key. This allows you to add mouse click effects (both visual and audible), an overlay showing your key strokes and even lets you zoom the mouse pointer up & down.

Edit
Once your screen capture is complete, you're transported to the ScreenFlow editor. Using a familiar timeline interface, ScreenFlow lets you easily add zoom & pan effects, trim clips, add drop shadow & reflection, adjust audio levels etc. You can even combine existing media into your screencast.

Callout
Callouts let you highlight & focus in on the mouse or frontmost window. Want to circle the area around the mouse? What took an experienced user minutes or hours in Final Cut Pro or After Effects is now a couple of clicks away.

Motion
ScreenFlow introduces actions to the editing interface. These make it very quick & easy to modify parameters of your screencast over time. For example, adding a video action lets you put zoom & pan effects on your clips, while the audio action lets you adjust volume at different points in your screencast.

Export Quality
When resizing high resolution screen content into a QuickTime movie, ScreenFlow uses custom GPU algorithms to give your finished movie the best possible quality. You'll find even small text suddenly becomes legible for your viewers.

Leopard Only
ScreenFlow was built for Mac OS X Leopard. It makes extensive use of the best of Mac OS X technologies: Core Animation, QuickLook, Spotlight, QTKit, Quartz Composer, OpenGL, Core Image, Automator, Core Data and many others.

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Videocue is a unique rich media presentation toolkit that allows you to write and record your speeches of you reading your words aloud, add movies, images and titles and then easily publish your finished presentation to websites or weblogs.

Using Videocue is simple:

  • Enter the text of your speech
  • Drag your camera icon to the storyboard
  • Press Record button


  1. Realtime Preview
  2. Media List
  3. Scrolling Teleprompter
  4. Line Reader



Features

Ultra-smooth teleprompter
Videocue contains an ultra smooth scrolling teleprompter, normally featured in professional hardware solutions costing many thousands of dollars.

Blog and Vlog Support
Videocue integrates with most popular blog systems (LiveJournal, MovableType, Blogger, TypePad). You can upload the text of your presentation and the finished movie to your Videoblog quickly and easily.

Core Image transitions
New for Mac OS X Tiger is the GPU accelerated Core Image library. Videocue can now use beautiful transitions like Ripple and Page Curl. The best part is that you can add Image Units from 3rd party developers to expand your transition library.

Podcasting
Videocue makes creating your own Podcast simple. Pick the microphone you want to use, select the special Podcasting export preset, write your thoughts down and press Record. It's really that easy to join the production of the next generation of radio.

Amazing 3D Graphics
Slick transitions and effects are just a couple of mouse clicks away. Videocue supports great looking mattes for your media, giving them a professional look instantly. You can then expand this list with your own mattes.

GPU Accelerated
Videocue will automatically accelerate recording to disk if you have a supporting GPU. This offloads work from your computer's processor and moves it to your graphics card.

.Mac Publish
Videocue can upload your finished movie directly to your .Mac account. No extra configuration required.

Media Support
Videocue is based upon QuickTime, so you can drag and drop your existing files to integrate them into your presentations. No conversion is necessary - they are ready to use instantly.

AppleScript Support
Integrate Videocue with other applications through the power of AppleScript. Controlling your presentation through scripting is easy.

High Performance
Videocue is extensively optimized to take advantage of the PowerPC G4, G5 and Intel Core Duo processors. It will automatically utilize extra processors.


Conclusion

These two software programs are a must for all training departments, presenters and salespeople. They are powerful tools for the production of training tutorials and high-quality presentations. For $99 and $89 a copy they are a bargain and we highly recommend them.


About Telestream

Telestream products make it possible to get video content to any audience regardless of how it is created, distributed or viewed. Throughout the entire digital media lifecycle, from capture to viewing, for consumers through high-end professionals, Telestream products range from components to fully-automated workflow systems. Telestream enables users in a broad range of business environments to leverage the value of their video content. Telestream corporate headquarters are located in Nevada City, California, and its team of video experts are located in France, Germany, Sweden, UK and US. The company is privately held.


www.telestream.net

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