Oh yeah...forgot to add...

For Video compression I have had great luck with Sorenson Squeeze.  Also
Handbrake does a pretty nice job of compressing things down as well.

Jeff

Alexander Saint Croix wrote:
> I didn't build this--thankfully.  I just bought it from iShowU for $20.
> 
> It's just desktop/screencast recording software.  And the sound of me typing
> was actually me typing, and it got added realtime to the video.  When I hit
> the "finish" button, it stopped recording and left the quicktime movie on my
> desktop, ready to go.  No editing required.  The audio comes in off of the
> laptop microphone, but you could route sound through an external mic if you
> prefer that.  The smooth transition was from iPhoto to IntelliJ IDEA and I
> did it by minimizing the iPhoto window as you normally would.  IntelliJ was
> behind it (I set up each before I turned on the screen recorder).  I also
> tested making a recording and swapping back and forth between the OSX
> desktop manager windows, and it recorded exactly like it should have done,
> so you could set up different programs on different desktops and just swap
> back and forth between them.
> 
> The video was obviously off of the MBP's iSight cam.  So, if you have a
> MacBook, you need zero extra hardware to get started.
> 
> I bought a compression program called "Stomp" along with iShowU and tried it
> out, but it seems a bit crashy so don't recommend it for compression at this
> time.  Hopefully this helps Dain & David with their Doco efforts.
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Alex
> 
> 
> On Dec 14, 2007 1:35 PM, Jeff Genender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Look into Snapz Pro...that was made for what you want to do.  Although
>> what Alexander built was pretty cool.  I'd like to know how he swapped
>> from a face shot to the iShowU so smoothly and how the mouse clicks got
>> dubbed in.  Pretty cool stuff.
>>
>> Jeff
> 

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