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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Screen Recording - Create a Screencast Like A Pro

ScreenToaster has evolved into a superb tool that captures your screencasts the easy way. It’s the only service in this list that lets you choose Playback Speed (half as fast, twice as fast, and up to 10 times faster), a feature you’d see on paid apps, such as the $99 ScreenFlow application for Mac.

Other unique features are its offering to record from your webcam, add Subtitles, in a fashion similar to adding YouTube annotations (which you could do later since you can actually also upload the screencast to YouTube), and record audio for inclusion even after you recorded your screencast. There’re also two versions: the new Beta version records with HD quality.

what is a screencast

While there are no limitations in duration, ScreenToaster recommends 20MB as the maximum size for “optimized performance”. Right after you have recorded your screencast, ScreenToaster will let you download the screencast in MOV and SWF formats (the latter is experimental so you may get errors), which you might want to do at that instance since this option isn’t available after you publish your video to the ScreenToaster’s servers. In the Beta version though, you get to download the screencast in MP4 format even after it’s published.

 

 

 

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