OSX Screencast App with tons of specific features?
February 17, 2012 10:21 AM Subscribe
Cheap screencast app with simultaneous webcam and audio recording for OSX? A few more catches, too...
I am doing a study where I sit folks down at a computer and ask them to perform some tasks on a website. The name of the game here is to capture everything that happens while the user sees only a regular website and cursor with no crazy things when he/she clicks or types and no image of his/her face on screen.
I will record and process all this on OSX Lion 10.7.3.
I need to record the their faces (with the isight camera?), their voices, their screen, their mouse clicks (and scrolls, if I can). (Don't worry, they'll sign a form that explains that all this is being recorded.)
I'd like the their mouse cursor to be highlighted so it's easy to follow their movements, but that's not a deal-breaker for me.
All of this has to be stored locally, and it can never be uploaded to a remote server.
In the end, I'd like all that information to be nicely viewable from one movie file (.avi, .mov, or whatever) with the user's face as a picture-in-picture.
I want it to be sub-$15.
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I know Quicktime can record screen/web/audio simultaneously, but it shows the user's face on the screen if I want that to all be one file. It also doesn't record mouse clicks.
I'd accept breaking any of this process up into multiple steps/apps, but I don't know where to begin or what divisions make sense.
Is all this too much to ask?
I am doing a study where I sit folks down at a computer and ask them to perform some tasks on a website. The name of the game here is to capture everything that happens while the user sees only a regular website and cursor with no crazy things when he/she clicks or types and no image of his/her face on screen.
I will record and process all this on OSX Lion 10.7.3.
I need to record the their faces (with the isight camera?), their voices, their screen, their mouse clicks (and scrolls, if I can). (Don't worry, they'll sign a form that explains that all this is being recorded.)
I'd like the their mouse cursor to be highlighted so it's easy to follow their movements, but that's not a deal-breaker for me.
All of this has to be stored locally, and it can never be uploaded to a remote server.
In the end, I'd like all that information to be nicely viewable from one movie file (.avi, .mov, or whatever) with the user's face as a picture-in-picture.
I want it to be sub-$15.
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I know Quicktime can record screen/web/audio simultaneously, but it shows the user's face on the screen if I want that to all be one file. It also doesn't record mouse clicks.
I'd accept breaking any of this process up into multiple steps/apps, but I don't know where to begin or what divisions make sense.
Is all this too much to ask?
Depending on how quickly you can get your study done, you can take advantage of the 30 day free trial here: http://silverbackapp.com/. I think sub-$15 for a really seamless solution might be a lot to ask, but I could be wrong. You can try googling "usability study software mac" and similar, as that seems to be what you are looking for.
posted by freezer cake at 11:16 AM on February 17, 2012
posted by freezer cake at 11:16 AM on February 17, 2012
Best answer: I used an application called ScreenFlow for work a while ago. It was $99 but it will do most of the things you are asking for. There is a free trial, so you can teste it out but until you buy it there is a watermark on the video.
posted by rip at 6:36 AM on February 18, 2012
posted by rip at 6:36 AM on February 18, 2012
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posted by backwards guitar at 11:16 AM on February 17, 2012