Conference Recorder Review

Conference Recorder is a small plugin for Apple’s iChat application that enables you to record video and audio conferences to your hard drive. Conference Recorder is a beautiful little addition to iChat and works flawlessly.

In order to record a video or audio conference with Conference Recorder, you simply have to set up your preferences for recording. The Conference Recorder preference panel is seamlessly integrated into iChat’s preferences and enables you to customize the size, frame rate, and quality of your capture. It also lets you hide picture-in-picture during video recording and lets you customize Conference Recorder’s recording controls. Once you have set up the Conference Recorder preferences you can launch a video chat and record right away.

One of the best uses for Conference Recorder is podcasting. You can easily record long distance interviews and make round table podcast episodes with people around the world. Conference Recorder will also covert QuickTime files to MP3’s for easy use in GarageBand.

Currently, Conference Recorder is in version 2 and supports iChat AV 2.0 or later. Pick up a free trial or purchase Conference Recorder from the Ecamm Network. A license will run you just $13.46.