ScreenFlow 2.0: The Best Screen Recorder Gets Better
Ever since ScreenFlow came out there just hasn’t been a better application for making screencasts. ScreenFlow allows you to quickly create high quality screencasts. Just recently, Telestream updated ScreenFlow to version 2.0. If you want to check out our video review of ScreenFlow 1.0, look at Michael Mistretta’s great post here. In this article I’ll be covering most of the new features in version 2.0.
Opinion: New Final Cut Studio Not Worth Upgrade
Apple as a company is generally pretty good at making great products, and marketing new features as compelling selling points, but the new Final Cut Studio lacks the usual incentive. Let’s take a look at the new features in Apple’s high-end video production software suite.
Final Cut Studio has been around for a number of years, gaining traction on it’s Avid counter-parts. Being used by large-production companies for feature films, or short goofy clips by high school and college students, Final Cut serves a broad audience with its suite of editing, creation, and manipulating tools.
VLC 1.0 Released
When searching on the internet, or even in real life, we come across many different ways to play audio and video. There are DVDs, MPGs, MPEGs, AVIs, DIVXs, WMAs, REALs, and many more too numerous to mention. The built-in features of the Apple operating system can handle a significant number of these, but usually require extra programs like Perian or Flip4Mac in order to do so. Proprietary files need proprietary programs to view them. But for a while now, there has been a program that has been able to handle all of these formats and more. On July 7th, the VideoLAN project released version 1.0 of said application. That program is VLC.
Hulu Desktop In Depth Look: TV on your Desktop
With the launch of Hulu.com, a little over a year ago, tv was brought to the internet and now Hulu is available right on your desktop with the launch of Hulu Desktop, a part of Hulu.com Labs. Hulu features thousands of your favorite tv shows as well as a few movies, all of which are available for free with a handful of commercials interspersed throughout.
News: Hulu Releases Desktop Client
Most people have used or at least heard of Hulu, the online video distribution service that streams shows from most of the big networks. Today, Hulu released Hulu Desktop in beta for both Mac and PC. Hulu Desktop brings better full screen viewing along with support for the Apple remote (and Windows Media Center remotes) for navigating Hulu’s entire library as well as controlling videos you are playing.
Rumor: OSX 10.6 to Bring YouTube Uploading?
If the latest rumor making it’s rounds on the internet is true, YouTube uploading has just been made idiot-proof. Apple Insider is reporting that, in addition to a host of new features, OSX 10.6 (better known as Snow Leopard) will allow YouTube uploading from Quicktime. Apple has yet to confirm or deny the rumor, so we’ll have to treat this one with a real wait-and-see approach.
Screenium 1.1 Released
Last year, we did a face-off of all the major screen-capturing apps. In the end, we thought that Screenium was the winner for its price and large feature-set. Just recently, Screenium has been updated to version 1.1 and holds a few new features.
The first new feature is the customization of mouse clicks–You can now show users your mouse clicks. There is a new Mouse tab where you can customize the size, color, duration and strength of your mouse clicks. You can even display the button name for the click. This means, if you click the left mouse button, it says, ‘Left’ where you clicked as well as showing the animation. You can visualize all these styles without having to create a video in the Mouse Actions Preview box at the bottom.
doubleTwist Preview: Your Virtual Digital Hub
If you’re like me, then you have a ton of digital devices that you use almost every day to go about your daily digital life. I’ve got my Cell phone, iPod, PSP, digital camera, and video camera that I use all the time. Apple has done a wonderful job developing a suite of apps known as iLife designed to manage your main digital devices. Unfortunately, the range of these devices are limited to an iPod, digital camera, video camera, and an iPhone. Here is where doubleTwist comes in. This app is your middle man for transferring pictures, music, and movies to all of your digital devices simplicity and ease.
News: Boxee Loses Hulu
If you’re a Boxee user who hacked your AppleTV, or even just downloaded the Mac app, you’re likely in an angry mob outside production studios with torches and pitch forks right about now. A few weeks ago Jason Kilar, CEO of Hulu, wrote on the company blog that content providers have asked that Hulu be pulled from the Boxee software. Hulu had been a major reason people adopted Boxee.
Stomp Review: Advanced Video Converting
A while ago, we talked about Techspansion closing its doors. As you may know, Techspansion was the maker of a great audio and great video converter. We also talked about many alternatives to VisualHub and AudialHub (their products). One we did not talk about, is shinywhitebox’s Stomp. That is what I will talk about today.
