Screenium 1.0: Screencasts in a snap
Posted by Dave Merten 
Oct 12, 2008 at 1:24pm
Synium Software has released Screenium 1.0 Final. This advanced screencasting tool creates high-quality movies of your Mac’s desktop complete with multi-channel audio. Screenium’s pre-release version received a lot of positive feedback worldwide, thanks to the full feature set, efficient recording performance and pristine quality. Screenium 1.0 offers “HotText”, iSight PiP and is keyboard-controllable. Screenium is fully supports Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard.
Integration with Apple’s Mac OS X, either 10.4 “Tiger” or 10.5 “Leopard”, is smooth and powerful. Screenium allows to capture live video from your Mac’s screen, combined with true multi-channel audio and now also iSight picture-in-picture. Video tutorials and webcasts are a snap. Sreenium records multiple audio sources and combines voice-over from the built-in or any external microphone with system sounds or application audio.
Screenium offers custom captions (“HotText”) and an animated mouse pointer to help your audience grasp what you are doing on-screen. For the most efficient workflow, Screenium is fully keyboard-controllable. All keyboard shortcuts can be custom-configured: ideal for high volume video production in a time-critical environment. Screenium supports QuickTime’s encoding technology and lets you re-process movies you already have recorded to adapt them to different output formats.
Features in Screenium 1.0:
• Timed, Single Window, Mouse Area and random sizes up to Full Screen
• Capture any resolution your Mac supports, from iPhone size to “Full HD” and bigger
• iSight picture-in-picture recording
• True Multi-Channel Audio, external sources also supported (analog and digital, USB and FireWire)
• Built-in Library to easily manage and post-process your movies
• Highly configurable quality and compression settings to fit Screenium to your individual needs
• Intuitive User Interface, yet completely keyboard-controllable
• Create stunning educational videos or monitor whatever happens on-screen
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Dave was one of the founding guides at ‘The Mining Company,’ now known as About.com, in February 1998. Dave was their ‘Focus on Mac Support’ guide. In 2004 he started ‘G5 Owners Support Group,’ and in 2005, renamed it ‘Mac Owners Support Group.’ In 2006, he started the ‘MacOSG Support Corner’ column here at Macsimum News.
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