The Visual Lounge, the blog of Camtasia’s parent company TechSmith, named Scraster’s video called Sunday Morning their “Screencast of the Week” yesterday. Part of what TechSmith appreciated about Sunday Morning was how it stretched their software to do something that it wasn’t particularly intended to do. Sunday Morning is more of a slideshow than a screencast, but if there’s no “Slideshow of the Week” honors and it was produced with a screencasting software, let’s call it a screencast! The video, which chronicles the pregnancy of a good friend in a “time lapse” kind of way, is viewable from the player to the left. It’s just one minute long, so please enjoy it before you leave.
As Scraster team leader John Basile explained to Betsy Weber of the Visual Lounge, “I enjoyed using Camtasia for Mac over other slideshow softwares with which I’ve worked because it allows for more control and detail when timing images to audio.” The drag-and-droppable transitions this blog has mentioned before are really tight and are a HUGE timesaver. The movies export nicely to a QuickTime format and there’s a ton of export options to get it to look just right.
As many readers are probably aware, ScreenFlow 2 is set to be released any day now and will have the same kind of time-saving, built-in transitions. Scraster attempted but failed to get its hands on a beta version of ScreenFlow 2 last week, but has been promised a copy to review here and at the scrast.net blog upon its release. Check back for that soon. (Soon? Hope so.)
Scraster is in the business of producing professional screencast tutorials, demos, and marketing videos. Although team leader John Basile produced Sunday Morning as a fun and thoughtful gift for close friends, it’s something we’re happy to add to our menu of services. If you have a multimedia project in mind and think that Scraster would be a good fit to make things come to life for you, please be in touch with Scraster at info@scraster.com of Get a Free Quote.
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