ScreenFlow 2.0 Released Today
October 26, 2009
Summer/Fall 2009 is turning out to be a golden season indeed for Mac-based screencasters and eLearning developers, with Telestream releasing ScreenFlow 2.0 today. This Mac-only screencasting app goes head-to-head with the recently-released Camtasia for Mac, which I reviewed last month.
I’ll download the trial, kick the tires and let you know what I think. I’m interested to see how it compares to Camtasia, which is an excellent application despite a few version 1.0 flaws.
Knowing ScreenFlow 2.0 was just around the corner, I didn’t draw many direct comparisons between Camtasia and ScreenFlow in my Camtasia review, but I plan to do that now that ScreenFlow 2.0 has been released. A few of the new ScreenFlow 2.0 features appeared in Camtasia 1.0, so ScreenFlow is merely catching up in some areas while leapfrogging or falling behind Camtasia in others. Ah, the joys of software competition!
Stay tuned for some observations on this much-anticipated upgrade. I have some tutorials I’ve long wanted to do for this blog (GarageBand narration recording among them) and need to choose my weapon: Camtasia or ScreenFlow. Heck, maybe I’ll use them both.
Download your own ScreenFlow 2.0 trial here.
How about making the season complete, Adobe, by releasing Captivate for Mac? You know you want to.
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October 28th, 2009 at 8:27 am
Hello Chris. Thanks for posting this. I was wondering: Since you recently switched to Mac as your platform for development, have you used BootCamp or VMWare Fusion to run Window-tied apps? What has been your experience if you have? The problem I’m dealing with right now is the very latest iMac is making a very good case for itself as my next purchase…but seeing as how I got CS4 MC last year, it would be a bit of a shame to have a great machine that I can only run my big apps through virtualization on. Is the experience fairly seemless? It’s been a while since I’ve used VMWare, so I assume it’s quite a bit smoother and better than it was then.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Hey Paul,
Actually, I’ve always been a Mac First, Windows Second guy. It used to be that I had two machines on my desk running side by side to give me access to both platforms, but Apple’s switch to Intel processors eliminated the need for that kludge. Now I run both OSes simultaneously on a 24″ iMac using VMware Fusion.
Fusion works great, and should work even better with version 3 released this week. It really is a seamless experience. I run Articulate software (along with PowerPoint 2007) on the Windows side and pretty much everything else on the Mac side.
The new 27″ iMac looks like a fantastic machine, particularly the quad core. I will probably be upgrading to that machine in the very near future.
I don’t think you can go wrong with this setup.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Thanks for the advice. Switching is definitely easier than it ever has been, and although I don’t mind building my own PC from pieces, I don’t know that I have the time (school, work, spouse), and I don’t think I’d save any money. I went in to take a look at the new 27″ over the weekend, and I’m hard pressed to think of a better solution.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:51 am
I’ve built my own computers in the past and found that the money I saved was quickly eaten up with the time I spent researching, buying, assembling, and troubleshooting the pile of parts. And the end product tended to be ugly, noisy, and left a pile of cables on my desk. Those days are behind me now.
The iMac is my perfect computer, and at the 27″ size, you’d have a hard time building your own system for less as 27″ IPS panels are very expensive. And the ability to run every OS (and every application) on a single machine is a huge advantage in eLearning development (or anything else).
October 29th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Agreed. My current PC is a self-built machine that’s now 4 years old and has all the best parts from that time. But it is noisy, it now has quirks, and while it operates mostly just fine, it’s slow and has a hard time with parts of CS4. The 27″ iMac by contrast has copious desktop space, and probably all the power I’ll need. And yes, there is no way I’d be able to get a complete i7 quad core machine for $2k if I did it myself, *and* I wouldn’t have a huge new monitor.
But regarding money spent shopping for parts? It’s only wasted if you don’t like window shopping. If that were money wasted I’ve already paid for part of my new iMac. =)
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:51 am
Did you ever write a review of this update? I used the site/blog search feature and it didn’t turn up, but maybe I overlooked something. I’m in the market to buy a screencast tool (having last used Screencast [now Screenflick] around 2 years ago) and looking for reviews…